Chapter 42 treat time as a friend

"Take Time as a Friend-Use Your Mind to Get Liberated" is a collection of about eighty or ninety articles written by hand around February 2007. At the end of 2006, he submitted his resignation to the director of New Oriental International, and it was not until August 2007 that he really left.During the period, I felt that there might be very few opportunities to give lectures in classes with so many audiences in the future (New Oriental’s large class is unique in the country)-unless I have a cramp one day and become a pastor (in fact, it is absolutely impossible, because I am basically relatively staunch atheist).In the six or seven years in the lecture hall, with tens of thousands of students, I was deeply moved by one thing: most of the success in learning has nothing to do with IQ at all, and all failures are related to and only related to time constraints.So I couldn't help but write down some simple truths, hoping that more students would see it.

Around October of the end of 2007, Ms. Tian of a certain publishing house suggested that this series could be published together.Therefore, it took about two months to reorganize, add and delete some content.Writing articles is the job that benefits me the most. During this period, I have changed and made infinite progress.In the end, due to lack of time to write another companion article originally agreed with Ms. Tian, ​​the publishing process was temporarily put on hold.But I still want to thank Ms. Tian and her publishing house. Without her urging, these manuscripts might not exist now.The essence and joy of life lies in "Who knows what happens next?"

On May 18, 2008, the database of my blog was accidentally damaged-more than 700 articles and more than 20,000 comments in the past three years disappeared.Classmate Huo Ju tossed and tossed all afternoon, but there was no result - he later told me that he felt quite guilty.That's a bad thing, but it's also a good thing. More than 700 articles, I have never had time to reorganize, and the laziness in my bones has been indulged in this matter again and again; now that the database is broken, there is no reason to be lazy anymore, just to reorganize the previous manuscripts, Just publish it online.And this post can be regarded as the guest book of the online version of "Treating Time as a Friend-Using the Mind to Liberate".

There is a key word in this book - "rebirth".Now I add this word to my blog, so the new name is "Pure Pleasure - Reborn" - the subtitle is "Read, observe, Think, Write, Share ... Reborn, Adapt, and Evolve." extract ..."managing time", or "time management" is somewhat like those common oxymorons like "open secret", "quality education", "value investing" ... No one can manage Time - time is nobody's business. ...However, when I suddenly realized that I could (and should) control my own brain, I thought it was amazing that I could start all over again without dying.

... Most of the effort is actually nothing more than simple and seemingly boring repetition. ... Many people are afraid of thinking, and often say, "Why do you think so much, how tired are you?" Then live in the most tiring way in the world without knowing it.The great philosopher Russell once observed this phenomenon and was surprised by it. He sighed, "Many people would rather die than think." ...these examples clearly show us how shockingly large the differences in mental power can be between individuals.What's even more frightening is that this difference is too subtle - because this difference is not at all the obvious difference in appearance, body and wealth.So this difference is either simply ignored or denied in various ways.

1 The frequency of occurrence of each word is not the same.In Chinese, the most common is "的", followed by "le". Characters like "昌" or "鬯" are rarely seen to the point that many people have never seen them at all.In English, the most common is "the" and then "of"... Words like "exorbitant" line up in the 30,000s. 2 Ebbinghaus (Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1850-1909), a famous German psychologist.After he published his experimental report in 1885, memory research became one of the most studied fields in psychology, and Ebbinghaus was the first person to discover the law of memory forgetting.

3 Although some people disagree, Hawking believes that the starting point of time is the moment of the Big Bang. Before that, time did not exist; and even if it existed, it would have no meaning--. 4 In fact, Darwin never said that man evolved from monkeys.Darwin meant that humans and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor. 5 Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubishchev, 1890-1972.There is an English introduction and some photos about him on this website http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/eng/lyubishc.htm 6 Life is about choice. 7 Knowledge and decision, by Thomas Sowell, p.98. 8 On July 13, 2000, CNN made a special report on this matter, titled The debate goes on.

9 Scientific American 10 On this point, Confucius is very powerful. In such an era, he was able to understand the boringness of "strange power and chaotic gods".However, in a certain issue of "Guangming Daily" in 2006, someone said that the sentence should actually be punctuated like this: "The son is silent, strange and chaotic", which means, "Confucius stopped talking, lest he would use force to distract and affect his concentration." 11 After verification, this story should probably be a teaching aids story. David Gardner's evaluation on fool.com is quite interesting: Dan recently had forwarded to him one of those extremely amusing (and enlightening) Psych 101 experiment stories that makes its own important point. As this was forwarded to him, neither he nor I could verify the exact study, but even if it never occurred (and I like to think it did), there is spiritual truth here, dear Fools - and I regard spiritual truth as a deeper thing, in its own way, than scientific truth.

12 "New Weekly" 2007, No. 16, No. 257. 13 In fact, psychologists have been studying this field for a long time.It is necessary to know this man: Martin Seligman - the originator of Positive Psychology.The professor of "happiness" who has become popular in Harvard University recently can be regarded as a descendant of Seligman. 14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study 15 In fact, this sentence is taken out of context. The original sentence should be: Genius is 99% sweat plus 1% inspiration, but this 1% inspiration is far more important than 99% sweat.Some people even doubt whether Edison ever said this sentence...

16 Knight was the economist who pointed out as early as 1923 that so-called "market efficiency" was a useless, invented concept. “…ownership of personal or material productive capacity is based upon a complex mixture of inheritance, luck and effort, probably in that order of relative importance” (Knight, 1923). 17 I can no longer find the source of this survey.Interestingly, while putting together this manuscript, I happened to see the just-released movie American Gangster, in which Russell Crowe's "Richie" mentions this in the dialogue. 18 Cherry, EC (1953) Some experiments on the recognition of speech, with one and with two ears. Journal of Acoustical Society of America 25(5), 975-979.

19 http://dv.ouou.com/play/v_38d7f4baf30ff.html 20 He also wrote another interesting book, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking 21 The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck 22 Henri Poincare, 1854-1912 23 Edward Lorenz, born May 23, 1917 24 Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. - Bertrand Russell 25 We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein ---------------