The beauty of literature

Writing is an art, like other formations of art. Here are some of writing reflect of artistic writing in Chinese as we sometimes can see advanced English literal writing that reflect writer's decent level of talented writing skills and the wised mind behind the words and sentences.

In many reading materials, I always can see the belief as of whatever language Western world can not read or understand the beauty of that language, and then that culture or civilization equals non-existing. In contrary to the Westerns, I felt good I can appreciated the beauty of Chinese language and the fantastic asset of its culture, for sometimes they provides various extra space for me to enjoy the spiritual richness more than others can.

愛讀書的人未必有錢多金、未必功業彪炳、未必情場得意、未必家庭幸福人生美滿，然而每當橫逆來襲，挫折迎面之際，他們總比不讀書的人多了一份餘裕的迴旋空間和從容的應對姿態!

身為讀者，對於"主動閱讀的方式"的啟蒙: 作家以深刻厚實的作品，來提昇讀者的品味及素養，也是其想向讀者致敬的方式。

把人的生命當成一個寓言來看，那麼人的一生其實都在流亡。比如母親生下我們之後，我們被這外界的許許多多去推移、前進，其中一定有一些態度是可以用來自處及觀看世界的.看他如何展現流亡中的自在. 於是，書寫者走得多遠，我們就跟得多遠，而那時，我們自我的品質、觀看生命的方法也將有所不同。

在紛亂動盪的世局下，小小的凡人終究會反應出一套屬於自己的生存方式，其中或許有些無奈，卻是人生最真實的寫照。 ---Thinking about most of us all are one of this group of people.

旅行為何如此迷人？讓人甘願葬身其中!有人說那是一種逃避，有人說那是一種轉移! 如果有時空因素，少年狂放、中年沈斂、老年蒼勁的心境起伏，那該是多麼複雜而迷人的一個心靈活動過程呀！....再讀"轉山"後記!

領導者做對的事，經理人則把事情做對」。… 華倫．班尼斯（Warren Bennis）
此書以
1.如何定義問題
2.找尋相關資料
3.執行時程規劃
4.修正錯誤
5.監督以貫徹目標
的完整思考與行動架構，期許組織領導者都皆將能做好現代組織有關人事決斷、策略決斷、危機決斷此最重要的三大決斷

*我正以自己的步調學習重新認識自己「是」什麼? 也許是一種有機會能溫暖人心的回憶和價值感!

作者展現流浪中的自在生活，感受著人間的真性情!

也許這就是歷史! 多年以後的今天﹐再三回顧我們走過的來時路依然看到這條路上的繁花似錦!

"扭曲的自尊，深沉的惡意"
Do you believe this has became a field of science in USA, for the need of management in working place by psychological manupulation usually peopole who major in psychiatry will has lab work or project for this kind of subject?
It is a very advanced new science in developed country; especially in USA. This is a mandatory training; especially for those people who being promoted to be in management level, they need to take training like this to have their infirior to obey their instruction at working place.
It is a science.

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

"幸福? 吾人會希望: １專業技能, ２倫理道德, ３人文精神, ４社會關懷."

" 關於 生活價值? 吾人也希望:

1 對歷史與文化有感情,

2 對傳統與倫理有溫情,

3 對鄉土與社區有熱情. "

Book discussion page, please link to:

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Well said! This is the 生活價值 spiritually. This is traditionally Chinese scholar style way of living, this idealism passed down onto you, me, million of us... It is this belief that lead our lives living on in high spirit from generation to generation.... It is probably also is what you said the spirit of Taiwan. I am searching the solution about the problem of 生活價值 materially as the example I addressed. Quality of material in our living place reflecting our 生活價值.

As we can not meditate, forcus on spiritual life, in a gabage dumpsite. And I do wish place my brain in a clearner container. In fact, as we can see usually is the big boss or big business owner can have the money to put their brain in a cleaner container. We, as an ordinary person and plus if live in Chinese society, will definately can not afford a clearner container to put our lives into it. In order to afford a clearner living place, everyone in developing country needs to chase money with all skills plus lie and do whatever they could to steal for it. Who causes this? Government.

