January 14-21
Simplicity literature
Hello January
NO.1
Keywords · 100 days run
From January 10th to today, the 11th day of the 100-day run has been spent, and there has been a day off in between. It was Monday, it was raining in the morning, and it wasn't until after 9 p.m., and I was a little tired, so I took a day off. In this way, I am also relieved that I will not blindly pursue the 120-day "Grand Slam" and get tired of coping. In this 120 consecutive days, I can choose to take 20 days off, about one day of rest every week, so that I can complete the 5-kilometer 100-day run every day in a better state, and at the same time, I will not accumulate injuries due to fatigue.
NO.2
Key sentence • The Café at the End of the World
This week, I'm reading a book, The Cafe at the End of the World (John F. Kennedy). Stellaky), a best-selling 16-year-old psychology classic, has been translated into 39 languages and sold well in more than 40 countries. It tells the story of a middle-aged man John, who is in a lost and troubled period of life, who inexplicably enters a "why are you here" café to escape the tediousness of life and work pressure, and the three thinking questions on the back of the menu are even more interesting:
1 Why are you here?
2 Are you afraid of death?
3 Are you satisfied?
John and the waiter, the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper's friends had a series of discussions about the three issues, leading to the word "PFE." When a person figures out why he exists, he is equivalent to defining his own 'Purpose For Existing', or 'PFE' for short.
This book is not chicken soup, and anyone who reads and thinks about it will be inspired a little. Here's what inspired me to share:
1 The so-called meaning of one's own existence is like the question that the Buddha asked himself: How to make a drop of water never dry up? The answer is to put it into the sea. In the greatest renunciation of the self, the greatest gain is hidden.
2 If you can make a difference in your life, your life is still extraordinary.
So, listen to the majority, refer to the opinions of the minority, and finally make your own decisions.
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If you're thinking about these questions, flipping through this book, maybe you'll think differently.
NO.3
Keywords and historical perspectives
In the process of the continuous disintegration of the aristocratic spirit, of course, the nobles cannot all accept it silently, the most famous of which is two examples, which everyone is familiar with: one is the Song Xianggong of the Spring and Autumn Period, who must pay attention to benevolence and righteousness in battle, and fantasizes about the invincibility of the benevolent, and suffers a great loss; and the other is a fallen soldier who does not eat the food that comes from the street, has no food and clothing, is only one step away from starving to death, and refuses to give up the dignity of the nobility.
Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs.
The dogs with noble heads were ruthlessly crushed to death by the wheel of history. In such a screening mechanism of "natural selection, survival of the fittest", the despicable is destined to become the passport of the despicable, and the noble is destined to become the epitaph of the noble.
This phenomenon aside from emotional preferences can be summed up in a word: the old morality and the new order are out of tune. For historical figures to look at with a historical perspective, in that historical time and space, how will he choose?
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