471今天说着这个red rising 是一部科幻小说讲的大概是阶级斗争，多读点原版科幻小说挺好的，如果比较吃力就读文章介绍吧，上wiki也可以。
Red Rising
By Pierce Brown
I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
I watch twelve hundred of their strongest sons and daughters. Listening to a pitiless Golden man speak between great marble pillars. Listening to the beast who brought the flame that gnaws at my heart.
gnaws咬，啃
“All men are not created equal,” he declares. Tall, imperious, an eagle of a man. “The weak have deceived you. They would say the meek should inherit the Earth. That the strong should nurture the gentle. This is the Noble Lie of Democracy. The cancer that poisoned mankind.”
imperious专横傲慢
His eyes pierce the gathered students. “You and I are Gold. We are the end of the evolutionary line. We tower above the flesh heap of man, shepherding the lesser Colors. You have inherited this legacy,” he pauses, studying faces in the assembly. “But it is not free.
“Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood. You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will. Soon, we will teach you why Gold rules mankind. And I promise, of those among you, only those fit for power will survive.”
dominion统治scarless没有伤疤的
But I am no Gold. I am a Red.
He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.
hummingbird tongues蜂鸟的舌头，我猜是一道菜the bowels of this hard world苦难世界的最深处
He is wrong.
None of them will survive.
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生活工作平衡，让我想起了当年在学校的时候全面发展德智体美劳。实际上，我们都知道每天可用的时间和精力很有限，所以能拿出来做喜欢的事情就很不错，不平衡反而会有一些乐趣，尤其是沉浸在其中的感觉。所以这篇文章说的balance其实可能是boring的同义词也是有道理的。重新看待曾经的教条也许有不一样的收获，或许要添加一些条件或者其它改变。
Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance
By Brad Stulberg
Ever since I can remember, I’ve been told to strive for balance. Yet I’ve noticed something interesting: The times in my life during which I’ve felt happiest and most alive are also the times that I’ve been the most unbalanced.
Falling in love. Writing a book. Trekking in the Himalayas. Training to set a personal record in a triathlon. During these bouts of full-on living I was completely consumed by my activity. Trying to be balanced — devoting equal proportions of time and energy to other areas of my life — would have detracted from the formative experiences.
these bouts of full-on living这些存在感一次次痛击formative experiences重大的体验
It’s not just me. Nearly all of the great performers I’ve gotten to know — from athletes to artists to computer programmers to entrepreneurs — report a direct line between being happy, fulfilled and at their best and going all-in on something. Rich Roll, a top ultra-endurance athlete, told me that “the path to fulfillment in life, to emotional satisfaction, is to find what you really excites you and channel your all into it.” Dr. Michael Joyner, a top researcher at the Mayo Clinic, says “you’ve got to be a minimalist to be a maximalist; if you want to be really good, master and thoroughly enjoy one thing, you’ve got to say no to many others.” Nic Lamb, one of the best big-wave surfers on the planet, speaking of his relentless pursuit of excellence in the water, puts it like this: “The best way to find contentment is to give it your all.”
channel your all into it引导所有进去
Perhaps we could all use a little more unbalance in our lives.
In the 1990s, the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi introduced the term flow, a mental state during which people become wholly immersed in the activity they are doing and their perception of time and space is altered, their entire being filled with enjoyment. A telltale sign of these optimal experiences, of “being in the zone,” is that the outside world disappears. In such a state, flow and balance are irreconcilable. And compared to flow, balance seems, for lack of a better term, boring.
And yet there is still a cost of pursuing something full-on: all of the other things that you leave behind as a result. When you are wholly immersed in anything, it’s all too easy to let the inertia of the experience carry you forward without ever really evaluating what you’re sacrificing along the way; for example, time with friends and family, other hobbies, even simple pleasures like catching up on the latest episodes of “Game of Thrones.”
469影响我们重新开始的困难无非就是挫败感，以及形成的压力。那我们该怎么不断重新开始自己想要的目标呢？首先心态上要高度理解认同受到困扰是再正常不过的事情了，这样心里没有压力和焦虑，更着重要问题解决的层面上。 life is an uncontrollable river and you just have to flow with it这句话是金句，我们要习惯于这种不确定。其次，我们遇到的那些挫败感的问题肯定已经有人找出了一些办法，只要google一下就可以找到答案，为我所用。
The Super Skill of Starting Again
By Leo Babauta
OK, great, but what about when you get disrupted? Not a problem.
Most of us have a process, when we get disrupted, that looks like this: we mess up, we curse ourselves, we feel bad about it, we stress out about why our lives are a mess or we are so horrible at this, and then we let all of that stop us from continuing. Or some version of those elements.
But that’s a harmful method. Instead, if we could learn a less stressful, more helpful method, it could change everything. All of a sudden, falling off a habit or a project would be no problem at all.
Here’s the method I recommend:
When you get disrupted, notice this and notice any tendency to be harsh with yourself about it, or resentful towards life or other people about the disruption.
