Grammar checker

These days I was thinking of stopping using grammar checker.

Writing skill is gained by practicing. We should make a lot of mistakes and face challenges of expressing our ideas when we are learning a language.

Is it really necessary to use grammar checker when we are writing ?

I guess it’s not. Why not keep the originality of my own writings. After polishments of this writings some of them even couldn’t pass the AI detection. I always copy and paste my writing and wait for the result, it will make me be lazier. I don’t need to pursuit perfectism, I and typo is totally fine.

Comment system

I also found some bloggers closed their comment system. After digging it I gradually know that one of the important reason is that our site are our own safe corners to share our own ideas instead of places for communication which will cost a lot of energies. They don’t think it’s necessary to maintain it and they can focus on create their own contents.

Another problem is that comment system is a part outside of our own static site and our own creation. It’s really possible to break down if we don’t take care of it properly. We could still lost all of the data.

Should I spent so much time on maintaining the comment system to imatate the way of interaction like social media platform? I don’t think it’s so that necessary. But I still welcome friends to communicate with me and express their own mind here freely.

Images and plain text

I’m always thinking where to save my images… But finally I think Saving a lot of images or photos can be unnecessary for me. They will occupy a lot of spaces.

Nowadays People are encouraged to post photos and videos by platform because it can improve the interactions and stickiness for this platforms such as TikTok Facebook and Instagram. If I really want to save them for decades, I don’t know where can I save so many photos and videos (especially current cloud file storage are very small.) Instead, the form of plain text are very stable and durable in the long run. By just writing, I can just upload them on my site freely and I don’t need to worry about where to save them.

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Recently, many graduates have been booing speakers when they mention AI or express optimism about the future of AI.

A lot of content has been generated by AI since 2022. There are even many AI-generated videos, and some TV series are being created with AI instead of being produced by human actors. This is not only happening with written content.

AI already seems to be integrated into modern life, just like the Internet. I have found that AI has really improved my efficiency, and now I can realize some features of my site very easily.

But AI still has its limitations. Its ability to recognize handwriting is still not satisfying. When I wanted to digitize my journals, I found that it could not recognize my handwriting if it was a little cursive, and there were many errors. AI also could not recognize my seal script effectively. So currently, I can only type all of my journals manually.

But the problem is that AI seems able to replace our own thinking. I found that I am gradually getting used to chatting with AI instead of writing down my own thoughts.

If I have any questions or problems, I directly ask AI to help me solve them, even before I start thinking by myself. Sometimes I think I am too eager to solve a problem or get a satisfying answer for myself, and then I become immersed in endless information instead of taking action. My brain becomes full of related information, and I cannot deal with it properly. We are giving the responsibility of making decisions to AI.

On the contrary, writing by myself is a good way of thinking. It is a very important process for our brain, instead of letting AI replace our own thinking. When we face some problems or have some ideas, it is better to think about them independently and write them down first.

In fact, I have found that many questions in our lives are not so urgent, and the quality of many questions is not very high. If I think about them more deeply, I can gradually find out what is more important in my life.

I added a Not-by-AI badge to the posts on my site.

I can use this site as a showcase and as a space to practice my independent thinking.

Writing can be done freely, without influence from the outside world and without any suggestions for improvement. Maybe there will be many flaws in my writing, but it is still valuable to me because it comes from me, the real me.

We can even cherish it, because there will be less and less content created by real humans in the future.

This site can be a safe corner for my pure and original mind.

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I spent a lot of time downloading comic books.
My habit of collecting things without actually using or reading them is becoming stronger again.

Recently, I started using Markor, and I found that Markor is a great tool when combined with Termux. The writing workflow feels very smooth now. It also provides templates when I create a file, so I don’t need to fill in the slug and translationKey manually.

I can edit my posts very easily.

I gave up using my own RSS reader and switched to Inoreader and FeedMe, because maintaining my own server is not easy.

I have been thinking about pure text and images. Compared with images, pure text has many advantages. Although pure text is not always good for sharing details, it is much easier to save, modify, and edit. I can also search through text very easily, and the maintenance cost is very low. I always worry about the durability of images. When I export backups of my writings, the file size becomes very large.

In fact, I don’t think images are that necessary.
Now I have even stopped inserting images into my journals, and I may focus on writing pure text posts in the future.

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I made two small but important improvements to this site today: I moved the Chinese web font to local files, and I rewrote the word-counting logic.

The Chinese pages had been using KingHwa OldSong through an external CDN. In theory this was convenient, but in practice it was fragile. If the CDN was blocked, slow, changed domains, or returned an error, the browser would fall back to a system font. That made the site look different from what I intended.

Now the site hosts the sliced .woff2 font files locally. This does not mean every visitor has to download the whole font at once. The font is split into many small files, and the browser only loads the pieces needed for the characters on the current page. It costs more repository space, but it makes the site more stable and predictable. I also enabled the same font for other languages.

I also optimized the word-counting method. Hugo’s built-in .WordCount is useful for English, but it is not precise enough for Chinese. The new logic counts CJK characters as individual characters, counts Latin words and numbers as word tokens, and combines both for mixed-language posts. This unified method is now used by post metadata, archive totals, the heatmap, and structured data.

These changes are not very visible as features, but they make the site feel more like a carefully maintained personal space. Typography and counting rules are small details, yet they affect the experience of reading and reviewing my own writing over time.

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Hello everyone, I am Qiran. I stand here today to share with you God’s work in my life and to welcome my future baptism.

Before believing in the Lord, I relied on worldly things to sustain my life. Whether it was playing, studying, or working, these things seemed to fill my time, but they couldn’t fill my heart. I often pondered the meaning of life, but the meaning constantly shifted and fluctuated with circumstances and successes and failures.

I admit that I was weak in the past. As a child, I was inherently weak. Growing up, my parents were my support; I needed to rely on my family. However, my family couldn’t solve all my life’s problems. As I grew older, I gradually understood that family members are not omnipotent; they also have their own weaknesses and difficulties. Whenever life presented challenges, I could only rely on my own will to face them, but relying solely on myself wasn’t enough; I didn’t know how to rely on others.

I also admit that I was empty and anxious in the past. My life was filled with trivial matters; I was pushed along by the expectations of others and external information, often numbing myself with fleeting pleasures, but in the quiet of the night, the emptiness would return. Like a small boat adrift on the waves, I didn’t know where to sail. My life was filled with pleasure and selfish desires. The more I tried to control, the less I realized I could; the more I tried to prove myself, the less peace I found within.

In the past, I was arrogant. I thought I understood many principles. I loved to argue, wanting to prove myself right by winning. I believed that hard work could change my destiny, so I attributed glory to myself and failure to others. I thought everything I had was earned by myself. I refused to admit my sins and was unwilling to repent.

Eight years ago, one day, I was eating in the school cafeteria when someone sat next to me and chatted with me. He shared God’s word with me and gave me a copy of the Bible. I didn’t quite understand it at the time, and I didn’t immediately change, but that moment was like a seed planted in my heart. Later, on confused nights, I occasionally opened that Bible, but I still couldn’t understand it. Now I know that the Lord had already paved the way in my heart; I just didn’t know Him then.

Time flies, and under the Lord’s guidance, I arrived in a foreign land. In March 2025, I happened to meet some students sharing the gospel. Their faith, joy, and sincerity touched me. They were willing to spend time listening to me and invited me to their meetings. Over three days, I heard the gospel more clearly for the first time there. I received my first King James Version Bible.

A brother led me in Bible reading and prayer. He told me that he used to think he would definitely go to heaven and be saved, that he needed to serve, have good character, and help others. He thought this would move God. But he later understood that no one can be righteous on their own. Even if we have some obedience and good deeds, without true faith, we still cannot be saved. Conversely, even if we have sinned, as long as we repent and turn to the Lord, the Lord will forgive us, because as long as we return to the Lord’s side, we can be forgiven, and our sins can be forgiven.

After the meeting, he asked me, “Do you now believe that Jesus Christ is your Savior?” I answered that I did. He then asked me, “Do you believe that you will have eternal life?” I answered that I believe, and through the salvation of Jesus Christ, I have the hope of eternal life. At that moment, I knew I had left the path of self-centeredness and truly submitted to and trusted in the Lord.

From that moment on, I knew I had become a true believer. Even after believing, I still experience weakness, but I begin to experience the Lord’s true renewal.

After accepting the Gospel, I felt a peace I had never known before, like a child finally finding their home. I felt joy because I no longer relied on myself, but on the Lord’s grace and upliftment. The Lord could give me strength; I no longer felt weak. I only needed to obey and rely on the Lord. The Lord gave me direction; the path ahead of me was paved by the Lord. My goal was no longer for myself, but to glorify the Lord. I could face the difficulties ahead with equanimity. Confusion and anxiety no longer dominated me. The Lord humbled me; I no longer felt proud. I knew that my life did not appear by chance from the dust; everything in my life was the Lord’s creation and gift. I no longer attributed everything to myself, and I learned to seek harmony rather than competition in relationships. In the past, I tried to bear pressure alone or escape it through various means; now, I am willing to stop and pour out my heart to the Lord, asking Him to illuminate the sin within me and give me a repentant heart.

Today, I stand here to receive baptism, a sign of my public confession and commitment to following the Lord. It is because I am willing to publicly acknowledge that I belong to Jesus Christ and to die and rise again with Him. Baptism is not the end, but the beginning of obedience.

May the Lord help me to frequently read the Bible and pray in my future life, to continually repent, to learn holiness, to be honest in my work, gentle in my relationships, and willing to sacrifice myself and take responsibility in my future family. I also ask brothers and sisters to pray for me, that I may hold fast to the Lord in my weakness until the day I see His face.

Thank you for listening. May all glory be to God.

January 18, 2026

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After several days of burning the midnight oil, I finally finished migrating my commenting system, adding custom buttons to my site, and implementing several other features.

The new commenting system, Waline, supports reactions and comes with a clean, elegant interface. I also added floating buttons at the bottom of each page—a table of contents button and a comment button—so visitors can quickly jump to the sections they want.

If articles on different language websites have similar content, the comment sections will be merged together.

In addition, I updated the word-counting feature on the archive page. It now counts both the total number of articles and the total word count across the site.

I also found a better way to write and update articles on my phone. I initially wanted to use GitJournal, but it modifies the front matter, which caused my site builds to fail. Then I installed Termux and pulling the entire repository. For editing files, I use Markor, a lightweight offline Markdown editor. It’s simple, reliable, and much more convenient for mobile writing going forward.

There are still features I’d like to implement—such as automatically publishing my posts to other platforms—but this has proven to be surprisingly difficult. I tried many approaches, but none worked well enough.

In the end, this process feels a lot like decorating my own small space. And I genuinely enjoy it.

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That afternoon, I stood at your door.
You bit your lip, and still said we should break up.
My pleading and my tears did nothing.
Maybe I should taste this bitter fruit myself.

All the ways you gave in to me—I never really got them.
I thought love was so strong it needed no reason.
My heart began to shake; I felt your pain.
But your face was already cold.

It’s all my fault.
Does saying sorry now still help?

You said you don’t love me anymore.
I tried to bring back our happy days.
You only told me not to hold on.

It’s all my fault.
Does saying sorry now still help?

You said you like the life you have now.
You walked me back through the hurt we gave each other.
And you told me: don’t come to apologize again.
So I will accept the ending.

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Dear You,

We haven’t met yet, or perhaps we have — quietly, without knowing what we might become.

In this generation, many no longer believe in first love, in waiting, in forever. I’ve often been told I’m too idealistic, too slow, too serious. But I know whom I’m waiting for: someone who believes, like I do, that love isn’t just a feeling — it’s a covenant.

Maybe you’re quiet too. Maybe you write more than you speak, pray more than you post. You may feel deeply, but share sparingly — because you treasure what’s real. Maybe you’ve chosen to wait, even when the world keeps telling you not to.

People sometimes ask me why I insist on waiting — why not just try, see what happens, and “learn from experience”?
But I believe the way we begin shapes everything that follows.
To give myself fully, for the first and only time, to someone who has also guarded her heart — that is not weakness, but strength.
I’m not afraid of loneliness. I’m afraid of giving pieces of my soul to places they don’t belong.

That’s why I’ve chosen to wait. Not out of fear, but out of hope.
Not because I idealize romance, but because I honor what love was meant to be: exclusive, holy, enduring.

If you were here, I would want to do the simple things with you — not the grand, but the real:
Mornings with prayer and Scripture, evenings cooking together,
Holding hands during silence instead of rushing to fill it,
Loving in quiet faithfulness when words run out.

I don’t expect you to be perfect.
In fact, what I long for is someone who’s honest about their fears,
someone whose gentleness doesn’t come from weakness but from understanding pain.

If you are the kind of person who notices things others miss —
the way light falls on a quiet street,
the mood behind a friend’s tired smile,
the unspoken meaning behind the words I never say —
then you may be closer to me than I think.

I don’t know when or where our paths will cross.
But when they do — and if you are the one I’ve been preparing for —
I will recognize you, not just with my eyes, but with a heart that has been trained to discern.
I won’t hesitate. I’ll pursue with clarity, and I will fight for the future we’re meant to build.

Until that day, I will keep growing, keep praying,
and keep becoming the kind of man who will be ready to love you well.

May God guard your heart — and mine —
until the day we begin this story together.

June 2025

This is the second book by C.S. Lewis I’ve read after Mere Christianity. Though short, it took me several days to finish.

In heaven, everything is solid and real. The ghosts can’t handle this reality, mainly because of their own mindset. Hell starts from a tiny thought and grows when exposed to heaven’s truth. These thoughts can grow until they take over the soul, making the ghosts unable to bear heaven’s reality, forcing them back to Earth. This shows why no sin is truly small.

It’s interesting how murderers can live in heaven, while their victims sometimes can’t. Children can stay in heaven, while their overly attached mothers can’t. One spouse may find peace in heaven, while their deeply devoted partner cannot stay. The ghosts feel this is unfair and demand justice. But they don’t see that LORD’s fairness works differently from human fairness. His justice lies deeper than what we can understand.

Only by letting go of our ’lizard’ can we fully enjoy heaven. What’s amazing is that even this ’evil’ lizard can become a flying horse in heaven - our struggles can transform into strength. Our painful memories and past sins can become paths to salvation if we change how we think about them.

I enjoy Lewis’s writing because he uses imagination to share deep truths. Reading his words feels like floating in a dream while discovering profound ideas. His books have opened the door for me to Christianity.

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From a Christian apologist’s perspective, only Christian marriage is a sacrament. Church weddings, like coronation ceremonies, guarantee feudal freedoms for both husband/patriarch and wife/children/subjects. Honor sacrifice, proud obedience, generous trust, contractual rights, habits of freedom, honesty and courage - all grow from the details of daily life. So-called modern culture is merely pagan culture in disguise making a comeback, reducing wives to prostitutes living in doomed vicious competition of using sex to please others, inevitably losing most sense of honor and responsibility. Children become no different from orphans or illegitimate children, living in arbitrary violent uncertainty, forced to develop habits of lying, becoming familiar with the weaker’s cunning betrayal and viciousness from childhood. Men gain freedom of desire and power without responsibility, inevitably developing tyrannical habits in private life, which then extend to society at large, producing a corrupt society where the strong are arbitrary and the weak are base.

