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title: Week 49, 2024
issue: 49
year: 2024
weekNumber: 49
created: 2024-12-08T12:00:00
modified: 2026-01-22T13:28:02
---

# Wisdom I Pondered This Week

* “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ” — Jack London
* [If every instinct that you have is wrong, then the opposite must be right — do the opposite.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_6fZGSOQI)
* “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward
* “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” — Walt Disney
* “The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” — Muhammad Ali

# Things I Learned This Week

* A [carafe](https://www.google.com/search?q=carafe) is a glass container with a flared lip used for serving liquids, especially wine and coffee.
* **Third Culture Kids (第三文化兒童)** are people who were raised in a culture other than their parents’ or the culture of their country of nationality, and also live in a different environment during a significant part of their child development years.
* “c/o” (_not “c.o.”_) = in an address = in care of
* in lieu (of) = instead (of)
* 英國脫歐 Brexit = [Britain](https://sketchplanations.com/great-britain-the-united-kingdom-whats-the-difference) + Exit