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30天改變自己
Try something new for 30 days
Matt Cutts TED
A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life.
There's a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture every day for a month. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work. For fun!
Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges.
I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days. Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in 30 days. It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words a day for a month. So I did. By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you've written your words for the day. You might be sleep-deprived, but you'll finish your novel. Now is my book the next great American novel? No. I wrote it in a month. It's awful.
But for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I don't have to say, "I'm a computer scientist." No, no, if I want to, I can say, "I'm a novelist."
So here's one last thing I'd like to mention. I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes, things I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick. There's nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. In fact, they're a ton of fun. But they're less likely to stick. When I gave up sugar for 30 days, day 31 looked like this.
慈善家/行星命名
Philanthropist
A philanthropist is a person who engages in activities which are designed to benefit people and society. These activities can range from donating to a college endowment which is used to provide scholarships to establishing a charitable organization which conducts research on diseases and searches for new treatment and prevention techniques. While philanthropy is often associated with people who are wealthy, because they have more resources to donate to philanthropy, people in a wide range of social and economic classes can engage in philanthropy, and several religions actually specifically mandate that their followers regularly engage in charity.
A newly-discovered asteroid named after philanthropist Chen Shu-chu in Taitung
China post
A newly-discovered asteroid is named after philanthropist Chen Shu-chu in honor of her philanthropic acts and the beautiful starry sky in Taitung.
Taipei, Sep. 4 — The renowned philanthropist and vegetable vendor Chen Shu-chu (陳樹菊) was honored as one of the 100 most influential figures by Time magazine and one of the 48 heroes of philanthropy by Forbes Asia in 2010 for donating generously out of her modest income. This time, a newly discovered asteroid is named after her in Taitung (台東) where Chen comes from.
The asteroid no. 258561 is named Taitung and no. 278986 is named Chenshuchu, and both are discovered by Lulin Observatory (鹿林天文台), which is operated by National Central University (國立中央大學).
The principal of NCU will head to Taitung, hold the naming ceremony, and award the certificate to the county mayor Huang, Jian-ting (黃健庭) and Chen tomorrow, in honor of her philanthropic acts and the beautiful starry sky of Taitung.
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