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激勵自己
Ways
to Inspire Yourself at Work (Dave Kerpen)
1) Read a book.
There are thousands of great, time-tested
books available for inspiration and motivation. I'm currently reading another
amazing, timeless, inspirational book that is having a profound impact: How to
Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
2) Exercise.
Sometimes you just need to get the blood
flowing. Go for a walk, or a run, or a workout. There are two great advantages
of exercise: First, it's healthy for your body. Second, it forces you to spend
time thinking - time when you can't be on your smartphone or otherwise
distracted.
3) Write a thank you note.
Not a thank you email, or a thank you text,
or even a thank you phone call - a physical, hand-written thank you note. Tony
Robbins said, "Gratitude is the antidote to the two things that stop us:
fear and anger."
4) Perform a random act of kindness.
The ironic and amazing thing about acts of
kindness is that they end up being kind-of selfish, because you feel SO great
after doing them. Open a door for people leaving it for awhile. Help an elderly
lady cross the street. Buy a homeless man lunch. Retweet a bunch of people.
Whatever you do, take your mind off of yourself and your problems and focus on
helping another person. You'll come back feeling rejuvenated.
5) Read inspiring quotes.
Reading a book or even an article can take
more time than you have to spare sometimes. So it's worth looking at inspiring
quotes from great leaders, writers and thinkers of the past.
6) Listen to music.
Plato said, "Music is the movement of
sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." Looking to
educate your soul? Or perhaps just to let off some steam and feel better about
the work before you?
7) Watch an inspiring video.
As inspiring and uplifting as music can be,
video can be even more inspiring. Whether it's your favorite movie, or, if you
don't have time, a short video you find through a quick search on YouTube, you
can get in a good mood in just a few minutes.
Questions:
1. Ways to inspire yourself at work?
2. What are the advantages of reading
books?
3. What are your ways to improve your mood
when you're feeling down?
How to motivate yourself and improve your
life?
4. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of music?
5. What are the advantages of doing
exercise regularly?
6. Why helping others is good for your
health?
What are the benefits of gratitude?
7. What are the advantages of watching
inspirational films?
8. Your new year resolution?
天才的條件
How
To Be A Genius (Forbes Scott Berkun)
Have a great, or horrible, family
Picasso, Mozart, Beethoven, Einstein and
Goethe are popular geniuses whose parents were interested in their creative
lives. Mozart and Beethoven both had fathers who were professional musicians
and they were taught by them during childhood to play instruments. Can you
guess what Picasso’s dad did? Yes, he was a painter, and he spent many hours
with young Pablo.
But lousy families can make geniuses,
too.
Beethoven’s dad was cruel, torturing him
during practice sessions. Unlike many child prodigies who burn out at
adolescence, Beethoven kept his passion for music. Leonardo da Vinci barely
knew his father.
Isaac Newton was also born to a
single-parent home and hated his stepfather. From that broken relationship may
have come the seed of unrest that fueled his independent life and ideas.
Be obsessed with work
Show me a genius and I’ll show you a
workaholic. Van Gogh produced 2,000 works of art between 1880 and 1890 (or
1,100 paintings and 900 sketches). That’s four works of art a week for a
decade. He didn’t even get started until age 25. Da Vinci’s journals represent
one clear fact: Work was the center of his life. He had neither a spouse nor
children. Picasso was a machine, churning out 12,000 works of art. He said,
“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it” and made good on that boast. Shakespeare
wrote more than 40 plays, plus dozens of sonnets, poems and, of course, grocery
lists. These are people who sacrificed many ordinary pleasures for their work.
The debate over talent vs. effort is moot:
History makes it clear you always need extraordinary effort.
Have emotional or other serious problems
For all their brilliance, most geniuses did
not live well-adjusted lives. Picasso, Van Gogh, Edison, Einstein and Nietzsche
(and most major modern philosophers) were often miserable. Many never married
or married often, abandoned children and fought depression.
Newton and Tesla spent years in isolation
by choice and had enough personality disorders to warrant cabinets full of
pharmaceuticals today. Michelangelo and da Vinci quit jobs and fled cities to
escape debts.
Kafka and Proust were both hypochondriacs,
spending years in bed or in hospitals for medical conditions, some of which
were psychological. Voltaire, Thoreau and Socrates all lived in exile or
poverty, and these conditions contributed to the works they’re famous for.
Happily positive emotions can work as fuel,
too. John Coltrane, C.S. Lewis and Einstein had deeply held, and mostly
positive, spiritual beliefs that fueled their work.