Because you came late, too late, even past mealtime.

The cost of entering someone’s heart doubles with age. At fifteen, a simple glance back can become a lifelong precious memory. At forty, even someone who manages both work and housework is just another part of life’s struggles. As children, playing in the dirt could create lifelong friendships, but as adults, today’s sworn brothers might stab you in the back tomorrow.

A person’s understanding of the world develops over time. Things that exist before maturity become fundamental truths, things that appear during maturity become one’s own, and things that come after maturity seem strange and alien. Everyone’s nostalgia is about their childhood and youth. You hear fifty-year-olds missing their fifteen-year-old sports field, but never hear hundred-year-olds missing their sixty-year-old nursing home. Though the time gap seems the same, the perception of the world is very different.

If you appear in someone’s life when they’re building their understanding of the world, you become part of their world, an important piece of their memories, a significant part of their life. Whenever they remember that time, they can’t avoid or forget you. The more involved you were, the bigger your place in their memories, and the more likely you are to touch their heart.

Also, people’s perception of time speeds up as they age. Three years in middle school feel long and meaningful, from cafeteria to playground, from classroom to campus, from bulletin boards to workbooks… there’s so much to remember. But three years at work pass in a blur - before you even know your coworkers, you’re already planning to change jobs or file labor complaints. Who has time to notice who might touch their heart?

A one-year-old baby is very different from a ten-year-old child, but a seventy-year-old and an eighty-year-old are just elderly people with no distinction. When people get older and lose their own uniqueness, how can they notice others’ special qualities?

The reason it’s harder to fall in love with age is that our understanding of the world becomes more complete and clear. We no longer need to fill in gaps. Except for League of Legends designers, no one likes to mess with a mature system. Once something is set, it’s set - those who come late are simply late. People start like blank paper - a light stroke can leave a clear mark. But when their picture is already complete, you need much stronger strokes to leave your mark. Everyone has their own story and their own characters in that story, and you might not be in it.

Zhao Yun of Changshan fought bravely and loyally throughout his life, but his dedication still couldn’t compare to the brotherhood formed in the Peach Garden.

Cao Cao of Xuzhou gave his heart and trust to Guan Yu, but in the end, Guan Yu still left his position to find his sworn brother through many battles.

Did they do anything wrong? No, they just came late.

While recently working on a website, I grew tired of the system’s default Chinese sans-serif font and wanted to find a new one for reading. I recalled an article by Hehe Wenwang from a long time ago, where I learned about the differences in Chinese character forms across four regions:

In printed fonts, Japanese fonts reference the Kangxi Dictionary font, retaining many traditional forms, but they have already diverged from traditional Chinese characters. Korean fonts, having abolished Hanja (Chinese characters), also retain the traditional Kangxi Dictionary forms. Current national standard fonts and Taiwanese logo fonts differ significantly from traditional forms.

I’ve been looking for an elegant, classic font. The Kangxi Dictionary font is the standard for traditional characters, and the Kangxi Dictionary font created by Li Xiangchen of Wenyue Technology is currently popular online. However, this font doesn’t have a complete character set and there’s a trend of overuse.

I was accidentally drawn to a font on Zhihu: Jinghua Lao Songti.

This font was created by Terry Wang and is based on the 61-1 font created by the Beijing Xinhua Typeface Factory in 1961.

What is 61-1 typeface:

“In the early days of the People’s Republic of China, all industries were literally in a state of ’everything waiting to be rebuilt,’ and the publishing industry also needed new typefaces to meet printing demands. In 1961, the Beijing Xinhua Typeface Factory organized the design of the 61-1 Song typeface. Later, they designed a traditional Chinese typeface with 6183 characters, mainly for printing the main text of ancient books.” "

This typeface was designed by the Beijing Xinhua Typeface Factory in 1961. It was adapted from the Japanese Tsukiji Meicho movable type and was used in the renowned Zhonghua Book Company’s Twenty-Four Histories, as well as various annotated ancient books and old textbooks. Before the adoption of new typefaces and the transition to phototypesetting and computer fonts in the 1980s, it was very familiar to Chinese people.

1975 edition of Reading the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government

Selected Works of Mao Zedong (vertical edition)

*Terry Wang created a version based on this classic typeface." Jinghua Old Song Typeface. The author used AI to complete the Unicode basic character set, so there’s no worry about missing characters. It not only includes all basic Chinese characters, new and traditional character forms, but also Japanese and Korean character forms, all encoded simplified characters, and Vietnamese Nôm characters.

I tried this font and it feels great.

“The peach-shaped dots, goose-head hooks, and triangular shoulders are very characteristic of the Old Song typeface, more substantial and rounded than the most commonly used Song II typeface today… It’s closer to the present day than the Ming Dynasty typeface, so the layout is more neat and beautiful, less worn and rustic, and more elegant and formal. However, it hasn’t yet been standardized by new character forms; a hint of rebellion hidden beneath its serious exterior is quite wonderful.” Original article link: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/637491623

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Due to the fact that my server is very slow, I think I can focus on writing offline and concentrate on content, rather than adjusting features.

There are many features that I find unnecessary, such as commentator ranking. The tree map of categories is also not that useful, because it’s hard to maintain the database. After switching to Hugo to manage my posts, I can organize them more easily.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve maintained my website. I’m planning to update it again in the next few days.

Recently, I’ve given up on the idea of offline writing. I’ve started trying to write articles online, which is more convenient for saving.

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Source: Dr. Berg

A very thin, single-celled layer acts as a barrier between your gut and the outside world. The gut provides protection and absorbs 90% of all your nutrients. It also contains a layer of mucus, microbes, and 80% of your immune system.

Medical professionals often recommend increasing soluble fiber intake to repair leaky gut, but you should actually do the exact opposite. A carnivore diet is the best for leaky gut. More fiber can cause more inflammation.

Medical professionals also don’t consider diet a cause or solution for leaky gut. Most diseases are triggered by what’s in your gut, and this is closely related to your diet.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics can also affect gut health. Disrupting your gut microbiota can have serious consequences. You need the microbes in your gut to help you digest, and you don’t want them to become disease-causing.

Glyphosate, a herbicide sprayed on most genetically modified and conventional foods, is patented as an antibiotic, so it has antibiotic effects on your body. Whole grains are also recommended, but they can severely damage leaky gut and trigger an immune response. Seed oils are another major contributor to leaky gut.

Here are seven signs of leaky gut:

Abdominal pain, cramps

Constipation, diarrhea

Fatigue

Brain fog

Mood problems, anxiety

Skin inflammation

Autoimmune disease

When you have an autoimmune response, your body treats normal tissue as foreign or pathogenic.

If your body treats your thyroid as an invader, your thyroid becomes inflamed. This is called Hashimoto’s disease, and it begins with inflammation and leaky gut.

A carnivorous diet for several months can help repair leaky gut by removing foods that cause inflammation.

Glutamine and glycine can also help repair leaky gut.

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But I gradually felt its disadvantages. It’s a software. I always need to use it on computer or on smartphone. To form a habit, I need to open it everyday.

But currently I’m practising digital minimalism. I tried to replace most of unnecessary softwares which should open computer or phone with some simple devices such as MP3 player and voice recorder. Some requirements such as task management, I can just open a notebook to meet them. It achieved some good results. Because a lot of my activities can be finished without using computer and smartphone, there are few possibilities that I will be distracted by temptations online.

As for Anki, I now think that it’s not a necessity for learning and reviewing, though maybe its algorithm and features can provide a lot of conveniences. In my opinion, we can learn anything just by reading books. So, we can surely gain a language just by reading.

Now I find that tools or softwares can raise complexity. Features can also bring troubles. We can also reviewing words offline, what’s more important is enough repetitions instead of a good algorithm.

Because I don’t need to open my computer and use Anki, now I can finish most of my personal tasks without a computer or phone. It’s very enjoyable to be offline.

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When we need to memorize something, we aIso need a lot of repetitions. Maybe it’s very boring, but I can’t deny it’s a very effective way.
When we need to gain a skill, we also need a lot of repetitions. We usually started from a very basic practice. Only after enough times of practice, we can learn more advanced skill.
At first, even a basic skill is challenging to us, After enough repetition, it will become more and more easier. Then based on this skill there can growing more advanced skills.

If we can repeat enought times, we will definately gain more and more skills. The difficulty is, we always give up. We make a lot assumptions that we are not good at all. But the truth is, the beginning is always the most difficult part. With enough repetition and time, we can break fences one by one.

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Writing is a essential part in the life of thinking and learning. It’s also indispensible for me.
But the way of writing has changed a lot. Writing on paper is the most traditional way.
I can still vaguely remember the days when I was writing journal on paper under the dim light of lamp. I enjoyed the feeling of writing on paper.
But it’s very inconvenient to write on paper. We can’t take all of our notebooks easily. It’s also difficult to look up former words.
I started writing on note-taking apps in 2016. It’s really convenient and solved the former problems.
There are a lot of features on noke-taking apps. We can change the style and font of notes. We can insert images, audios, even attachments of any format…
But in recent years I realized I spent so much time on the features of the software. It created a lot of difficulties to saving and sharing. Another problem is that, note-taking app is installed on electronic devices. Phones and computers contains more features and notifcations. Now I think this way of writing also has its negative effect. It will create a lot of distractions.
Recently I started writing in plain text. I can write in any note-taking softwares. Using special device for writing is also a good idea.

What’s more, I considered writing offline. Before I should always use online grammar checker when I was writing in English. Now I think it’s also a kind of distractions. Errors and misuses are inevitable. I also shouldn’t be perfect. Because it’s wiriting for myself. Why not write freely and purely?

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I’m gradually able to start a new relationship. But at the moment I still don’t have the ability to reconnect with old people, but I’m trying my best. I feel that many people don’t have this ability because of embarrassment. We just let these relationships die one by one. I don’t want to be isolated, so to avoid that situation, I also have to overcome my fear.

I know that it’s up to me to reconnect. Only if I take action first and say hello to them, can we continue our story.

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For the past few months, I have been playing the Cashflow 101 e-game. I have gradually become proficient at it. It’s very educational and I’ve gained some knowledge about cash. These days I started to try Cashflow 202. It’s more complicated compared to the 101 edition.

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Now I feel that there are a lot of problems I cannot do by myself, what I can only do is find the help from some professional persons. But it’s my hobby to explore some technical stuff. It’s very interesting. It reminds me of the days when I created my first blog when I was only 8 years old. It made me very excited.

After a period of time when I started this website, I didn’t know the usefulness of building a website. It was built entirely out of my own passion. Sometimes I was in the situation of self-doubt. But I still hope that it will give me some benefits in the future. Because I’ve spent a lot of time on building the website, I can feel that my skill is growing. Now I realized that it’s really an interest of mine. Why not just continue. In this field of website building, there are a lot of things I need to learn.

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In most cases, the beginning of the practice is very difficult. We think it’s hard, it’s a big challenge. We may have tried many times, but there are still no results at all. We want to give up. But if we continue and persevere, as the times of practice increase, our improvement will be faster and faster. This is a phenomenon that shows up in many areas. The problem is that we give up so easily.

Most things are not like playing video games. Video game will set a lot of wonderful features and plots to attract us to stick to it. But skills in real life may not be like that. The journey to get a skill is not so smooth, it’s very long and painful. Maybe some of them are similar to learning to ride a bicycle, we would fall down a lot of times. But suddenly we can keep the balance, we know how to ride a bike. It’s a serendipity, a change we can’t imagine. To get this amazing result, all we can do is practice.

I am beginning to understand the importance of practice. What we can do is create an environment for practice. Usually I am afraid of something. I realized that’s the reason I haven’t touched that thing enough times. I can simulate an environment and do a lot of practice. If I can handle it with ease in practice, then it’s not a big deal when I have to face it.

Everything is hard in the beginning, but every achievement starts from simple repetition.

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One day I read an article about plain text. I suddenly realized that we can do that too. We shouldn’t worry about the tools. What we can do is just go back to the content, to the medium itself. I can just focus on the words and the texts. I think that’s the easiest and best medium.

As for the format, I can choose the plain text, just like in this article. It’s very simple. Maybe I can do a lot of things only in plain text format. I don’t have to worry about the stability of software, and I can easily open plain text in a lot of software without worrying about the security of my personal data.

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It’s one of the most important habits in my life.
Before 2016, I wrote journals on paper. After 2016, I started to write on app. It’s very convenient to write digitally. After December 2017, I started writing in English.

I became aware that journals are the history of my own life.
Now I have the intention to collect all my journals and put them in a book. I think it would be very interesting to browse through my whole life.
Looking back to my childhood, I realized that I already have the talent to collect the materials in different periods and save them in order. I enjoyed that kind of feeling.

Although diaries are very valuable to me. I still do not have time to go through my own journals. Maybe it’s just a way to release my emotions, to think deeply. It has made me develop a good habit of writing.
I don’t have any performance stress because the journals are secret. I don’t have to share it with other people. Sometimes I write only one sentence for one day. Sometimes I would write hundreds of words if I have motivation.
Therefore, I recommend that everyone be able to form a writing habit like journaling.

Maybe before I die, I can share my journals with the public. All in all, journaling is a good way to preserve memory.

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There are some stories that impressed me a lot. Killing and punishment may be the theme during the time of Moses. There is a city called Sodom, which is a city that indulges in lust and sin. People run away before Yahweh destroys this city completely. But the people who turned their heads and looked back at Sodom, still became pillars of salt.
Moses and the generation of Israel living in Egypt ran away from it, all could not see the land promised by God. Only they all died, later generations can start the journey and see the land.

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I gradually realized that AI has already entered my life. Some people may think that AI is very destructive to the lives of ordinary people. But in my opinion, the most distinct characteristic that humans possess and surpass other creatures is the ability to use tools. AI is a very useful tool now, and it would be highly beneficial if we can learn to use it effectively.

In terms of learning English, I have found a lot of useful tools that are built upon artificial intelligence. One of these tools is DeepL, which I noticed several years ago. The quality of its translation is far better than Google Translate. I can smoothly translate an article into another language without worrying about its readability. Moreover, I can easily find a suitable word on DeepL if I forget its expression in another language.

In addition to this, I have also found some AI-powered tools for web designing. I am sure that many problems in building a beautiful and powerful website will be solved in the future. As for me, I just need to focus on creating content.

Recently, the stunning tool called ChatGPT was released, and I’m using it as a grammar checker after finishing a writing practice in English. It’s so useful that I can learn to write by myself without a tutor. I don’t need to worry about errors in writing anymore, and can write freely and smoothly. As a result, I am willing to post my articles written in English online. Though there is still a lot of room for improvement, I can already express some complicated ideas without misunderstanding now.

Anyway, maybe the reason these tools motivated me is that they give me some confidence in sharing and learning. However, ultimate success in learning depends on our own efforts instead of just relying on tools. We just need to practice more.

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Fear is one of the basic human emotions. We all have fears. As for me, fear is one of my biggest difficulties in life.

