Chapter 6 Doctor
This chapter is on study and teaching skills.
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6.1 Bachelor, Master, Doctor
Bachelor: someone has general knowledge
Master: someone has the ability to practice a particular field of knowledge
Doctor: someone has the ability to teach a particular field of knowledge
– How to Get a PhD (book), by Estelle Phillips and Derek.S. Pugh
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學士: 通識之人
碩士: 有能力掌握一門知識的人
博士: 有能力傳授一門知識的人
–My translation
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2008.10.03 Friday
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4.20 Life as a recursion
Arthur Schopenhauer answered: “What is the meaning of life?” by determining that one’s life reflects one’s will, and that the will (life) is an aimless, irrational, and painful drive. Salvation, deliverance, and escape from suffering are in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and asceticism.
— Wikipedia
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2008.09.30 Tuesday
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To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
— Zen proverbs
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2008.09.28 Sunday
4.18 Dale
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you afraid to do.” — Emerson
The way to develop self-confidence, he said, is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you. — Lowell Thomas
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2008.09.25 Thursday
4.17.4 Influence
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When suggesting on how to write a successful book, John T. Reed wrote:
“At the Dale Carnegie public speaking class, which I highly recommend — they say anyone can make a good speech if he or she has earned the right to speak on the subject in question. How do you earn the right? By living through the subject or by doing extensive research on it — which is arguably another form of living through it. Same principle applies to how-to writing.”
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要寫到一些有用的文字, 方法只有一個: 曾經親歷其境.
— Me
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2008.09.23 Tuesday
4.17.2 Practice
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知易行難
是因為知得不夠詳細:
只知大方向
而不知道執行時所需要的技術細節.
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例一: 讀書
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知:
大方向: 要努力讀書
技術細節: 不清楚
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行:
往往提不起勁開始讀書.
開始溫習後又很易分心.
即使溫習了數小時也好像沒有溫似的.
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版本二:
知:
大方向: 要努力讀書
技術細節:
往往提不起勁開始讀書. (是不是每次計劃的溫書量太多, 嚇怕了自己?)
開始溫習後又很易分心. (是不是因為你的電腦就在書本的旁邊? 移走電腦到視線範圍以外行嗎?)
即使溫習了數小時也好像沒有溫似的. (為什麼要一次過溫數小時呢? 每次只溫兩小時行嗎? 如果一定要連續溫習五小時的話, 是不是一定要五小時也溫同一科呢? 中途可不可以加一點休息的時間?)
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行:
技術細節知得越詳細, 實行到計劃的機會越高.
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— Me
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2008.09.21 Sunday
4.17 Practice
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The difference between theory and practice is small in theory but big in practice.
係理論上, 理論上同實際上係無乜分別o既; 但係實際上, 理論上同實際上係有好大分別o既.
理論上, 理論上和實際上是沒有什麼分別的; 但實際上, 理論上和實際上是有很大分別的.
— Me, based on an existing quotation
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The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.”
— Richard P. Feynman (The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1963)
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大部分的人生道理聽了其實是沒有用的. 原因是大部分人也沒有做足以下四個步驟.
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4.17.1 Theory
4.17.2 Practice
4.17.3 Habit
4.17.4 Influence (夢幻版)
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2008.09.16 Tuesday
4.16 Impossible
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If you want to imagine what the world is going to be like in the future,
don’t work for what’s possible now.
Start by imagining the impossible,
only then we even get close to a vision of our fantastic future.
— Gillian Anderson, Future Fantasic
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To be creative, think not what is possible, but what is impossible.
— My own modification.
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要有創意, 不要由可能的事情想起;
要有創意, 要先由不可能的事情想起.
— Translation by Me.
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2008.09.13 Sunday
4.15 Shaw
1. You see things as they are and ask, “Why?” I dream things as they never were and ask, “Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921)
2. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the envirnoment; unreasonable adapt envirnoment to themseleves. Therefore, all human progress are made by unreasonable people. — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
3. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Muriel Strode ( ? )
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2008.09.12 Friday
4.10.5 Not enough
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1. “You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury
2. 看風不用播種, 看雲不用收割. — 傳道書
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At a time, I had a discussion with a friend. He asked me whether I would apply for an engineer-training job in order to get an engineer license. I said I did not have enough capacity for such a job. He replied, “If you feel that you are not enough, you are always not enough. The point is not to be enough right now. The point is to get the job first, and then make yourself be enough for it.”
