Learning activity 2
Evidence: The happiness advantage
Shawn Achor considers that happiness is the key to success and states that if
you can find a way to get your brain positive; your success rate will increase.
Taking into account Achor’s statement, share an anecdote where you describe
a story that shaped your personal view about success and happiness. Use the
anecdote template from the study material. Also, make sure you use the past
perfect, at least eight adjectives from the introductory material, and the time
expressions you have practiced in this learning activity.
Example:
I’ll never forget the day I learned to type without looking at the keyboard. I
wanted to be able to type while in bed with the lights off. If I want to turn off the
lights, I have to get out of bed. It was really annoying because when you are
falling asleep, the last thing you want to do is to get up. I had tried many times
before, but I usually got frustrated or impatient really quickly. Anyway, I went
online and browsed around, reading reviews about different free online typing
programs until I finally found one that I found suitable. I followed the instructions
and did not skip a class. It was hard; sometimes I felt miserable because I
couldn’t do it. In less than a month, I was typing in the dark. It felt so good; it
felt, it still does, like magic. I felt super satisfied. I had taught myself how to do
something extraordinary (to me). The secretaries at school who were able to
look at you in the eye while typing had always mesmerized me! So, the moral of
the story is that in order to be happy and successful, you need to find something
that motivates you to grow as a person; something that makes you feel you can
be a little bit better every day.
Solution
My best friend
When I was a girl, I was in a park with my brother, when I was playing a boy
came with his mother and he said cute, I can play with you, I don't want to play
alone and I said yes, after spending so much time playing we got to talk and the
mother of my new friend called him that it was time to go home and when the
boy said goodbye to me he gave me a pick in the mouth, just because of my
mind it happened that as soon as I will see him again because the I had a great
time with him and I keep quiet, since he does not care that he played with
Barbis and was a girl, after that day I went back to the park with the hope of
playing with him again, but at one moment my mother He told me that with the
boy who was playing in the park he was ill and that he could no longer go to the
park, after that news I felt lonely and very bored and I did not feel like taking the
toys. The time passed when I went out with my parents to eat ice cream and my
friend and I met the gaze that we ran to hug each other, it was an immense joy
in my heart since he was already in super good health and we could go back to
play and come back to ride a bike and share time together, when he was 14
years old he came to my house to tell me that he was going to leave the country
with his parents since they got a better job abroad, today we still have
communication and it has been a of my best friends I've since when i was a
child.
When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform
as follows:
1. Click the title of this evidence.
2. Click Examinar mi equipo and look for the file in your computer. Make sure
the file is attached.
3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional).
4. Click Enviar.
Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning
guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.
Criterios de
evaluación
Expresa anécdotas haciendo uso de la estructura y el vocabulario
requerido.
• Utiliza los conectores just, after, when, until, before, by the time,
already, as soon as, teniendo en cuenta la estructura gramatical,
vocabulario y contexto requerido.
