History is just a continuous cycle. I know that the flag has been set up enough times, but it is not always necessary to set up a flag, or it will suddenly wither one day. It is usually like this. Decadence leads to anxiety. Anxiety seeks relief. Finding something temporarily alleviates anxiety, and then moving on to the old road again. It is generally a process like this. But I am still a rational optimist. I think that although history goes round and round, it will eventually rise in a cycle, just as we will never see the monarchy again, and life will be better than before. Of course you can oppose it, but the emperor a hundred years ago will not play empty tune in this summer.
In fact, I'm still a bit of a pursuer for myself. Generally speaking, it's nothing more than being healthy, smart, and a little penny. In yesterday's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running", I actually wanted to do a little deliberate management of my health over a long time span. Of course, I didn't expect to run a marathon in three hours, nor did I expect to exercise every day seven days a week to train myself horizontally. A 51% completion rate in a year is enough. For people, it's better to be moderate, not too progressive, and not too decadent. That's all.
In my mind, I also want to be smart. Just like running, I don't expect too much. I will develop the habit of reading, read more books, and if I encounter problems of interest, I will rely on God's talent to dig below. As for how far I can reach, it's just a matter of watching the sky.
So I'm going to start with the Oxford General Reader.
The Very Short Introduction series (VSI series for short) is a series of books published by Oxford University Press since 1995. Each of these books gives a concise and concise introduction to a specific topic. Almost all of the readings are written by recognized experts in the field, with a length of 100 – 150 pages, and include suggestions for further in-depth reading. The authors often provide personal opinions, but each reader tries to be neutral and complete.
Of course, according to the past failure experience, this is the same problem as the collector's habit. When I learned about the electric donkey, when I met good data, I directly received them all, downloaded them regardless of the network speed, and then kept lying in the computer hard disk until the hard disk flooded. I found that those precious data were lost, because I had never seen them. People tend to overestimate their ability and time, which is not good, so this time I'm going to make a selection and read it. The so-called general knowledge is probably to let you know, first screen the topics you are interested in, and then try to read them when you read them. If you are particularly interested in them, you can explore them further. If you read general knowledge thoroughly, there is no need to continue.
Then according to the list on Wikipedia, this is also a big project. I tried to simply select the following 40 books. Fortunately, these books are not very long, and then try to read them in order.
Only this, another flag is formed.
| sequence |
title |
| one |
memory |
| two |
Buddhism |
| three |
music |
| four |
Psychology |
| five |
Islamism |
| six |
Politics |
| seven |
Sociology |
| eight |
history |
| nine |
logic |
| ten |
Descartes |
| eleven |
Nietzsche |
| twelve |
Darwin |
| thirteen |
Freud |
| fourteen |
Russell |
| fifteen |
World Music |
| sixteen |
cryptography |
| seventeen |
Choice theory |
| eighteen |
Art theory |
| nineteen |
ideology |
| twenty |
evolution |
| twenty-one |
Kafka |
| twenty-two |
tragedy |
| twenty-three |
journalism |
| twenty-four |
brain |
| twenty-five |
economics |
| twenty-six |
Photography |
| twenty-seven |
nature |
| twenty-eight |
The meaning of life |
| twenty-nine |
statistics |
| thirty |
Film music |
| thirty-one |
advertisement |
| thirty-two |
genius |
| thirty-three |
sleep |
| thirty-four |
probability |
| thirty-five |
anxious |
| thirty-six |
love |
| thirty-seven |
social psychology |
| thirty-eight |
study |
| thirty-nine |
democratic |
| forty |
mathematics |