Why people in developing countries apply green card want to move to a developed country? Becasue the better material living environment that includes cleaner, better designed, better built, better managed, every solid materials as hardware and the design/management as software in the living environment. Chinese has very high density in population in living sapce, that might includes whole Asia.

While the living space is so jampacked, combined with the whether of 3/4 seasons a year are stormy raining time. Molds and fungus is an inevitable living condition, if there is no scientist in Taiwan has the brain to figue out the solution. Does Taiwan has scientist? I am not talking about the scientist making computer chips, I am talking about the scientist working in the fields of living environment quality improvement. Thank you.

Look at these Faces! They are those American working on the back stage of this powferul country.

The faces write with intelligence.

They are truly American Beauty.

What is American Culture to those people outside of the United States can see? Popular sitcom, movie, movie star, rock stars, famous celebrities..........those people who under spot light......

Who truly lay the foundation of this country to be strong and solid? Many of them working in each fields behind the stage that spot linght can't reach; they focus on precisely measurement and labor. Magnificent highway bridge, cross continent traffic network, famous landmarks, high sky rises.....from idea to meetings, to projecting, to blue print, to physical labor working on field, to complete the project.

What we usually can see is the photo picture of celebration of the completed product, a completed project with confetti party. We can't see those faces with solid knowledge bond with the mind of precisely determination to physically working on the project. We, as audience, missed the most beautiful images of the whole process. Here are the images reflecting those beauty in the quiet back stage.

You can link to here to read more if you are interested in construction project: http://www.pacific-geotechnical.com/areas_of_expertise.php

The Sleek style from Apple again.

The thinnest notebook launched in March 2008.

The day I received the Ad from mail, opened it and still couldn't help with a "wow"; even though, I am belong to the group of consumers couldn't afford it. This article is not product promoting, for I personally don't have any Apple products. Let's just talking about designing here.

The mailed Ad designed interestingly with a 9'x12' yellow envelope with the introduction image of the world thinnest notebook just fit right into this envelope.

The design work from Apple always give people a undeniable "cool" look. We all know Mr. Steve Job has very good taste in developing his series of Apple products. Let's see the designing part to introduce a person behind the scene about another Apple product here:

Jonathan Ive, Head of Design at Apple, is a modern master of design. The recent Time magazine "What's Next" issue reminded me of a great article I read years ago in Fast Company about Jonathan Ive's approach to design. Why We Buy explains Ive's rules on how to create "design with power, passion, and purpose.

This short article quoted from: http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_archive.html

The link to the article of "Why We Buy", a very good commercial article written by Charles Fishman: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/29/buy.html

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

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用師者王、用友者霸、用徒者亡........曾子

當政治議題「過熱」時，其他與人民福祉密切相關的議題──教育、環保、文化藉由「排擠效果」，扭曲社會資源的合理配置，以及政府政策應有的優先次序。
進入二十一世紀，先進國家一個公共政策的重要共識：不是政治性的，而是知識性的。那就是要盡全力──個人的、社區的、企業的、政府的──來提升人的品質。人的動機似乎都來自天生對自尊的追求，而自尊則大多來自他人的認同。而「以知識為根基」的新經濟，就是不斷地對個人要持續投資，對人力資源要充分利用。從這個角度來看，二十一世紀可以稱為「人本」新世界──以人的品質為本，以人的福祉為核心，以人類幸福的提升為共同目標。在今天高所得的國家中，由於人的品質的普遍提升，人人都享有公平的機會，人人都享有同樣的尊嚴。對正在努力追求優質生活的台灣社會，全面提升人的品質，當然是最迫切而重要的公共政策。
我們的新世界裡:政黨可以替換，政治人物可以替換，公共政策上對人的品質的重視不能替換。台灣之所以能立足於世界，整體反映出來的就是台灣的生命力。這股堅韌的生命力，是全體人民用來追求財富、用來追求自我實現、用來追求家庭幸福、用來追求優質生活，以及用來追求新世界的奉獻。這些生命力在台灣的展現，也符合經濟發展過程中所出現的各種學說與解釋：家計單位的人民擁有強烈的就業成就動機、旺盛的企業家精神、市場經濟中揮舞的「一隻看不見的手……。

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"人的動機似乎都來自天生對自尊的追求" Everyone has different definition of self-esteem. Agree?

