ここでは、恥ずかしいという思いから、人生の広がりや成功体験が妨げられている事実に焦点を当て、恥をかいても安全な個人レッスンの活用方法を紹介します。
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自信のつく、英語コミュニケーション・スキルを指導します: Professional Training & Coaching to Help You Become the Person You Want to Become.


It goes like this: I utter a simple “thank you” to a grocery store cashier, prompting an immediate “Where are you from?” “Czech Republic,” I say. “Really? My aunt went to Russia last year,” she responds. What do I say to that? Do I go with the pointless, “That’s nice” and beat a hasty retreat? Or do I say what I’m actually thinking: “What does that have to do with anything?” But that’s rude. I try not to be rude—partly because I am an immigrant here (and there are few things more insufferable than ungrateful immigrants) and partly because being nice is contagious. I usually opt for the pointless.
“How long have you been here?” he asks. “Just a year,” I respond. “Well, your English is fantastic,” he says. And this, I must admit, is very nice to hear. “Thank you,” I say—but what I’m thinking is: “Clearly, it isn’t fantastic enough to allow me to be anonymous.”
I’ve just told a group of complete strangers where I’m from, what got me here, how long I’ve been here, my husband’s occupation and where I live. Now they want me to reveal my address. “I’m sorry,” I say. “I don’t feel comfortable telling you that.”

And the club is reaching out to more foreign students. Its English-language website has some words of reassurance: "If you're concerned about Mawashi (the traditional sumo belt), you can wear short [sic] under it. Showing your buttocks is not the point of sumo."

MELISSA HATHAWAY, Hathaway Global Strategies: I think our economic security is our national security. And to the extent that anybody can make the e-commerce infrastructure unstable, that's going to jeopardize really everybody's economy.
Guardian Analytics CEO Terry Austin says computer bank robbery often takes place without banks even missing the money at first. Austin's firm has designed a system to detect suspicious activity using changes to a customer's usual patterns.
SPENCER MICHELS: In January, when Google executives said that hackers from China had broken into the company's computer networks to steal information about Chinese dissidents, that sounded alarm bells in Washington.
JEFF MOSS: And they're willing to talk about it. I'm really hoping that Google going public will encourage others to go public, because, as a country, how can we have an informed debate, how can our decision-makers, our policy-makers make an informed decision if they don't have the facts?
And so my attempt, through conferences like this, is to try to bring people the facts.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country." -- Abraham Lincoln

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