人生連線

故事連線 1.3

我們在大約 2003 年,講過類似的現象。

假設,每日我也做 10 件事。 10 天後,我就做了 100 件事。即使在大部分情況下,我做事不是刻意的,由於做了的事情不少,加上組合太多,我在事後寫自傳時,總可以找到一些貌似有意思的事件連線,令到讀者以為我事先神機妙算,有詳盡的計劃。例如,第一天的第 2 件事,引發第二天的第 5 件事;第二天的第 5 件事,導致第三天的第 1 件事;如此類推。

(安:很多傳記作者,也是這樣神化了傳記主角。)

物理學家 Richard Feynman(費曼)一生中有三個偉大的物理成就。曾經有學生問他:「為什麼你可以多次在適當的時候,選擇適當的物理問題,然後提出適當的解決方案?」

Richard Feynman 給予那個學生,一個完美的答案:「我不知道。」

— Me@2010.11.12

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Act as if

“Fake it till you make it” (also called “act as if”) is a common catchphrase that means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence. The purpose is to avoid getting stuck in a self fulfilling prophecy related to one’s fear of not being confident, e.g., by thinking, “I can’t ask that girl out because she would sense my lack of confidence.”

— Wikipedia on Fake it till you make it

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Write a book

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Someone once said that the world would be a better place if people only wrote books because they had something to say, rather than because they wanted to write a book.

— Paul Graham

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