Phoenix Reading Plan
Classic literature, you can't just pass by
Li Ao is a Taiwanese writer, thinker, and poet. On March 18, 2018, Li Ao passed away in Taipei at the age of 83.
Indifferent to mingzhi, quiet to far away. The great men of the times never slackened their self-cultivation. Everyday life is busy and busy, but we can always squeeze some out of the time sponge, or read our favorite books, or exercise and strengthen our bodies. But in life, you must review the past. Looking back at our past selves and learning from other people's experiences can make us stronger.
When I was growing up, I spent a lot of effort to train myself into steel. The method of exercise, whether it is the Saint of the East Sea or the Saint of the West Sea, I have collected it all in a net, and from the exploration and experimentation, I have sought to settle down. I am very careful in this kind of self-steelmaking. I can have some personality today, some courage to go alone, some "although there are tens of millions of people, I am going to die", retrospectively, are closely related to my early years of hard work and self-encouragement.
First class
Lying in bed and meditating on the realm of the "first class" (such as Franklin meeting Voltaire, Hu Shi seeing Russell) really makes me have a grand mind, and thinking more about the "first class" self and attitude toward people will make me have the first class thoughts in my heart, and erase all the thoughts, words and actions below the second class. All those who belong to the "first class" have almost the same attitude towards joy and misfortune.
The elder President Roosevelt once said that whenever he encountered a difficult problem, he looked up at the picture of Lincoln hanging on the wall and asked himself, "What would Lincoln do if he encountered this problem?" "It's a good criterion for yourself to choose from. Being able to learn to see things from a "first-class" point of view is not only a great style, but also brings a lot of masturbation and quietness to yourself.
Aristotle said, "A magnanimous man, whether fate is good or evil, can respond moderately to it." Success is not considered happy, failure is not sad, the reputation of the outside world is praised and degraded, do not mind, just do what should be done, do what can be done. "What a magnificent mind and quality!
The will of heroism
There are two major elements of my approach to being human: reason and will. Reason is constant and body; will is change, for use.
Qian Siliang said: "Although Dr. Hu has several diseases, he is a very strong-willed person after all, and he is able to bear hardships and stand hard work, which is most admired by his friends. But Hu Shi's will is elderly, and it is inevitable that he lacks heroic spirit, and now what I am asking of myself is a kind of "heroic will."
Conditionally recall
Although I do not want to forget, I really do not want to think about it, and all joy, tears and fame have gradually become a thing of the past. Since it has all become a thing of the past, "we should not look back, unless we want to learn useful lessons from the mistakes of the past and to benefit from experience" (Washington), the remembrance and remembrance of the past will be my present thieves and toxins, and I have set for myself a strict standard: I will not think about any recollection and imagination that is harmful to the "present".
When you are unexpectedly and suddenly bitten by a poisonous snake, you should immediately use various methods to detoxify, rather than continue to shock this accident and expand the degree of your poisoning. Tell yourself: Don't study why you got bitten, don't study how you got bitten, don't lament how hard you were bitten... These are all useless actions, and they do you nothing but delay the time of poisoning and make you poisoned deeper.
On laziness
I found that if I measured myself by Socratic standards, I was no different from these men——— and I was a slacker with fifty steps of laughter. Socrates' standard was: "Not only those who do not do things, but also those who could have done better are also lazy." "It wasn't until this afternoon that I truly realized that I was indeed a man with a deep habit of laziness! Looking back, my reading life, even though there are many places where I am still better than others, I am still very dissatisfied, because I "could have done better." James said, "By the standards by which we should be accomplished, we are only half-awake, and we use only a fraction of our own physical and intellectual abundance." Broadly speaking, people's lives are far from their limits, and we have many powers that we would not normally use. ”...... Therefore, laziness is not a blessing but a kind of uneasiness and unhappiness (uneasiness to the heart, unhappiness to the cause), inner happiness and career success, are not caused by laziness. Lü Kun said: "Physically lax, dizzy, discouraged, the world's affairs are not done by such people." ”
Good and bad work, fear of hardship, greed and easyness are not the weather of those who have achieved great things.
serenity
After returning from working in the library, my heart is really idyllic, which can be said to be all the peace brought to me by the mind and willingness of "not being a self-man", and developing a habit of tranquility and tranquility will be a very necessary thing for me in this long life. Milton said, "Tranquility is the crown of self-denial," and when self-denial reaches the point of pure fire, I will get a state of mind that is always stable and harmonious.
"Quiet people, although they encounter the great panic of life, their hearts are also a wave of upswing. In their daily lives, Gai has cultivated a great concentration, and any stimulus can be unmoved. ”
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