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6.4 Create
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The basic theme is that whenever you cannot understand something, you should try to create that thing.
How to create?
Teach. Teach that thing to someone else.
Why is that you can understand a thing when you are teaching it to other people?
It is because whenever you teach, you have to translate the materials into YOUR OWN language.
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2008.10.09 Thursday
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A few weeks later, the Great Depression began. Campbell would spend the next five years (1929-1934) trying to figure out what to do with his life (Larsen and Larsen, 2002:160) and he engaged in a period of intensive and rigorous independent study.
Campbell states that he “would divide the day into four four-hour periods, of which I would be reading in three of the four hour periods, and free one of them… I would get nine hours of sheer reading done a day. And this went on for five years straight.
— Wikipedia
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2008.10.08 Wednesday
6.3.1 Feynman’s Blackboard
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Physics
= Relativity + Quantum Mechanics
= 相對論加量子力學
= 深深深
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6.3.2 Quantum Mechanics | 量子力學
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When physicist Feynman was a student,
there were two versions of Quantum Mechanics.
They described the same thing
but in different mathematical languages.
One version was Heisenberg’s Matrix Mechanics (矩陣力學) , using matrices. Another was Schrodinger’s Wave Mechanics (波動力學), using differential equations.
Feynman could understand neither of them.
So he spent 8 years to create
his own version of quantum mechancis
in order to understand quantum mechanics [1].
Feynman’s version of quantum mechanics is now called
Feynman path-intergral. (路徑積分)
After Feynman’s death, [2] people found that Feynman had written some words on the left-hand top corner of his blackboard:
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“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
不是由我自己想出來的東西, 我都不能理解.
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[1] Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979)
[2] “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.” — Feynman’s last words
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2008.10.07 Tuesday
Millions of people are wasting huge amounts of time trying to change their personality to please their boss or their girlfriend or boyfriend.
Number one, you cannot change your personality. All you will accomplish is turning yourself into a phony. Secondly, and more important, you don’t have to change your personality. What you do have to change, if your personality clashes, is your boss or your career or your girlfriend or boyfriend.
— Advertisement of John T. Reed’s 2nd Edition of Succeeding
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2008.10.06 Monday
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讀理科 學物理定律
讀文科 學人情定律
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6.2 師者，傳道授業解惑也
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何謂道?
人道: 心理定律
物道: 物理定律
天道: 生前死後事
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何謂業?
業: 運用道的一門方法
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何謂惑?
惑: 對道的不理解
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2008.10.05 Sunday
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways:
(1) by creating a work or doing a deed;
(2) by experiencing a something or encountering someone; and
(3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.
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It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
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— Man’s search of meaning, by Victor Frankl, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and a Holocaust survivor
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2008.10.05 Sunday
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Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
— Dilbert
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一句簡單的鼓勵說話, 就可能足以把人從地獄深淵救出來.
— Me
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2008.10.04 Saturday
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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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
— John W. Gardner
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2008.10.01 Wednesday
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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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If we were humble, nothing would change us — neither praise nor discouragement.
— Mother Teresa
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當你知道實情後, 你就會謙虛.
— Me
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2008.09.29 Monday
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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
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What you are
comes to you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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現在自己的一思一言一行, 決定了自己在生時和死後的狀況. — Me
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2008.09.27 Saturday
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Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
–Robert A. Heinlein
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“三個臭皮匠 一個諸葛亮”
是錯誤的.
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2008.09.26 Friday
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
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
–Emerson
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The moments when you attain a goal and realize true perfection probably account for less than 2 percent of your lifetime, while the process of living and working toward your goals occupies the rest. If you look to perfection to supply your sense of success, you are discounting the other 98 percent of your life.
–Katz and Liu
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The journey is the destination.
當你到達目的地後, 你會發現, 你的最大收穫是你的旅程.
— Me
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2008.09.24 Wednesday
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
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James
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老師的主要責任是告訴學生
什麼可以省略,
什麼不可以.
— Me
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2008.09.22 Monday
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
版本一:
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
A：
人與人的關係，可能悲慘到什麼地步？
B：
你能想像得到的悲慘關係，世間都有；
你無法想像得到的悲慘關係，世間亦有。
沒有悲慘至極這回事。悲慘無極。
— Mr. Lee
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被朋友出賣, 屬正常.
被朋友遺棄, 屬自然定律.
可以難過, 但毋須傷心.
有朋友無條件地對你好, 是奇遇.
有朋友在你有難時為你出頭, 是奇蹟.
要更加好好珍惜.
你, 可以做到別人的真誠朋友嗎?
– Me
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2008.09.20 Saturday
Physics Town 
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