But in fact, we come to Xi'an, there are many reasons, for example, our exclusive partner luzhou old cellar age wine, sold very well in Xi'an.
Also, it's because of him, Master Xuanzang, and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, which is a totem.
No matter where there is good knowledge, no matter where there is good knowledge, even if it is a thousand miles away, I still have to make a wish, take it back, and then translate and spread it. In this story, there is our Chinese admiration, desire and expectation for books and knowledge.
Every reader in China is a bible reader.
Thanks to our exclusive title knowledge partner Luzhou Old Cellar Aged Wine, special knowledge partner CITIC Bank, I have the opportunity to stand here and report to you on my experience in the past year. And recommend to you our carefully selected 52 books.
1. Read a book and light a lamp in the dark distance
The past year has really not looked like a good year of study. There are too many big things: the global epidemic, Sino-US relations, various turbulences in the capital market, the whole world is changing dramatically. What kind of situation is this for each of us?
That said, on November 10, 1942, to celebrate the victory at the Battle of El Alamein, Churchill gave a famous speech in London. Meaning: It's not the end, it's not even the beginning of the end, it may just be the end of the beginning. But then again, this is the most typical mentality of every person who is in the midst of a change, in the midst of a great change, and they do not judge it well: is this the end of one change, or the beginning of another change?
Over the past year, our information environment has looked like this:
In fact, even without this epidemic, our current information environment and previous ones would be very different. There was so much information that flowed past us like a waterfall. Think about your experience in TikTok Kuaishou, that's it. No matter how good the content is, it seems to be less valuable in the information waterfall. Or maybe it's because it's so valuable that people don't even have the courage to provoke it.
However, it was also this year that some people protested. This man is the American film director Martin Scorsese. He said something strange: Movies are now being systematically belittled, degraded into content.
Strange, isn't the movie the content? He said: No. If the movie is content, then it will be a drop in the water in the waterfall of information. It waits to be recommended by the algorithm and waits to be selected by the user. In this case, what is the difference between a costly, well-crafted movie and the funny skits, cat videos, and live streams of selling goods before and after?
Movies are not content. The reason why a movie was born is that its ambition is to create a whole world. Isn't it systematic to degrade a world into a drop of water in a waterfall?
It's a film director's cry. But the estimate is of little use. There are still so many movies that have been edited into 3-minute short videos. You said you didn't watch it, the colorful paragraphs have also been read, and the plot has been understood. You say you see it, and you don't know anything about the details and atmosphere of this universe. More seriously, more and more people are being trained to watch movies impatiently.
I am afraid that the movie will be difficult to escape the fate of becoming content. Back to our topic today, I would say: how dangerous! Fortunately, the book is not yet. Books, or a separate world.
The circumstances of the past year may have reflected the value of books even more.
Let me ask you: What is a book? Judging from the processing process, books are not ordinary information. The biggest difference between the book and the stream of information we usually see on mobile phones is that it has been treated with caution and screened from multiple angles. A book, from writing to publishing to listing, goes through many processes: the author points to it to spread ideas, evaluate titles, and make some money; the publishing house also has to point to it to obtain commercial benefits, accumulate brand and copyright, and the teachers and editors of the publishing house have to re-examine it, can we add such a book to the brand sequence of our publishing house, can it add luster to our publishing house, is it in line with our values? The state's regulatory authorities are responsible for the order and prosperity of the market; and readers will also use their own purchase behavior to determine the final fate of a book. So you see, every book has at least come to this world through the four-fold shaping of authors, publishers, regulators, and markets. The birth of a book is not easy, it is not just a content.
Books are not only information carriers, books are also a set of "social consensus", which are solemnly written, endorsed by professional publishing institutions, and strictly screened by the market.
When you open a book, you're not just learning, you're reading, you're pulling yourself out of the waterfall of the real world and coming to another world. So why come to another world? Because we need to jump to a higher place, travel to a longer time, and see the world at hand.
