Monday, September 12, 2022

Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness

Stephen M. Fleming
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Unlock the secrets to understanding yourself and others with the surprising science of the human mind's greatest power: introspection.

“Are you sure?”

Whether in a court room, a doctor’s office, a gameshow’s hot seat, or a student’s desk, we are always trying to answer that question. Should we accept eyewitness testimony or a physician’s diagnosis? Do we really want to risk it all on a final question? And what should we be studying in order to do as well as possible on a test? In short, how do we know what we and others know - or as importantly, don’t know?

As cognitive neuroscientist Stephen Fleming shows in Know Thyself, we do this with metacognition. Metacognition, or thinking about thinking, is the most important tool we have for understanding our own mind. Metacognition is an awesome power: It is what enables self-awareness as well as what lets us think about the minds of others. It is the ultimate human trait, and in its most rarefied forms is a power that neither other animals, nor our current artificial intelligences, have. Metacognition teaches us the limits of our own knowledge. Once we understand what it is and how it works, we can improve our performance and make better decisions. For example, on the SAT, it helps us gauge when we should skip a question rather than lose points getting an answer wrong.

Know Thyself, like the metacognition itself, is equal parts scientific, philosophical, and practical. And that means, like Thinking, Fast and Slow and Predictably Irrational, it’s that rarest of books: one that can both expand our minds and change our lives.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

玫瑰是沒有理由的開放 : 走近現代詩的40條小徑

廖偉棠
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40堂詩意講座X 63首現代詩經典。
廖偉棠帶路,說新詩也說詩人的故事,
開啟人們對情感節奏的感知,走近文字蘊藏的詩意。


詩是什麼?是文字美感。

美感是肉體感受,不是理性判斷結果,當波赫士要說明詩歌時,他引用了德語詩人西萊修斯(Angelus Silesius)的一句話做總結:玫瑰是沒有理由的開放。(The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.)

「新詩」誕生超過一百年,人們熟悉胡適、徐志摩、余光中這些著名詩人,<人間四月天>、<再別康橋>、<鄉愁>也是許多人朗朗上口的名篇,為什麼人們還是對現代詩陌生,或是認定現代詩難懂呢?

這本書是熟悉古典詩文,又熱愛現代詩創作的廖偉棠,透過四十個角度與主題,深入淺出地帶領讀者重新認識「詩意」,認識現代詩與文字的美。全書含括近百年來的經典詩人和詩作:周夢蝶、瘂弦、洛夫、夏宇、北島、顧城、西西、梁秉鈞、黃燦然、張棗、余秀華、洛爾迦、宮澤賢治、保羅·策蘭、奧登、布考斯基、辛波絲卡、胡適、卞之琳、廢名、穆旦……廖偉棠文情並茂地引詩論藝,除了是一本了解詩歌的完整論述,也是展現廖偉棠豐厚詩歌教養的創作,是現代詩的入門書。

梁文道|評論家
「到底什麼叫作詩?什麼叫作好詩?尤其,什麼樣的詩才算是一首好的現代詩呢?這個問題至今都還有很大的爭論。香港著名詩人廖偉棠,左手寫詩,右手寫評論,一樣的精彩。他來談詩,會給大家較全面的認識,尤其是現代詩。」

駱以軍|作家
「我們說電影電影,其實現代詩感覺才更像那個一瞬之電、一瞬光影。許多現代詩,它在那電流通過的詩人體腔發出陌生如在人造衛星上看地球的光,那是廖偉棠可以把中文現代詩講得那麼迷人,讓人心醉之處。」

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, September 5, 2022

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

Stanley Fish
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New York Times Bestseller

“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” – Adam Haslett, Financial Times

“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” – Slate

“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.” —Roy Blount Jr.


In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

任何人都適用的完美學習法

高榮成, 申榮俊
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★融合《快思慢想》《刻意練習》等多本著作精華的完美學習法
★韓國暢銷書、讀者高口碑評價

好的學習法,是人生堅實的支柱
跟著博士菁英與超強自學者,擁抱最高效的13堂學習課
兩位作者有著非常不同的經驗,他們網羅全球與學習相關的重要研究,
找出經科學驗證、真正有效的方法,
配合學習上會面臨的煩惱與實際輔導案例,
帶你不斷突破學習的天花板,成長、成功!

學習如果用對了方法,效果相當驚人!!

一位美國自由記者到國際記憶大賽現場採訪,驚訝的發現,得獎者的記憶力真的非常人所能及──15分鐘內能默記背出隨機選出的300個詞彙、5分鐘內能默記背出千位數的亂數數字、能記得10副亂序撲克牌的排序、能背出圓周率小數點後萬位數……簡直是記憶天才。但連著幾屆的記憶大賽冠軍告訴他,「記憶是可以靠學習的,只要你用對方法」。因此他決定報名隔年的大賽,給自己一年時間學習,結果真的贏得了冠軍獎牌!!

有鑑於此,本書的兩位作者,一位是博士菁英,一位是超強的自學者,決定研究找出最完美有效的學習法,完成一本可以幫助眾人的著作。全書除了以教育學、認知心理學、腦科學、行為經濟學等多方面理論為基礎,也輔導了數千名學生、職場工作者,有些文組的人就業失敗後,靠著持續學習,以工程師的身分重返職場;有些人從舊領域跨向新領域,得到理想的工作;有些人透過充實的系統化學習,突破自身限制,最終找到自己的夢想。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, August 29, 2022

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." ―Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society―and that we could do things differently.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人生思考題 : 哈佛教育學院院長提出的5+1個人生重要問題 (Wait, What?: And Life’s Other Essential Questions)

詹姆斯.萊恩 (James E. Ryan)
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《紐約時報》暢銷書 Amazon.com空降排行榜
哈佛大學給畢業生最棒的禮物‧感動全球900萬人精彩演說
你看過後,也會重新思考自己的日常溝通

5個平凡問題 串出非凡人生
如果你希望自己被愛、被珍惜、被尊重
就應該試著問,也試著答

網路上瘋傳的畢業典禮演講
哈佛大學教育學院院長剖析人生最重要的5+1個問題

不管在會議室或在教室,我們花了太多時間和精力在尋找正確答案。事實上,問題和答案一樣重要,甚至可能更重要。好問題能讓我們超越有限的認知,勇敢面對困難、未知、令人尷尬,甚至不愉快的處境,讓我們對人際關係和世界有更深入的了解。

哈佛大學教育學院院長詹姆斯.萊恩在本書指出問與答的奧妙,帶我們領略美國首席大法官的思辨過程,提醒我們經常詢問人生最重要的五個基本問題,包括:

• 「等等,你說什麼?」,是所有了解的根源。
• 「我想知道……?」,是所有好奇心的核心。
• 「至少,我們是不是能夠……?」,是所有進展的開始。
• 「我能夠幫什麼忙?」,是所有良好關係的基礎。
• 「真正重要的是什麼?」,能夠幫助我們找到生命的核心。

本書充滿許多幽默、動人的小故事,從美國最高法院、哈佛大學、殘障兒童之家到急診室,還有作者的身世。只要我們經常詢問這五個問題,就能夠回答人生加分題:「即便如此,今生今世,你是否已經了無遺憾?」本書妙趣橫生,說理深刻又感人,將永遠改變你對問題的看法。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)