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2008.09.10 Wednesday
Step-by-step approach
1. “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
2. “For things we persist doing become easier, not because of the change of the nature of the thing, but because of the increase of our ability. ” — Emerson
3. “What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
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2008.09.08 Monday
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4.12 Dyson
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1. “`Always make new mistakes” — Esther Dyson
2. “`Always make new mistakes” — Esther Dyson
3. “There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.” — Freeman Dyson
4. “If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.” — Linus Pauling
5. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
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2008.09.06 Saturday
4.11 A physics career
A young man wrote physicist Feynman a letter, asking how to know whether he was suitable for a physics career. Feynman gave the following reply:
“I say this. Try to find some friends who are somewhat interested in physics and try to discuss physics things with them. If you find yourself able to explain things in your own words, so that they are led to understand things from what you say, you are OK. Soon you will find yourself able to explain things to yourself. Otherwise, give up and plan for a different career. If you can’t find such friends, try to tutor elementary physics, and see how it goes.” [12]
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[12] Don’t you have time to think p.256
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2008.09.05 Friday
4.10 Hacker approach [10]
1. “a belief that even though you may not know all of what you need to solve a problem, if you tackle just a piece of it and learn from that, you’ll learn enough to solve the next piece – and so on, until you’re done.”
–Eric S. Raymond’s How To Become A Hacker
2. “… began doing just one thing ever which he had control.”
— Stephen Covey
3. “So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly immediate need, it’s almost certainly over-designed.”
— Linus Torvalds
4. “I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.”
— Ellen Goodman
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[10] Hacker here means a highly skilled programmer, not a computer criminal.
“In academia, a “hacker” is a person who follows a spirit of playful cleverness and enjoys programming.”
– Wikipedia on Hacker (academia)
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2008.09.03 Wednesday
4.10 Hacker approach [10]
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1. “a belief that even though you may not know all of what you need to solve a problem, if you tackle just a piece of it and learn from that, you’ll learn enough to solve the next piece – and so on, until you’re done.”
–Eric S. Raymond’s How To Become A Hacker
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1.5 “a belief that
even though you may not know all of what you need to solve a problem,
if you tackle just a piece of it and
learn from that,
you’ll learn enough
to solve the next piece
– and so on,
until you’re done.”
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10 Hacker here means a highly skilled programmer, not a computer criminal.
“In academia, a “hacker” is a person who follows a spirit of playful cleverness and enjoys programming.”
– Wikipedia on Hacker (academia)
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2008.08.29 Friday
Contents
Preface 緣起
1 Additional Mathematics
2 Applied Mathematics
3 Storyline
4 Master
What
4.1 自傳
4.2 根據地
4.3 兼職
4.4 奇遇記
4.5 尋尋覓覓
4.6 才能
4.7 以終為始
4.8 夢幻路
4.9 受難曲
How
4.10 Hacker
4.11 Feynman
4.12 Dyson
4.13 Walk
4.14 Jump
4.15 Shaw
4.16 Impossible
4.17 Practice
4.18 Dale
4.19 Master
4.20 Recursion
5 Writing
6 Doctor
7 Painting
A Storyarc
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2008.08.27 Wednesday
“The accident left him without hands and mostly deaf and blind when he was 19.”
“Heim had to undergo a series of operations after the explosion which resulted in the loss of his arms. He found that intense concentration on the study of Einstein’s relativity theory helped him control the pain in his arms mentally and physically.”
– Wikipedia
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Me: Physics 能醫百病
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2008.08.21 Thursday
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BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of… being helped by hidden hands?
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time – namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
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My general formula for my students is “Follow your bliss.” Find where it is, and don’t be afraid to follow it.
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, pp. 120, 149
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2008.08.20 Wednesday
4.7 Begin with the End in Mind
Author Stephen Covey had written an influential book : The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
The second habit is Begin with the End in Mind. Here is the mathematical version of it.
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Assume you have a goal, a dream, or anything like that. We call it to be the 
Clarify what your
“What is the step before the
Clarify what your 
“What is the 
Clarify what your
“What is the 
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Clarify what your third step really is. Once done, ask yourself,
“What is the second step?”
Clarify what your second step really is. Once done, ask yourself,
“What is the first step?”
What is your first single step towards your goal that you can take action on right now, right here?
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後天將有中文版.
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2008.08.18 Monday
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P. S. 達明小明: 最後的十四天.
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“There’s a common misconception that a person’s skill is their talent. Skills, however, are not talents. Talents, on the other hand, requires skills.”
— The 8th Habit p.76
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“Don’t confuse transferable skills with traits.”
— What color is your parachute? 2005 Edition p.141
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大部分人也分不清技能與天份.
天份需要技能的支撐. 但是技能本身不是天份.
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例如:
如果你的運算能力技巧很差的話,
你很難說服人你有數學天份.
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但是即使你的運算能力高,
亦不代表你有數學天份, 有數學傾向.
因為除了運算能力外,
數學天份還需要其他技能和性格特質的支持, 才能發揮.
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— Translation by Me
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2008.08.17 Saturday
Physics Town 
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