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Issue12 第5篇 重写不限时!
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People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by any internal characteristic.
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Questions:
(inspired by https://bbs.gter.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=130665)
What is people’s attitudes? What do you mean by “determined”? What is the content of “immediate situation or surroundings”? Is it objective or subjective? What is the internal characteristic? How is it generated? Why the word “immediate” is used here?
How are one’s internal characteristics, surroundings and attitudes changes? Will the internal characteristics the same as you have now after 5 years? Why? Can you control it? How? Can you affect others? Why? How?
Are there any other ingredients for doing things? What are they? Comparing to them, what is the importance of internal characteristic, attitude, and surroundings?
How do attitudes affect the results? What do we mean by a good attitude? Why? How to get a good attitude?
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Brain storming as the answers
Attitude: a : a mental position with regard to a fact or state b : a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state(from MW)
In short, I can say it is just mental position, like high and low, physically speaking.
Determine here means influence. The point is: which influence more on the mental position.
Immediate situation and surroundings: it includes the entire goings around you. Like the money you have, the GPA you get, the health of your body, the problem you face, etc. Although they are objective, no one can observe them without any attitude.
Internal characteristic: It can only be shown indirectly from the deeds of a man. It is changing all along the life time, modified by the men you met, people you love, affair you confront, problem you face, etc.
The word “immediate” is used since the attitude could deeply determine the doings, then doings lead to the result you wish or don’t wish. The doings indeed has changed the situation, in return the situation influence the attitude.
It is hard to say which determines the attitude. Since different men could hold different attitude towards the same surroundings, while the same guy could hold different opinions towards different situations.
One’s internal characteristic changes by learning from the experience of his own. Attitude changes from one person to another, from young to old, from one situation to another. The surroundings can be changed by everyone of us, by the nature of the world, by the doings of human. One can only change part of it.
For internal characteristics, we can control to some degree. Self-discipline is the word for these activities. Attitudes the same. We can influence that of others too, as we are actually kind of surroundings to others, especially when we are parents.
Other ingredients for doing things: methods we use, and opportunities. It includes the arrangement of resources, strategy we take, schedule we have, technology we apply. It is actually the choice based on the surroundings. The attitude guide us to the choice.
A good attitude is the one that can lead to a good result. One can force himself to be highly hardworking because he hate it or can’t wait to work hard because he like it.
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Thesis
Following https://bbs.gter.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=173331
Thesis 1
Both the immediate situations or surroundings and the internal characteristics determine the attitudes.
Thesis 2
The internal characteristic is quite abstract, which can only be shown indirectly from the attitudes.
Thesis 3
The surroundings and attitudes are interactive.
Thesis 4
How to have a good attitude? Basically it is just the matter of choice.
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The attitude is generally defined as the mental position with regard to a fact or state. Both the immediate situation and internal characteristic play a significant role in determining the attitude. You can say surroundings are important since I will feel pleasant in Seattle, which is called the Emerald City, but nervous in Los Angeles, where crowds of people create noisy sound and traffic jam. The equal importance of internal characteristic can be seen by another friend of mine who prefer to live in Los Angeles because it rains nine months a year in Seattle.
(初步说明我的观点)
The internal characteristic is quite abstract, which can only be shown indirectly from the attitudes. It is like a computer system. The attitude could be considered as the output, the internal characteristic as the calculation capability, and the surroundings as the input. The calculation capability can only be justified by carrying out some complex working, that is, input some initial data. That is how we know Pentium 4 can run above 2 GHz. In the same way, we can see one’s internal characteristic by observing his performance in specific surroundings.
Attitude is not everything. To achieve our goal, we still need suitable methods as well as opportunities. It is not necessary for a diligent man to be a successful man even if his attitude is so optimistic to be energetic and earnest for painstaking efforts. How can one imagine a country to become rich by cutting down all its forests? When all the woods are gone, the country would be poor again. Opportunities are suitable immediate situations or surroundings. Well, the phrase “immediate situations or surroundings” are quite objective words, but the word “suitable” are subjective. The opportunities can only be found through judgments. When the gold rush is booming in 1860s, the opportunity of gold is actually not so realistic since there isn’t so much gold. But while it was not suitable to be another gold-rusher, it was quite suitable to be a shovel retailer, which was discovered by a businessman at that time, who thus earned much more than those rushers. So the different consequences between the rushers and that man are due to the different method they took.
The surroundings and attitudes are interactive. While attitudes affect the deeds of man, thus influence the surroundings, the surroundings in return shape the attitudes and the internal characteristics. The education is the set of surroundings in school. It carves our manners ever since we have got involved in. And education could be broadly defined as all the process in which we learn the experiences and knowledge so that the education is everywhere. We learn to work harder when we fail in the final, to use microwave oven by reading the instruction, to keep patient when we broke the dishes because of our impatience, and to be precise when we are working on a math problem.
It is remarkable to notice that we are surroundings to others too. The world could be a better place by bettering our own attitudes even a little. As to how to get a good attitude, in my opinion, it is just the matter of choice. When something bad happens, you can choose to be gloomy and let it go from bad to worse, or be satisfied with what you have learned. Get busy living, or get busy dying. The choice defines the attitude.
In a word, both the surroundings and the internal characteristic determine the attitudes. And attitudes could influence the deeds thus affect the consequences. The changed surroundings then in return shape attitudes and internal characteristics. |
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