@Qingping Jiang @Chao Liu @Mina Min @Sara Li @Nza Kurdi @Shirley Lee @Kiki Jiang @Pauline Wong @Evelyne Vincent @Khalil Ghacha @Mei Chen @Alex Understated @Mariel Liang @Lu Huishan @Leileon W @Zhang Yu da @Keven Zheng @Falak Amjad @Prawit Pimpasarn @John Zhang @Virgilia Lin @Yulan Li @Jas Karan @Gulistan Asan @Hassania Hassania Thank you so much, guys, for stopping by! Awesome convo as always — I laughed a lot 😄 We learned a ton today: new vocabulary, new expressions, and just good vibes overall. That was exactly the idea when I started this club three months ago — learn new things in REAL CONVERSATION, improve our speaking, get to know each other better, and somehow LEARN WITHOUT LEARNING and MEMORIZE WITHOUT MEMORIZING. I honestly believe it works. Big thanks to @Constance Tuballes for joining us today for the first time! Hope you enjoyed the hangout and will join us more often 🙌 LOVE YOU ALL, GUYS! LEARNING TOGETHER. IMPROVING BIG TIME! 💪 Yours truly, Serge — let’s forge! 😂

📖 Book Don't Sweat the Small Stuff … and It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson, PhD. Synopsis: Simple ways to keep little things from taking over your life. The book consists of 100 short articles -- we'll go through them week by week. This week’s # 12: Let Others Be "Right" Most of the Time Here's what you need to do: 1. Read it yourself, take time to reflect on it and make notes. 2. Join the live reading on Wednesday. We'll read and listen to the article together, line by line. 3. Share your thoughts. Keep your answer under 4 minutes. Be clear, and focus on expressing your ideas about the topic to practice real English speaking. No debates, just sharing thoughts. Article # 12 Let Others Be "Right" Most of the Time One of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself is, "Do I want to be 'right' -- or do I want to be happy?" Many times, the two are mutually exclusive! Being right, defending our positions, takes an enormous amount of mental energy and often alienates us from the people in our lives. Needing to be right -- or needing someone else to be wrong -- encourages others to become defensive, and puts pressure on us to keep defending. Yet, many of us (me too, at times) spend a great deal of time and energy attempting to prove (or point out) that we are right -- and/or others are wrong. Many people, consciously or unconsciously, believe that it's somehow their job to show others how their positions, statements, and points of view are incorrect, and that in doing so, the person they are correcting is going to somehow appreciate it, or at least learn something. Wrong! Think about it. Have you ever been corrected by someone and said to the person who was trying to be right, "Thank you so much for showing me that I'm wrong and you're right. Now I see it. Boy, you're great!" Or, has anyone you know ever thanked you (or even agreed with you) when you corrected them, or made yourself "right" at their expense? Of course not. The truth is, all of us hate to be corrected. We all want our positions to be respected and understood by others. Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected. Those who are in the habit of correcting others are often resented and avoided.