火與運動 9

Fleeting quotes

If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation.
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Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency.
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Serendipity is the function of risk.

Reading

📕孤獨通行證

「複習乃學習之母。」任何一本重要的書都應該一鼓作氣讀兩遍。這一方面是因為在第二次閱讀時，我們更能把握書中的整體內容，知道了結尾，才能理解開端；另一方面，再次閱讀時，我們也許會有不同的心境和意緒，由此從書中得到不同的印象。

得以成為原則。重新閱讀如同回頭註解，始能理解文本的真實含意與結構。

如果詞語的堆砌超過了限度，思想的表達就變得更加模糊不清。找到適當的限度就是風格的難題和判斷力的職責，因為太多的言詞反而會使目標難以實現。這就是伏爾泰所說「形容詞是名詞的死敵」

副詞更是。如果把一篇文章的副詞全拿掉，幾乎不影響文意的理解。

思想也遵循重力法則，它從頭腦進入紙張比從紙張進入頭腦容易得多。所以，他必須在後一方面多下功夫。

提到作者主觀性的錯誤：作者只明白自己想表達的東西，但不理會努力理解作者意思的讀者。我則是很喜歡「重力法則」的譬喻，譬喻是讀叔本華的驚喜。

當一個人花費大量時間苦思冥想、分析總結後，就會獲得一種真知或見解。雖然他也許可以在一本書中輕易發現這種真知和見解，但是由他獨自思考而獲得的真理價值，卻比從書中得到的高出百倍。因為，只有透過獨立思考獲得的知識，才能融入我們的思想體系，成為整個思維體系活生生的一部分，並與整體保持一種完整的連結。

單純閱讀容易有「進步」的錯覺，但閱讀是在用別人的頭腦，而非用自己的頭腦思考。閱讀是把外來、異質的思想強加於自己的頭腦，這些思想本與自己的精神並不吻合，因此必須透過深思熟慮、相互參照後才得以成為真知。Thinking for oneself.

📄 散文的紀實與虛構

彷彿、猶如、好像是，這些修辭所帶動的比喻，已經遠遠不能表現豐沛、紛繁、複雜 ...... 因此需要動用更龐大的修辭策略，藉著看似寫實界不可能發生的場面加以映襯、呼應內裡情緒變化、思慮轉折，以期具體轉譯出不能目睹、不能聽聞、不能撫觸的抽象心理狀態。

📄 漁父

所謂撿骨，其實是重敘生者與死者之間那一樁肝腸寸斷的心事，在陽光之下重逢，彼此安慰、低訴、夢迴、見最後一面、共享一頓牲禮酒食，如在。

📄 Revisiting the Playground

Hugely amazed by the magnitude of the swings in 1920. It does occur to me that everything may not look like or share the same values in the past as what we take for granted today. As stated in the article, "It was thought that providing facilities for physical exercise would ensure that poor children developed into strong adults who could serve the British Empire as workers at home and soldiers abroad. Such spaces also embedded conservative social values into the fabric of the city, segregating playgrounds by age and gender and locating them in the poorest neighbourhoods."

Not to mention, some "new" ideas may have been existed for a long time. We just don't notice that. The concept of "Inclusive playground" can be seen from Charles Wicksteed's counteract to "segregating playground" when he adopted a permissive approach to park management and created a large playground open to girls and boys, children and adults.

📕 The Book of Joy

We have to take care of ourselves without selfishly taking care of ourselves. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we cannot survive. We need to do that. We should have wise selfishness rather than foolish selfishness. Foolish selfishness means you just think only of yourself, don’t care about others, bully others, exploit others. In fact, taking care of others, helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life. So that is what I call wise selfishness.

[about handling worries] thinking about others. You can think about others who are in a similar situation or perhaps even in a worse situation, but who have survived, even thrived. It does help quite a lot to see yourself as part of a greater whole.

Podcastism

🎙️ Investing in Young Men with Scott Galloway

Your happiness is the function of the number of deep, meaningful relationship you have. So, I just think that sex is the key step of that elemental foundation.

Also, it's worth revisiting The Algebra of Wealth. It doesn't mean that sex is a must, but instead we need to find other way to aggressively establish relationship. For a man, it's okay to start talking to strange woman in front of you in Starbucks. If she's not interested, you both will get out fine if you pick up quickly. The worst outcome of asking is being rejected, but not asking risks every outcome.

The first sign of a man is truly failed, is that he starts blaming women.

Transference takes its effect when a failed man shifts his anger to women as a general category. One of explanations for misogyny.

[in physical fitness] I think that's a gift. Every person under the age of 30, especially every man, should be able to walk in any room, and be confident of ...... You're less likely to get into a fight if you feel you are strong. You can de-escalate the situation. You are more prone to getting kind and more willing to protect others. You will live a better live.

It might be my bias, but maintaining physical fitness is one of the few things that emphasized by all those awesome people.

What I've watched

🎥 Pretend It’s a City

It's dawns on me that Schopenhauer really has an opinion on everything while I'm reading the book Lonely Pass, and same as Fran Lebowitz. So here are some quotes from the documentary series about her. Filled with opinionssss.

What's are plants doing in Time Square?

[when asked of why people come to NY] What's not here. That's the way to look at it. Wherever they're from is not here.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind of people who think there's such a thing as enough money, and the kind of people who have money.

I don't want to die in a way that is amusing to other people.

🎥 紅豬

相較於其他宮崎駿動畫，紅豬沒有宏大的敘事與隱喻，而是像番外篇一般的平靜，我被如此樸實吸引而一看再看。片中波魯克對昔日戰友說：「不能飛的豬，就只是豬。」一個人能知道自己是誰，比扮演外在眼光中的完美角色還重要。沒有成為理想的大人，或許也沒關係，既到了中年，也能安之。

Outside Interest!

🎶Joyce Wrice: Tiny Desk Concert

出現在 Tiny Desk 裡的和聲總比歌手本人 chill (笑

🎥最靠北的加拿大！跟著極圈居民出海打獵吃生肉！｜The DoDo Men 嘟嘟人

因為人在加拿大，特地點開來看。但我不想去如此偏僻的地方XD

📦Engineer's Scale Model of an Extending Fire Escape Ladde

酷~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 機械宅的理想收藏

🔗Instagram account of 達賴喇嘛