[Questions] A Whole New Mind - pg. 28-36

1. What surprised you?
-I was surpised that the clothes cost less now compared to two, three decades ago. I thought it would be more expensive or similar. Also the fact that America spends more money on trash bags that ninety other countries spend on everything.

2. What did you already know?
- It is not that much important, but I knew about the scholastic aptitude tests (PSAT, SAT, GMAT, etc) and that they are used to measure L-Directed thinking.

3. Brand-new words
Yesteryear - old fashioned
Stranglehold - Forceful situation
Excursion - A short trip
Swank - ostentatious
Unfathomable - difficult to understand
Quintessentially - relating to the nature of being typical
Unslaked - unsatisfied
Transcendence - surpassing others
Prosperity - flourishing
Bevy - A large group

4. What changes will you make after reading?
Although it is not very much book related, I think I will start to reduce the money spend on useless things and start saving the environment!

5. What questions has this left with?
How much can we depend on these facts that abundance is effecting our society to need more right-brainers?

Why is it that decade after decade, paradox of prosperity has risen, but personal, family, and life satisfaction haven't?

6. Other
The whole toilet brush talk was funny.

7. What connections have you made in real life?
- The book says that US in 1970's had parents who were expecting their children to go to college and become doctors, lawyers, and accountants. I can really related to this, because almost all Asian (at least Korean) parents are just the same.