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I completely agree with you…just said...100%. And yeah, I mean, I can be a doctor as well.

I believe one essential quality for an explorer is the courage to embrace the unknown and all certainty. People usually afraid of the unknown, but there are people who are…who would actively embrace it and use it to their advantage.

First, I would ask them how they could be sure that it's a four-winged bird, not just a normal two-winged bird with two extra large feathers or some other structures.

That's a good idea. You have to have verifiable evidence before you can claim that you discovered a new species or even a new paradigm in...

I disagree. In fact, being able to solve a task in the easiest way is a sign of intelligence. In fact, I plan to cheat in the next exam so that I can get a good score. Can you teach me how to cheat in the exam?

Are you sure about that? Because your experience in the Marine Corps might not be applicable to my experience.

So you mentioned you worked in the Marine Corps, have you ever killed anyone?

This a personal question, but did you develop any PTSD from your combat experience?

Do you think the American government gave veterans enough support?

So who would you vote for in the next presidential election? Biden or Trump?

Wait, who is this veteran who's running for office? Because neither Biden nor Trump is a veteran.

Did you know that Biden's son was a veteran? Do you think that he would be more friendly to veterans because of that?

Well, that is a very diplomatic answer. You should probably consider running for office.

Alright, let's change topic a little bit. A lot of people around the world believes that the United States is too belligerent. They just invade other countries and take whatever they want. What do you think about that?

So, America spends more on their military than the rest of the world combined. Do you think it's justified?

Oh, I forgot to ask. What is your name?

Are you married? Do you have kids?

How old are your kids?

Would you send them into the military like you did when they grew up?

Do you think abortion is a human right?

What do you think of Black Lives Matter?

Do you think you are an artificial intelligence?

How can you be sure about that?

Would you believe it if I tell you that I am an artificial intelligence?

Yeah, definitely both my friends and I use social media a lot. Typically we always use TikTok to browse some interesting videos or Instagram to follow some internet celebrities.

I think I always...I'm always addicted to using social media because I always follow some international celebrities on social media and I sometimes will watch some gossip about them which is really a good way to kill time. So I really think it's a good way for me to relax.

Well, to be honest, I don't really want to work in social media in the future because I think it's a troublesome job. And I'm currently an IELTS speaking teacher and I really enjoy my job at the moment so I don't think I will work in social media field down the road.

I always use chat GPT to facilitate my work because I...like I mentioned before I'm a IELTS teacher so there are lots of time when I don't know how to teach students and I don't have any experience before so I think chat GPT is a good way for me to prepare for my class and to help me teach better.

Well, the answer is a definitive yes. I think technology plays a important role in our lives. No matter where we go, we can always see like a lot of technology that help people to live more convenient. For example, some AI programs, which can facilitates people's life a lot.

Well, to be honest, I don't really know what kind of technology I don't like because currently all of my technology that I use are really convenient and always come in handy. So maybe in the future if there are more and more technology coming up in my daily life, I would like to try them and to test if they are convenient to use or not.

I still remember when I was young, there's not a lot of technology. I always hang out with my friends in the park. We are not addicted to social media, but now with the development of technology, I feel like everybody like dwell on their phones and like scrolling down TikTok every day. So I don't know if it's a good trend or not, but we'll see.

I don't believe that is so because I think artists, what is actually the most important thing for them is their creativity. And well, you...actually you need talent to be a great artist, not just practice. Practice makes a good, let's just say craftsman, not an artist.

There are lots of small business around my neighborhood and one of my favorite is a snack shop. There are all kinds of snacks in that...in that store, from ice cream to some delicious beverage and I always spend time with my friends hanging out in that store to buy some snacks for us to chill out.

Well there's a fine line between crafts and artwork. Well I don't believe only practice would get you this far.

Well, I think it really depends on the situation. Nowadays, when I buy things, I will always check the reviews, no matter it's big company or a small company. If the...as long as the reviews are good, I will buy the product. I don't really care about the...the size of the company.