There are different kinds of fear.
The first fear of myself is the fear of being disappointed by others. In terms of human relationships, I’m really an infant now. I am afraid of falling.
I always avoid dealing with others, just like an infant avoids learning to walk. But if I never fall down, I cannot learn to walk forever.
I knew I had to accept disappointments. Maybe I’m able to collect them in order to develop my abilities. I don’t have to take them personally. Disappointments are actually assets.

The second fear is the fear of failure. I’m so afraid that I’m afraid to try new things. But only by trying to get new experiences can I get better. If I can fail more, I can get more experience. If I can get more experience, I’ll be able to get more success.

The third fear of myself is the fear of success. Why is success also a kind of fear? Fear of failure is quite normal. But fear of success is another form of it. Because I don’t think I have the ability to accept success, even when success is right in front of me. I always flinch until I feel safe.

Any kind of fear is the fence of life. What I have to do is feel the fear and do it anyway. Taking action is so important. I cannot just live in my dream. Why not take the first step?

That’s all. That’s my understanding of fear.

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It’s always a bad habit to lie to yourself or to other people.

Lying can distort our understanding of reality. When we lie to ourselves, at first we think we can avoid the difficulties or solve some problems. But we will gradually lose the ability to face the real world.

The truth is cruel, but the truth also reflects our own weaknesses. We will grow if we face the truth, instead of letting our shell made of lies become so thick that we cannot break out of it.

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In my opinion, habit is a compound interest. The fruits or effects of habits will grow faster and faster in the long run.

For me, one of the examples of daily habit is writing journals. Maybe it’s my longest habit, which started from my middle school time. Now it has become my important habit that records my life.

Another habit is using Anki. Anki is a memorization software. I can create my own cards to review words. I’ve used Anki for many years. It also motivates me to learn new words on a regular basis.

It’s like a tree. Now I gradually realized that creating habits is similar to growing branches and leaves. If you want to cultivate a tree, you need a good environment and soil. You have to cultivate it carefully and water it every day.
If I repeat my habits, some of them will have more and more effects, I will know that I can find out my rough direction. Now I can grow new habits based on old habits. On the contrary, I can find bad habits and try to cut them down.
I’m the sum of my own habits. Now I don’t think it’s a problem to set a goal that creates more and more habits.

That’s all, that’s my understanding of habits.

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The first reason is, it’s a place of sharing my thoughts and my understanding covering a lot of topics. It’s an opportunity to exchange ideas with others, maybe I can meet new friends and learn a lot from others in the future.

Second, I think I can cover a lot of topics that I’m interested in. Forcing myself to write something is a good habit to learn, and it’ll also help me improve my thinking.

Third, it’s a good place to record my practice of speaking English. I can listen to my own voice and find my own problems of my speaking. I hope I’ll be able to upload a podcast regularly. It’s not only a practice for myself, but other people can also help me improve my English.

That’s all, I hope to continue in the future.

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It’s great that you’re interested in learning a language. It’s a long way for learning something.

Yes, it is. I’m Qiran. Nice to meet you!

Qiran

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I haven’t updated my status in a long time. I don’t know when it happened, but I’ve lost the ability to express my feelings and the motivation to share…

Recently, I discovered that many functions were no longer working. It took a long time to fix them, otherwise this place would have been overgrown with weeds.

I’ve noticed many people are starting to use LinkTree as a personal homepage to aggregate numerous links. It seems these people are active on more and more social media platforms these days. They’ve lost count, so they use this website to organize them.

But isn’t this just the function of a personal website homepage? You just add these links to your homepage, and you can customize the style and functions, avoiding the problem of everyone looking the same.

Besides, organizing your own homepage has other advantages: the URL is more concise and easier to remember; access is centralized on your own platform, not controlled by other platforms.

But regardless, it still needs regular maintenance. I should update my status more often.

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Added the feature which can share posts on Mastodon.

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I tried opening a Telegram channel.

I found that creating a channel on Telegram is very quick, and broadcasting to others is also very fast.

Most importantly, the platform is open, and after adding the bot function, updates from my personal website can be automatically synchronized to the channel.

Now, coupled with the real-time message reception, Telegram’s functionality surpasses many other communication software programs. I highly recommend trying it!

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The official URL of Z-library is down.

You can still access it on the dark web for now.

The URL is: http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion/

We can access it using Tor Browser.

UPDATE: You can access it. but you cannot download book files directly.

You can log in an account and tap “send to Email” , then you will receive the book file from your Emailbox.

But this way only works for files smaller than 20 MB.

UPDATE: The Telegram Bot service is restored.

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Added the language switcher menu.

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What happens to love after the wedding?

Like languages in linguistic, there are also 5 languages in love. If we cannot understand the love in other’s love language, we cannot communicate love.

Keeping the love tank full

We all have a love tank from our childhood.

Falling in love

It’s a illusion. The average in-love experience lasts two years.
The in-love experience is not our own growth. It’s a sense that we arrived.

Presently 40 percent of first marriages in this country end in divorce. Sixty percent of second marriages and 75 percent of third marriages end the same way.

Former generation often choose a life of misery with our spouse.  

Love Language #1 WORDS OF AFFIRMATION  

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

Giving encouraging words to your partner, and encouraging him to find his interests.

Forgiveness is the language of love. If we cannot forgive, intimacy cannot be built.

Requests and demands are different, we can change our words. Threat hurts intimacy.      

Verbal appreciation is very important.    
Words are important!

Love Language #2 Quality Time

A central aspect of quality time is togetherness. But we need focused attention.

We can do something together. Quality conversation is also a quality time.

Marriage is a relationship. When your partner say some problems, sometimes she need you to hear, instead of solving problems.

When you are listening, don’t do other something else.

Sometimes Dead Sea (always listen) marries a Babbling Brook (always talk).

Quality activity: he may never become a symphony lover, but he can become proficient at loving her.

Think of an activity your spouse enjoys, but which brings little pleasure to you.

Love Language #3: Receiving Gifts

A gift is something you can hold in your hand and say, “Look, he was thinking of me,” or, “She remembered me.”

If he received your gifts, he can be your friend.

If you are a saver, perhaps you will understand that purchsing gifts for him is the best investment you can make.

Physical presence is also important. Your body is the symbol of your love.

The value is not the gift itself. It’s depend on the receiver.

Gifts are visual symbols of love. It can be purchased, found, or made.

Love Language #4: Acts of Service

Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

Mary and Mark both need the showing of love– doing something for each other.

Before marriage, we maybe in the in-love obsession. After marriage, There’s something we could not do. But you need to change for your partner.

If you demand something, you will break the flow of love.

Criticism sometimes indicates a plead for love.

Allowing oneself to be used or manipulated by another is not an act of love.

Love Language #5: Physical Touch

Ask your spouse where is comfortable, and what touches are irritating.

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The system of a dictatorship has a very different set of beliefs like absolute authority and strict obedience. You can imagine many ways to try to get more people to vote in a democracy, but such behavior change would never get off the ground in a dictatorship. That’s not the identity of the system. Voting is a behavior that is impossible under a certain set of beliefs.

THE TWO-STEP PROCESS TO CHANGING YOUR IDENTITY
Your habits shape your identity, and your identity shapes your habits. It’s a two-way street, and feedback loops.
You don’t just having somthing. you are becoming someone.

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The writer shared the exprience when he was in high school. He was hit by a baseball bat.

THE FUNDAMENTALS Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference

The Surprising Power of Atomic Habits

You can start as a small win.

Habits are the compound interest. Your habits can compound for you or against you.

Positive Compounding: Productivity compounds; knowledge compounds; relationship compounds.
Nagative compounding: Stress compounds; negative thoughts compound; outrage compounds.

Some stress are manageable. But when they persist for years, they will compound into serious health issues.

The most powerful outcomes are delayed! You just need keep going!

Forget about goals, focus on systems instead
Problem #1:Winners and losers have the same goals.
Problem #2: Achieving a goal is only a momentary change.
Problem #3: Goals restrict your happiness.
So, why you just restrict your goal, instead of enjoying with it? Such as my homework, I can just set a goal I want.
Problem #4: Goals are at odds with long-term progress.
*True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking.
So, when you cannot change your habits, the problem often is your system instead of yourself.

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Awareness, transformation and intent are three masteries that lead people to become Toltecs.
Death is a angel, teaches us live everyday as if it is the last day of our lives.

The New Dream

Heaven on Earth
I WANT YOU TO FORGET EVERYTHING YOU HAVE. Use our imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven.

Prayers
We can be a prayer for love, a prayer for freedom.

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PRACTICE: DELETE SOCIAL MEDIA FROM YOUR PHONE
It actually forces you to approach them with more intention.

Practice: Use Social media like a professional
Like Jennifer, we need to use Twitter as a professional.
Do not surfing it endlessly, just check some accounts you need.

PRACTICE: EMBRACE SLOW MEDIA
“low information diet”: Eliminating what’s bad aggressively than celebrating what’s good.
The writer suspect the European focus on slowness is more likely to succeed in the long run.

PRACTICE: DUMB DOWN YOUR SMARTPHONE
Dumb down means simplify. Using particular apps when it’s necessarily.

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True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

The first agreement

Be impeccable with your word.
Self-rejection is the biggest sin.
You can live in heaven in the middle of thousands of people living in hell because you are immune to that hell.

The second agreement

Don’t take anything personally.
If you don’t take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse in the sender, but not in you.

The third agreement

Don’t make assumptions
You often overestimate or underestimate yourself. So gather more facts about a particular situation is more important.
Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. So then you didn’t need make any assumption about them.
It’s better to ask them questions.

The fourth agreement

Always do your best
The criterion of best always change.
It’s not you “have to” or expect a reward, it’s you can intensely happy.
You do your best because you want to do it, not because you have to do it, not because you are trying to please the Judge, and not because you are trying to please other people.
Every action then becomes a ritual in which you are honoring God.
Your thoughts needs becomes a communion with God.

If you break an agreement, begin again!

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The Bennett principle
(FI 2.0 movement is that if you can radically reduce your living expenses, you gain two advantages– you save money at a much faster pace and you don’t have to save as much to become independent.)
When you gain FI at a young age, you gain much leisure hours.

when individuals in the FI community are provided large amounts of leisure time, they often voluntarily fill these hours with strenuous activity.
Leisure time is very important for us. We need to clear our mind and keep from junk.

Leisure Lesson #1: Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption.
When you use your brain and be strained, you will get a high-quality leisure time rather than scrolling your phone like zombie. In my opinion, some stuffs such as videos full of useless information.

ON CRAFT AND SATISFACTION
Cultivating a high-quality leisure life needs effort.
physical world is better than digital world. Similarly, composing a song in a digital sequencer misses the pleasures that come from the nuanced struggle between fingers and steel strings that defines playing a guitar well…
Leisure Lesson #2: Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world.

Supercharged sociality
Leisure Lession #3: Seek activities that require real-world, structured social interactions.

Rich social interactions is very important. Board game is a good choice.

The Leisure Renaissance

some high-quality pursuits depends on the strategic use of new technologies.

Practice: Fix or build something every week
You can be handy in the physical world.
Learning a new skill is a very good way.

Practice: Schedule your low-quality leisure
How much time?

Join things
Reaping these benefits in your own community.
Join some things new, don’t be afraid. Like Franklin, become a member first.

Practice: Follow leisure plan
Don’t get whole blocks of time with no schedule, no expectations, and no activity. These decompression sessions have their place, but thier rewards are muted.

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Practice: Take long walks
Walking is better than sedentary. “If you’re wearing headphones, you are not really walking.”
But the hardest part of this practice is making the time.
Broaden your definition of “good weather”! You can get big rewards.

Practice: Write letter to yourself
It”s a simple and easy practice to to deploy, but it’s also inscredibly effective.

When you are do nothing, the default work is still working. It seems to be connected to social cognition.

The social animal
We are social animals, but the new digital communication tools made us much larger and much less local, and it has caused problems.

The social media paradox
It’s weird that social media makes you feel both connected and lonely, happy and sad.
Where we want to be cautious…is when the sound of a voice or a cup of coffee with a friend is replaced with ‘likes’ on a post.

Reclaiming conversation
In the philosophy of conversation-centric communcation , connection is downgraded to a logistical role. It’s a supporter.
…text is no longer a sufficient alternatives.
In my opinion, conversation-centric activities need us to outputting instead of receiving information.

Practice: Don’t click “like”
Not only should you stop using the “like” button, but also you need remain silent and sop leaving comments.

Practice: Consolidate texting
The practice of consolidating texting will upgrade the nature of your relationships.
You will not check your text messages occasionally. When other people need you urgently, they can always call you .

Practice: Hold conversation office hours
Like consolidate texting, you can set up a office hours to have a real conversation with other people.

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TOBACCO FARMERS IN T-SHIRTS
Big tobacco companies emerged, and they are harming us more.
Internet addiction is also a big problem.
intermittent positive reinforcement: the unknown is always enticing. the drive for social approval

Spend time alone

Solitude Deprivation
We need to be free from input from other thoughts.
We need solitude to thrive and make important desicions.

The connected cabin
Thoreau created a connected cabin to engage in social life.

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1. Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being, doing, having, or feeling.
2. Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself.
3. Taking responsibility means being aware of where and when you are NOT taking responsibility so that you can eventually change.
4. Taking responsibility means handling the Chatterbox.
5. Taking responsibility means being aware of payoffs that keep you “stuck.” (Don’t think “if only”)

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It’s a power of love yourself, power of good love.

love and power go together.

pain+—–+——+power

I’m powerful and I am loved.

Action is very powerful!

Don’t be too serious! (Don’t be as my dad)

“I hope” is a pain. You are not a victim, you just need to say “I know”.

If you are responsible for your faults, then you can avoid it the next time.

“It’s a problem” is another deading phrase, why not see it as an opportunity?

So take some risk before going to bed at night.

You deserve an exciting life!

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The hero is the man of self-achieved submission, …only birth can conquer death

We shall come to the center of our own existence
like the labyrinth, it’s a path of hero

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凡戰者, 以正合, 以奇勝。
In order to secure victory, indirect methods are also important.

戰勢不過奇正, 奇正之變, 不勝窮也。
There are unending series maneuvers derived from 奇 and 正. In a war, we can use so many ways. Why just always think about 正?
It’s hard for me to use Zheng, but Qi is also useful.

勢如擴弯, 節如發機。
In this sentence, 勢 equals energy. Release your energy as soon as possible when a war begins.

任勢者, 其戰人也, 如轉木石。木石之性, 安則靜, 危 則動, 方則止, 圓則行。
戰人is fighting men. We use our energy to fighting, like rolling logs and stones down from a mountain thousands of feet in height.

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陸機 文賦
All external vision and sound are suspended, Perpetual thought itself gropes in time and space; Then, the spirit at full gallop reaches the eight limits of the cosmos, And the mind, self-buoyant, will ever soar to new unsurmountable heights. Through arduous work, we can reach the artistic impulse.
Great Void, Profound Silence.

左思 三都賦 poetry-sentiments fu-describe what we see. His fu has caused the price of paper in Lo-yang to go up.

To Ge Hong, we should keep a balance between natural telent(by Cao Pei) and discipline (by Lu Chi).

沈約 criticized that the rules governing poetic language.

