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今天在《南方人物周刊》上看到一篇讲探险家金飞豹的文章（http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4c8629f90100fyga.html），蛮有意思，充满了时代感，有几句话说得挺好的：

1. 人们不一定非要找一座山去登，人生就是不断攀登的一个过程，你面临的困难越大，你所在的海拔也就越高，什么时候遇到了让你痛不欲生的困苦，这就是你人生的珠穆朗玛峰，你翻越它以后，在你的人生中也就没有什么困难再能打倒你了，这就是人生的探险。

2. 人就是要立刻去实现自己的梦想，而不要在梦想前面设定那么多的条件，那样你永远实现不了自己的梦想。

3. 在野外生存能力强的人，在现代社会的生存能力亦很强。

4. 对于探险者来说，登顶并不是胜利，登顶并顺利回到山脚，才是胜利。

       最近在Financial Time上看到一篇专栏作家文章，是讲Happiness，Entrepreneur and Change 的关系，写的挺好的，全文摘录如下：

I recently participant in a debate entitled “the good society: virtues for a post-recession world”. A couple of my follow panelist emphasized the importance of promoting happiness rather than material wealth as a true measure of human progress. They believe that advance in gross domestic product are an inferior way to achieve greater wellbeing. And that a concept such as “gross national happiness” may be a better tool.

As I listen to their definition of happiness, I realize that not many coincide with my view of what make entrepreneurs tick. I spent decades partnering entrepreneurs, trying to understand their psychology and motivation. I find them hugely exciting to work with, because it is only thanks to their ambition and ingenuity that enterprise started and new wants satisfied.

There is no stereotypical personality, but one can identify characteristics that most entrepreneurs share. At heart, they are highly competitive. They do not seek security as their main goal---rather, they actively seek risk, and enjoying overcoming stressful challenges. They are not sheer gamblers, but they embrace dynamism and are willing to invent in spite of the possibility of failure.—to have a chance to win.

For many other people a contented existence might be summed up in Max Ehrmann’s poem “Desiderata”, which more or less defines the opposite of the entrepreneurs’ life: “Go placidly amid the noise and haste, Exercise caution in your business affairs.” And so on. By contrast, entrepreneurs are in a hurry: they stir things up and disrupt; they overturn companies and way of doing business; they invent better products and threaten the status quo; they relish upheaval because it presents opportunity to supplant the existing order. Look at how Google has used the internet to throw a huge explosive device among median companies.

All this innovation and change is in stark contrast to the view espoused by many philosophers and writers that happiness means stability and tranquility. To restless, striving entrepreneurs those calm objectives represent boredom. Perhaps a relaxed life is the right answer for the majority--- but to me it would be deadly dull. Where is the simulation in a safe career? I have rarely opted for the easy path when the alternative offers the possibility of something with more fireworks. To me achieving something bold and novel is meaningful, not practicing mediation.

The economist Richard Layard, who put himself as an authority on happiness, say public policy should demotivate wealth creator with higher taxation, because they exacerbate the race for status. But he also says we must eliminate high unemployment. And I suspect that these two objectives are intrinsically incompatible. Entrepreneurs, for all their rivalry and dissent, are the principle engine that can create jobs. Discouraging them will make the problem of worklessness worse.

Societies that reject material advancement, that take degrade view of humankind as a exploiter, that demonise consumerism and adopt a fatalistic perspective on our system are condemned to stagnate. Why would a world of deliberately diminished expectation lead to increased contentment? I worry that politician will they are upgrading our overall “quality of life” in order to pursue more government intrusion, greater regulation and higher levels of redistribution.

Happiness is about the independence and freedom, and vital engagement with one’s craft in a productive way. I have a faith in humanity, and applause those who attempt to improve their lot. For millions, this involves something of a heroic daily struggle. Inevitably, that is unlikely to lead to a peaceful existence.

But why should we meekly accept drudgery and disadvantage? As Teddy Roosevelt, the former US president, said: “ Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequeered by failure, than to rank with poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Bullying is happeing everywhere in the workplace.

but It is a very interesting research result conducted by he University of Southern California, challenges previous assumptions that abusive bosses are solely driven by ambition and the need to hold onto their power.

They found that the combination of incompetence and empowerment brought out the worst of human nature – and led to bullying in the workplace.

The more incompetent managers thought they were the more aggressive they became to people who worked for them, the study discovered.

One boss, who felt over his head, was even prepared to to sabotage an underling's ability to win a prize.

Another test showed that there was a way to disarm a bullying boss – by flattering them.

Bosses who were told they were good at their jobs were less aggressive, even if they started out thinking they were not that good.

However excessive flattery — long the refuge of the frustrated subordinate — may not work in the long run because it might ultimately cause the boss "to lose touch with reality".

"Incompetence alone doesn’t lead to aggression," said Serena Chen, associate professor of psychology at University of California and co-author of the study.

"It’s the combination of having a high-power role and fearing that one is not up to the task that causes power holders to lash out. And our data suggest it’s ultimately about self-worth.”

Mr Fast said that there was never an excuse for bullying – even if it led to so called "creative tension".

He said: "Is it possible that bullying can create a culture of fear that, in some cases, leads to profits? Perhaps in the short run.

"But the psychological and organisational costs associated with this approach are not worth it as far as I’m concerned.

"There is certainly a place for calculated expressions of anger or even harshness from time to time. Sometimes that motivates people to get back on track. But there is a line between an occasional display of anger or sternness and the abusive bullying that often takes place in organisations."

He said the only way for a boss to permanently stop bullying was to either work hard enough to improve their competence or to resign.

Recently, I am busying with the work and don’t have time to write something. but several days ago, find a interesting paragraph writtn by financial time bloger XU Zhiyuan, which is about the identity of ourself:

"Most people are other people, their thougts are someone else's opinon, their lives a mimicy, their passions a quotation.

By using a little inteligence he can easily classify the passers-by according to type; he can guess their social status, their habits and their occupation. A fleeting moment reveals their childhood, manhood, and old age, and then they vanish. A purely physiological study of one particular passer-by in preference to another is meaningless. If one penetrates into the minds of these people, one discovers utter nonsense. They are totally unaware of the fact that nothing is their own, that everything is part of their historical formation--their occupations, their clothes, their gestures and expressions, their beliefs and ideas. They are the force of inertia personified, victims of the delusion that each individual exists as self.”

Look forward to the concert of Edvin Marton in shanghai.

1. 很多事物的复杂性，偶然性是必然的， 试图用简单的思维去解释，指向的往往是危险的方向。更明智的方式是，去抓住其中的重点，而不是全部，这是在我们力所能及的范围之内的。胡子眉毛一把抓，是愚蠢的；面面俱到, 是不现实的。

2. 对很多事物的认知，会经历以上三个不同阶段：

第一阶段：看山是山，看水是水。

第二阶段：看山不是山，看水不是水。

第三阶段：看山还是山，看水还是水。

3. 不是我不明白，这世界变化快。