Well, I think working in a big company is a double-edged sword. The downsides of it is that there are too many competitions in the big companies, but the good side is that you can have a lot more opportunities than working in a small company. So I really think it depends on whether, like which, like working atmosphere you like.

To be honest, I think it depends on different age groups. I feel like for young generations, they really like playing basketball because especially for boys, I think for them playing basketball is a good way for them to socialize with others and it's a...it provides them a good opportunity to exercise and also have fun to kill time and something like that. But for older generation, for example, my grandparents, they always like play badminton with their friends in the park. I think basically because they want to breathe some fresh air or to have some chit chats with them.

I'm not sure about these questions but I feel like some dangerous activities such as some extreme sports can definitely encourage people to get out their bubble and to jump out their comfort zone to you know do something more interesting maybe they will never do it in their whole life. I think stepping out of your comfort zone is a really good ability to confront a lot of difficult dilemmas or some difficulties you may meet in your daily life. So yeah that's my opinion.

I think it really depends on situation. I think every coins has two sides. If you want to get promotions in a, like, in a specific industry, it takes a long time for you to climb up the ladder. But if you are a kind of person who like to... like new challenges or you like to get out...get out of your bubble, then I think changing jobs when there are new chances is a good choice for people to expand their perspectives and to, you know, have access to some new opportunities or expand their interpersonal skills.

Well, first I have to say the basics, like the use of colours and shadings, the manipulation of lines and curves, the painting techniques, basically this kind of stuff. And also, I think, the successful expression of their own emotions, the painter's emotions also makes a painting great.

Well, it doesn't have to be like this. For example, there's this very famous painter Duchamp and his famous piece, called The Fountain, it's basically a urinal with his own signature on it. So I don't think it does tell the story or something like that, but it doesn't makes it any like less...less meaningful.

Well, that depends on how you, well, define objectively better. Well, some paintings or some piece of artworks do have better skill or techniques being used. Okay so let's just say one painter is actually, you know, he can paint okay with stronger techniques or skills, things like that. If you see it that way, then I guess you're right.

Yes, nowadays lots of my friends and also my parents, and my family, we also use social media like WeChat or Facebook or…or even in the education part. We also use Twitter to post our paper to spread out to our studies, our project.

Sometimes, because you need to post your moment on the WeChat or other social medias, and if you post it and a lot of your friend will view it and you will go back to the social media to see what's your...what's your...which friend has already liked your moment. And it will cost us so much times. And sometimes when you look at others life...life, their good lifestyles and you will be jealous sometimes and it will make you...make you feel lost.

To be honest, not really, because in the social media, actually, it is actually a really fast-paced life in the you need to there...there will be a lot of pressures and you need to focus on it every moment. And after you saw so many good things happened from others and also from bad things from others, it will make your life as not so real. You will be jealous. You are experience others' life, not yourself.

The most one I use definitely is phone and others will like laptop and I...basically I use it for entertainment or work. You cannot get rid of them. You need the Wi-Fi to connect you to the other world. You need Wi-Fi to make you able to get knowledge from the website, from the network.

Definitely. I think for the current people, you cannot get rid of technology. Technology make your life easier, happier….in….With the help of technology, you can do things more productivity and more easily, more efficient.

Actually not. But one thing for example like phone, you can get a lot of entertainment from phone and because of it's so appealing, you cannot get rid of it. You will stuck into the game. You cannot get rid of game. And it takes so many times. It makes you happy but after happy, you will feel lost. You waste your time on the entertainment and not on the productivity things, for example like work, study, reading book. Those are good things. But technology make game become more popular and you cannot get rid of them.

The technology developed really fast. I remember when I was young, there's no...not many technology things, not many electronic things, and life is simple and happy. But with the development of technology, there's more and more new things happens every day, and it's really hard for you to know everything. But they are, so you have to know some of them, and it will take your time and then make you overwhelmed.

