Category: 4. Live Less Bad
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鍛鍊糊塗☁
「大智若愚」和「扮🐷食🐯」。
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The Sweetness of Tunnel Vision
Why we are addicted to getting dangerously stuck in our minds. We all know what the phrase tunnel vision or cognitive constriction means: it is a kind of rationale narrowing effect that happens inside the brain. You are dragged into this tiny narrow slit inside consciousness. It creates the difficulty, or even impossibility, for the…
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練六舊腹肌的領悟
八年的自我身體實驗
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40 Years of Being a Hong Konger
In the last few months, Hong Kong has descended into chaos. Riots, rallies, and street fights ripped through the city. I was born in the 70s, right at the watershed of the millennials and Generation X. I grew up with Nintendos and Japanese comic books. I lived through 1984 when the Mac and the Sino…
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五年一代溝
我變了一個廢老
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It’s Name is Lakitu
Is suffering a must for real reckoning and growth in life? Tiger Woods was completely humiliated during his car tree wife debacle; Steve Jobs said getting fired by his own company was the best thing that had happened to him. It is very clear that these violent jolts in life, when embraced, are soul redefining.…
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When the Buddha meets Seneca
I love Michael Pollan’s work on food. He polished his observations throughout his books, and summarized his thoughts on eating into 7 words: “Eat food, not so much, mostly plants.” I have been jumping around philosophies, from Stoicism to JonyIve-ism. Inspired by Pollan, I have arrived at 10 words that represent the current state of…
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自來熟阿伯
潮語演變之速度和頻率
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冇期望就冇失望；唔食飯就唔會肥
沒有期望，就不會失望；沒有承諾，就不會有傷害。
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Grouchy Musings of a Grump
Image Source: https://www.sharpshirter.com/blogs/news/10-grumpy-animals-having-a-worse-day-than-you As I wilt into old age, I have a few life goals left. One of them is “Don’t be grumpy”. Age brings knowledge; age also brings experiences. Wisdom forms when knowledge and experiences marinate. When wisdom meets impatience, which is the unwillingness to entertain with those who do not yet have the knowledge,…