Just like in the past year, when you panic about the epidemic and the chip, some books will tell you: Don't panic. These things have happened repeatedly in human history, and there is nothing new under the sun.
Once, when I was chatting with Teacher Liu Suri, the owner of Beijing's All Saints Book Park, he told us that last year, a batch of books related to plague, epidemics, and medicine suddenly sprung up in the global publishing world. Of course, we know that the writing, publishing, translating, and distributing of books is a very long process, and writers and publishers cannot predict the outbreak of the epidemic, but you see, the whole society is like a conscious brain, already preparing for this big change. When you see these books, even if you just flip through the table of contents, you will be relieved: Oh, this is just the norm of civilization, calm!
The above books, "The Great Plague of Mankind", "Vaccine Race", "Strangers by the Bedside", "Photolithography Giants", and "The Truth About Generic Drugs", are the books we have selected related to today's environmental topics. Turning to these books, I suggest that you find a very interesting feeling: these books are not written specifically for the topics we care about at the moment, but they are suitable for the topic at hand. This kind of echoing relationship is the value of the book.
In the traditional era, "What is the use of reading?" "That's a silly question." The first good thing in the world is to read." Reading books can obtain information, acquire knowledge, and improve social competitiveness. But today, there are so many ways to get information, and the question of why you should read a book must be re-answered.
There is a very humble saying in the medical community: occasional cure, often remission, always comfort.
Notice this last sentence, which is the value chassis of the existence of doctors and hospitals. The comfort of medicine comes from care and companionship. What about the comfort that books offer? It is to jump to a higher dimension and look at your current situation in turn.
I've seen an interview with a character. Actor Chen Chong went through several tsunami-like criticisms when he was young. The reporter asked her, if you had the opportunity to say a few words to your younger self now, what would you say? Chen Chong said: I will say to her, "It's all right."
Yes, in a wider space, and for a longer period of time, this bit of suffering at the moment is nothing. It's okay, don't pay attention to the distractions of the environment, and focus on what you have to do.
In the past, when we read books, we often used the word "absorb". This is to regard the book and the knowledge in it as something outside the body, and we have to put it in our own body. The reason why many people today do not like to read is actually related to this metaphor. The taste is not good and I will reject it. The amount is too large, and I will be afraid.
In fact, reading is not like this at all. You ask any reader who doesn't really have much knowledge in his head. If you don't turn over the data now, the big professor can't write any good papers. So what is he doing reading? He was just illuminating something in the distance. Far or far away, he was still him. There is nothing to absorb, and there is nothing to possess.
When I was in middle school, the Chinese teacher told me about the poem: the moon is falling and the frost is full of frost, the river maple fishing fire is sad, the Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, and the midnight bell arrives at the passenger ship. The teacher said, "You see, people are on the boat and don't go anywhere, but you have to have the ability to see the moonset, the river maple and the fishing fire in the distance, the ability to hear the crows, the bells of the Hanshan Temple, and the ability to feel the frost in the sky, so that you know where you are." Reading is not to remember, not to possess, or to light one more lamp for yourself in the dark distance. The more lights in the distance, the more your spiritual world will be enlarged, and the world will show you what it looks like. With more lights in the distance, you have the ability to reshape the world you want. There are more lights in the distance, and when you go to places you have never been before, you don't panic. ”
I remember this passage until now.
A person who loves to read is not necessarily very socially competitive, but wherever he goes, he has vague acquaintances, and where there are acquaintances, he is not so panicked.
When he climbed the Yellow Crane Tower, he knew that Li Bai had also come more than a thousand years ago; he had eaten a small dish at someone in Shanghai, and he knew that Mr. Wang Zengqi had also written in his essays; he traveled to Germany and would stop by to see Goethe's former residence. He encountered all kinds of tragedies and joys, and he knew that in human history, these were ordinary events that had happened repeatedly. You see, his spiritual world has been enlarged, and the so-called "belly has poetry and bookish self-glorification" is what it means.
Thinking about this, you know that a person really doesn't need to read much, or even deliberately remember anything, just turn a few pages, are illuminating the distant mountains and deserts, and know where they are.