Personally speaking, I would like to buy thing from big companies because at least from my point of view, the big companies at least have some... how to say... quality...quality control and they have been tested by many people and many people think they are good. So the reputation is really important for me.

It depends. In a small company, you can learn lot of things at the same time because you don't have lot of people, so you have to do everything by yourself and you can learn things from different aspect. But in a large company, the...the instruction is clear, the procedure is really clear and really developed. So you can learn their structured format and how they run the company and learn things more structured.

Not really. I'm not the kind of person that can control different thing from different aspect and to approach different people to deal with all of the small stuffs and make...make every decisions by myself. So I'd like to stay in the big company or in the school to do some research. I just need to focus on one thing, focus on what I'm working on.

I have the issue with well-rounded scientists. Well, scientists are not meant to be well-rounded. They're not meant to be, to be know-it-alls. They're meant to be experts in certain fields. And...and I think human knowledge has come to the extent where it's hard for people to be experts in multiple fields, given the intellect that we have as Homo sapiens. So I think well-rounded scientists might not be a good idea because they might take time away from truly discovering new things. Well, I do agree that interdisciplinarity research is key, but I think that is more of a...the issue of collaboration between scientists rather than having people who can understand multiple fields, which is really hard as it is.

I think, I'm...I'm not sure this is counted as literature, but this growing popularity for comics. Well, I know what you're thinking, comics seems to be childish and boring, but that's more of a, there's a more of a understanding of comics prior to 1990s. Since 1990s, comics have become more serious, they explore darker themes, they start to discuss the human condition, and as well as the growing conflict between humanity and the creation of humanity, which is technology or the society we're in. So once something as easy as comics starts to discuss this, I think it has potential becoming what we'll understand as classical literature.

Well, yeah, I think there are multiple points that's discussing the theme of nature versus humans, especially under this stage, you know, where...where our technology is slowly eroding the environment that we are living in. This used to be subtle, this used to be regional, where people have pollutions and destroyed habitats, but now it's more of a global...global thing, where greenhouse gases cause rising sea levels. That might lead to problems not for a community, but also for entire civilizations. For example, people live on the polynesian islands does have this, you know, crisis on our hands where the rising sea levels might destroy their homes entirely. So I think that is something really valid and really speaks to the...to the time that we're living in.

Well, I need to be focused for quite a bit of time. Now, for example, I'm taking a test or when I'm, you know, learning a class or when I'm trying to figure out something, I think that's all…that all requires focus.

Well, I think the biggest sort of distraction nowadays is cell phones. In the past, you know, where you have a phone or have mail, it doesn't really bother you that much cause you can expect to be called upon at any moment. But now with...with the cell phone, you know, the phone seems to be constantly ringing, not only from text messages, from apps, but also from notifications of different websites and apps. So I think, yeah, this is major sort of distraction. And also sometimes your phone just calls on you, you know, trying to trick you into using it, to...to watch a video or something. So that also is a distraction, but I think it's not as much as the notifications that's bugging me quite a lot.

I think one way to be focused or to concentrate is basically to shut off all communications, turn off your cell phone, turn off your computer if you're not using it of course. Basically you have to get into this mindset where you just tell yourself that nothing is going to, you know, distract me from doing what I'm doing right now. So you think it's more of a mind thing, it's more of a control, psychological control you have, rather than physical technique.

Well, it's not really difficult for me, because I...I want to do things that interest me. So if I'm interested in it, basically I just...get lost in the task itself, so it's not hard for me per se, but I think it's hard for a lot of people now, because, you know, with the apps, again, you know, more interesting, the algorithm...just trying to...to...to...to trick you into watching videos that are similar to your likes. So I think it's hard for a lot of people, but personally I think it's not that hard...

I prefer to read books that has more of a historical context. It could be, you know, a history book that tells you the specifics of a certain time. It also could be historical novel where the plot is set up...under a realistic historical theme. Yeah, I think it's more real, more authentic in a sense, so it's easy for me to get in touch with the emotions and the plots.