Questions:
1. How to be a genius? Ways to be a genius?
What we can learn from geniuses?
2. Can lousy families make geniuses? Does
family background affect achievement of a person?
3. Want to be smart and successful? And how
to make yourself smarter?
4. Do you want to make friends with smart
people?
5. Why so many guys like pretty but stupid
girls?
Do girls prefer dumb good-looking guys or
smart less-attractive guys?
6. How to maintain your passion for
success?
7. Can live poverty helped lead to success?
How poverty affects career performance?
天才的條件 【《科學人》第138期】
【撰文／賽門頓（Dean
Keith Simonton）；翻譯／謝伯讓】
要認定誰是天才是一種冒險的賭注。比如說，最近無意間在Listerverse網站看到的「十大天才」排行榜。從第一名到第十名的上榜者有：歌德、達文西、斯維登堡、萊布尼茲、彌爾、帕斯卡、維根斯坦、費雪、伽利略以及斯塔爾夫人。
如果把斯維登堡換成愛因斯坦呢？有些在世的名人或許也值得冠上這項殊榮，例如霍金。有幾位女性或許也能登上天才排行榜，例如居禮夫人或是莫里森。如果棋王費雪能冠上天才的稱號，那麼在藝術與科學領域之外的其他天才應該也要列入考量，例如拿破崙是軍事天才、曼德拉是政治天才、蓋茲是創業天才等。
這些問題與可能的答案都是茶餘飯後的熱門閒聊話題，正好顯示出我們對於智慧的起源和卓越的創造力所知甚少。人們在探討這項存在已久的議題時，總是想要釐清各領域的天才具備哪些共同點。我們對於天才的某些共同印象，包括遺傳因素、特別廣泛的興趣和有點心理變態等，都顯示出天才的頭腦有明顯的模式與傾向。
我們的最終目標，是想解釋一個卓越的思想家如何擁有他們改變世界所具備的洞察力。儘管這樣的突破性想法通常都是瞬間即逝，但是潛藏其下的機制似乎有條理。根據我協助發展出來的一項理論：天才會近乎盲目地廣泛搜尋問題的解答，會追根究底柢、並且在找到最佳答案之前反覆回溯思量。如果這個理論的結果確立，我們就能開始探究天才是否能夠經由後天培育，讓嶄新構想能夠不斷出現以造福世人。
何謂天才？
研究天才的第一道障礙，就是如何為天才下一個具有說服力的定義。「天才」（genius）這個辭彙本身可追溯到古羅馬神話：古羅馬神話裡的每位男性都有某一種守護天使，代表與生俱來的某項獨特才能，而每位女性則是受到婚姻女神的眷顧。直到文藝復興之後，天才一詞在應用上變得較為嚴謹，只有少數展現出天賦的人才能擁有這項稱號。例如哲學家康德就認為，天才是指能夠發展出原創成果且能成為典範的人。天才一詞原本並不具備科學意涵，直到19世紀末葉之後，心理學家才藉由兩種明確的方式來定義天才。
傑出的作品是確認天才的第一種方式，如同康德的做法。總體來說，這些成就通常能引發該領域其他專家以及世人的讚揚並競相仿效。毫無疑問，牛頓的《原理》、莎士比亞的《哈姆雷特》、托爾斯泰的《戰爭與和平》、米開朗基羅的西斯廷小堂壁畫以及貝多芬的第五號交響曲都屬於這一類的優秀作品。雖然這個定義能夠延伸到卓越的領導能力，例如軍事才能以及驚人的表現，包括一些國際西洋棋大師等，但大多數關於天才的科學研究仍著眼在科學或藝術方面的傑出創意，這篇文章也聚焦於此。
天才的第二種定義和20世紀前半葉出現的智力測驗相符。如果標準智力測驗的分數夠高，也就是在心理學家特曼（Lewis Terman）所提出的原始智力測驗中獲得140分以上、通常落在前1%者，就是所謂的天才。這兩種定義沒有什麼共同點，許多擁有超高智商的人並沒有創造出原創且能成為典範的作品。莎凡特（Marylyn vos Savant）就是其中一例，她曾是《金氏世界紀錄》認證現今仍存活之智商最高的人。她在週日報紙副刊中的專欄「向瑪麗蓮求教」並沒有在科學、藝術或是新聞工作上引發任何新風潮。許多傑出人士也沒有天才等級的智商。例如，榮獲諾貝爾物理學獎的電晶體共同發明者蕭克利（William Shockley），其智商就遠低於140。因此，卓越的成就似乎是較為有用的認定方式。
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