2014.09.30

 

 

小步邁向幸福

  另一個對於80/20的應用，每個人在每一天中工作最有效率的時間都不同，實際上在一天的百分之二十時間內，我們完成了百分之八十的工作，這取決於我們是早起的鳥或夜貓子。有的人早上6，7點就起床了，然後他們立刻就可以工作了。我也是這樣，我起得很早，早起對我很簡單。很早的早上直接去工作，沒有問題。到了晚上11，12點就完全不行了。有的人卻完全相反，他們可以熬夜到凌晨3，4點，那才是他們最有精神的時候。這和我們內在生物節奏有關，和我們生理節奏有關。基本上沒有人的周期正好是24小時的。

  沒有付出就沒有收穫，我們甚麼時候感受到流動？我們焦慮的時候感受不到，就如完美主義一樣，我們無聊時感受不到。只有我們樂觀、愉悅、奮鬥的時候感受得到，追求卓越的人，更容易感覺到流動，而那些一直畏懼失敗的人，一直為失敗所困擾的人，一直在設想如果我失敗了怎麼樣的人，是感受不到的。

現在，小步邁向幸福！

Small Steps to Big Happiness

  Another application of the 80/20 rule: All of us have different time during the day when we are most productive. In fact, in20 percent of the day, we get 80percent, potentially, 80percent of our work done, depending whether we are morning people of night people. There are people who get up in the morning at you know, 6,7 am and they are ready to go. That’s me, I get up early, very easy for me. Very early in the morning. First thing. No problem. At night, by11,12 pm, complete zombie. And there are people who are the opposite can stay up till 2,3,4 am in the morning, and that’s when they are the freshest. By the way, it has to do with our internal biorhythm, internal circadian rhythms. Because there are some people for whom no one is exactly or very few people are exactly 24 hours rhythms.

  We perform at our best, defying the “no pain, no gain” And when do we experience flow? Not when we experience the high levels of anxiety at the perfectionist often does, not when we are bored, but when we are excited. The person committed to excellence is much more likely to experience the flow than the person who is constantly afraid of failure, constantly obsessed with failure, constantly thinking about what if I fail.

  Small Steps to Big Happiness, Now!

 

 

2014.09.28

 

以80/20法則克服完美主義

完美主義者只有一條路，沒有偏離，沒有進步，沒有自發性。這些時常讓我們變得不那麼幸運，歷史上那些最成功最有創造力的科學家和藝術家都是那些失敗最多的。他們都不是完美主義者，他們都追求卓越，非常有雄心，都明白成功沒有別的方法。

  有一位非常有創造力的作家說：完美主義是創造力的敵人；另外有一位作家對於如何克服這種完美主義，有非常好的建議，是80/20規則，了解這條規則並將其應用在時間管理上，改變了我在學校的學習經歷。

  那麼這法則是甚麼呢？這法則表示在大多數社會中，百分之二十的人擁有百分之八十的財富，他們也將這法則用於商業組織，那就是妳百分之二十的客戶，給你帶來百分之八十的收入。這也被應用於經濟學的許多領域，而到最近被用於時間管理方面，比如說在我們百分之二十的時間裡，我們可以完成百分之八十的工作。當明白這一點的時候，他改變了我的工作態度。為什麼？因為我意識到我不可能百分之百做到完美，我開始遵循更多的愉悅原則或快樂原則。好的這才是我感興趣的東西，因為我應用這條20/80法則，將百分之二十的注意力放在重要的東西上，然後把百分之八十的工作做好。

 

How To Overcome Perfectionism - The 80/20 Rule

 

  Perfectionist- one way; no deviation, no improvisation, no spontaneity. This very often prevents us from being” luckier”. The most successful the most creative scientist and artist throughout the history are ones that fail the most. They were not perfectionists. They were committed to excellence- extremely ambitious, understanding that there’s no other way to succeed.

    There is a highly creative author says: Perfectionism is the enemy of creativity. And another author who has very good advice for us of how to overcome this perfectionism. The 80/20 rule. This rule- understanding this rule as it applies to time management changed my school experience.

  So what is the principle? And the principle says that in most societies, 20 percent of the people own about 80 percent of the wealth. They applied this principle to organizations as well, where 20 percent of your clients generate 80 percent of your income. And this has been applied to many areas in economics. And more recently, to time management. For example, in 20 percent of our time, we can get 80 percent our work down. And when I understand this, it changed my approach toward my work attitude. Why? Because I realized that well I didn’t to complete perfect 100 percent of the work. And I started to follow much more the pleasure principle or the happiness principle. And I say: Ok, this is something that I really cared about. Because I was employing that 20/80 rule. 20 percent of focus on what’s important and got the80 percent of the work down.

