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.”