永明體

鐘嶸 詩品

II. Liu Hsieh and His Literary Theories

1. Liu Hsieh the Man
He is commissioned by Emperor Wu, and became a monk.
His Buddhist name is Hui-ti.
In the world with transitory nature, writing is a worthy way to reach immortality.

2. Liu Hsieh’s Classicism
“On Tao, the Source,” followed by “Evidence from the Sage.”
He considerd that sages established the mindof the literature universe.
The Li-sao contains a style of tien and kao.
He believes that Yue-fu rose after the decline of the ya and odes. literary history, literary theory and literary appreciation and evaluation formed the literary criticism.
He gave Lu Zhi a verdict, said that its superficial attention to details which causing Wen Fu cannot dealt with the substance.
Literature is both sweet and useful.
He had a broad view of the literature scope.
Liu also emphasize the influence from moral and political.

Literary forms are not fallacious in themselves. It’s the reason that later poets fabricated emotions to fit literary forms.

Liu conceives of eight different sytles which vary with individuals.

Genius have the ability to forge metaphors.

We cannot work against our nature. If we don’t work with, we would be exhausted and withered up.
The chapter “The Nourishing of Vitality” is a lession in spontaneity, he is effect by Chuangtzu.

He condemns the popular view of depreciating the contemporaries and worshipping the Ancients.
Maybe it’s his habit that he reiterated the traditional theory of poetic function and development. But, on the other hand, he still emphasized Poetry must change according to the needs of new ages.
He pays lip service to the Classics.
Literary value can not be formed when writers always conform to the Classics.

He didn’t talked about Classics when he was dealing with something which is purely literary, the only reference to the Classiscs is in the part “elegance and grace.”

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故善戰者, 立於不敗之地, 而不失敵之敗也。
不失敵之敗 equals does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy.

是故勝兵先勝而後求戰
We need to lay plans before the battle.

勝者之戰民也, 若決積水於千例之豁者, 形也。
This kind of conquering force, it’s like the bursting of pent-up waters into a chasm.

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Hold my hand
I’m real powerless to fight
Can you lead me to the light?
My strenght has come to fear
Fled in truth of dawn
Curious as a day
My heart huh woah oh

Can you bring me back to life?
Ignite the fire again?
Can you bring me back home where I am not alone?
I’m lost inside, the night and I cannot find you
Bring me back

Meet me at the levee
All the tears I’ve shed
Before it brights upon my head oh uh oh

Can you bring me back to life?
Ignite the fire again?
Can you bring me back home where I am not alone?
I’m lost inside, the night and I cannot find you

Bring me back

成癮的反面不是清醒，而是連接。

在這個互聯網的時代，人與人的連接似乎變得越來越容易，但是我們慢慢失去了對人、對事建立深層連結的能力，取而代之的是無盡的信息推送，社交媒體 的動態，短視頻、遊戲。我們卻愈發孤獨，只能戴上面具 狂歡。

如果沒有真正的，深層的連接，我們會很容易墮入到無意義的連結——一種成癮的狀態當中。建立深層的連接——養成一個好習慣、維繫一個長久的關係，都不是一件容易的事情。也許我們自己能做到，也許我們需要外界的幫助。

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Bilbo lives in his comfortable cave, it’s a fantastic, cozy zone. But the wizard choose him. What’s more, his Tookish mind in his heart pushes him to the beginning of the adventure.

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We are remotely controlled like animals in cages. We even don’t know that.

THE MAD SCIENTIST TURNS OUT TO CARE ABOUT THE DOG IN THE CAGE

The silicon valley gradually realizes the problem, but we cannot wait for them to solve this problem.

Carrot and shtick

Not only the pleasing kind, but punishment can also play an important role in addiction.

THE ALLURE OF MYSTERY

The algorithm is fitted with the human brain because the brain is genuinely adapted to random. For this reason, algorithmic adaption can also feed human addiction.

HEAVEN AND HELL ARE MADE OF OTHER PEOPLE

punishment is more effective than a reward for manipulating college students.
Negative emotions dwell in us longer than positive ones.

BIT AS BAIT

But manipulators cannot get any result for the rigidity of digital technology.

ADDICTION, MEET NETWORK EFFECT

So that’s why you need to delete your social media accounts. You don’t have a real choice to move to different social media accounts.

ADDICTION AND FREE WILL ARE OPPOSITES

The problem isn’t manipulation itself, it’s because of meaningless, robotic algorithms. But our brains are always changing, this kind of thing destroyed our creativity, making us like zombies.

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WHEN PASSIONS OVERWHELM REASON
From the tragedy that happened in Crabtree, we can learn that passions always overwhelm ration time and again.

Impulses to Action
In our emotional repertoire, each plays a unique role.

Our Two Minds
From the story that the woman told, we can know that sometimes passions or emotional minds will tips the balance, swamping the rational mind. Watering eyes mean she is sad, despite her words. She is welled up with tears.

HOW THE BRAIN GREW
The emotional system of our brain grew from the limbic part, the neocortex also based on this part. So this gives an immense power to influence the function of the brain.

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II
When the Olympics games approached, the government swung into build buildings like CCTV Underpants, Egg, etc.

III
When the count ran down, the author had a miscarriage, the game is over. During the time of the opening ceremony, there are a lot of rumors. The Chinese government can play the Small ball, but they don’t fare Big ball, the commercial and creative sports as well.

IV
Behind the opening ceremony, everything is sham.
2,008 children are all Han Chinese, she is a lip-syncing girl, and there is computer-generated imagery.

V
The author visited the Anren museum, Everything is hidden behind the figure and the praising to the government’s work, lost storytelling. This earthquake not only showed the natural tragedy but also showed the unnatural policy.

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II
The place of the earthquake is a test case of the one-child policy. So many parents lost their own child in the earthquake in 2008. After the quake, the Communist party recede the propaganda of the policy but banned the news about it.

III
This policy may be made China less productive, some people fired and lose their job because of this policy, it is crazy.

IV
The author followed the couple went from their working place in Beijing to Sichuan, to found the clue of their daughter.

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Lenin in Zurich
Because Swiss have no government, it formed a bottom-up system that causes stability. There is no big idea that can generate in this country. It’s a magnet for ugly rich and tax refugees.

BOTTOM-UP VARIATIONS
The bottom-up variations is a noise.
A man in a church will feel responsible for his mistakes, but for an office-grounded leech, it’s impossible. That’s why on a large scale, people are just numbers.
The size of the unit may matter more than the system, such as Malaysia and Singapore.
We are more easily swayed by a crying baby than thousands of people dying elsewhere.
We put servants to making decisions based on numbers or theoretical matters. That causes bureaucratic.
There are also the same principle in-laws. Judge-based law (common law), rather than codified law, can avoid some large mistakes.

AWAY FROM EXTREMISTAN
Rather than stuks, the always causes some extreme consequences. It’s caused by a reason called Extremistan. Not only in politics and economy, but also in the mood for a person!
Extremistan is unpredictable but large.

The Great Turkey Problem
The turkey thinks butcher will feed it after the Thanksgiving day, and the love of butcher will increase when it has been fed for one thousand days. So the key problem is how to avoid being a turkey.

TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS
Not only in Switzerland, in Northern Levant, stayed the most prosperous province in the history of humankind. It kept for twelve thousand years, but when stuks took place by the modern program, the effect is visible.

War, Prison, or Both
…What makes the species prosper isn’t peace, but freedom.
The Aleppine merchant fled the Baath regime because he prefers war to prison.

Pax Romana
Centralized nation-state like Egypt or China in history, they rely on centralized bureaucracy. Rather than the Roman empire which just gives protection in the military, they didn’t allow autonomy in the commercial. Lastly, the government of nation-stare will be distracted by war and cannot control other parts like businesses affairs

War or No War
Before Europe created nation-states like Germany or Italy, crisp units always keep in constant tension, but, it’s Medioristan.
After nation-states created, we all know, two world wars, are its vessels.

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攻城之法為不得已。修槽鎮輕、具器械、三月而後成
During the war, we need a full preparation to besiege a walled city. It will spend a lot of time.

將不勝其忿, 而儀附之
The general may lose their patience before the engines of attacking prepared.

拔人之城而非攻也, 人之國而非久也。
Therefore, the skilled generals will overthrow their kingdom without any operations. They will not harm individuals but destroy the government. The typical instance is the Wu Wang, who put an end of the Yin dynasty.

倍則分之
This means divide our armies, not enemy’s.

故小敵之堅, 大敵之擒也。
Though a small troop can wage a wall, it will be captured by a large troop probably.

不知三軍之事, 而同三軍之政者, 則軍士惑矣;
Opportunism and flexibility are different than the strategy of governing a state. Morality and li is only fitful for governing a state.

將能而君不御者勝
So many military disasters were caused by undue interference from distant government.

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Due to procrastination, employees lose their productivities and cause companies billions of dollars lost.

COMMITMENT VS. COMPLIANCE

As a manager, you need to use inviting commitment rather than demands for compliance.

FOCUSING ON STARTING VS. FINISHING

Effective managers always have the ability to communicate with their employees. Focusing on starting is much more effective for a perfectionist.

GETTING RESULTS OR GIVING CRITICISM

You need to give praise instead of criticism for employees. Praise even needs to precede the recommendations for improvement.
State Your Priorities Clearly
Don’t change your priority too often.
Be Decisive
You need to be decisive and don’t change the goal during the project. When you choose one, don’t change it.
Be Fair and Frequent in Your Rewards
Craving to be appreciated is a deep need in human nature.
LIVING WITH A PROCRASTINATOR
Maybe you are living with a procrastinator, you didn’t need to put commands do them, just say I would instead of you should.
A LAST WORD
Go ahead! Don’t say I’ll try or it’s not working, just be open-minded and do it!

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RESILIENCE AND HARDINESS

Resilience
Resilience is very important when you fail, every time you fail you can bounce back from it and know your performance isn’t your self-worth, but your performance is connected to your perseverance. You don’t need to be responsible for what had happened to you, but you need to be responsible for how to tackle these problems. Sarah’s experience told us that you will meet some obstacles placed by others, but you don’t need to put these pressure on yourself, you just need to set a time for yourself and see how much you can finish.

MENTAL REHEARSAL AND PREPROGRAMMING

You can use mental rehearsal and reprogram a mental image to visualize the project you need to finish. In this chapter, Martha imaged her project as a big, thick wall. But she visualized it as defensive protection, to protect her from other criticism.

EFFECTIVE GOAL-SETTING

As a producer, you need to know which goal you can wholeheartedly pursue and which goal you just let go of. Like the reading book, I need to choose a realistic book and don’t change until I finished, because when I read several books in the same period, I will feel exhausted and nervous. I need to try to read one book and stick with it.

Avoiding Setbacks

The reason for hesitating go set goals usually is we fear the setback. There are some steps to avoid setbacks:
Step 1:Recognize the work of procrastinating. I must know the guilty of procrastination is also a form of work, it is a choice I cannot avoid to choose.
Step 2: Freely choose the entire goal. Which part of a goal when you want to choose first? Don’t need to be nagging, Eating the frog is one of the most effective habits.
Step 3: Create functional, observable goals. Set your subgoals.

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力屈，財襌（殫），中原內需於家，百姓之費，十去其七
Waging a war, you need to forage on your enemy.

故殺敵者, 怒也;取敵之利者, 貨也 Kill your enemy from the power generated by your anger, get benefits from your foe.

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USING MORE OF YOUR BRAIN
Using your left side of your brain is important, you need to shift into a state of flow. You need to stop your linear thought.

IT’S ONLY YOUR FIRST DRAFT
Creativity is important, how to get into it? You need to suspend criticism and linear thought and get into the state of flow.

LEARNING TO FOCUS
Here is an exercise of focus just needs two minutes, it is intentionally created in two minutes then you can exercise at any time anywhere.

FOCUSING EXERCISE
Sitting upright in your chair and practice it. Close your eyes, be relaxed, focus on your breath. Letting go of the past. Letting go of the future. Centering in the present. Counting up 1 to three. 1: from not knowing to know how to start. 2: more relaxed alert, use the superior wisdom of the subconscious mind. 3: my eyes open, eager to work. If you are fear of outside dangers, you can use it as a tool to protect your self, you surely can form a safe and supportive atmosphere.

RELAXATION EXERCISE
It’s your relax, just take two minutes.

INCORPORATING FLOW STATES INTO YOUR PROGRAM
You just need to think about, when, where and what, when you start, where you start and what you will do. Once you’ve done this process, tap into the flow state.

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Some parts on the inside of a system may be required to be fragile in order to make the system antifragile as a result. All restaurants are combating with each other in order to form the antifragility of the whole group. If a single restaurant is too robust when the crisis happens, all reasons are boil down to the fragile of this restaurant.

Evolution and Unpredictability

Nature (and nature-like systems) likes diversity between organisms rather than diversity within an immortal organism…
Evolutions benefits from the randomness but the unit died from the harms.
So I need to build some new systems different than the habit system, such as an energy managing system or log system.

Organisms Are Populations and Populations Are Organisms

Organisms are a group of units. Some units are killed some units survived and thrived. They have layers.

THANK YOU, ERRORS

So this is why you need to make errors, You need some errors to make deviation but along the way you find some discoveries, this is Antifragile.

Learning from the Mistakes of Others

This chapter is about layering, units, hierarchies, the writer told a story about himself: he made an error of lifting stones, and when he is well-calibrated, he translates into small injuries that guide him the next time.
I think every day itself is also nonsystemic, I made some errors every day, and see what’s on my pain. I can improve tomorrow, that is, a procrastination log is very important.

How to Become Mother Teresa

This chapter is about relationship or character, you also can get a lot of information from others’ faults. If they don’t make faults, you don’t even know their true character.
It can also be used on ourselves. You need to cause mistakes and know it from variability, You should now them and think about why you make these mistakes, then you will get some information, and get rid of the mind of a victim.

WHY THE AGGREGATE HATE THE INDIVIDUAL

The higher-level needs the fragility of the lower one. If some parts died but the group improved.

WHAT DOES NOT KILL ME KILLS OTHERS

Because you already stronger than others, instead of you are stronger, others are killed, the group improved.

Me and Us

As an individual, we need to combat against the antifragility of the mother nature, because mother nature wants us, as an individual to sacrifice. Enlightenment empowers us to free ourselves from tribes, society, to pursue our own happiness.

National Entrepreneur Day
The author wants to set the National Entrepreneur Day because the most entrepreneur will fail so we need to be grateful to them that they give us Antiragility.

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卷耳    JUAN ER
寘zhì彼周行háng 陟彼崔嵬wéi 我馬虺huī隤tuí 我姑酌彼兕sì觥gōng 陟彼砠jū矣 我馬瘏tú矣 我僕痡fū矣
From 金罍, 兕觥, 僕, We can recognize she was from a rich family, the luxurious thing can not solve the problems about emotion, it’s also hard to hold a relationship.

樛木  JIU MU
南有樛jiū木 葛gé藟lei3纍之 福履綏suí之
It’s a song of blessing, why Confucius choose this song? In ancient times, women belonged to a big family, everything is hierarchical, it’s a dream map depicting by Rujia, women will get happiness from this family.