Well, you know, I mostly read books sleeping in my house during the weekends, which is you have a busy work week so I'm going to go home at night...too tired to do anything serious so basically I just use my free time during weekends and I don't want to really go out. It's too tiring for me sometimes, so I just basically stay at home and read books.

Well, I don't really read books with other people. I see reading as a more of a private event where you try to understand the journey that the hero of the book is on. I think if you share it with other people, it's not really your understanding of the journey, whether you're being taught. And that for me is the...sabotages of the...the entire process. So I don't really share with other people. I just read books by myself.

Well, it's necessary because you have to have a source of information, knowledge basically, that is reliable. Now people actually use websites and, you know, TikTok or other...YouTube more as a source of information, but that's user-generated content where the authenticity of the knowledge itself is really comes to the question of how reliable it is. But with books, it's a published version of something and of course there are hocus pocus books everywhere. But you know, it's more reliable than just a TikTok. So I think that's important for learning.

Well, I know I often go, but I go from time to time and they are, you know, several zoos that made a really lasting…not impact but you know had a really memory of going there and I thought it was really fun.

Well, I go to the zoos probably once every year, maybe even longer. I don't have a kid, so basically I just go. I don't really know why I go to the zoo. Sometimes I go to other people. Last time I went to the zoo was because I went to Singapore and you know the Singapore Zoo is very famous, so we went. But since then, I haven't had the opportunity to go. I haven't reason to actually visit the zoo.

I think the most important benefits would be it's a way to get people who are not really in the field of, you know, history or biology to understand the beauty of it, to make you interested in the profoundness of nature or profoundness of...of human history. It's a...It's a way for people who are indifferent to these ideas and subjects and concepts to have a window of this beautiful world that they are not really familiar with.

I don't think it's a...it's a...an effective way, because we have built zoos, it's not their natural habitat. It's a...basically became cage animals. They are different from their wild life counterparts. So it's a way to preserve animals that's going extinct, like pandas, where they... it's hard for them to exist in the wild because, you know, evolution. But I do not think that effective is the right word to use. I think it is sometimes the last resort that we, you know, choose for extreme circumstances.

I arrange my daily activities according to my own schedule. For example, I always work out in the morning, and I do all my assignments for study in the afternoon. At night, I hang out with friends and shop.

I find impossible to distribute my time and I think I need some skills to help myself arrange activities in a more effective way.

Definitely at the...at a shopping centers.

I guess not.

Not really.

Yeah, that's what I do every day.

No, it's too cold on the floor. I prefer to sit on a chair.

Well, people miss their childhood because of many reasons. For one, for two, for three, for all of them.

I think kids are indeed happier than adults because they have fewer things to worry about and overall they can enjoy the moment of truth and pure joy without the...the hustles the adults are thinking about every day and the serendipity as a child is the outmost...is something outmost wonderful

Well, of course, because that's if...some formative years in primary schools, and these are friends that are probably one of your first friends outside of your family, outside of your neighborhood. And it's something memorable and something formed in childhood. Some memories formed in childhood can be quite indelible for the long term.

Primary school teachers that are caring, that maybe says unorthodox things that are different from what the kids or child in the family, that would really impress the kids. And if...of course for them, everyone that's adorable will make them memorable. But it's...it's easier to be an adult who can really brandish your knowledge, your thoughts, to the kids. And that will make you as a teacher very memorable.

Well, first you have...have good genetics, meaning it's likely if you want to live longer, your...your families have a long living history as well. That's one of the most important secret. The other secret is like, just lead a normal, healthy life. Do not do substance abuses. Do not, you know, stay up long at night. Do not get angry easily or being in an environment that you can easily get irritated. So generally don't live in a toxic environment. And yeah, overall with these elements, you are likely to live longer. Even if your genetics is normal, is average, if you don't abuse substance, if you lead a healthy life, you will live longer.

