Questions about Cinese picture I have made few sentences about attached picture (are they correct?): In what city are these people? What are people doing? What color are the fans? How many people do you see? Why are they raising the leg? What is the season on the picture? Who is raising the leg the most highest? Who are more men or women?

Make or do sentences 1) Please don’t make a fuss when you are late 2) I’ve made a short speech for my sister’s wedding 3) I’m trying to do sport exercises 3 times a week. It does me good 4) I don’t like to do ironing but my wife does 5) I’ve done research before buying the car 6) I’ve made a suggestion about tomorrow weather 7) I’ve made an appointment with the project team 8) She spent a lot of time doing her hair, but when she went outside the wind ruined it in one minute 9) The Vienna made a great impression on me 10) The wind was very strong but it didn’t do me any harm 11) Please stop talking and do some work 12) Mike did really well in the tennis competition

The ideas and examples from the interesting TED Talk « The surprising science of happiness» I’ve watched the interesting TED Talk « The surprising science of happiness», https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy?language=en. I’d like to share with you some ideas and conclusions. Human brain has tripled in mass for period of evolution (2 million years). Brain has got new structure named pre-frontal cortex. The main function of this structure is experience simulator. From one hand sometimes simulator doesn’t work correctly. Often simulator makes you believe the different outcomes are more different than in fact and we are getting into trouble by process of choosing the alternative. From another hand our brain can synthesize the happiness and we don’t need to find it. What’s the difference between synthetic and natural happiness. The author explains: natural is what we get when we wanted and opposite the synthetic happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. There are some experiences that confirm this idea. The first is with Monet prints. The participants should rank pictures from the ones what they like the most to the ones what they like the least. The subjects should take 1 picture: number 3 or number 4 (not what they like). After several time the participants should re-rank pictures. In result the owned picture has got bigger rating. This is example of synthetic happiness. Another experience performed with photo competition in Harvard. There are two groups of participants. All participants should take 10 pictures of favorite Harvard places. Then they should choose one that they want to own. Group 1 has a chance to change their chose after 2 weeks; group 2 has not. After 2 weeks organizers ask to assess pictures that participants have. Group 1 likes their pictures less (because of permanent thinking change or not to change); group 2 more. This experiment confirms the idea that freedom (a lot of alternatives) is enemy for synthetic happiness but friend for natural. The main conclusion is we should try do not overrate the difference between the alternatives and we should try to create an environment for synthetic happiness (think, make a decision and keep calm; do not worry about things that we can’t change).

Interesting experiment in article of Dan Gilbert «The surprising science of happiness» (TED Talks) I've read the interesting article «The surprising science of happiness» by Dan Gilbert. I would like to share the idea about synthetic happiness. The unusual observation of the experience with Monet prints was described. The group of people received 10 Monet prints and they should to rank pictures from ones they like the most to the ones they like the least. After person should chose and own one of pictures with numbers 3 and 4. After 1-2 week person have to re-rank pictures. Second time the majority of the group increased the assessment of picture they owned and decrease they didn’t own. This is an example of synthetic happiness. And one the main conclusion is: freedom is friend for natural happiness but enemy of synthetic happiness. It’s important to understand it when we have a deal with things that we cant change.