螽斯    ZHONG SI
螽zhōng斯羽 振振zhēn兮 繩繩min3兮 揖jí(集)揖兮
We can feel the praise of fruitful descendants.

桃夭   TAO YAO
有蕡fén其實
The lady will go to get a future home, it will order well for her family and his family. It’s also a utopian picture.

兔罝  TU JU
肅suō肅兔罝jū 公侯好仇qiú 公侯干gàn城
Loyalty is like rabbit nets. You are stick to your prince. Prince maybe is also imagery, you need to stick to your heart, your mission.

芣苡  FOU YI
采采芣fou3苡 薄言捋luō之 薄言袺jié之 薄言襭xié之.
It’s a picture of laboring, depicting every step in a process, why they need to write down these steps? Maybe it’s their lifestyle, even in a rich family, they don’t have any other activities need to do, so they just need to gather plantains.

漢廣  HAN GUANG
翹翹qiáo錯薪 言秣mò其馬
In this chapter, there is a man takes to a girl but cannot get her, he just feels depressed. The girl will go to get a future home, the rule and Li make people live in harmony.

汝墳  RU FEN
惄nì如調zhōu飢 魴fāng魚赬chēng尾 伐其條肆yì
The Lady was waiting for her husband, she was hungry, the morals and education affect their people.

麟之趾  LIN ZHI ZHI
Lin refers to the nobleman, it teach them how to be kind and full of morals. In ancient times, nobles are educated and respected.

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I’m so alone, nothing feels like home.
I’m so alone, try to find my way back home to you.

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Jun-sang’s family is from Japan, they are wealthy as Japanese-Korean. when Korea divided, some Japanese-Korean thought the North government is better than South as a group battled with Japanese, so they went to North, but after the regime formed, they noticed everything changed, Kim Il-sung, never believe them, they were purged because God Kim didn’t allow them to be wealthier than common North Korea people and to connect their relatives in Japan. They couldn’t go back to Japan forever.

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Mi-ran is a girl, her father is a miner, Jun-Sang is a student belongs to a family at a high level.

In the 1990s, the country’s economy broke down, and there is not enough electric power to keep the night be lighten, but the night in North Korea, it’s more natural and beautiful than other countries, no noises, no neons. What’s more, no one can spy the two teenagers, holding hands in the dark.

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We need to think about how to see our jobs, in this world, we have a caste system of job, we divide them from their salaries.

In America, though most people make 6,000$ a month still not happy.

It seems like we have no choice and just be in the corner.

The Limits to Growth: We are in the corner of growth, we think growth is the truth, we think more is better, but nature is finite, though technology will help us, the government will help us, but we don’t think about the problems of ourself.

The Creation of Consumers: In this sociology, we are not citizens, but producers want us to buy more, so they create a lot of desires but the populace didn’t increase very much.

To buy is right: Because we are all intertwined with the productions, imagine that if we don’t wear clothes, the workers in the clothing industry will out of work. So if we don’t buy, we are “wrong”, but if we buy, we are still “wrong”. Because of that, we need to think about serials new questions about money and consume, we need transformation.

The Beginning of a new road map for money

Patterns of Belief: There are so many superstitions that we believe, from childhood (if the mother leaves the door ajar the snake will be banished) to adulthood (expose to germs will catch a cold), our brain is pattern making, but most of them can be changed.

What Do Our Actions Say?: We always try to buy something to solve our problem, like now, I bought Dongfang Shuye but avoid washing my bottle (it is stinky because I didn’t wash it for several days with a teabag)

The Fulfillment Curve: Once you know it is enough, the fulfillment curve changed direction.

Clutter—A Fate Worse Than Dearth: If anything is excess for you, you are going to get clutter. Like the example of the hot tub, we don’t need it actually. When you want to spend money and buy something, ask your self twice and think more.

Stations of the Crass: When you think more is greater, you enter the door of materialistic. When you think something needs to buy, but just because of commercial propaganda effects you make you think it’s your self-fulfillment, but this kind of self-fulfillment is fake.

Faces and Functions of Clutter: There are so many things are cluttering, you will find it everywhere. Noises, meaningless activities, in your environment. Once you notice them, you will make your own definition of clutter, and clean them intentionally. Now you can follow these 9 steps.

Step 1: Making Peace with the Past

You don’t need to follow the first steps right now, you can read them or read all of this book and practice this step.

A. HOW MUCH HAVE YOU EARNED IN YOUR LIFE?

You need to dig out your all logs of your financial income. As possible as you can, don’t miss any details.

The Value of Step 1: You will make clear how much money you earned and eradicates some illusions like “I can earn lots of money” or “I can’t earn lots of money.”

No Shame, no blame. You need to repeat this mantra, the money you make is just a number, you needn’t feel sad about it or gloating because your friends made less.

B. What have you got to show for it?

Be Prepared. you own minus you owe is your net worth, maybe it will show you are in an awful situation, or it looks good, but you need to ask yourself: “What have you got to show for it?”

Liquid Assets
Cash, or anything that can easily be converted to cash, like cash on hand, savings accounts, stocks, etc.

Fixed Assets
start with the obvious, your house, your car. but, don’t overlook anything, without subjective evaluations like “That’s worthless.” Some decorative light fixtures, books, debts owed you, also can be calculated, One person’s useless junk is another’s precious antique.

Liabilities
This category includes all your debts.

Net Worth
Calculating your net worth, but we do not include nonmaterial assets, net worth does not equal self-worth.

Why Do A Balance Sheet?
Because in this way, some people find they can liquidate their excess things, some people also realize they possess so many things just because “need them someday.”

To this point, you will walk through your past relationship with money, you are now ready to look at the present.

Summary of Step 1
A. Find out how much money you have earned in your lifetime.
B. Create a balance sheet of your assets and liabilities. What do you have to show for the money you’ve earned?

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1. The Master said to Yan Yuan, “If I’m employed, I’ll show my talent; If not, I’ll hide my light under a bushel, only you and I have the ability to do it!”
2. Zi Lu said, “If you lead troops, whom do you want to work with you?” 
3. The Master Said, “If someone attacks a tiger unarmed or crosses a river without a boat, and he died without any regret, I would not work with him. What I need definitely is someone who is careful and fond of making plans for success.”

Analysis

1. The meaning of 用 should be 重用 or 任用 in this chapter, the translation of 用 is “employed,” it’s unclear whether “put on an important position” is an appropriate translation, Legge translated 用 into “called to office,” maybe it’s appropriate to describe 用 in Chinese traditional culture. 行 is a verb in this chapter,  refers to 从事 or 实行.  用 and 舍 are opposites, thus the translation of 舍之 is “if not.” The meaning of 藏 is “hide” or “store” as a verb. In this chapter, the translation of 藏 is a proverb from the Bible, “hide a light under a bushel”. But the problem is, this proverb contains negative meaning. Legge’s translation of 藏 is “lie retired,” it’s more descriptive in reality.  The meaning of 有 is 拥有 or 占有, therefore,e the translation is “have” or “get.” Legge’s translation is “attained to,” it also makes sense but has been old-fashioned than “have the ability” from the 1970s.

2. The meaning of 行 in this chapter should be 统率, it’s used as a verb, so the translation is “lead.” But Legge’s translation is “conduct,” it’s a noun. If the translation of 行 is conduct, the meaning of this sentence may be changed. 三 should be a fuzzy quantifier, so the translation of 行三军 is “lead troops.” But it’s wrong in this chapter, only a great state has the permission to own 三军. So Legge’s translation is “armies of a great State.”
   The meaning of 与 is “with” or “praise”, they all make sense. In this context, the translation of 不与 is “don’t work with.” Predicate verb is omitted in the sentence of 则谁与. It is difficult to add a verb, in this degree the translation of 与 is “work.” Legge translated 与 into “act with.” According to his translation of “conduct” in this chapter, if the Master didn’t need to lead troops, Legge’s translation also makes sense.

3. The original meaning of 暴 is “expose” or “fierce.” 暴虎冯河 is a proverb from Shijing. In this sentence, 暴 refers to “fight with a tiger unarmed.”
   In the sentence of “必也……,” there is no subject and predicate, thus “what I need” is added in the translation. Legge’s translation is “my associate,” It’s a different way to translate this sentence.
   The original meaning of 惧 is 恐, “fear.” But in this chapter, it doesn’t make sense if translating it into “fear”, according to the next context 好谋而成, the person who is 好谋而成 is full of positive traits, and he is fond of making plans. Therefore, 惧 should be translated into a positive word instead of “fear.” It’s unclear whether “fearful of failure” is an appropriate translation or not. Therefore, the translation of 惧 is “careful”. Legge translated it into a “full of solicitude.” “Solicitude” is more advanced than “careful,” since it has been rarely used since the 1820s. There is trouble when translating 好谋而成, because 好谋 and 成 are both difficult words for translation. In addition, it is difficult to translate 好, 谋 and 成 respectively, and combining them in one sentence. Maybe due to this reason, Legge divided this sentence into two parts and translated them respectively. Legge translated 好谋 into “fond of adjusting his plans,” As for 而成, the original meaning of 成 is “succeed,” Therefore, the translation of this sentence is “success.” Legge translated it into “carry them into execution.”

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The Complex

The man-made mechanicals are complicated but not complex, If you break them down, they don’t cause a ripple effect. But human society or ecology is complex, if you exterminate a specific animal, you will disrupt a food chain.

STRESSORS ARE INFORMATION

Humans tend to do better with acute than with chronic stressors, from the new finding of the bone, maybe not only aging causes atrophy of bone, but also the nouse of bone causes aging.

From that point, we can get to know, some acute things like shocking emotions will stimulate our body, but some slowly but unstoppable stresses will hurt our body (mortgage and working pressure, deadline or future repayment).

Equilibrium, Not Again

Don’t want to keep in equilibrium, because it’s mean death, you need movements and changes.

CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN

The pharmaceutical companies are trying to kill our children, so many Americans beyond high school ages are on antidepressant. We always think frustration is bad for usand need to kill, but we also kill the variability.

Punished by Translation

Language acquisition not from comfort, but from a jail like environment, you need a urgent streess to force yourself to speak or listening.

Touristification

Touristification is the life of tourist, everything is scheduled for them and it sucks the randomness.

The Secret Thirst for Chance

The natural environment is full of randomness, unlike doing the same excerises on the flat ground in gym, nature is full of dangerous, like you see a wild life and run away as soon as possible, nature is never boring! It has no boss, no homework, no academic grades, no chronic stress injury.

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This book will help you to learn how to:

1. encrypt and send a secure e-mail
2. protect your data with good password management
3. hide your true IP address from places you visit
4. obscure your computer from being tracked
5. defend your anonymity
6. and much more

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HOW TO WIN A HORSE RACE

If we want to finish a task, we must finish it in our busiest time.

Antifragile Responses as Redundancy

the human’s kidney is a form of redundancy, it isn’t useless, because you can save for bad times. So it’s the same reason why we need to build strong will and get in trouble even though there is no hazard.

According to the writer’s body-building experience, every time he exercises was focusing on the maximum. The body gives ourselves some spare to work more.

Fitness is an unclear concept, what is fitful? No one knows.

ON THE ANTIFRAGILITY OF RIOTS, LOVE, AND OTHER UNEXPECTED BENEFICIARIES OF STRESS

The more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

You cannot kill your ideas, like tormenting love, something is antifragile so that you cannot kill them.

Please Ban My Book: The Antifragility of Information

Information is also antifragile, so many actors lose their fame or wreck their reputation because they want to save it. In addition, there also many people gain attention from criticism.

Criticism itself is antifragile, from criticism you can know whom you effect. Criticism is a truthful badge of attention, signaling that it is not boring.

Get Another Job

Some jobs like the author’s middle-level job, if he beat up the economist, he will lose his fame or his reputation, these jobs always have antifragility because they depend on these (bank) systems, but, another job, like the taxi driver, or crazy artist, they don’t care about reputation, also don’t need to wear a suit.

Large companies and governments do not understand this. If you hear they want to “tranquilize” or “give confidence,” you know they are fragile, investors will run away.

This is why the author is the stance supporter of fiscal conservatism, if you have no debt, you don’t need to care about the reputation in your economic circles.

It’s interesting that what we benefited the most aren’t those who try to help us, but rather those who actively tried, eventually to harm us.

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EVEN PRODUCERS NEED A SYSTEM

This system is recording your time in the period of working, record every time in your period, you will reduce your fear about your so-called threatening subject.

REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

If you restrict your time of the study, you may have an aversion about it, you want to break the authority for yourself, and you will find you will increase your time of the study. So, set a rule of your working time, like “don’t work more than four hours a day”, you’ll find you want to work more.

HOW TO USE THE UNSCHEDULE

1. Schedule only: committed time, free time, socializing, etc.
2. Fill in your Unschedule with work on projects only after you have completed at least one-half hour.
3. Fill in your Unschedule with work on projects only after you have completed at least one-half hour.
4. Reward yourself with a break or a change to a more enjoyable task after each period worked.
5. Keep track of the number of quality hours worked each day and each week.
6. Always leave at least one full day a week for recreation and any small chores you wish to take care of.
7. Before deciding to go to a recreational activity or social commitment, take time out for just thirty minutes of work on your project.
8. Focus on starting.
9. Think small.
10. Keep starting.
11. Never end “down.” If you solve a problem in the project, not give up and take a break, you will have more fun and more energy to keep going.

Use the calendar to record your free time.

ADJUSTING YOUR UNSCHEDULE

The five benefits of using unschedule method:

1. Realistic timekeeping. You’ll know how much time you really left in a week.
2. Thirty minutes of quality time.
3. Experiencing success. When you log every committed time or study time, you’ll find your sense of achievement.
4. Self-imposed deadlines. You’ll set a lot of deadlines for yourself, not from others.
5. New-found “free time”. It’s your choice.

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1. Commonly called an Ngram
2. Statistical analysis of text or speech
3. Finds n(a number) of a certain item in  text (examples of n: phonemes, prefixes,  phrases, or letters)
   Google Books Ngram Viewer
   analyzed text (‘corpus’): books scanned  by Google
   default time period: 1800 to 2000 output: graph representing use of  searched item in books through time (used in this presentation to show general  trends of increase or decrease of usage  from the 19th c.)