2014.09.27  Hard Choices

 

 

追求卓越是永不放棄的旅程

 

  我在學校七樓有一間小而美的辦公室，我樂在工作，我無時不在工作，即使假日也是一樣。最後好像上天給我靈感，我知道該怎麼自處。

  追求卓越的人，不只是關心短時間的放鬆，還關注長久的滿足，生活中會有起起伏伏，但是能夠享受旅途中的美一天，問題是我們想要甚麼樣的生活？要記住其中最重要的，一個追求卓越的人，不會放棄自己的雄心；但是一個追求卓越的人也不會放棄自己的旅程。追求卓越的人，不僅僅不會放棄整個旅程，或者整個成果，他們常常獲得更高的成就。

  但是沒有完美的人，對每個人來說失敗是不可避免的。追求完美的人只專注於失敗；追求卓越的人，則發現路途上每一步都有成功的機會。

  持續的自我提升，不是直線向上，而是旋轉向上。長久來看追求卓越的人往往取得更好的成就，追求卓越的人比完美主義者來得快樂。首先，追求卓越的人享受持續成長，有所偏離，有所中斷，也有所修整。當我們被失敗所困擾的時候，我們就不會付諸行動。如果我相信自己，如果我相信我會成功，如果我有過去跌倒之後又爬起來的經歷，那我就更可能成功。成功沒有別的方式，「運氣的因素」，比別人有更多運氣的原因，似乎是一件很神祕的事情，其實是可以用科學方法解釋的。其中一個有更好運氣的方法，就是嘗試新事情，小事情，即使是課後去餐廳的路，找一條和你每天所走的那條路，有些不一樣的路線，這些小事就可以改變我們的生活，這些稍微脫離實際的方式，能帶來更多的幸運，因為我們開始看見以前沒見過的東西。

committed the excellence not give up on the journey

  I work up in the seventh floor for room in Taipei Fuhsing have just cozy little office  that is what used to be the addict. I was working on with me everywhere I went including on vocation which actually turned out to be a Godsend because I had the idea about how to begin the work by starting.

  A person committed excellence, is not just about temporary relief, but about lasting satisfaction. Yes, live has the ups and downs like we all do. However, also able to enjoy the journey day to day. And the question is,” what kind of life do I want for myself”? And remember the most important thing, a person committed the excellence does not give up on being ambitions. However, a person committed to excellence does not also give up on the journey, a person who is committed to excellence, not only does not give on the journey or rather on the outcome, they actually reach higher levels of performance.

  But haven’t the perfect person, for every person, there’s inevitable failure. And a perfectionist who is obsessed with failure just focuses on that, whereas the person committed to excellence, there is possibility of success every step of the way, even in failure.

   Going, continuous improvement, not a straight line, but a spiral that goes up and up . That actually the person committed to excellence is more successful in the long run. People committed to excellence as opposed to perfectionists are happier. First of all, person committed to excellence enjoys much more sustainable approach to growth. There are deviations, there are breaks, there are recovers. When we are so obsessed with failure, we are much less likely to act. If I believe in myself, if I think I can succeed, if I have the track record to show that I get up after falling down, I’m much more likely to succeed over time. There is no other way to succeed, the “Luck Factor” one of the cause of having more luck in our live seems like a mystical thing, but actually can be shown scientifically. One of the ways of having more luck in our lives is to try new things, little things even when you walk back to your dining hall after class. Take a slightly different path, as opposed to the path that has already been taken by you every single day, these little changes in our lives, these slight deviation from a straight narrow actually lead to higher levels of luck, because we begin to see things that we haven’t seen before.

 

 

 

2014.09.21

 

 

 

How to Improve your Creative Thinking

如何提高創造性思維

Today I watch the video “How to Improve Your Creative Thinking”. The speaker Tony say : between Left brain and Right brain there are different. Left Brain dominance is, words, numbers, lines, lists, logic. And Right brain dominance is, rhythm, colour, shapes, maps, imagination. There are below:

 

Tony this on is a leading expert on the brain and learning and inventor of the revolutionary mind mapping technique. Through his work in the media, Tony aims to educate the in how to use the brain more effectively. Tony believes that everyone  has the potential to be creative and in this film he talks how you can find and develop your inner creativity.

