10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming

10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming (article)
Summary
My friend who is a great programmer shared the article on the SNS with a cool comment.
"This is the philosophy to be able to apply in many of your life. More than it, the philosophy will be created by being on top of something and then it must have common points and deserve applicability".
My thoughts are that it's impossible to be a programmer for me who is not young and haven't learned about programming before. However, for a person who is trying something to be on the top, the story must be worth to apply.

P.S. The title and expression in the story surprised me because it was really negative but many English articles that I've read before used positive ones.
"If you do something, you will never be successful as a programmer." OMG!

10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming
1 Lack of curiosity
Naturally, you have to be curious about what you want to be.

2 Lack of autonomy and resourcefulness
This is a natural thing that you have to learn and study independently to have many skills and knowledge without asking others. I think that books must give us those.  I laughed at this item said that force yourself to google questions before asking someone else for the answer. I wonder if there is a person who wants to be a programmer who doesn't use google and I think that the internet won't teach us the most important thing. We have to find it by ourselves.

3 Lack of persistence in the face of a problem
If we are making progress, there are always new problems that come to us. I think that a person who can continue to fight against problems persistently will be successful.

4 No feeling of success in overcoming a problem
Although problems are continuing, solving old problems and even small problems must give you power and good experiences. Feeling those is the way to succeed.

5 Impatient about learning and understanding
Don't give up. We have to learn and understand what we want patiently.

6 Getting bored/tired from thinking
For what we want, we mustn't get bored and tired. We can enjoy and excite for what we want.

7 Inability to think for yourself
We have to think about what we want by ourselves that are the most important for what we want.  Others do nothing for it.

8 Rigid, narrow and/or disorganized thinking
I think that thinking flexibly, widely and systemically is important.

9 Needing the "right" answer instead of recognizing a spectrum of "good" and "bad" answers
I want to explain it that all things are changing always. One thing that is good today might change bad or you might have better answers tomorrow.

10 Not paying careful attention to details
It's important for us to be able to pay careful attention to details.  I think that we won't realize important things lying close to us.

The story has a bonus and conclusion also.
It tells us that having a business mind is important. It means that it can help many people who willingly pays it.  Being on the top of something is great and its process must be great. we can do it.


Words in this story
inevitable /adj/ unavoidable
inability /noun/ inadequacy, inappropriateness, impropriety
disorganize /verb/ disrupt the systematic order or functioning of
order /noun/ regularity, system. method
suck /verb/ be very bad, disagreeable, or disgusting

Olivia Remes : How to cope with anxiety

Olivia Remes at TEDxUHasselt  (transcript)
How to cope with anxiety
Summary
The speaker researches about anxiety and tells us that anxiety is very common. However, we don't seem to think that, it's dangerous and important much more than we think. It'll be better for us to cope with our anxiety soon before it grows that we can't control.
She suggests that there are some ways that we can lower our anxiety. It’s that thinking that we aren't perfect, we forgive ourselves and we have a purpose and meaning in life.

After all, knowing why we exist and finishing work that might benefit future generations, it seems to lead our anxiety to being coped well, even if no one realizes we've one for them. Just we know that it makes us realize the uniqueness and importance of our life.

Words in this story
cope /verb/ manage in spite of difficulty, struggle successfully

Adam Grant : Are you a giver or a taker?

Adam Grant at TED@IBM  (transcript)
Are you a giver or a taker?
Summary
Give and take is the practice of making mutual concessions and a usually good-natured exchange. I was taught that I have to do something for other people definitely when a person did something for me and l shouldn't expect anything when I do something for others also.

In the story, especially at workplaces, according to the speaker's research, it turned out that takers always think about what others do for them but givers are likely sacrificing. It doesn't lead teams and organizations to success and givers will stop helping and be burnout.

The speaker suggests that by weeding takers, it builds a culture of successful givers. It’ll be a better environment where can make something easier for people to ask for help, nothing is taken by takers and givers' succeed.
Furthermore, the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

Your success must come to you by helping other people succeed. Are you a giver?