Historical Background (Lohr)

Old English (Anglo-Saxon): 5th ­-11th centuries
Since c. 450 CE, West Germanic peoples  settle southern Britain

Middle English: 11th-15th centuries Since around and following the 1066 CE Norman invasion of Britain

Modern English: 16th century-present Since around the time of Shakespeare Early Modern English: 16th-18th centuries Present Day English: 19th century-present

Historical Background (Spielvogel)

1. Industrial Revolution: primarily 18th­ 19th centuries

2. Technological Development

1. rapid urbanization, improved transportation
2. new machinery

3. Economic Prosperity

1. expedited trade, accessible commodities
2. new products

4. Growing Democratization

1. increased liberties, expanded representation
2. focus on the individual

5)Scientific Discovery

1. new disciplines, deepened understandings
2. development of sociology (science of society)

Geographic Distribution in the 19th Century

English throughout the British Empire (select locations)
British Isles: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Africa: Egypt, Lagos (Nigeria), Cape Colony (South Africa)
Asia: Burma, Hong Kong, India, Malacca,  Singapore
Australia and New Zealand
North America: Canada
South America, Caribbean: Anguilla, British Guiana, Jamaica
The United States
Preservation of earlier dialects
Development of regional varieties

Lexical Developments in the 19th Century  (Courtney)

New words in the English language
Origins:
1.changes in society
2.need for new ways to express ideas and describe objects and ideas
New words:
Transportation, Inventions, Food,  Leisure, Fashion, Linguistics, Medicine,  Chemistry, Psychology

Grammatical Evolution in the 19th Century  (Mugglestone)

1. increased use of lesser-used form
2. decreased use of commonly-used forms
3. grammatical changes often seen as  degradation of the English language (and  sometimes society), changes seen as  improper use of the English language

Increased use of the Progressive Passive
Increased usage (19th c.): The ship is being built at  Aberdeen.
present progressive passive (present continuous passive)
examples (current usage): first person singular: am + being + past participle I am being pranked.

Decreased use of subjunctive after ‘if’ or ‘unless’
Present Subjunctive: be – ‘unless I be’
Past Subjunctive: were – ‘if I were’
Replaced with ‘am’ or ‘was’ – if I was’; / ‘unless I am’
Prospero: Unless I be relieved by prayer
Current Usage: Subjunctive Mood (Conrad)
verb form, used for unreal, untrue, or  hypothetical statements

1. To express hopes/wishes: I wish I weren’t so shy.
2. To express hypothetical situations: If I were taller, I could dunk a basketball.
3. To express something that is untrue or unreal: He acts as if he were the one in charge.
   Current Usage: Was (Conrad)
   used for statements of fact example Last night, I was watching TV until midnight.

Increased use of the split infinitive
infinitive: to + uninflected verb form example: to walk, to inflect, to split
split infinitive: when an adverb or adverbial  phrase appears between the to and the verb example:, to boldly go, to casually walk, to  gently push
Current Usage: Split Infinitives (Grammarist)
now common in writing of all kinds; not a mistake when used appropriately

1. Avoid split infinitives when moving the adverb to  the end of a phrase doesn’t cause confusion or change the sentence’s meaning. example: split infinitive: He urged me to casually walk  up and say hello. (unnecessary) infinitive: He urged me to walk up casually  and say hello.
2. Split infinitives when the adverb either needs  emphasis or wouldn’t work anywhere else in the  sentence.
   example: They’re expected to gradually come down in  price to about $50 to $75 each.

Important Literature in the 19th Century

British Literature
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice(1813)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre(1847)
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland &  Through the Looking-Glass(1865)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities(1859), Great  Expectations(1860)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South(1854)

American Literature
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems(1890)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance(1841)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter(1850)
Herman Melville, Moby Dick(1851)

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of The House of Usher” (1839)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1852)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1885)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha(1855)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition(1892)

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谓：Legge’s translation: “meaning”, Eno’s translation: “sense”.

媚：Legge: pay court to; Eno: appeal to; Lau: be obsequious to

灶：Legge: furnance; Eno: the kitchen god; Lau: the kitchen stove

奥： Legge: the south-west corner; Eno: the god of the dark corner; Lau: the south-west corner of the house

Legge translated “问曰”into “asked, saying” . Comparing to “asked” (Eno’s translation) and “said” (Lau’s translation) , Legge translated both words. Wangsun Jia asked a question after “问曰”in this chapter, so it is also understandable if only translate “问曰”into “asked” or “said”.

Legge translated “媚”into “pay court to” . “媚”has several meanings (love or flatter)¹ as a verb. Comparing to Eno’s translation (appeal to) , “pay court to” is more close to the original meaning of “媚”. But “pay court to” has been old-fashioned than “appeal to” from 1800.

“灶” has two meanings in Chinese: “kitchen stove” or “kitchen god” , In Chinese culture, “灶”is Legge’s translation is “furnace” . Eno’s translation is “kitchen god” , Lau’s translation is “kitchen stove” . In this chapter, “灶”refers to kitchen god living near the kitchen stove, also called “灶神”or “灶君”. Why Legge translated “灶”to “furnace” instead of “stove” or “kitchen stove” ? Maybe it’s due to the limited information on “灶”in Morrison’s dictionary, “灶”、“炉”(fireplace) 、“窖”(cellar) , they all mean a same thing: A furnace. But “灶神”is included in this entry, it refers to “the god of the furnace, employed in the dressing of provisions.” ² For that reason, Legge should know the meaning of “灶”（灶神） in this chapter, therefore we can conclude that Legge’s translation is reasonable.

“获”means “get” or “capture” , “罪”means “crime” or “fault”. Literally, “获罪”can means “be proved guilty” or “be convicted”. But in this chapter, “罪”doesn’t mean an illegal action which can be punished by law in society, it’s related to “Heaven” , so Legge, Eno and Lau all translated it into “offend against”.

“天”: Legge’s translation is “Heaven” , Legge explained it as “The lofty one who is on high” . “天”may not be a place in this chapter. It doesn’t mean “Heaven” itself, it may refers to Moral Power or Moral Law³ . “Choo He says, Heaven means principle” . Because the concept of “天”is rather ambiguous, Eno just translated “天”into pinyin “tian“.

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fear of failure, fear of not finishing, terror of being overwhelmed, these are the three blocks to action, if you solved one of them, it will be quiker to solve all.

TOOL #1: THREE-DIMENSIONAL THINKING AND THE REVERSE CALENDAR

You don’t need to start with no anxiety, maybe it is impossible, if you always thinking about the right time to start, or permit yourself to learning, thinking searching helf along the project, and tell yourself you should be finished, you cannot avoid overwhelming anxiety.
The Reverse Calendar
Reversing the calendar gives you control of this project.

TOOL #2: THE WORK OF WORRYING

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Legge’s translation:

Chapter XIII. 1. Wang-sun Chia asked, saying, “What is the meaning of the saying, ‘It is better to pay court to the furnace than to the south-west corner?’”

2. The Master said, “Not so. He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray.”

Commentary: THAT THERE IS NO RESOURCE AGAINST THE CONSEQUENCES OF VILATING THE RIGHT. Kea is the great officer of Wei, and having the power of the state in his hands, insinuated Confucius that it would be for his advantage to pay court to him. The southwest corner was from the structure of ancient houses the cosiest nook, and the place of honour.
Choo He explains the proverb by reference to the customs of sacrifice.
The furnace was comparatively a mean place, but when the spirit of the furnace was sacrificed to, then the rank of the two places was changed for the time, and the proverb quoted was in vogue. But there does not seem much force in this explanation. The door, or well, or any other of the five things in the regular sacrifices, might take the place of the furnace.
2 Confucius’ reply was in a high tone. Choo He says, “Heaven means principle” But why should Heaven mean principle, if there were not in such a use of the term an instinctive recognition of a supreme government of intelligence and righteousness We find the term explained by “The lofty one who is on high”.

Eno’s translation:

3.13 Wangsun Jia asked, “What is the sense of that saying: ‘Better to appeal to the kitchen god than the god of the dark corner?’” The Master said, “Not so! If one offends against Tian, one will have no place at which to pray.”

Commentary: 3.13 After failing to succeed in reforming the politics of his home state of Lu, Confucius journeyed from state to state in search of a worthy ruler. Here he is in the state of Wei, and the powerful minister of war is suggesting, by means of analogy with customary ideas of household gods, that he, rather than the duke of Wei, is the key to political access in Wei. (See 6.28.)

D.C. Lau’s translation:

Wang-sun Chia said, “Better to be obsequious to the kitchen stove Than to the south-west corner of the house.* What does that mean?”
The Master said, “The saying has got it wrong.  When  you  have  offended  against Heaven, there is nowhere you  can turn to in your prayers.”

*By ‘the south-west corner of the house’ which is the  place of honour Wang-sun Chia, being a minister of Wei,  presumably meant to refer to the lord of Wei and by ‘the  kitchen stove’ to himself.

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In order to think we are superior to others, we build walls, make our group against other groups, prejudice cultivates.

Back to the Child

We refuse our weaknesses because weaknesses mean death, like sicknesses, accidents, disabilities.

Like a child, we can feel belonged then we can know love, know what we are called to be.

The Joy and Pain of Belonging

In our early life, we can feel the belonging as a child, but if we cannot receive love or just feel anguish and painful, we maybe cannot know others’ feeling of love, we hide our weaknesses but it will be a big problem when we grow up.

The Difficult Place of Those Who Are Weaker

We always admire powerful and growth, but this means that we exclude disabilities, we formed a community, a group or a country to amend our weaknesses, our disabilities, but we may rise hate, we think other groups are bad, are evil, we want to empower them. This is why there are so many war and conflicts in history. In order to heal that, we must respect differences of other cultures, other’s lives, but we must see our own problems even evil in our heart.

Belonging Breaking Down

We are in a group then we can hide our weaknesses and feel security, but nowadays, western culture admire power, competitions as an individuality, that makes us explore in the battlefield, we are wrong if we show our weaknesses.

Belonging That Closes Up

If we are in a closed group but it is full of openness and respect each other’s differences, we can be very happy, but if not, we build a barrister to others, and we are fear to leave this group, we formed a bad sect.

Belonging for Growth Towards Maturity and Freedom

A group with maturity has a strong feeling of belonging, it has openness to our own weak and needy, and willing to serve others. This kind of group will see other’s gifts, also will seek help outside of the group.

Belonging Together in a Pluralistic Society

Some groups may think it is dangerous to mix up different groups and cultures, but we all live in the earth with different cultures, we cannot build security with our own group.

Closed and Open Groups

Who are your neighbors, maybe it’s not a member of your group, if you need help, some people out of your group may help you but your group members don’t. If so, like this group, or ideology built on that, is fragile.

The Common Good: What Society?

Common good, from fear to trust, from exclusion to inclusion, is the pursuit in our society, on the earth.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAY

Play can make us more effective, more creative, producers have more time to play than procrastinators.

We need to know that play is important, through recreation and playing we get creativity. So in order to improve efficiency we need to spend time to play. We need plan for some time to play, producers always living without stressing about don’t finish the project.

THE PULL METHOD OF SELF-MOTIVATION

In order to get to qualify work, you need to find something you really love to, it’s recreation or something you really enjoy in your task, I think U can break tasks to small pieces then find interesting part in them. But all in all, you need to plan for your recreation.

FROM GUILT-FREE PLAY TO QUALITY WORK

Combining play and work, it’s our inner fire, a mission to become harmony in our life, not goals, not tasks. playing gives you creativy to pursuit your own mission!

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English full-text RSS

Chinese full-text RSS

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I’m not an extreme person in any topic, I need to have my life and my own goal, but because of my personality, I stick to some thinking that makes me different from others, in the end, it doesn’t make me very happy.

My dreams(like become a native speaker or improve my skill and knowledge reserve very fast) are building in the air, not in the reality, why I cannot enjoy the road?

Today when I was coping my words three years ago, I found I wrote some emotional words , it shows me that I’m already in loneliness three years ago, so where is the long light? I need to find in my heart and outside in the same time, I think if I found, I will find my quietness and tranquility in my heart.

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Several days ago I searched some pieces of music on Youtube and listening. when I’m listening to this music and saw the comments below. I’m very touched and weeping.

I haven’t <g class="gr_ gr\_13 gr-alert gr\_spell gr\_inline\_cards gr\_run\_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="13" data-gr-id="13">weeped</g> for a long time, remember that the last weep was two years ago.

I took a comment here:

RonhiMusic
4 months ago
“The loneliest people are the kindest,
the saddest people smile the brightest,
and the most damaged people are the wisest.
All because they don’t wish to see others suffer
like they do.” -Anonymous

epicsoulfactory
3 years ago
Hi, I’m Cesc Vilà, the composer of this track.
I just wanted to let you know how important is for me to read all your beautiful comments. To read that someone can feel more relax or empowered and even that this music can help you a little bit to endure your struggle with depression, is something that’s beyond what a composer could ask for and makes me feel a sense of purpose and a strength to move on with my life too.
Sadly, sometimes we (myself) are knock out by many cirumcustancies…, and although we all know that eventually things will pass, it’s really hard to move on. At such dark times it is good to cling to what life gives to us…, it may be an idea, a dream, a song…, or even a series of warm comments in a video on you tube (that’s the case). Anything goes to keep going on, to return back to our light.
I just wanted to show you my gratitude and also encourage you all. Feel free to listen to my track Suns and Stars (Really Slow Motion). It’s there on you tube. Not propaganda. I think that track really can help you also to feel empowered, uplifted and happy…, even if just makes you smile or dream for a second, it will be worthwhile 🙂
Thanks also to HDSounDI for sharing my work.
See you soon ^_^

Nobody
3 months ago (edited)
Little kid : why does great people die ?
Father : imagine you at the garden full of flowers, which one do you pick ?
Little kid : the most beautiful one
Father : (look at the skies) exactly.

to everyone whom is listening and feeling alone… you are in my prayers.
never give up. life is precious. sending a ray of sunlight to everyone who needs it. I’ll be your friend, doesn’t matter who you are, who old o young you are, doesn’t matter what you look like or what religion or nationality you have.
listen to the soft music: unable to perceive the shape of music, you find it all around you. it’s presence fills your eyes with love. it humbles your heart, for it’s everywhere xoxo Marit

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The “Have To’s”—Messages of Stress

We need to change the self-talk of ‘I have to’.

The “Should’s”—Messages of Depression

If we always said should, we will fell into depression because the ‘should’ corporate many negative minds like I don’t agree, I don’t have a bright future, I don’t like. So change the self-dialogue and make the should image to ‘choose’, you will have freedom.

THE POWER OF CHOICE

The author shares his experience of jumping, he changed his mind from ‘have to’ to “I choose to exit the plane safely” and “I don’t want to be kicked out of the plane” when he jumping for the first time.

From Resistance to Commitment

If we know our tasks are our commitment and our choice because we prefer them to the consequences not finish them.

Learning How to Say No

You know your self-respect and worth, You don’t have to say “I guess I have to do”, you just say “no”.

FIVE SELF-STATEMENTS THAT DISTINGUISH PROCRASTINATORS FROM PRODUCERS

Negative thinking of “I have to” and “I must finish”.

You just need to know “when can I start?” or “how can I start?”

Some people also see the task is very important, but you should just focus on “I can take one small step”.

Don’t think about perfect performance, you just think I could be perfectly human.

You can intentionally try to be imperfect.

Never thinking ” I don’t have time to play”, You just say ” I must have time to play”.

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Painting and Sculpture

PALETTE OF KING NARMER

Narmer’s palette’s narration is the normal form in Egypt, the artist use registers to make the palette more orderly, the figures in the palette combining profile view and frontal view. The pharaoh is the biggest in the center.

Architecture

MASTABAS

Mastaba is the standard tomb type in early Egypt. It’s a rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides.

IMHOTEP AND DJOSER

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The stepped pyramid of Djoser resembles a series of stacked Mastabas.

