<p>One day in late summer this year. Mr. Cohen, a neighbor, visited us for discussing held the next community table tennis tournament. In the living room, he stand in front of bookshelf and ask my dad: hey buddy, you added more new books here, The completed idiots guide to something series? My dad smiled and answered : Oh, those books were bought by my honey daughter Sylvan, there are more on her table. Most of them are related to the business, such as to e-Commerce, and so on. Mr. Cohen sly smiled and said: You are a fan of something for DUMMIES series, and now add a fan of IDIOTS series. Is that mean in your family there are one old dummy and one small idiot ? </p>
<p>Hearing that I were rushing to answer: Yes , you are right, In math, two negatives make a positive. Here, one dummy and one idiot are combination of smart team. Oh, how about these words? He asked. The old dummy learned how to design the new product, negotiation with manufactures and apply for the patent. I, small idiot suggested the old one to change the new product’s name to car laptop holder, as you know, the old product’s name is car book holder. Why make that changing, because my investigation show me that more and more people use laptop in the car, they do take the advantage of wireless to connect laptop to the internet. This is my written description of the product: this hands free laptop holder that was used after the car is parked, and was a stand for laptops, books, maps, and magazines on the steering wheel. Which also had straps to control page turning and to hold pencils and pens." </p>
<p>I continued: "Eventually, this product was manufactured out. Last spring, I made my request to sale this product, my parents agreed that I can do marketing and sales, in three-month summer vacation, as part of the summer social practice. First of all, I found a free ISP online and then built my website, the html and java are used as computing language, in three days. And then I published the product information on the craiglist. Next, I observed that there are two elements make the sales volume increases, one is the product to change the name, the other is to reduce the sales price.</p>
<p>This summer I have been very happy, there are two particularly good feeling, one is to the post office to mail product, that is mean to make money, the second is that sales data fit the demand curve, which was learned in AP economics at the school. Of course interest and good feeling has led me to buy books and read them. I found many things to need to learn, for example, macroeconomics, microeconomics, management, accounting, finance, product development and sales, international trade management and so on. My dream is to become a qualified professional managers or entrepreneurs in the future. However, continuous learning will make dream come true.</p>
<p>Once I have a problem, I’ll go check the books, find the answers, so you laughed, I said those idoit’s series of books, for example, The complete idiot’s guide to Starting a Web-Based Business, to Java 1.2. This practice plus theory, and then back to practice, I really benefit from it. Three months of summer have passed, I pause in this area, back to school to continue my studies and began to prepare my college application materials." He then asked: “How about the sale record these three months?” I replied: “About one thousand dollars net profit, however, the acquired knowledge and work experience is invaluable.” He looked at me with an inquiring look, asked.“Last time I met you, you said you are still selecting a major, is now selected out?” I replied: “Yes, in the future, my job cover letter will have a word, I graduated from xxx university in business major.” </p>
<p>He said:“Well, I understand what you say that two negatives make a positive meaning, and I am happy to hearing that, but”. " But what? “I asked eagerly. He paused, smiling, said:” What I understand that two negatives make a positive is that next time at our community table tennis tournament, if I lose two games to you that mean I win, so let your dad asked me to have BBQ." I froze a moment, smiled and said:" Well, that your two negatives make a positive is waiting me here." He was slowly and word by word said:" I’m teasing you." We all laughed.</p>