This time, we have selected 52 annual books in the book published in the past year, all of which have such characteristics.
For example, this one, the famous art historian and curator Wu Hong's "First Lesson". This book is very interesting, and this "first lesson" in the title of the book is really literal. Mr. Wu Hong has been teaching Chinese art history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago for more than 30 years. This book is a collection of speeches he used in the first class of the new semester.
The first class of the new semester of our university is usually the most relaxed class for everyone to introduce themselves, and the teacher will talk about the requirements of this semester. However, in the new semester of American colleges and universities, students have an audition stage in the selection of courses. At this time, students like to listen to it, have gains, choose, no interest may not come next time. For the teacher, this "first lesson" must be well prepared, clear and engaging, and attract students to stay. Teacher Wu Hong's class itself is already very exciting, this "first lesson" is the essence of the condensed version, of course, you can not miss.
This is not the end, you listen to Wu Hong talk about the history of Chinese art, there are several advantages.
First of all, these lessons are for foreigners. Foreigners generally do not know much about China's history and culture, so when they speak, they are more easy to understand. You don't have to worry that you are an art white who can't understand it, from a young age, your foundation is better than many foreign students.
Secondly, when he was speaking, he also had to compare the history of Chinese art with the history of Western art, so that foreign students could understand it. Then you also get a more objective and broader perspective on your own civilization.
This book, a total of 24 themes, after reading it, it is equivalent to helping you illuminate 24 roads to the world of Chinese art at one time, even if you don't walk in, you know that this world is no longer a strange and cold world for you.
The book "Your Good Intentions Look Like a Bad Idea" is also interesting. Writer Zhou Xiaofeng, in order to write this book, ran to the zoo for half a year as a keeper, observing both children and animals.
Why should we read fairy tales? Because the world of children is also foreign to us. How does a child think when he is faced with different situations? What was his careful thinking? You need this lamp, to see how we saw the world as children, it was an experience that we have forgotten, and we can pick them up again through this book.
There is also this one, Insights, whose English name literally translates to "Why Buddhism is True." Most likely, you may not be a Buddhist, but aren't you curious? What exactly are the Buddhas and the great monks talking about? What is the value of our contemporary lives?
Yes, that's what this book says. I can tell you the conclusion first: the theoretical system of Buddhism still has a powerful explanatory power for our lives today. You see, this lamp, you can't lack. Let the thinking of the Buddha and the great monks of the past also illuminate your reality.
Have you noticed? These books, these themes, come from more distant fields: art, childhood, Buddhism, it's a different world. Turn on the lights there, even if I don't go for the rest of my life, the road in front of me will be a little brighter.
Reading this kind of book is equivalent to spending a little time with a friend from afar and planting a seed for a future cooperation.
This time, there are some interesting things in our 52 annual book list. Let's go through it all.
"Partial" is a new work by teacher Chen Danqing. Flipping through this book, you will know that looking at the painting thing, in fact, there is nothing to understand and do not understand, people who do not understand can open their own awareness and see more interesting things;
"Staggered Worlds", which is the history of science fiction. Flip through this book and you know that science fiction is not a fool's errand. It can shape reality in turn. In the case of the moon landing, of course, it depends on technology. But if there is no science fiction imagination that creates an atmosphere that makes people believe that a moon landing is possible, then there may not be such a thing as a moon landing.
Testimony is a novel. You can feel what people will look like in extreme situations, without choice.
The Naked Ape Trilogy, an anthropological classic. It pulls people and animals through to see, what is man? This is a very interesting perspective.
"The Future Is Coming" is about what the future society will look like under the transformation of various new technologies.
"Decision and Judgment", a classic of social psychology, is about our hearts. You choose this toothpaste at the supermarket, not the other; when you choose a lifelong partner, you choose this person and not someone else; when you speak in a conference room, you say this sentence instead of another sentence. What's going on in your brain when you make these choices? That's a black box for you. Read this book to brighten up your brain.