OLD KINGDOM

Architecture

GIZEH

The pyramid of Khufu is a famous pyramid, it stores three pharaohs’ corpses and had a lot of inscriptions in the champer, to keep pharaohs’ afterlife <g class="gr_ gr\_5 gr-alert gr\_gramm gr\_inline\_cards gr\_run\_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="5" data-gr-id="5">same</g> as the life before death.

GREAT SPHINX

Its head is an image of a pharaoh, Khafre or Khufu, it shows pharaoh’s intelligence and strength.

Sculpture

KHAFRE ENTHRONED

It’s a seated statue of Khafre, this statue manifest the purpose: to last for eternity.

MENKAURE AND KHAMERERNEBTY

This statue shows the image of Menkaure and one of his wives. The statue depicts the couple without any affection and love, just serves as an eternal substitute for the ka.

SEATED SCRIBE

When their hierarchy is low, their formality will decrease but realism will increase. This scribe’s chest is sagging and belly is protruding.

TOMB OF TI

On the wall of his tomb, it shows Ti are hunting with other people, Ti was doing nothing, but he is very big than other people, the animals are scared of them. It depicts the supreme and life hereafter.

MIDDLE KINGDOM

Sculpture

SENUSRET III

In the middle kingdom, it is very different than the old kingdom, like this sculpture of Sunusret’s head, he showed anxiety and moody, sunk in brooding meditation.

BENI HASAN

Most typical tomb character in the middle kingdom is rock-cut, like the tomb of Beni Hasan. The structurer formed a shallow columnar porch, which Greek architects emulated.

NEW KINGDOM

Architecture

DEIR EL-BAHRI

It’s the royal mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh. Her kneeling status shows her image of male, Egyptians called her “his majesty”.

Abu Simbel

It’s the royal mortuary temple of Ramses II, there are four rock-cut statues dominated before the temple of Ramses II. in the narrow corridor, there are several colossal pillars facing each other showing the image of the human.

KARNAK

The temple of Amen-Re at Karnak has a gigantic hypostyle hall built by stone. These rock-cut columns formed clerestory admitted light through windows with stone grilles.

Sculpture and Painting

SENMUT AND NEFRURA

This block statue shows the queen’s chancellor Senmut embraces the queen’s daughter Nefrura,

TOMB OF NEBAMUN

The fresco of Nebamun’s tomb depicted the afterlife of Nebamun with his daughter and his wife, he was hunting a fowl.

Akhenaton and the Amarna Period

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Creating a new road <g class="gr_ gr\_5 gr-alert gr\_spell gr\_inline\_cards gr\_run\_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="5" data-gr-id="5">map</g>

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Financially independent thinking

The results of FI thinking. You will naturally go to FI intelligence. One outcome of FI intelligence is saving six months of <g class="gr_ gr\_121 gr-alert gr\_spell gr\_inline\_cards gr\_run\_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del" id="121" data-gr-id="121">expences</g> in your bank account at least.

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Shifting to low levels has two benefits, the first is people can avoid the control of high levels, the second is, people escape from strong emotions like anxiety.

People usually change between high levels and low levels.

Self-awareness can occurs at different levels, at low levels, like pain and movement.

Self-worth is very important if they cannot justify their actions and feel progress for their goals, self-worth will be very low.

The Modern Dilemma

In modern times, Chrisitianity lost its central place in western countries, but people cannot find an impeachable criterion for the life.

Masochism as Life-Scheme

There are four concepts in masochism’s life scheme, efficacy, self-worth, justification, and fulfillment because, in modern times, efficacy is omnipresent, but we lack justification and fulfillment, so masochist sacrifices efficacy and self-worth to get justification and fulfillment.

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The Sumerians developed city-states and formed a white temple for rituals. Sumerians also produced great literature.

INANNA

It is a female head make up with fragments of white marble.

WARKA VASE

It was the first work of pictorial narration.

ESHNUNNA STATUETTES

The oversized eyes of these statuettes depict that the worships for deities and the wakefulness to the connection between deities and them.

STELE OF THE VULTURES

The steel shows the battle of Sumerian.

Sumerian formed the city-state and Ningirsu is the God of them. Eannatum is the leader to combat the enemies.

STANDARD OF UR

It shows the war side and different figures with different scales.

BULL-HEADED HARPS

It shows narrative things on the soundbox of it.

CYLINDER SEALS

The artist followed the compositional rules to depict a banquet.

Akkad

AKKADIAN PORTRAITURE

It’s the first hollow-cast and metal sculpture combined <g class="gr_ gr\_3 gr-alert gr\_spell gr\_inline\_cards gr\_run\_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="3" data-gr-id="3">naturalisma</g> and abstract patterning.

NARAM-SIN STELE

The steel shows the divinity and victory of the Naram Sun. It also not fit in the conventional format of Mesopotamia style of horizontal narration.

Third Dynasty of Ur

ZIGGURAT, UR

It’s a ramp-like temple styles with hundreds of scales ended in tower flanked gateway.

GUDEA OF LAGASH

It’s a sculpture made by polished diorite, a costly and dark stone. The statue shows the seated Gudea.

Babylon

HAMMURABI

The stele of Hammurabi’s laws depicts a relief of Hammurabi and Shamash, the sun god. It shows that Shamash extended the ring and rod to Hammurabi.

Elam

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The statue of Queen <g class="gr_ gr\_26 gr-alert gr\_spell gr\_inline\_cards gr\_run\_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="26" data-gr-id="26">Napir</g>-Asu is very heavy and immovable, it is a life-size bronze and copper statue, shows the unquestionable votive to the god.

Assyria

PALACE OF SARGON II

In the palace of Sargon, there are some colossal limestone monsters called lamassu, the sculptors insist on the complete views of them, so lamassu has five legs, two legs for in front view, four legs for in profile view.

PALACE OF ASHURBANIPAL

There are some painting on the glazed bricks and some reliefs in the palace. The sculptor depicts the war in the relief combining the front view and profile view. Making the reliefs more understandable and vivid is their goal.

PALACE OF ASHURBANIPAL

Two centuries later around 7th BCE, the relief in this palace shows that the emperor hunting lions, each lion hurt by two arrows but they didn’t die, it shows the brave of lions and the manly image of the hunter.

Neo-Babylonia

ISHTAR GATE

The Ishtar gate constructed by blue-glazed bricks, it has reliefs of the profiles of dragons and bulls.

Achaemenid Empire

PERSEPOLIS

This relief shows the supreme of Persian Emperor

SHAPUR I

Sasanians is the last pre-Islamic dynasty, the Shapur catches the Roman Empire and this empire last for 400 years.

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Imaging that we always transform the task to a board before ourself, we can perform well if this board is on the land, but if the board is suspended between two buildings 100 feet above the pavement, then we are fearful to pass it.What’s more, we always feel a fire behind ourself.

We always fell in self-criticism so we use procrastinate to put off tasks until the deadline. It’s a victim mentality that we think we have to, no we will.

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A human being needs a companion, and we need truths and make our worlds or communities better.

Community and Rigid Order

This is a paradox between the desire to belong, to fit in a community and to serve the deepest mind for oneself, close to God and be freedom.

The Weakness of a Child

We all born with weakness, we need love from parents as we cannot survive without others help. So if we don’t get love from the outside world, we will feel lonely. A lonely child will construct protection to survive and close his heart, but a child who gets love will more open to the world. we all have a lonely child in our heart, a lonely child can make us survive but also can destruct us.

Love Transforms Chaos

There are seven aspects of love that necessary for the transformation of the heart. to reveal, to understand, to communicate, to celebrate, to empower, to be in communion with another, and, finally, to forgive.

Praying together

Praying is to find love. If we pray, we know we are loved by God.

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The opposite of fragile is not robust, half of our life has no name for.

PLEASE BEHEAD ME

We need to become Hydra, the serpent-like creature, we need some doses of antifragility, otherwise the sword of Damocles will get you.

On the Necessity of Naming

In the history of human, so many names of colors didn’t created, but this doesn’t mean we cannot discern different colors. We are doing more than we think.

PROTO-ANTIFRAGILITY

Hormesis is the first way to become robustness or antifragility Which means we ingest small doses of poison gradually and make our body healthier. For a case, caloric restriction may lengthen our life expectancy.

DOMAIN INDEPENDENCE IS DOMAIN DEPENDENT

We, humans, are handicapped that we cannot translate the conceptions to another area we don’t know. So we should make efforts to make the concepts more easily understand.

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In modern times, so many people avoid fragility through the expences of others.

The Antidote to The Black Swan

We are very thirsty for order, we should embrace the randomness so that we can become control order.

When facing small probabilities, we often fail, so only when understanding it, then we will not fearful.

Robust Is Not Robust Enough

Mother Nature cannot predictable, though it runs well for 4 billion years.

It’s an illusion that technology is a programmed design.

On the Measurability of (Some) Things

We can measure the fragility, but we cannot predict the future through it. Consciously, we rejecting the antifragility, but unconsciously, we sometimes do it.

The Fragilista

We always use the so-called solid system to intervere natural growth.

Where Simple Is More Sophisticated

Less is more and more effective, but to change it, we should have structural changes.

The (Rather Happy) Disorder Family

Time is also like volatility, more time, more disorder.

If You See Something

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Defossilizing Things

Academia is very fossilized, but the reality is more harmonized than the academia.

Organization

The book is the collection of some essays.

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The agriculture developed, many towns developed, so the

JERICHO

Around 7000 BCE, they developed stone buildings to defend nomad, it’s a great achievement, and they used the skulls for rituals, also using plaster to restore the skull, and inlaid seashells as eyes.

Ain Ghazal

They remarked the beginning of monumental sculptures in Mesopotamia.

ÇATAL HÖYÜK

It developed the depiction of the human body, the shape of the torso, not only the profile. It also has the first depiction of a setting devoid of both humans and animals.

Western Europe

NEWGRANGE

It’s a megalithic tomb.

HAGAR QIM

The stone temple built by constructed layout.

STONEHENGE

It is related to a funerary ritual.

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The story of Dorothy shows that procrastination is the choice between the self-improvement and others jealousy.

I need to unlearn the pattern that my tasks are associated with the mind that I am lazy.

Knowing how you spend your time

It’s important to record your time in your daily life. Don’t expect to find eight hours for working a day, because something involves socializing.

The Procrastination Log

Record your feeling, your though when you procrastinate. You should record any negative attitude, identify the fears and pressures.

CREATING SAFETY: THE FIRST MAJOR STEP OUT OF PROCRASTINATION

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What shall be my subject? -animals, but men are rare. They’re almost profiled because the only profile can show the essence.

Western Europe

Paleolithic human-headed shows that the ivory figure is very important for the artist.

Nude woman shows fertility images. The intents of makers maybe the female form.

Ancient artists always painted statuette.

The sculptors usually change the subject to keep the profile view and details.

Art in the Old Stone Age

The question is why painters want to paint in these cavern, some people believe that these bison can provide food for them.

Lascaux shows a hunting scene, it may be the first narrative art.

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The reason I always want to chat online is that I want to connect with others but I don’t want to talk.

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Xu You’s saying means name is the only guest of reality. We should think about whether we can fit it.

Which is useless in one place can be very useful in other places, like the cream.

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Relief sculpture: some sculpture is very boldly.

Art historian should learn in other disciplines.

No one can be truly objective.

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“The unexamined life is not worth living” (Apology 38A).

It’s not by art, but by divine power.

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SPACE, MASS, and VOLUME

Perspective, Foreshortening Foreshortening is one form of perspective, Rubens use it, Egyptian artists don’t use it, neither is the correct.

Proportion, and Scale Proportion can be changed for some intention.

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Who paid for it? Patrons always have a big influence when artists are commissioned. They can change subjects and style in an artwork, under these circumstances, personal style is not important. So it is necessary to know who paid for it?

Basic words for art historian:

Form and composition (not only two dimensions but also 3D)

Material and Technique

Line (like Durer’s The Four Horsemen, parallel strokes depicts dark sky)

Color: Hue, tonality, saturation.

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Before the war, you should think about whether moral law is sit on your side, if not, you lose Heaven.

Before the war, you should create the situation for success, and make the plan for better circumstances.

兵者, 龍道也。

All warfare is based on deception, so we should deceive both of our friends and enemies.

If your opponent is bad temper, irritate him. Observe your enemy, if they are in ease, make him not rest, if they are united, separate him.

The goal is, use their weaknesses and disrupt their disadvantages.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

These strategies should be calculated before the war, more calculated, more possibilities for the win.

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But the recent study shows that maybe masochism is more fundamental. The number of Masochists are much more than sadists’.

The submissive partners are really in control during SM, because it is the submissive’s desire shapes the sex play.

Masochistic desires are much stronger than sadistic. But many submissive people cannot find a partner to dominate them because of the shortage. So What happens often is two masochists meet each other, one of them should take turns.

Many dominant have the submissive experience, maybe masochism is more important.

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What is art history:

Art history aims to learn and find the history and development of art.

The questions art historians should ask:

How old is it?

What is it’s style?

Ancient Greece

Architecture and Architectural Sculpture

Doric and Ionic orders.

Doric formulated on the mainland; the Ionic was the order of choice in the Aegean Islans and coast of Asia Minor.

shaft is the vertical channels.

Basilica, Paestum

The columns of the Temple of Hera are swelling at the middle of the shafts.

Temple of Artemis, Corfu

The hideous Medusa and two panthers at the center of this early pediment served as temple gaurdians.

It’s a hard task for Greek sculptor.

Siphnian treasury, Delphi

All four sides of the building have sculptured frieze.

Carpatids erected in the porch.

Vase Painting

FRANÇOIS VASE

It’s a early Athenian black-figure painting with the more than 200 figures in five registers.

Exekias

Exekias is a ackonwledged master of the black-figure.

The eyes of figure were depicted in a old manner.

Bilingual Painting

Andokides Painter use new technique (red-figure) to paint on both sides. Once in black-figure and once in the new technique.

Painters don’t need using the glaze to create silhouettes of red-figure.

Euphronios

Euphronios is a younger and a more adventurer painter. He rejected the conventional composite posture for the human figure.

Euthymides

He cast aside the conventional frontal and profile composite views.

He foreshortened the patterned.

Aegina and Transition to the Classical Period

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina

The Aegina temple’s cella has two colonnades,each of two stories.

The dying warrior in the west pediment still has a rigidly torso and an Archaic smile.

Early and high Classical periods

Architecture and Architectural Sculpture

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

It’s the first great monument of Classical art. The Seer from east pediment has a shocked expression because he foresee the tragic outcome of the chariot race.

Statuary

Kritios Boy

It’s one of the most important statues in the history of art.

It’s the first statue to show how a person naturally stands.

Riace Warrior

It’s a hollow-casting life-size bronze statue with a natural motion. We cannot see nay Archaic frontality and rigidity in this statue.

Charioteer of Delphi

It exceeds the Riace warrior.

…the turn of the head and feet in opposite directions as well as a slight twist at the waist are in keeping with the Severe Style.

Artemision Zeus

It shows the lightness and stability of hollow-cast bronze statues.

Myron, Diskobolos

Also known as the Discus Thrower . It’s a vigorous action staue but it’s face remains expressionless.

Polykleitos, Doryphoros

The contrapposto of Doryphoros is more pronounced. Polykleitos’ aim was to impose order on human movement.

