奇速英语

人生行动指南：Go. Be. Do.

One time I had an assignment handed to me in a small classroom of students. There were a few questions, maybe a front and back on a single sheet of computer paper, meant to be completed in ten minutes or less. But I spent the whole time thinking about the first question. I answered it almost immediately, but I was struck, almost confused, at how simple it looked on paper.

All my life I had been asked similar type of the question and each time some no-thought-necessary words would fill the answer space. This time though, while everyone else tried to be thinking, the answer was so clear to me at first.

We had been asked to describe ourselves, using only three verbs. This was an interesting and easy task for anyone who understands our language at a basic level. But it wasn't until I glanced around to see the other responses that I noticed how different they were from mine.

Singers, snowboarders, teachers, dancers, they were all so specific and precise with their answers, they were so proud of these details and I just didn't get it. I was confused. Why had they described themselves with those words? It seemed strange to answer "Run" or "Cook".

So I spent a few minutes trying to think of some other ways to answer, something different from what I had written down in my impatiently quick answer, something that would sound more like the other answers; but nothing I thought of after that was right...for me. So, I kept my answers. And ever since that ten-minute exercise, I've thought about life with a whole new mind. When asked what three verbs best described me, I had answered "Go. Be. Do."