Taleb's top life tips1 Scepticism is effortful and costly.
It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
2 Go to parties.
You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity.
If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
3 It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie.
If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
4 Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified.
Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
5 Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time.
We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet.
Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
6 Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly.
Maximise trial and error — by mastering the error part.
7 Avoid losers.
If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.
Never take 'no' for an answer (conversely, take most 'yeses' as 'most probably').
8 Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors).
The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
9 Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW.
You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
10 Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones.
Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
-by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable)
life tips
culture shock
很久很久以前在大家說英語那種雜誌上學到這個字
culture shock
一年前第一天去新學校都要緊張死了
花了將近一個月習慣教授的波蘭口音
用別人兩倍以上的時間待在實驗室把作業完成
然後然後
就這樣過了一年
很不想說"回來"這個字
花了一點時間適應了我住了十幾年的小房間
多一點的時間適應這個天氣
還要更多的時間適應這裡的擁擠
(是不是得了一種人很多就會不舒服的病?)
去了三年的學校現在只讓我覺得厭煩
看到這些嘴臉就只有一個念頭
you can't lie to a lier because of all the lies.
原來在自己以為熟悉不過的地方
可以讓我覺得這麼陌生
我一定是生病了
hey, life is good :)
These Streets -Paolo Nutini
Cross the border,
Into the big bad world
Where it takes you 'bout an hour
Just to cross the road
Just to stumble across another poor old soul from
The dreary old lanes to the high-street madness
I fight with my brain to believe my eyes
And it's harder than you think
To believe this sadness
That creeps up my spine
And haunts me through the night
And life is good and the girls are gorgeous
Suddenly the air smells much greener now
And I'm wondering 'round
With a half pack of cigarettes
Searching for the change that I've lost somehow
These streets have too many names for me
I'm used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I'll get used to this eventually
I know, I know
Where'd the days go?
When all we did was play
And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all
Just a run and a jump into a harmless fall from
Walking by a high-rise to a landmark square
You see millions of people with millions of cares
And I struggle to the train to make my way home
I look at the people as they sit there alone
Life is good, and the sun is shining
Everybody flirts to their ideal place
And the children all smile as a boat shuffled by them
Trying to pretend that they've got some space
These streets have too many names for me
I'm used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I'll get used to this eventually
I know, I know
These streets have too many names for me
I'm used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I'll get used to this eventually
I know, I know
Life is good, and the girls are gorgeous
Suddenly the air smells much greener now
And I'm wondering 'round
With a half pack of cigarettes
Searching for the change that I've lost somehow
These streets have too many names for me
I'm used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I'll get used to this eventually
I know, I know
These streets have too many names for me
I'm used to Glenfield road and spending my time down in Orchy
I'll get used to this eventually
I know, I know
You keep telling me so
we are all growing up
things change
people change
the world is probably uglier than we thought
but remember,
life is good
and we will get used to this eventually
:)
沒道理
花了五百塊買了美金只要12塊的原文書
而且要不是在打折也會不只500
沒道理..?
衝著是一本會讓人掉眼淚的書
是綁著卡其色綿繩的書
是提醒人 "we cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
the last lecture
-by randy pausch
who passed away on july 25th, 2008.
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