Essays on becoming Chris Barclay
You’re not who you think you are. This, according to movies like The Matrix, Fight Club, the Bourne Identity, The Truman Show, Lost Highway and many others. Not only are you somebody else, but you are actually living “in a world where nothing is as it seems”, to quote one of the most popular movie […]
Continue ReadingThere is a wonderful quote by G.B. Shaw that goes like this: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Being unreasonable can mean someone who doesn’t listen, someone who is difficult to deal with. Imagine a […]
Continue ReadingVictor Frankl in his masterwork, “Man’s Search for Meaning” talks about how in the midst of the Holocost, he realized that there was one thing that his Nazi captors could not take from him: his ability to choose how he felt. Frankl wrote about this choice as the last of the human freedoms as “the […]
Continue ReadingI’ve always been interested in what makes people successful. What leads some people to achieve while others fail? I knew it couldn’t only be about raw intelligence or access to resources (though those things certainly do help). Being in the right place at the right time also seemed to be a factor, though not a […]
Continue Reading英文 作为社交动物、人们通常对禁闭反应不良。这就是为什么禁闭成为惩戒方式的一种。 实际上对人类来讲、这却是对其不良行为的最佳节制手段。相比鞭刑、当众羞辱和上交规学习班、没有什么比被羁押的威胁更让人三思而行。你也就理解为何人们对当前在家隔离的禁令如此恐惧了。 感觉很像坐牢。
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