"The Algorithm of Life", this book is actually not to believe in an evil: who said that life has no rules? Can only rely on strength and luck to stumble blindly? This book is a summary of the experience so far about "how to live this life well". From the word "algorithm", you can see that it wants to turn out the operating system manual that determines our success or failure.
"Think like a rocket scientist", we will always encounter an extreme situation, that is, this matter is very important, but there is no certainty, there is no previous experience to learn from, and the risk is still huge. How do we deal with it? Rocket scientists have been dealing with these kinds of problems for many years anyway. Can the fire in their place be my lamp here?
The following books are also about a few areas that we ordinary people can't reach. "Deep Sea" is about the ocean, especially the deep sea; "The Consensus of the Flock", a good book in the field of finance; "Disappearing" is about the "ghost worker" behind the algorithm. The so-called "Houmen into the deep like the sea", what is the scenery of those places? These books are all masterpieces that I read last year.
The two books "Civilization, Modernization, Value Investment and China" and "The Future on the Side of China", as long as the names are revealed, I guess your desire to read has been aroused. In the past, there were many books on the market about China, and we strongly recommend that you turn them over, because we know that in this year we must refocus our attention on the land of China itself, and draw ideological resources from all the time that has flowed in this land. Deeply understand the relationship between today's China and the world and human civilization. I put them here, just to say, I've seen it, it's great, it works.
I'm going to take a moment to talk about this set of books, The Complete Works of Lu Simian. Mr. Lu Simian is a well-known historian in China. But the fate of the scholar is like this, no matter how brilliant he was when he was alive, as long as the times have passed, these learnings will be sealed behind a name, become an entry in the dictionary of celebrities, as long as he is not a post-scholar of this profession, he will be forgotten. As a joke, you were a celebrity when you were alive, and when you died, you became a personal name.
Speaking of which, I would like to pay tribute to the publisher in passing. They don't allow such a diaphragm to happen, they have to fight that cruel forgetting. Take the "Complete Works of Lü Simian", the editors of the Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House have spent ten years to sort out, what is the total number of words? 14.33 million words. These manuscripts, together with various proofs, are stacked up to nearly 2 meters high. That's where we come from the set of books we see today.
Such a book, you want to get, it is difficult to have a remarkable market sales results. So why do the editors of the Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House do it?
You imagine a scenario. In the future, it is likely that there will be a child who actually climbs into the attic where his own books are stored, or in a corner of a library, finds this set of books, and he opens them by chance, and is attracted to one of the passages by chance, and reads it like this. What is this scenario? It was he who followed the eyes of our generation of publishers, like falling into the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland, opening up a whole new world and opening a fantasy adventure. A fragment from this set of books may have inspired the child's dream of becoming a historian. Yes, the process of human culture passing on the fire is like this, through a set of books, again and again, again and again, again and again, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, through the series of books, again and again, again and
Aware of this, do we feel that the efforts of our generation of publishers are still worthy of our tribute?
Speaking of this, I guess some people will say in their hearts: "The world knows that reading is good, but there is always too little time." It doesn't matter, I don't have time myself. That's how I usually read books.
To get an e-book can be seen by a computer, and the effect of using a large screen is like this: a screen can be covered with 3,000 words, a book of 100,000 words, that is, press 30 keys, you can browse. Among them, if a certain paragraph is related to you, it will jump out on its own. You see, I imagined myself as the kid who stumbled into the attic by accident. I let the pictures and texts in the book flow freely before my eyes and in my life. I don't deliberately keep anything.
But I know that as soon as they pass through my life, they have lit a distant lamp for me.
There is a saying in the movie "A Generation of Grandmasters": with one breath, light a lamp, and there is a lamp. Yes, the book is to take that breath for us, to light such a lamp, and when the light in the distance is on, my people will light up.
Recently saw a story:
In 1954, a biologist dug up a batch of oysters from the sea in Connecticut, or oysters we call oysters, and put them in an aquarium in a basement in Chicago, thousands of miles away. He was a biorhythm researcher, and he knew that oysters would rise and fall with the tide.