Words in this story
generosity /noun/
paranoid /noun/ a person who suffers from delusions of persecution and distrust of others.
weed /verb/ removing weeds from the ground, uproot, pluck
mutual /adj/ (of a feeling or action) experienced or done by each of two or more parties toward the other or others.

K. Erica Dodge : Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish

K. Erica Dodge a tTED-Ed  (transcript)
Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish
Summary
I wonder that the art in the title means a fine art or a technique.
The word : Goytoku is an old word and people now don't use usually. Gyo means fish and Taku means impression, it’s explained in the story, so it means a trace by being put and printing to record the species and size of the fish you caught over 100 years ago when cameras and printing machines weren't invented yet.
There seem to be two different methods. One is putting a paper first on the fish and putting ink on it. Another is painting directly on the fish and then pressing a paper into the fish. It's not reducible and not magnifiable also.

I remembered to have my own hand printing. It’s created by in the direct method when I was a kid who painted on my hand with non-toxic red Sumi-e ink and put my hand on the paper. I can now know how small my hand was.

This must be the same great way. Non-toxic Sumi-e ink was used for Gyotaku and fish could be released after that also.

Words in this story
revere /verb/ worship, respect, honor
rub /verb/ scrub
magnify /verb/ make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope.

Alain de Botton : A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

Alain de Botton at TEDGlobal 2009  (transcript)
A kinder, gender philosophy of success
Summary
Philosophy is a study of the principles of existence behavior and knowledge, and a study of the nature of human thought and of the world. I wonder if I can explain gently and l can think something philosophically also.

My reading of success is that there are many ways to succeed but there is no role model. It's because we live different lives of mentors who already succeeded and time.
I think that people compare between mentors' success and your success thus you think that you might not succeed. We should focus in on our own ideas, make sure of it, and be truly the authors of our own ambitions. There's no envy, fear, and failure there. People love equality, though, they always try to divide all things. It'll show inequality and give you a threatening sort of reality.
I believe that my idea of success is not the same as others. Its way is always changing and People can decide their own success by themselves. It's not too late.

Words in this story
contempt /noun/ insult, contempt, slight, denigration
aristocracy /noun/ noble, aristocrat
meritocracy /noun/ a high class, rank, and grade like government by the gifted or skilled

Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman : What is the meaning of work?

Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman at TED Salon: Zebra Technologies  (transcript)
What is the meaning of work?
Summary
In our world, robots can do our works soon. The speakers invest in it, but they aren't our enemies. They come to us to understand what is the meaning of work because they understand why we don't want to lose our jobs.

It's because we are very worried not to get money and not to do work is that we think we are not needed.

However, they tell us that the thought that working for a long time have your value has been wrong. There is your value and dignity in your heart, next to you, and it's close to you. It’ll give you stability. You can find what you are needed.

Words in this story
stable /adj/ steady, firm  stability  /noun/ the state of being stable.
instability /noun/  insecurity

Bruce Aylward : How we'll stop polio for good

Bruce Aylward at TED2011  (Transcript)
How we’ll stop polio for good
Summary
Polio is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Children and even adults are likely infected with it, paralysis continues for life, and many patients are dying. It's because polio has no symptoms of infection, no one realizes, and it’s spreading.

Thus almost completely eradicated of polio isn't’ good enough because soon, it’s infectious. In fact, this story was told in 2011. On 2015, in Nigeria, it's going to be eradicated in 2017, though, in 2016, two cases were detected again.
India seemed to be taken off the WHO list of polio endemic countries in 2012.

The action of polio eradication started from around 1930 in America. It took for 20 years to develop the polio vaccine. It succeeded in America, but almost leads to polio outbreaks suddenly but for new tips polio, a vaccine isn't working and finance is also lacking.

In the world, reinfection of polio is reducing, though, almost is not good for us. Again, it’ll be likely spreading. What the polio eradication means to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

Words in this story
infectious disease /noun/ contagious disease, epidemic
tenacious /adj/ tenacious, persistent, persevering
endemic /adj/ (of a plant or animal) native or restricted to a certain country or area.