Wisdom I Pondered This Week
- “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.
- We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.
- “To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.” ― Charlie Munger
- Most people focus too much on being interesting and not enough on being interested. Being interested is how you become interesting.
Things I Learned This Week
- 跪 (坐) 椅 (Kneeling Chair)
- 電子書閱讀器: (1) Amazon Kindle (2) Rakuten Kobo (3) Readmoo mooInk
- Lasagna (千層麵)
- badminton/tennis “racket” v.s baseball/table tennis/ping pong “bat/paddle”
- 維吾爾族 (Uyghur)