In the first two weeks of moving into the new home, nothing changed. Oysters live by the ebb and flow of the distant Connecticut coast.
But next. The rules of their lives have changed and become elusive. Its laws, which are neither the tides of Florida nor the tides of California, do not conform to any tide table known to science.
After much calculation, the biologists suddenly realized one thing: It was Chicago's high tide time. But Chicago has no sea. That is, oysters cannot see the sea, but they have the ability to imagine a sea, a sea that does not exist in any corner of the earth, where the tides rise and fall, and they open and close with the rhythm of the sea.
Chicago didn't have a sea, but oysters brought the sea. Yes, this is the instinct of all living things, and what we want to pursue is not what we have, what we have, all living things have an ability, that is, to let go of their imagination, to fly their imagination like this lamp. I can think of it as a sea, a lamp, and then I know where I am, and that's what books do for our generation.
After I saw this story, I was very emotional. I told my colleague that if a person cannot have imagination through reading and imagine the existence of a huge space beyond his own life, he is not as good as an oyster for 20 yuan a pound.
2. From "Reading on your knees" to "Reading in a Swimming Position"
In fact, I know: the book thing, the pressure on people is very large. Not to mention today's people, the ancients are also like this.
This poem was written by Bai Juyi in his later years, he made a new bookcase, put the things he had written all his life in it, and sighed while reading: "I have been writing since I was a child and old age. Seventy volumes before and after, three thousand small and large. Sincerely knowing that it will eventually be lost, I did not bear to abandon the donation. Self-opening and self-locking, placed in front of the book curtain. ”
Bai Juyi was very pitiful, he felt that he did not have a son, and these books were afraid that they would not be passed on. If you look at those works of his later years, he was shrouded in this great fear.
Let's look at another person: Machiavelli of the European Middle Ages, author of The Monarch. He said he walked outside for a day, "And when night fell, I went home and went into the study. Before entering the study, I would take off my casual clothes that had been soiled by dirt or something else and change into my dress. Dressed in my dress, I went to the former court where the ancients were. ”
In the traditional era, people's respect for books has reached this point. People who love books or not, when they see books, even mention books, immediately fall to their knees.
What about today? What is our relationship with books?
In fact, today, our relationship with books has long changed. In my study, they sat in rows, slaves at my disposal. I wanted to ponder a question, and it came and went, and I could comment on them very rudely, and this passage was well written, but the cover was too ugly. What does this book say, if it were not for the fact that the author still has a little fame, I would have invited you into the garbage heap a long time ago. This book looks good, but I don't have time to take care of you for the time being, so I'll wait for you.
They are what I can be my slaves, staff officers, friends of peers, strangers I meet in bars.
Books have many benefits over making a friend. They are cheap, numerous, very different, and cannot be rejected by us.
These three words were originally used to describe scumbags. It is also used to describe books, which is also very appropriate. They're there, very flirtatious. They usually do not bother us: do not take the initiative; we disturb them, they have no right to refuse: do not refuse; we have a relationship with it, in fact, we do not have to ask each other the result: not responsible.
That's how I usually read books: I'm a scumbag with books. Kaleidoscope of flowers has passed, and the leaves do not stick to the body.
This is the last year I've been getting e-books on the shelves. I opened it and turned it over, and I plan to read more than 600 books in the future. In fact, it is not much, more than one book a day.
By the way, this is my private book list. I made a scroll, signed it, and gave it to you. Only this one copy, for users who are watching the live broadcast at the moment. It wasn't me, it was from China CITIC Bank, the patron of the Inspiration Club today. They say that the concept of CITIC Bank is very simple in four words: achieve partners. They want to achieve every partner, go faster, climb higher, see farther. Partners here refer not only to customers, but also to business partners, as long as they have dealt with China CITIC Bank, they all hope to be able to help. So, now you write these eight words in the live interactive area of the Get App: China CITIC Bank, Achievement Partner, my colleague will draw a person in the background, send you my signed private book list, and make a fate.
