In the grand tapestry of life's bureaucratic conundrums, a timely book quote, dear Sir, is much like a piece of candy – deceptively simple, yet capable of providing the most delightful surge of invigoration when one least expects it.
一个人就是他所有习惯的集合
❝ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant ⚡️ When we’re older, we’re a collection of thousands of habits constantly running subconsciously. We…
Born to Be Social
❝ The Social Animal Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our…
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❝ "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." 是英语中的一个经典句子，它完全由 "buffalo…
人类大脑演化的收益和代价
🍀 智人大脑 演化 ，最终获得高级思考的能力，同时也付出了相应的代价。在两百万年的进化过程中人类大脑更多的时候是一个累赘，至今也没有明确人类学证据解答为什么人类大脑会这样逆天进化。 2001, A Space Odyssey 里面提出了 外星生命给了人类进化一个nudge…
在终将热寂的宇宙中创造秩序
❝ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant What we do as living systems accelerates getting to that state. The more complex system you create…
早期人类进化过程中的分化种类
❝ Anthropology 在欧洲和西亚的人类，成了Homo neanderthalensis，意为「 来自尼安德谷（Neander Valley…
性格论 Dispositionalism vs 情境论 Situationalism
The Social Animal ❝ Aronson’s first law: People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy. (Location 286) 📜 One central discovery…
Dress at your best on your execution day
❝ Dress at your best on your execution day (shave carefully); try to leave a good impression on the death squad by standing erect and proud…
Hindsight Bias 后见之明
⚡️ The Social Animal ❝ it’s also likely that you are acting on the hindsight bias, which refers to our tendency to overestimate our…
对自己诚实
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岛屿侏儒化
🧀 在印尼Flores发现的人种 Homo floresiensis 体型普遍小很多，这是一种基于小岛环境有限资源所发生的适应过程。尽管大脑尺寸也随之变小，但该人种并不会忘记所习得的生存技能或出现明显的智力下降。 ❝ 科学家把这种独特人种称为 弗洛瑞斯人 （Homo…
一个陌生女人的来信
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Life Vision Reference
❝ 无论如何定义「成功」，能达到这个状态的人都是极少数； （所以）一个人无法通过做大多数人都在做的事达到成功； 一个人是 TA…
Lifelong Learning
❝ If you’re a perpetual learning machine, you will never be out of options for how to make money. You can always see what’s coming up in…
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Love as an ancient form of magic 🫧 贯穿哈利波特的一条暗线是Love 邓布利多说： Love is an ancient form of magic; which few understand…
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Mathematics as The Fundamental Language of the Universe
❝ Mathematics is us reverse engineering the language of nature, and we have only scratched the surface. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Name is powerful
🍀 在《黑客帝国》中，史密斯特工始终称呼尼奥为“Mr. Anderson”，这个称呼不仅是对尼奥平凡生活的提醒，更是一种对他真实身份的否认。通过使用“Mr. Anderson…
不要同情自己！
❝ 永泽说的话 ： “不要同情自己！”他说，“同情自己是卑劣懦夫的勾当。” — 挪威的森林
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New Zealand’s government proposed legislation to ban people aged 14 and under from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetimes. The new laws…
夜航船
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阅读悲剧的意义
通过切肤地感觉到悲剧中人物的痛苦和煎熬，我们作为观众能与悲剧人物的心路历程产生共鸣，而这种共鸣或者说认同感可以让我们获得一种情感与精神上的释放和净化，这种效果也称为宣泄（catharsis…
心理学是一门科学
❝ The Social Animal Most of the data discussed in this volume are based on experiments; most of the illustrations and examples, however…
Read Classics and Original Works, Not Later Summaries
❝ Another way to do this is to read originals and read classics. If you’re interested in evolution, read Charles Darwin. Don’t begin with…
痛苦还是热爱，区别也许并不大
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在过去几百万年中，这个星球上一直都有多种人种同时存在
🧀 在过去几百万年中，这个星球上一直都有多种人种同时存在，这在其他动物间也是常见现象。现在只有智人一种存在才是特殊情况。 #Anthropology…
认清死亡的意义，以及生命的短暂
❝ Basically, in physics, the arrow of time comes from entropy. The second law of thermodynamics states entropy only goes up, which means…
The Rabbit Hole
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通过在脑海中具象出棋局
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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永泽说的话
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权力和科学结合在一起会产生邪恶的后果
🧀 权力和科学结合在一起会产生邪恶的后果。印欧语系被确立之后，人类学家生物学家语言学家都在寻找文化源头，最终确立3000年前从中亚入侵印度的Arya…
通过火得以超越身体的局限
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使分娩更为困难
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解释了人类天生的社会属性
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Meditation Everywhere
❝ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself. It only “works” when done for its own sake…
the Primrose Path
🎴 with allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet Ⅰ. iii. 50 🫧 莎翁 真的是一己之力大型扩展英文词汇表 ❝ “She’ll only lead you down the primrose path,” (Location…
少看屏幕
❝ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant ⚡️ No exceptions—all screen activities linked to less happiness, all non-screen activities linked to…
人类的可塑性
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带来了背痛和颈部僵硬的问题
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促进了人类大脑的发育
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因资源竞争对尼安德特人实施了种族屠杀
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使得原本难以消化的食物变得可食
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尼安德特人的基因在现代人类中仍有痕迹
❝ 然而，有一项为尼安德塔人基因组定序的研究结果在2010年底发表，却掀起了一片惊涛骇浪。遗传学家终于从化石里搜集到足够的尼安德塔人DNA，能够和现代人类的DNA全面比较，而结果令科学界一阵哗然。 原来，就现代中东和欧洲的人类而言，拥有1%到4%的尼安德塔人DNA…
智人的迅速崛起与其生态影响
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释放双手进行各种活动
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三十万年前开始熟练利用火
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Walking into the arena with your head held high
❝ It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your…