Shake off that feeling and instead, tell yourself that life is an uncontrollable river and you just have to flow with it. Instead of wishing the river were a set path, perfectly controlled and manicured, accept that things are constantly changing, never according to plan, and that you just need to adapt to the present circumstance.
manicure修理修剪Shrugging off any past mistakes, focus on starting again. Just like before, focus on taking the tiniest step.
If there’s any learning to take from the previous attempt, adjust your method to account for whatever obstacles you faced. Sometimes it’s just a random life event (a family crisis or a loved one died), so there’s no learning to be had — you just have to start again. Other times, there was an obstacle in the way that you can adjust for — mornings are too chaotic for writing your novel, perhaps, so you have to either wake earlier or find a better time. Maybe you need an accountability partner. Maybe you need better reminders so you don’t forget. There’s always a solution to the common obstacles we face, and someone has figured it out, so do a little research! And then adjust your method, so you are constantly getting better.
It’s that simple. Shrug off the disruption, flow with the changing circumstances, and simply start again. Adjust yourself if needed, but don’t stress out about having to start again.
Life is a constant stream of disruptions, changes, broken plans and rain delays. Every day, we’re just starting again. Every moment is simply a new start. That can be a source of frustration, or delight.
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科幻小说:
By Ernest Cline
Prologue
Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest. I was sitting in my hideout watching cartoons when the news bulletin broke in on my video feed, announcing that James Halliday had died during the night.
hideout蜗居
I’d heard of Halliday, of course. Everyone had. He was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis. The unprecedented success of the OASIS had made Halliday one of the wealthiest people in the world.
At first, I couldn’t understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire’s death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: “dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!” Normally, the newsfeeds didn’t interrupt everyone’s interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that. As famous as he was, Halliday’s death should have warranted only a brief segment on the evening news, so the unwashed masses could shake their heads in envy when the newscasters announced the obscenely large amount of money that would be doled out to the rich man’s heirs.
the obscenely large amount of money富得流油地
But that was the rub. James Halliday had no heirs.
He had died a sixty-seven-year-old bachelor, with no living relatives and, by most accounts, without a single friend. He’d spent the last fifteen years of his life in self-imposed isolation, during which time—if the rumors were to be believed—he’d gone completely insane.
So the real jaw-dropping news that January morning, the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes, concerned the contents of Halliday’s last will and testament, and the fate of his vast fortune.
令人掉下巴的jaw-dropping 吃着爆米花闲聊胡扯crapping in their cornflakes
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朋友圈刷爆的《当他们脱下衣服显露的肌肉，你就知道他们为什么那么富有了》说的就是华尔街精英为了保持一天工作14小时以上的充沛精力，每周锻炼2小时的励志文章。我觉得这是一种自律给我自由的生活方式。大部分生活在底层的人，你我他如果能有机会自律的话，还是要试试的，我们也要到那种生活圈子里看看吧。
In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is for Losers
By Dan Lyons
Silicon Valley prides itself on “thinking different.” So maybe it makes sense that just as a lot of industries have begun paying more attention to work-life balance, Silicon Valley is taking the opposite approach — and branding workaholism as a desirable lifestyle choice. An entire cottage industry has sprung up there, selling an internet-centric prosperity gospel that says that there is no higher calling than to start your own company, and that to succeed you must be willing to give up everything.
“Hustle” is the word that tech people use to describe this nerd-commando lifestyle. You hear it everywhere. You can buy hustle-themed T-shirts and coffee mugs, with slogans like “Dream, hustle, profit, repeat” and “Outgrind, outhustle, outwork everyone.” You can go to an eight-week “start-up hustle” boot camp. (Boot camp!) You can also attend Hustle Con, a one-day conference where successful “hustlers” share their secrets. Tickets cost around $300 — or you can pay $2,000 to be a “V.I.P. hustler.” This year’s conference, in June, drew 2,800 people, including two dozen who ponied up for V.I.P. passes.
hustle忙碌喧嚣拥挤，推搡
But for some, “hustle” is just a euphemism for extreme workaholism. Gary Vaynerchuk, a.k.a. Gary Vee, an entrepreneur and angel investor who has 1.5 million Twitter followers and a string of best-selling books with titles like “Crush It!,” tells his acolytes they should be working 18 hours a day. Every day. No vacations, no going on dates, no watching TV. “If you want bling bling, if you want to buy the jets?” he asks in one of his motivational speeches. “Work. That’s how you get it.”
euphemism委婉词acolytes追随者
Mr. Vaynerchuk is also a judge on Apple’s “Planet of the Apps,” a reality show where app developers compete to win funding from a venture capital firm. A recent promo depicted a contestant alongside this quotation: “I rarely get to see my kids. That’s a risk you have to take.” The show’s promotional tweet added: “For the ultimate reward, he’ll put everything on the line.”
promotional tweet 广告宣传的
Good grief. The guy is developing an app that lets you visualize how a coffee table from a catalog might look in your living room. I suppose that’s cool, but is it really more important than seeing your kids? Is the chance to raise some venture-capital funding really “the ultimate reward”? (Apple pulled the promo after a wave of critical comments on Twitter.)