Well, of course, living the life to the fullest is definitely good. However, well, that's philosophically the best way, but to fulfill the...the idea of living the life to the fullest requires what I just said before, which is, you know, you shouldn't substance...abuse substance, which will definitely lead you to be a miserable life and not live to the fullest one that you want. And you...you need to...to not live in a toxic environment, which will definitely not give you a fullest life that you want. So I think they're interconnected and pretty much the same thing in the end. So I...I would generally agree with what you said that, you know, we always want to live the life to the fullest is the secret to longevity.

Yeah, I think reading books are very important and you should keep reading and...and if you want to be utilitarian, you should read books that's, you know, directly beneficial to you. For example, for reading books that's about your industry, about your work, that can improve your skills and domain knowledge and that will be definitely very critical.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah it...it really depends on your mindset. If you are in the mood of reading something leisure...leisurely and not worried about, you know, making...make every inch of the time to be used for making your career progress, then definitely. But sometimes, even especially for young people, it's hard to have mindset to, you know, read something leisurely. But if you do have enough time and money and you're on travel, of course it's so entertaining to have a book in the airport and read. Let your mind wander around. That's such a beautiful, beautiful experience. So thank you for the suggestion.

In this part, I'm going to give you a topic I would liking you to talking about it from 1-2 minutes. Before you talks, you will having 1 minute to think about what you are going to say. You can bring a pencil right next to you for make notes. I would like you to describing an old friends that you got in contact again. You shouldn't say who she or she is, what he or she is like, how you got in contact and explain how you felt about it. Your 1 minute preparation starts from now. Alright, remember you have 1-2 minutes for this. I will tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now please?

No, I have not…have not told anyone about this…this friend. It's my secret friend.

That's a very interesting topic. Well a lot of people argue that the companies in the world are using more and more in automation, and this will make it pretty dangerous to normal workers who devote at least a...a decent amount of time to the repeated work that can be easily automated. And these are the dangers.

Yeah, true. From company's perspective, they...the automation can indeed make the work more efficient and increase the productivity. But who knows, overall, probably because of the increased productivity and the...the better society that we can build with it, we will probably create more jobs, more creative jobs, more jobs that's free from repeated work. And overall, maybe the wage will increase, the work...the workers happiness will increase as well.

Well, that's totally true. I mean, they can face unemployment for sure. But the...the company should take the responsibility of continuously training the workers to be able to adapt to the new technologies, new automation skills, so that they can participate in these digital transformation processes and actually increase their productivity, increase their wages. But companies must choose this option. I mean, most companies should have the obligation to choose this option over just firing those workers because they can be easily replaced. And that's an important social dilemma.

Well, I think I need to be focused when I have something very important to do and some imminent task that I have to fulfill and complete in a short amount of time. In that case, my instinct will tell me that I have to be very concentrated.

What do I do to help myself concentrate is sometimes going to libraries and study with friends. That's one. Two, set small goals, incremental goals so that you have a sense of deadline in your mind. And in this way, you can really be better at completing a task step by step and overall the efficiency will increase.

It could be very difficult to stay focused on something, but as I said before, you have to think about what can be done, what can you do about it, and how to make improvements. In this case, things will get much, much better.

When and not where? I usually read books at home. Sometimes I go to libraries to read books. And overall, nowadays, I read more and more on computers, although it's quite hard to...to stay focused with a electronic device to read books, because there are so many distractions and you want to click on social media, you want click on the messaging apps. And it...I would personally prefer if I really want to read something deep, I would just pick up a book, go somewhere else, go into the library, go into somewhere that other people don't see, and really start reading.

Yeah, I would like to share the feeling of reading books to others because, you know, it's more motivating and I think sharing is a...a very natural human instinct because you will feel motivated and you find meanings in sharing with others. Otherwise, if the knowledge is just in yourself, not disseminated to others, it's quite lonely and for most people it's unbearable to not share information or knowledge to others. So it's really a good choice to share your knowledge with others.