Step one: everyone is creative

First I want to dispel the inner creativity step one notion that anyone anywhere  could be not creative. We have a million million brian cells and they all integrate know anybody with piece of equipment like that says, I’m not creative is obviously making a mistake.  What has happened that they haven’t been taught how to use that from a piece of equipment.

Step two: The left and right brain

As we know the left and right brain to use his words and numbers and list some logical analysis and the right brain deal s with his with them colors and shape and form imagination and daydreaming it has been thought that creativity was right brained and because we’ve miss analyze that creativity is that will be a major damaged within these two use both sides and get the order and the number and the image in the color and the rhythm in the imagination the day dreaming all working together that is creativity.

Step 3: Speed of thought

Speed of thinking is called fluency, how fast how rapidly can you generate ideas and that you can develop by just playing at it you can practice thinking foster. You can practice you know getting his apostles on working out, foster and faster speed and that kind a productivity is one of the hallmarks of creative genius.

Step 4: Originality of thought

Originality of thought if someone says what could use a coat hanger for, and you answer for hanging a coat that would not catch who I think I points in creativity if you said you could use it to fuel a rocket ship to the moon by taking the constituent molecules that particular coat hanger and converting it into some kind fuel that’s way out that’s what is known as thinking out of the box.

Step 5: Flexibility of thought

Flexibility of thought most people tend to focus on one flexibility way that this is the way I think this is the way I see that when it should be how many ways can I see this, from how many perspectives can look at it from and the great creative thinkers play with looking at different perspectives.

Step 6: Imagination and Association

Imagination and dissociation all great creative thinkers are using their imagination what they are doing in addition that is they’re making links between things so they and Association the two big keywords for creativity how much you have to do when you are being creative is to find those associations and connections between things that are going to create something new.

如何提高創造性思維

Today I watch the video “How to Improve Your Creative Thinking”. The speaker Tony say : between Left brain and Right brain there are different. Left Brain dominance is, words, numbers, lines, lists, logic. And Right brain dominance is, rhythm, colour, shapes, maps, imagination. There are below:

 

托尼的革命性心智地圖技術，是大腦學習和發明的權威，他在媒體工作，其目標是如何更有效地使用大腦。托尼認為，每個人都有創意的潛力，在這部影片中，他談到了如何發現和發展自己的內在創造力。

步驟一：每個人都是創意

首先，我希望消除內在創造力第一個概念，即任何人在任何地方可能是沒有創造性的。我們有一百萬億腦細胞，它們集結成身體的部分而不是用來創造的，這顯然是犯了一個錯誤。當事情發生了，沒有被教導如何使用這些裝備。

步驟二：左腦右腦

正如我們所知道的左，右腦用是文字和數字，並列出了一些邏輯分析和右腦處理自己與他們的顏色和形狀和形式，想像和白日夢也一直被認為，創造力是右腦，因為我們已經錯過分析創造力，這將使雙方受損，得到的顏色、節奏的順序和數量以及圖像是想像和白日夢都是創意。

步驟三：思想的速度

思維的速度稱為流暢，速度有多快，你怎麼能快速產生創意，以及是否可以通過遊戲，練習思維培育發展，你可以練習讓倡導者出來工作，培育更快的速度和生產率是創意天才的標誌之一。

步驟四：思想的原創性

思想的原創性，如果有人說衣架可以做甚麼用，而你回答掛大衣，不會吸引人，我想我創意點，如果你說，你可以用它來推動火箭飛船到月球，通過採取組成分子，特別是衣架，將其轉換成某種燃料的出路，這就稱為創意思考。

步驟五：思想的靈活性

想到大多數人的靈活性，往往集中在一個靈活的方式，我覺得這是我看到的時候應該有多少方法可以看出這一點，從許多觀點可以看偉大的思想家，從創造性的思想看著不同的觀點。

步驟六：想像和聯想

想像力和分解，所有偉大的創造性思想家正在使用他們的想像力，他們正在做的是事情之間的聯繫，此外他們和協會有兩大關鍵詞，創意是將兩個事物之間的關聯做連結，而後創造出新的東西。

 

2014.09.12

沒有付出 就沒有回報

有時不敢相信自己的好運，

我感覺很棒，很快樂，我終於做到了！

我努力工作，奮力向前，

越來越難，但是我會成功。

沒有付出，就沒有回報，

我一直努力工作，沒有理由停止不前，

我問我自己，到底我要甚麼生活？

 

No Pain No Gain

In fact I can’t believe my good fortune.

I feel good, I’m happy, I finally made it!

And I work hard, I struggle,

It’s getting tougher, but I’ll make it!