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还是那句话，问自己什么最重要，什么更重要。鱼与熊掌不可兼得。
Focus, entertain, or both?
By Derek Sivers
You have a bigger audience than you had just a few years ago.
You have more people reading your updates, and wanting to hear something new.
Standing on this virtual stage, you want to be entertaining, post exciting updates, be impressive, and keep their attention. You’re so rewarded with status when you do.
But what happens when the thing you really need to do is boring to others?
The path to mastery requires months and years of practice that isn’t exciting to your audience.
Then you’ve got a conflict: What’s best for you is to shut up, sit down, and focus. What’s best for them (now) is for you to be entertaining.
You remind yourself that in the future, this will pay off. The things you’re creating and skills you’re developing will benefit everyone. But by being online, you’re still on stage. How can you not entertain?
Do you go full recluse, and completely disconnect?
隐居者recluse
Do you stay connected, but stop contributing?
Do you give up the deep work, and give in to the shallow rewards of just entertaining?
Or do you somehow keep up your obligations to entertain, while doing your “shut up, sit down, and focus” work on the side?
(No answers. Just questions, today. And yes, I’m talking to myself, but I think a lot of people are going through this, so I’m asking you, too.)
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现在的医院是整死人不犯法，每个可以不救治的人，一方面家属的心情一方面医院的利益，导致了患者本人成了实验室的小白鼠，各种痛苦经历只为了能苟延残喘地再活几天。有尊严的死法应该是尊重生命的规律，安详愉快地死去。至少我得了不治之症以后，一定不要受那么多罪。
Being Mortal
By Atal Gawande
THIS IS A book about the modern experience of mortality—about what it's like to be creatures who
age and die, how medicine has changed the experience and how it hasn't, where our ideas about
how to deal with our finitude have got the reality wrong. As I pass a decade in surgical practice and
become middle-aged myself, I find that neither I nor my patients find our current state tolerable. But I
have also found it unclear what the answers should be, or even whether any adequate ones are possible.
I have the writer's and scientist's faith, however, that by pulling back the veil and peering in close, a person can make sense of what is most confusing or strange or disturbing.
finitude有限的surgical practice外科实践pulling back the veil and peering in close解开面纱窥视其中
You don't have to spend much time wth the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often medicine fails the people it is supposed to help. The waning days of our lives are given over to treatments that addle our brains and sap our bodies for a sliver's chance of benefit. They are spent in institutions—nursing homes and intensive care units—where regimented, anonymous routines cut us off from all the things that matter to us in life. Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need. Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers.
inflict on带来imperative迫切的addle our brains and sap our bodies for a sliver's chance of benefit.脑子混乱，一线生机
I wrote this book in the hope of understanding what has happened. Mortality can be a treacherous subject. Some will be alarmed by the prospect of a doctor's writing about the inevitability of decline and death. For many, such talk, however carefully framed, raises the specter of a society readying itself to sacrifice its sick and aged. But what if the sick and aged are already being sacrificed—victims of our refusal to accept the inexorability of our life cycle? And what if there are better approaches, right in front of our eyes, waiting to be recognized？
加剧社会的不安raises the specter of a society readying itself to舍弃老弱病残 sacrifice its sick and aged.
无法阻止的 inexorability欺骗色彩的话题treacherous subject.接受生命不可逆转的周期accept the inexorability of our life cycle
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受欢迎是因为别人喜欢还是为人所求？社交中，有权势会受欢迎，让人喜欢也会受欢迎。前者会带来一些孤独感也会毁掉你的生活。
There's A Wrong Kind Of Popularity & It Might Be Ruining Your Life
By Elizabeth Kiefer
Like "homecoming" and "curfew", "popular" is one of those words we tend to associate with high school; and understandably so, since that's the era of our lives when social status can be a daily crushing concern.
校友返校活动homecoming戒严宵禁curfew
But even in the thick of those angsty teenage years, you probably sensed that there was
much more to the whole popularity thing than just prom court and class geeks. Like all social dynamics, it's complicated.
在…的最激烈时in the thick of
焦虑忧虑，angsty舞会求爱prom court
Just how complicated is terrain tackled in a new book on the subject. Popular: The Power of Likability In A Status-Obsessed World, by Mitch Prinstein, digs into the data and research around what designates popularity, and why it's so definitional — not just in our early lives, but through adulthood.
领域terrain
Prinstein, a professor and the director of clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, divides the concept into two camps: status and likability.
Unsurprisingly, people tend to set their sights on the wrong one, which can wind up having major consequences not just for their social relationships, but also potentially for their health, too. We spoke to Prinstein about why the quest for status is ultimately one that leaves you lonely — and why being unpopular in high school is something you carry withyou for literally the rest of your life.
