My 2010 paper precis. Please check

agnes · #1 Sunday, July 01, 2012

Jealousy is a bitter feeling which makes the person's life miserable. He begrudges rather than achieving success by his own. He wastes his energies on absurd thoughts and never finds any logical answer. It is widely accepted that if anyone desires to be happy. He should find panacea of jealousy. In the view of saints its remedy is devotion. Logic doesn't agree on the point of one saint having evil eye for another. For ordinary people panacea is happiness but these people argue that how they can be happy as they keep evil eye on happy moments too. Real life doesn't accept this logic if anyone desires to sort out causes then he should step towards its cure.

Umer · #2 Saturday, July 07, 2012

In all 3 of your Precis attempt, you have missed the first step i.e. you haven't chosen a suitable title for anyone of the three attempts.
When you read the paragraph several times and are confident that you have understood what the author is trying to convey, then it is the perfect time to write a suitable title. Title will constantly remind you what majorly you have to write about in your Precis and you will not detour from that direction.

Another thing, do write original paragraphs with their Precis written by you. Members usually don't find it convenient to go back, search for 2009 or 2010 paper and then check what you have written.

Keep practicing.

agnes · #3 Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Of all the characteristics of ordinary human nature envy is the most unfortunate; not only does the envious person wish to inflict misfortune and do so whenever he can with impunity, but he is also himself rendered unhappy by envy. instead of deriving pleausre from what he has, he derives pain from what others have. if he can, he deprives others of their advantages, which to him is as desirable as as it would be to secure the same advantages himself. if this passion is allowed to run riot it becomes fatal to all excellence,and even the most useful exercise of exceptional skill. why should a medical man go to see his patients in a car when the labourer has to walk to his work? why should the scientifc investigator be allowed to spend his time in a warm room when others have to face the inclemency of the elements? why should a man who possesses some rare talent of great importance to the world be saved fromt he drudgery of his own housework? to such questions envy finds no answer. fortunately, however, there is in human nature a compensating passion, namely that of admiration. whosoever wishes to increase human happiness must wish to increase admiration and to diminish envy. what cure is there for envy? for the saint there is the cure of selflessness, though even in the case of saints envy of other saints is by no means impossible. but, leaving saints out of account, the only cure of envy in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness. but the envious man may say: 'what is the good of telling me that the cure of envy is happiness? i cannot find happiness while i continue to feel envy, and you tell me that i cannot cease to be envious until i find happiness.' but real life is never so logical as this. mereley to realize the cause of one's own envious feeling is to take a long step towards curing them.

here is my precis of this paragraph

Jealousy is a bitter feeling which makes the person's life miserable. He begrudges rather than achieving success by his own. He wastes his energies on absurd thoughts and never finds any logical answer. It is widely accepted that if anyone desires to be happy. He should find panacea of jealousy. In the view of saints its remedy is devotion. Logic doesn't agree on the point of one saint having evil eye for another. For ordinary people panacea is happiness but these people argue that how they can be happy as they keep evil eye on happy moments too. Real life doesn't accept this logic if anyone desires to sort out causes then he should step towards its cure.

rabia sulehri · #4 Monday, July 23, 2012

title: Cons and cure of envy
Although Jelousy is a natural feeling, it makes a person unhappy because he is never pleased by whatever he has but is always unhappy because of other men's achievements. Man can either be jelous of others previliges or can admire them, the latter is better option as he will remain happy by admiring rather than envying.
To eradicate envy saints believe in selflessness, for ordinary men cure for envy is happiness. But the dilemma is that a jelous person can never be happy. Ruling out the cause of jelousy can be an effective step in its cure.

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