No pain, no gain,

I’m been a hard worker; there’s no reason to just stop now.

Then I asked myself what kind of life do I want for myself?

 

2014.09.11

 

 

 

追求卓越是一個過程

身為教師要過甚麼樣的生活？要記住其中最重要的，一個追求卓越的人不會放棄自己的雄心；但是一個追求卓越的人也不會放棄整個旅程。

追求卓越的人明白，當它進步的時候，不免會遭遇失敗。但她會記取教訓，她需要不斷地失敗，要成功可沒有捷徑，追求卓越就是要克服困難。

追求卓越的人心胸開闊，她會歡迎來自外界的批評，這不是說她喜歡這樣，而是她明白這是必要的，這是成長與發展的重要部分。追求卓越的人，享受達成的目標，也享受過程中的每一步，那就是旅途，即便是失敗也是機遇。

 

Pursuing excellence as a journey

 

What kind of life do I want for a teacher?  And remember the most important thing, a person committed to excellence does not give up on being ambitions. However, a person committed to excellence does not also give up on the journey.

   The person committed excellence understands that while he improves, inevitably at some point, he would fail. But she would learn from it. She needs to fail time and again, there is no straight line toward success. Pursuing excellence is about a constraint view of nature.

   A person committed to excellence is open, is welcoming of suggestions and criticisms at times. It doesn’t mean that she enjoys it, but she understands that it’s necessary it’s an important part of growth of development. Person committed to excellence enjoys getting to where she is going, but also learns to enjoy every step of the way-the journey, even failure is an opportunity.

 

教師的責任

  一個人遇到好老師是人生的幸運，一所學校源源不斷湧現出一批又一批好老師，則是學校的希望。

  做好老師，要有理想、信念、責任、道德情操、扎實學識、仁愛之心，把自己的溫暖和情感傾注到每一個學生身上，用欣賞的眼光增強學生的信心，用信任樹立學生信心。

 

2014.09.04

 

 

工作與生活平衡(二)

  每個人都會經歷考驗，都會面臨困難和阻礙，但是那些極度成功的人，和一般人不同之處在於他們能夠好好利用已經發生的事，他們把它看作是機會，學習的經驗，一塊墊腳石。這就是失敗對於適應力與完善人格的作用。

  如何定義完美主義？其定義是：一種充斥在生活中對失敗或失能的恐懼，尤其在我們最在意的部分。失能這個詞不僅是對失敗的恐懼，這就是人性，不論我們是否喜歡。但對失敗的失能性畏懼是，一種在我們面對問題的時候，裹足不前的畏懼。

  對我來說勝敗並不重要，但完美主義確實是我生活的重心，就如我提到過的，音樂對我非常重要，學術對我而言也非常重要，人際關係也非常重要。在這些方面我體會到完美主義，但是在這些方面我必須一直努力，這方面，我詳細說明，這是我們面對人生旅途的時候，也是我們從A點到B點的過程中，採取的一種方式，一種認知與情感的基模。重點在旅途上，一個追求卓越者仍可能是完美主義者，或比完美主義者更有野心。兩者之間的不同，在於他們面對旅途的方式，讓我舉個例子，首先是一個完美主義者。

work life balance-2

  Most people experience crucibles throughout their lives, hardships, difficulties, but difference between the highly successful people, and many other people is that they are able to make the best of what happens. They see it as an opportunity, a learning experience, a stepping stone. The importance of failure for resilience, for well being as well.

  What is actually mean by perfectionism? It’s define as: an incapacitating fear of failure that permeates our lives, especially those areas that we care about most. Note the word incapacitating. It is not just a fear of failure. That’s human- whether we like it or not. But an incapacitating fear of failure is the failure that is debilitating us, that stops us, that prevents us from coping, from trying, from putting ourselves on the line.  

  It’s not that important for me if I win or lose. But perfectionism was central part of my life when it came to – as I mentioned earlier, music which was very meaningful to me, academics which is very meaningful to me, and relationships which was and is a very important part of my life. So in these areas, that’s where I experienced perfectionism, and that’s where I needed to do the work and still doing the work. It’s in those areas. Let me elaborate on this definition. It is approach, a cognitive and emotional schema, that we hold toward the journey of our lives, toward the process of getting from point A to point B. The emphasis here is on journey. A person committed to excellence can still be as ambitions and more ambitious than a perfectionist. The difference between the two is just their approach toward the journey. Let me illustrate. So let’s first take the perfectionist.