Versailles just now. It seems like I read a lot. Actually not, I was flipping through the books and turning them a lot. I call this posture of reading my book "swimming reading", which is different from the "kneeling reading" of previous people. Books are not things that we have to kneel and worship, books, things that we have to step on, pull on, and move forward. My purpose is to move forward on my own, and I don't care how the water feels.
Often people say, to read famous books, OK, then I can't turn it over? Some people say that if you want to read a systematic book, then the Analects may not be read, and Tang poems are not allowed to read? Confucius and Li Bai knew what a system was. Some people have said that they want to read books systematically, so what do I do with my fragmented time? Shouldn't you read, should you play mahjong? Now do you know what is "swimming posture reading"? Just pull forward and achieve your goals.
I often look at a topic and look at all the books that mention the word in the e-book library. You might say, are you done? Do you have experience with blind dates? If a person feels right, does he know it in the first minute of sitting down? A book, good or bad, right or wrong appetite, turn a few pages to know ah.
Just now, I mentioned the tone of the book, which seems to be a little frivolous. Frankly, this is just to get us to let go of the reverence for books. Every rich person in the spiritual world still has to pay tribute to the friend of the book.
Recently, I saw a question, please ask: What is the difference between a mentally ill person and an artist?
Mentally ill people and artists, both of whom seem to be insane, and some behavior seems incomprehensible to outsiders, so what is the difference between them?
The answer is interesting: an artist can understand another artist, while a mentally ill person cannot understand another mentally ill person.
We can do anything maverick, but there must be a minimum level of connection with society in a community that can be understood with each other. Otherwise, an act, even if it seems harmless, is essentially a state of mental illness.
Why read in this era? The answer is also hidden in this sentence.
The users they get, regardless of the status quo, have a strong consensus: they want to change themselves. A person who expects change, in the eyes of the people around him, is not a little crazy and incomprehensible?
We just said that books can illuminate the distance and provide comfort. Can this comfort come from close friends and girlfriends around you? Excuse me. No. Because they may be the ones who restrain you and delay your change. For a person who is looking forward to change, we have to rewrite the poem: Persuade the jun to drink a glass of wine, and there will be a deceased person in the west out of Yangguan.
Books are the most accessible distant resources to form a community with us: oh, there are people in this world who think the same as me; oh, there are already some people waiting for me in the place where I am going.
At the thought of this, I was immediately comforted.
Okay, back to our list of 52 books. These are some of the books that have inspired me tremendously over the past year.
For example, this one: "Think of Something Big" by Liu Han, a teacher at Tsinghua University Law School. This was originally a book about legal thinking, but one of the great inspirations it brought to me was the understanding of the power thing.
In this life, we will most likely not be lawyers, and we may not go to court, but we deal with power all the time. Generally speaking, we ordinary people look at power with only two perspectives, either being controlled by power, uncomfortable, or on the road to chasing power, longing. But we rarely look at power from the perspective of those who really have power.
After reading this book, I suddenly understood that the highest state of the original use of power is no power.
Suppose, you are a judge, and the power you are given by the law is great. A single judgment can determine the ownership of a huge amount of wealth, and even the death of a person. Where is the pressure that an ordinary person can bear?
So what to do? The long-term practice of human beings in the legal profession has found a set of methods, which Teacher Liu Han calls "throwing the pot" in this book, which is of course a half-joke. In effect, he was talking about a knack for exercising power, which is to shift responsibility to an unchallengable authority. For example, for judges, that unchallengable authority is procedure. Like the Western goddess of justice, with a sword in one hand, representing power, and holding a balance in the other, representing justice, but what is really wonderful is that she is blindfolded. What is this blindfold? It's the program. The goddess of justice, blindfolded, said, I can't see anything, I don't rush at anyone, I'm not right about things. Only under this kind of "throwing pot dafa" can an ordinary person bear so much pressure.