"而自尊則大多來自他人的認同" We want to feel proud of ourselves, and earn respect from others, but we do more care what is important to us, to our lives. For an individual person like me, I couldn't afford to earn recognition from everybody, that will take too much work for me to pleasing people. I just work and live with my own standard I feel comfortable with, it might not be other people's standard, and I can not ask everybody to keep up or lower down their standard to comply with mine. If they feel happy keep same level with me or being around, that we can has a chance be friends.

This book has one sentence I think is a pretty good insight for a person with Mr. Greenspan's age to said: "Age will change our ambition and goal, which might different from our ideal dream when we were young." Many politicians originally has very high dream to get into the fields of public works, they met numerous obstacles, temptations, gradually their dream fading away in the middle of somewhere, they in the end forgot what drive them into here, or they do not think that dream is important anymore. It is really not easy.

"Mind" drives everything.--I agree with your emphasis in this article.

Taiwan lack of leaders that willing to lift up a higher living standard for its citizens, who live in that uncomfortable climate. I sometime blame the religion of Buddhism working too hard in that small island to convince people unconditional take-in, accept what you can have. Buddhism convince people not to have desire to work for a better life. Their theory is stopping people looking for technology and better equipment to create a more comfortable life to live. When everyone accept what they can have, government don't need to work for better or higher standard of living. White world has better leaders to take care of their white people's life, so everyone in developing country all wants to immigrate to white world. But, looking at the citizen in white world; they still complain about their leaders. They are not Buddhism, they will always supervise their learders to work on looking ways to better their lives.

CIA Define the World.

Link here to read more:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

I was checking with dictionary online and accidentally it also showed the definition from CIA, I then was attracted by these three abbreviated letters and read on..

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World
Background Globally, the 20th century was marked by: (a) two devastating world wars; (b) the Great Depression of the 1930s; (c) the end of vast colonial empires; (d) rapid advances in science and technology, from the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (US) to the landing on the moon; (e) the Cold War between the Western alliance and the Warsaw Pact nations; (f) a sharp rise in living standards in North America, Europe, and Japan; (g) increased concerns about the environment, including loss of forests, shortages of energy and water, the decline in biological diversity, and air pollution; (h) the onset of the AIDS epidemic; and (i) the ultimate emergence of the US as the only world superpower. The planet's population continues to explode: from 1 billion in 1820, to 2 billion in 1930, 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1988, and 6 billion in 2000. For the 21st century, the continued exponential growth in science and technology raises both hopes (e.g., advances in medicine) and fears (e.g., development of even more lethal weapons of war).
Map of World : as shown above.
The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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When I live in Asia, I used to feel funny when I am reading book about the describing name of these: Near East, Middle East, East, Far East........ Where is the standing point of these locations being named?.............Where am I when I reading these names of locations?

When we read books published in Western world, we can always see the map layout like this. Which continents is closer to the concern of decision makers, or the book writer's consideration of story setting? In the begining, I felt sad of being left out. Now, I get used to with this and I think different when I get older.

Chinese proverb said: "Distance is farther, emperor is farther, controlling is farther." Today we might need to think distance keep safety between human's relationship, countries as well. I sometime just turning aroung to find another reason make myself happier to redefine the Westerner's point of view when I disagree with it.

Thank God give me the wisdom I need to rethink and redefinate something bothered me. When the outside world can't change, we change ourself.