The Athenian Acropolis

Portrait of pericles

Kresilas had the ability to make noble men appear even more noble in their portraits.

Periclean Acropolis

Architects and sculptors of the Classical period focused their attention on the construction and decoration of these four buildings.

Parthenon: Architecture

The architecture’s shape is irregular such as the perisytle columnsin the corner.

Athena Parthenos

Athena was fully armed with shield, spear, and helmet, and she held Nike in her extended right hand.

Parthenon: Metopes

These metopes are alleegories for the Greek-Persian conflict of the early fifth century BCE.

Parthenon: Pediments

The Phidian workshop mastered the rendition of clothed forms as well.

Parthenon: Ionic Frieze

the Athenian Th e frieze vividly communicates the procession’s acceleration and deceleration.

Propylaia

It housed a picture gallery. Maybe it’s the first recorded structure built for the specific purpose of displaying paintings.

Hegeso stele

It’s a stele, a young woman in her home, attended by her maid.

Painting

Achilles Painter

Placing frontal eyes on profile faces had abandoned.

Polygnotos

Polygnotos placed figures on different levels.

Niobid Painter

The Niobid Painter also drew the son’t face in a three-quarter view.

Tomb of the diver, paestum

Tomb of the diver shows a young man diving into water. It symbolizes the plunge from this life into the next.

Late Classical Period

Sculpture

PRAXITELESI

His works entered the world of human experience.

Skopas

In the late Classical period, distinctive individual styles emerged.

Skopa’s hallmark was intense emotionalism. His works, Grave stele of a young hunter, depicts overt mourning.

Lysippos

Lysippos exhibits the new proportions.

The observer must move to the side and view Lysippos’s work at a three-quarter angle or in full profile.

Alexander the Great and Macedonian Court Art

Alexander’s portraits

It provides insight into Alexander’s personality as well as Lysippos’s art.

Pella Mosaics

The stag hunt by Gnosis bears the earliest known signature of a mosaicst.

Gnosis used shading to model volume.

Hades and persephone

The Painter used short dark brushstrokes to suggest shading on the underside of Hades’ right arm…

Battle of Issus

It depicts the battle between Alexander and Darius.

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 “If you have an idea and I have an idea, we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”

• Dylan Wu
• 陈仓颉
• YIR
• FSpark
• 沉舟侧畔
• 非科学のカッ�…
• 大致
• OSMH
• 青山
• Dreamendy
• 梅塔特隆立方
• Kira
• kqh
• Mars
• minuo
• 新世界的大门

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不知道为什么，听到这个背景音乐会感觉到有点伤心？是宝座被夺去的那一刻吗？

I remember the ocean, Memories die out so hard. We were traveling the mountains, just to find the loudest seas. We settled down by the fire, knowing we could aim higher, but we didn’t know that yet. So if you want something to hold on to, gotta find it first. But here I am.

‘Cause I’ve been laying under palm trees, waiting for the summer, knowing there’s nowhere to do. ‘Cause I am happy on this island, Wanna be my funland? I don’t ever want to leave, I’m in a tropic love.

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The most important decision you’ll ever make: Change your categories.

A lack of willingness to change your categories is dogmatic, and your categories become chains that restrict your growth. On the other hand, your categories may change so wildly that they become meaningless and without something to anchor you, you fall into an endless abyss.

Perhaps, the most important category you’ll construct is one of yourself.

Every category you impose one the world is one that you also impose on yourself and you decide if you do or don’t fit into that category.

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Goal: supportive of yourself

The questions about yourself:

1. Obligation.
2. Time (vague terms such as “sometime next week” )
3. Goals and value. (distracted by another plan)
4. Mood, fear.

Conclusion: Our real distress comes from constant anxiety of delaying.

It is important to notice the healing system. But Why we procrastinate? Because we fear a threat to our independence.

The fear of judgment is the key fear that stems from over-identifying who you are.

The critic: You can be with more energy and potential for movement, not just disgust with not perfect.

Strict early family pattern is typical of many procrastinators.

You should know: life and work not just hard.

‘We love you just the way you are.’

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I have been using Anki for two years. It is one of the best learning and memorizing software I have ever met. It is open-source, freedom and personal.

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I have added 18,000 cards in the English desk, making my English from slag to intermediate level where I can read English articles. I also created other types of desks, related to my major and my interests. The next steps are to improve my knowledge base of my major: create cards I should memorize, check my cards grammar and add some necessary pictures.

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I have been using Anki for two years. It is one of the best learning and memorizing software I have ever met. It is open-source, freedom and personal.

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I have added 18,000 cards in the English desk, making my English from slag to intermediate level where I can read English articles. I also created other types of desks, related to my major and my interests. The next steps are to improve my knowledge base of my major: create cards I should memorize, check my cards grammar and add some necessary pictures.

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]]>https://liuqiran.github.io/en/about-me/Sat, 09 Feb 2019 03:14:24 +0000https://liuqiran.github.io/en/about-me/Hello! 👋 This is Qiran. I hope to connect to the world and meet more friends. :）

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When I was 16

🖥️ About this site:

• Site’s birthday: Feb 9, 2019
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ℹ️ Basic Info:

• Surname: LIU
• First Name: Qiran
• Gender: ♂️
• Generation: Gen Z
• Hometown: Hunan, South 🇨🇳

When I was 16

🖥️ About this site:

• Site’s birthday: Feb 9, 2019
• Writing is supposed to be an essential part of life. Organizing one’s words and works in the form of a site is less fickle than social media-style sharing, and there are no more meaningless likes and comments; compared to keeping it private for oneself, and sharing it with those who need it. I created this site to record myself and share my thoughts, articles and works. ：)
• This site has joined the Ten-year Contract activities (that is, from joining this activity, our site will not be closed for ten years, to maintain the update and vitality!)
• This site is hosted on GitHub, with the alternate URL liuqiran.github.io . (It means that this site can exist for a long time!)
• ⚠ The content in different languages on this site is separate. The language switch (translation) button only appears on article pages when the content is the same. To read the content of other languages, please click the related language on the top of my site.
• Building site log

🧭 What I’m doing now

📚 Reading list

🧐 My Personality Type

• Big5 result: O+C+E−A+N−
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👫Relationship Status: With Sheena since Sep 27, 2025

🤝Online Neighbors

👣 Footprints:

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It’s updated from time to time…

The books I have finished reading:

No.	Title	Author	Date of completion	Rating
1	Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results	James Clear	2021	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2	The Hobbit	J.R.R Tolkien	2021	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
3	Gods at War	Kyle Idleman	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
4	The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness	Unknown	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5	On Regular Investing	Xiaolai Li	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
6	Rich Dad Door Dad	Robert Kiyosaki	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
7	Animal Farm	George Orwell	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
8	The Shallows	Nicholas Carr	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
9	Effortless English: Learn To Speak English Like A Native	A.J. Hoge	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
10	The Carnivore Diet	Shawn Baker	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
11	Learn Enough HTML, CSS and Layout to Be Dangerous	Unknown	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
12	Learn Enough JavaScript to be Dangerous	Unknown	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
13	Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant	Robert T. Kiyosaki	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
14	The Richest Man in Bablylon	Charles Conrad	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
15	Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job	Robert T. Kiyosaki	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
16	No More Mr. Nice Guy	Dr. Robert A. Glover	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
17	The Prince	Machiavelli	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
18	Practice Makes Perfect English Grammar for ESL Learners	Ed Swick	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
19	The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the TOEFL	Unknown	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
20	Mere Christianity	C. S. Lewis	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
21	Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing	Robert T. Kiyosaki	2023	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
22	The 250 Sales Questions to Close The Deal	Stephan Schiffman	2023	⭐⭐☆☆☆
23	How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People	Leslie T. Giblin	2023	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
24	What To Say When You Talk To Self	Dr. Shad Helmstetter	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
25	The Road Less Traveled	Peck, M. Scott	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
26	Sex Is Not the Problem	Joshua harris	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
27	Becoming Human	Jean Vanier	2023-08	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
28	Sales Dogs	Blair Singer	2023-09-11	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
29	The Courage to Be Disliked	Fumitake Koga; Ichiro Kishimi	2023-10-15	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
30	Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools	Richard Paul; Linda Elder	2023-10-17	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
31	Sexual Detox	Tim Challies	2023-11-04	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
32	American Accent Training	Ann Cook	2023-11-17	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
33	How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking	Dale Carnegie	2023-12-23	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
34	How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job	Dale Carnegie	2024-01-22	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
35	Selected Stories by O.Henry	O.Henry	2024-01-27	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
36	Linux in easy steps, illustrated using Linux Mint	McGrath, Mike	2024-02-29	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
37	Unlocking German with Paul Noble	Paul Noble	2024-03-04	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
38	Money Blog	Nathaniel Branes	2024-03-27	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
39	Easyway to Stop Smoking	Allen Carr	2024-04-14	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
40	Why We Get Sick	Benjamin Bikman	2024-05-31	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
41	Rightly Divided	J. Michael Lester	2025-03-08	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
42	Mind the Gap	Terrie Chappell	2025-03-16	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
43	Paid in Full	Paul Chappell	2025-03-16	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
44	First Steps For New Christians	Paul Chappell	2025-04-07	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
45	The Great Divorce	C. S. Lewis	2025-06-02	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
46	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	2025-12-31	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
47	Tadoku Graded Reader LVL 0 (50) (848pg)	Unknown	2026-05-03	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
48	よむよむ文庫　Lｖ0	Unknown	2026-05-25	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
49	Beyond Happiness	Jenn Lim	Reading	☆☆☆☆☆

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It’s updated from time to time…

The books I have finished reading:

No.	Title	Author	Date of completion	Rating
1	Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results	James Clear	2021	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2	The Hobbit	J.R.R Tolkien	2021	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
3	Gods at War	Kyle Idleman	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
4	The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness	Unknown	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5	On Regular Investing	Xiaolai Li	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
6	Rich Dad Door Dad	Robert Kiyosaki	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
7	Animal Farm	George Orwell	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
8	The Shallows	Nicholas Carr	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
9	Effortless English: Learn To Speak English Like A Native	A.J. Hoge	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
10	The Carnivore Diet	Shawn Baker	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
11	Learn Enough HTML, CSS and Layout to Be Dangerous	Unknown	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
12	Learn Enough JavaScript to be Dangerous	Unknown	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
13	Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant	Robert T. Kiyosaki	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
14	The Richest Man in Bablylon	Charles Conrad	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
15	Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job	Robert T. Kiyosaki	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
16	No More Mr. Nice Guy	Dr. Robert A. Glover	2022	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
17	The Prince	Machiavelli	2022	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
18	Practice Makes Perfect English Grammar for ESL Learners	Ed Swick	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
19	The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the TOEFL	Unknown	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
20	Mere Christianity	C. S. Lewis	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
21	Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing	Robert T. Kiyosaki	2023	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
22	The 250 Sales Questions to Close The Deal	Stephan Schiffman	2023	⭐⭐☆☆☆
23	How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People	Leslie T. Giblin	2023	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
24	What To Say When You Talk To Self	Dr. Shad Helmstetter	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
25	The Road Less Traveled	Peck, M. Scott	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
26	Sex Is Not the Problem	Joshua harris	2023	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
27	Becoming Human	Jean Vanier	2023-08	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
28	Sales Dogs	Blair Singer	2023-09-11	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
29	The Courage to Be Disliked	Fumitake Koga; Ichiro Kishimi	2023-10-15	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
30	Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools	Richard Paul; Linda Elder	2023-10-17	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
31	Sexual Detox	Tim Challies	2023-11-04	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
32	American Accent Training	Ann Cook	2023-11-17	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
33	How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking	Dale Carnegie	2023-12-23	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
34	How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job	Dale Carnegie	2024-01-22	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
35	Selected Stories by O.Henry	O.Henry	2024-01-27	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
36	Linux in easy steps, illustrated using Linux Mint	McGrath, Mike	2024-02-29	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
37	Unlocking German with Paul Noble	Paul Noble	2024-03-04	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
38	Money Blog	Nathaniel Branes	2024-03-27	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
39	Easyway to Stop Smoking	Allen Carr	2024-04-14	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
40	Why We Get Sick	Benjamin Bikman	2024-05-31	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
41	Rightly Divided	J. Michael Lester	2025-03-08	⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
42	Mind the Gap	Terrie Chappell	2025-03-16	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
43	Paid in Full	Paul Chappell	2025-03-16	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
44	First Steps For New Christians	Paul Chappell	2025-04-07	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
45	The Great Divorce	C. S. Lewis	2025-06-02	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
46	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	2025-12-31	⭐⭐⭐☆☆
47	Tadoku Graded Reader LVL 0 (50) (848pg)	Unknown	2026-05-03	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
48	よむよむ文庫　Lｖ0	Unknown	2026-05-25	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
49	Beyond Happiness	Jenn Lim	Reading	☆☆☆☆☆

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This is what I’m currently focused on. Inspired by nownownow.com .

🖥️ Plans

• Digitalize日记②
• Digitalize日记③
• Fix Hugo backend comment URLs
• Optimize word count statistics
• Add email subscription feature
• Setting level system for Waline
• Change social buttons of home pages
• Add image and statement at the end of the post (different in each language)
• Add Substack button
• Open Gumroad/Buy me a coffee account
• Add feature of Archive page ( Can find posts by year/month)

✒️ Moments

2026

2026-05-29

Updated my now page. Deleted other fields.
Very tired now… I’m thinking of using plain text as my to-do list.

Now my pages and post are the same with my diaries. They are all using plain texts now.

🌳 Building Habits

• The Overall Habit Score is the total score of all habits recorded using the Loop Habit Tracker .
• The habits “Clean Diet”, “Timely Sleep”, and “Regular Exercise” are shown as examples, each with a maximum score of 100. Their data is also sourced from Loop Habit Tracker.

Show more weeks ▼

Week No.	🔄 Overall Habit Score	🍲 Clean diet (%)	🛏️ Timely Sleep (%)	👟 Regular Exercise (%)	📖 Reading Time (mins)

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This is what I’m currently focused on. Inspired by nownownow.com .

🖥️ Plans

• Digitalize日记②
• Digitalize日记③
• Fix Hugo backend comment URLs
• Optimize word count statistics
• Add email subscription feature
• Setting level system for Waline
• Change social buttons of home pages
• Add image and statement at the end of the post (different in each language)
• Add Substack button
• Open Gumroad/Buy me a coffee account
• Add feature of Archive page ( Can find posts by year/month)

✒️ Moments

2026

2026-05-29

Updated my now page. Deleted other fields.
Very tired now… I’m thinking of using plain text as my to-do list.

Now my pages and post are the same with my diaries. They are all using plain texts now.

🌳 Building Habits

• The Overall Habit Score is the total score of all habits recorded using the Loop Habit Tracker .
• The habits “Clean Diet”, “Timely Sleep”, and “Regular Exercise” are shown as examples, each with a maximum score of 100. Their data is also sourced from Loop Habit Tracker.

Show more weeks ▼

Week No.	🔄 Overall Habit Score	🍲 Clean diet (%)	🛏️ Timely Sleep (%)	👟 Regular Exercise (%)	📖 Reading Time (mins)

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