Another example would be better understood. Do you remember that episode in Water Margin? One hundred and eight good men gathered in Liangshan Po, they were going to be seated in order, how to arrange it? Is this thing neat, democratic voting, persuading one by one to do organizational work, and must not exhaust Song Jiang? It's impossible to figure it out. Song Jiang's method was to dig out a stone stele behind the mountain, on which was directly written the seat of "Thirty-six Heavenly Gangs and Seventy-two Heavenly Fires." In this way, the crowd was smoothly ranked according to the will of God. Directly come up with an irrefutable providence and solve the problem. Isn't this the "Dafa of Throwing the Pot" written by Teacher Liu Han in this book?
So, if you have power, you face a contradiction that's particularly difficult to deal with, and then you succeed in pushing it to an authority that everyone can't refute, and solve the problem. Then congratulations, at this moment, you jurist possessed.
You see, what is written in the book and what we can get out of it are two different things. You take your own problems, rub shoulders with the content in the book, and it is already a great fate to have a little gain.
This is the trick of the so-called "swimming posture reading": we borrow power from every drop of water, but we run towards our own goals.
The book "Three Chapters of Copywriting" is also worth mentioning. Teacher Huang Jiwei is a famous publisher, and this book is a book that teaches people how to write good book copywriting. What is book copywriting is an advertisement for a book. You see, this is an authentic professional skill in an industry. What's the use of us laymen looking at it?
Don't forget, we're "reading in a swimming position."
To borrow the words of Dongdong Gun: "In essence, all expressions are copywriting, all outputs are creative, and all content is advertising." This is the basic skill of life. ”
I promise you that as long as you want to practice such a basic skill in life, as long as you want to persuade others through words, you can use this book.
Not only the skill, but you can also learn an important ethical point of speech from this book: "Copywriting is the trust of limited advances". Never forget that every word is an advance to our trust. Never overdo it.
"The Beauty of Mathematics" is a very famous book about mathematics written by teacher Wu Jun. As a math fan, I couldn't understand the professional content of mathematics at all, but the book was still very good, even if I just read the story, it was a pleasure. After reading it, you may have an epiphany: the original concise model is the most beautiful thing in the world.
"Save the Cat" this is a guide to the screenwriter of a movie. You see, it's another professional book. But even if you are not a screenwriter, this book can give you a harvest: screenwriters, not to make up a story, but to use a story to solve a problem. Yes, solving problems with tools we are familiar with is the essence of every craft.
"The Way of Programmer Cultivation" is another book in a professional field, it doesn't matter, boldly open it, you will have gains. At the very least, we know that proposing a solution, if not reliable, is an important advance. You must have had this experience, when you get to the meal, you go to dinner with your colleagues, but what to eat, everyone says they don't know, and they have been deadlocked. As long as at this time, you come up with an idea, say that if you still eat McDonald's, seven out of eight people are against you. The situation opened up immediately. Someone answered the phone, McDonald's is too far away, or eat the restaurant downstairs. Then someone else said they wanted to eat some meat recently. So it was quickly settled, and finally everyone went to eat lamb steamed buns. Please note that at this time, you are a great programmer. Because you don't provide the first version, that is, eat McDonald's, and then you won't iterate out. This is the programmer's thinking.
The three books "The Academic Life of Qian Zhongshu", "Ladies DrinkIng Tea", and "Preparation" are the same, talking about three fields that are far away from our ordinary people: scholars, statisticians, and educators. Flip through it casually, and you'll have something to gain.
"China Since 1840", "The West since 2000", and "Outline of Western History" these are three very high-quality books on macro history that I have seen in the past year. It's actually a wonderful experience that can only be obtained by reading books: you suddenly become a god-like being, able to jump to such a large time scale to see history.
The next three books are also interesting. It actually gives a section of history, taking you to a very unfamiliar perspective to think about the problem: for example, through this "Changes of the Great Song", you can think about Wang Anshi's transformation method again. Originally, the protagonist of the change of law was Wang Anshi, but have you tried to run to the perspective of Sima Guang, the opponent of the change of law, and look at this history again? Especially after Wang Anshi's defeat, Sima Guang's angle of going out of the mountains to clean up the mess.