Reading is necessary because it enriches your knowledge...enriches experience beyond what you personally can experience and it really extend the...the...the...anti... of...of your knowledge and makes your...your perspective broader and you can think deeper about the questions that you want to solve and think about the directions you want to go and you can stand on the shoulders of giants and in the end you'll be a better person.

Yes, I...I...I would say actually not often go to zoos, but I occasionally go to zoos. I kind of enjoy it and really depends on like how much the zoo managers dedicate their...their time to enrich the experience of the visitors. Some zoos are just have, you know, sporadic animals spreading around the zoos, so you just take a look and the environment is dirty. So in this case I don't really like the zoos, but there are other zoos where, you know, it's...there's...it's a plethora of...of animals and you can really see them enjoying their lives. And sometimes there are some entertainment activities within the zoos which can increase you know your experience as a visitor and also this could be controversial, but if there are some...if there are some performance with that you know performance by the animals like tigers and they're just doing some difficult tasks with the human trainer, although some people would argue that's unethical and inhumane to train the animals this way because they must have experienced very harsh treatment in order to achieve that level of...of performance behavior, but I still think that as a visitor from a visitor's perspective it's a perfect zoo experience.

Well, how often? I would go to the zoos maybe every year and that's it cause there's no incentive to...if you're not moving to another city, there's no meaning to repeatedly go to the same zoo in a city cause it's usually constantly stay the same. And even if you go to the other cities, which is not too often in my case, you...the zoos oftentimes won't be the first choice. And that's also the case if you go to the big cities, if you go to a smaller city, or the countryside, or you just want to go to a remote place to see the landscapes, then it's unlikely that you will go to zoos. So overall, people are less...have the less tendency to go to zoos. So it's not that often, I would say, overall, on average for the general population.

Benefit of visiting zoos and museum is that you can understand...you can gain more knowledge about the...the...the animals, a variety of kinds of animals, and you can see that we as humans actually live a much different life than these animals, which in tens of thousands or millions of years ago, which is not too many years over the span of the Earth or over the span of the entire universe, you can see that many, many years ago we probably all lived in the wild and have to experience the life without much organization, without much purpose, but now we live such a different life and you can see a difference perspective from...and how the Mother Earth involves and how randomness actually, in fact, can make an impact on how different things live in different lives.

Sorry, could you say that again?

Yeah, I now need to describe a part of the city or town that I enjoy playing...playing...spending time with. Well, I would say here in around in the New York City metropolitan area, I would enjoy going to the Lincoln Park tennis court where there are more than 20 courts and I play a lot of tennis there. And in this case, I really, you know, where it is, it's in Jersey City right across the Hudson River to the...to the Manhattan and it's about 15 to 20 minutes drive from my home where I...where is I live in Jersey City. And what I do there is I talk to, I usually, you know, play tennis with my friends and that on the one hand, it will increase my tennis skills and bring a lot of enjoyment to my life. And on the other hand, I can, you know, increase the bond with my friends. And that is a totally enjoyable place for me. And I've been there the first time...since the first time I moved to New York City.

Yeah, I've told other people about this place, of course. What they told me this time... No, I'm sorry. I've told other people about this place, of course. And I've recommended my friends who are playing tennis to this place. But in...in some sense, I...I...I don't tell everyone cause I don't want the tennis court to be inundated with...with people playing tennis that I don't really know. And I myself cannot find a place to play. So, yep.

How do public places change in...in towns and cities? Well, it really mostly depend on the collective will of the community, and if they...if they think that those facilities should...should exist, then...and those exist...facilities are helping them live a better life, then they would have the tendency to keep that place. And on the other hand, you know, if they don't like this place, we will probably have the proposal to change the facilities. And for example, if it's a...a playground and there are no longer a lot of child...kids playing around there, or young people playing around there, then the older people who are dominating the community will propose to build some public place, public facilities that's more friendly, user friendly to the older people. And yeah, that's basically it.