2014.09.03

 

 

 

 

工作與生活平衡

  最近學到關於「修復」，有時候要放下工作，放鬆自己。

  每年都有些幸運的事發生。第一年我發現我真正的興趣是音樂，第二年我買了電腦，第三年我轉換工作。每次都有這些事情發生，確實是這樣。

  上次我談些甚麼？上次談到嬰兒如何學走路，談到他們如何學會畫圈圈。都是通過不斷的失敗，愛迪生說：我從失敗中獲得成功。我們從最頂尖的運動員身上看到，不論是喬丹或其他人。我們從最頂尖的生意人，不管事IBM 的創始人Thomas Watson或其他人，我們從藝術家和科學家身上看到，最成功的人也是失敗最多的人，而他們就是那些深刻明白失敗的價值與重要性的人。我保證沒有人喜歡失敗，失敗讓人受傷，讓人極度失望，讓人沮喪，也極度尷尬。但是那些最成功的人，都確認失敗和從失敗中學習的價值。

有一本非常好的書，作者是 Warred Bennis 書名是「駭客與怪傑」，在這本書裡，他將30出頭的年輕人和老一代的，在劃時代裡真正有所成就的領袖人物，他們大多七十、八十甚至九十歲，他將兩組人做比對，駭客，指那些年輕人；怪傑，指年長者，而他發現有一些非常有趣也很有意義的差異，存在於20多到30出頭的成功人士與年長成功領袖之間，其中最明顯的差異就是工作與生活的平衡，這對於年輕的成功人士非常重要。他們自己也經常談論這些，但是對於年長一代的成功人士，這幾乎是一個外來的觀念。

這是甚麼意思？為什麼會這樣？因為他們總是處在工作中，樣本中的男性都如此。而女性則待在家裡，負責生活的部分，所以說他們的工作與生活的平衡是-丈夫負責工作，妻子負責照顧生活。在年輕成功的樣本裡，男女都有，他們自然會談論工作與生活的平衡。兩代人之間還有其他不同，但是也有一個相同點，這一點對兩代人來說都一樣，那就是至少有一次，一般來說要多於一次的顯著失敗，稱為「考驗」，一次危機，無論是競爭失敗或者失去了工作，還是受到屈辱失去親人。一些嚴重的考驗，一次失敗的經歷。這是兩代人共同擁有的，他們都將失敗看做是一個關鍵點，一個生活的轉折點，一些因素幫助造就今天的他們。

work life balance

Recently I learned about recovery. At time , away from work really relax.

  Every year when I work luck something happens. The first year, I remember I actually discovery my interest is music. Second time, I bought computer. And this year, I get a new job. Every time something happens. Walk the talk.

  So where was I last time? Last time we talked about how baby learned how to walk. We learned about how they learned to draw circles. And all through failure .Thomas Edison said: I learned my way I failed my way to success.” And we saw it with the top athletes, whether it was Michael Jordan or other. We saw it with top business people , whether it was Thomas Watson, IBM or other. We see it with artist and scientist the most successful ones are also the ones who failed the most, and these are the ones who understand the value and the importance of failure. I guarantee you then none of them enjoy failing. Failing hurts; disappointing at best, it’s frustrating; it’s embarrassing often. However, people who ultimately succeed recognize that value of failure and learning from it.

There’s a wonderful book that came out recently by Warren Bennis, which is called “Geek and Geezers”. And in this book, he compared very successful leaders who were young, early 30s and older generation leaders, people who have really made it, big time leaders who are now in their 70s and 80s, sometimes 90s. And he compared those two groups: the geeks the young ones; the geezer, the older ones. And what he found was that there were a number of very interesting and meaningful differences between the generations of again highly successful late 20s or early 30s years old and highly successful older individuals. One of the most notable differences was that work life balance, which is very important for the late 20s, early30s. Very important- they talked about it constantly, whereas for the 70 80 90 year olds, it was almost a foreign concept.

 

   What does that even mean? Why? Because they were at work usually 7-24. All of them in that sample were men. And the women were at home, taking care of the life part. So there was a work life balance- where they were doing the work, the wives were doing the life. Whereas the younger generation, men and women in that sample and talking about the work life balance. There are a few other differences as well, but there is one similarity, one thing that was common to both groups. And that was at least one, usually more than one significant failure, and call” a crucible” a real crisis, whether it was a meaningful loss or losing a job being fired, one’s identity being insulted, loss of person. Some real serious crucible, a failure. That was common to both groups, and both groups thought that failure as a pivotal point, as a turning point in their lives. Something that helped them became who they are today.