"Nazis in Power" is also interesting. In the past, when we looked at the history of Germany, we watched Hitler's performance on stage, and we rarely wondered how Hitler fooled the German people at that time. It would be too thin to see only Hitler's ability to incite, and we should be able to see the process of interaction between the two sides. This book, along with the Third Reich Trilogy, was turned over and taken in combination, and the effect was even better.
The next three books, Technology and Civilization, The Frontiers of Growth, and Command and Control, are all about an interesting aspect of human civilization. How does a small technological innovation leverage the big history? How did two unrelated ideas give rise to a wonderful idea? The most dangerous things, why are they not taken care of?
The reading experience of these three books goes like this: Can this be done too?! For example, with a credit card, it is easy to blend into the US nuclear missile base? Using my "swimming style reading method", I suggest that you think with me, those security measures that we thought were solid, really have no loopholes? If so, where are they?
The reason why I put together the three books "Decisive Battle", "The Age of Sinking", and "The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution" is to look at a certain stage of history. The most interesting reading experience to watch the history of a stage is: watching the flip. It's how one piece of history suddenly transitions to another.
For example, the first book, "Decisive Battle", talked about the Liberation War and the three major battles. In our impression, the War of Liberation was fought for 4 years, but it was not, the War of Liberation was officially fought in mid-1946, and two years later, in mid-1948, the overall situation was already decided. You think, the PEOPLE's Liberation Army was so inferior at the beginning, how could it have completed the great reversal of history in such a big country in such a short period of two years? It is impossible to explain it with some big and medium-sized concepts.
Today, we are releasing this annual list of 52 books in Xi'an, ostensibly 52 books on some completely unrelated topics, as well as more than 600 of my personal book lists that I just "came out of Versailles". This will inevitably leave you with the impression that the pressure to read is too great.
In fact, it is not so complicated, I actually have a list of problems in my heart. For example: How to enhance your abilities? How do you manage the resources you own? How do you use small levers to pry big things? How did those bizarre events happen? The logic we are accustomed to always has loopholes and counterexamples, what do they look like?
With this concise list, using the "swimming style reading method", you can also find that your bookshelf is beginning to enrich.
I've often mentioned over the years that the world is not divided by domain, but organized around challenges.
The field is built and divided by predecessors; and the challenge, which is mine, is unique.
What is a "challenge"? Is this a difficult question? No. A math problem may be difficult, but it may not be difficult in the eyes of the math teacher, and it is good to ask a professional person to solve the professional thing. As long as there is a standard answer to the question, it is not called a challenge.
The so-called challenge refers to things that do not have a specific solution. For example, every parent has raised a child, but our family's child is unique, and any family experience cannot be applied 100% because the children are different, the environment is different, and the resources are different. That's a challenge. For example, the decoration of a house, although there are many decoration companies, but the preferences of the owner of this house are different, the lifestyle is different, the budget is not the same, which is also a challenge. For another example, your company wants to hold this year's annual meeting, although it is held every year, but everyone knows that this year cannot be the same as in previous years, so what to do this year is also a unique challenge.
When we face challenges, we are hungry for cross-border and occasional knowledge resources.
Isn't there a passage that says? There was a man looking for something under a street lamp. Passers-by ask, what did you lose? The keys were lost. Where did you lose it? Left over there. So how do you find it under this street lamp? It's bright here.
It's like telling the story of a very stupid man. In fact, this is talking about ourselves.
Using the resources of our localities to solve the problems we face often has no results. No one is dumber than anyone for 5 seconds. If your peers are all bothered, it means there is no solution here. Bravely going to those dark places to find, this is the way of the wise man.
Isn't there a saying? Walk to the end of the water and sit and watch the clouds rise. Where we are, it is water, and the books that are seriously ready to wait for you to pick up are clouds.