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Introduction

I have a high interest in this topic. I picked it out in advance when I saw it in the general knowledge book. It has been half a lifetime since I started to have sexual awareness. Although I have a high degree of interest, I have never really understood it in depth. On the one hand, East Asian countries seem to be very secretive about the topic of sex. On the other hand, there is really no good popular reading material. When I studied, I imagined the structure from the rough biology textbook picture. Later, I ran to the sensory stimulation of "Jin Ping Mei", "Rou Pu Tuan", "Deng Cao Monk" and adult movies.

As we grow older and the threshold is higher, these sensory stimuli gradually fade away. On the contrary, we really want to understand understanding carefully, a topic that almost everyone can't avoid. When I read Freud before, I felt Niubi, and then I doubted his theory of universality. Later, when I read Weininger's Sex and Character, I seemed to find the wrong direction. This genius went after his name, and was really unfriendly to ordinary readers like us.

However, I seemed disappointed. I had a rough look at the outline of the general knowledge book Sex Existence. It seemed that there was little introduction to the knowledge I wanted to know. It was in the direction of sexual culture. Fortunately, I also mentioned many other books in the introduction. So I'm going to read this book of Sex Existence from top to bottom, and then make a summary along with the other books it introduces, so as to solve the half life puzzle.
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summary

I am curious about people's memory. I can remember that the first memory was that there was a bed in the corner of the door of a dark house. That should be the scene when my father opened the furniture factory, but I'm not sure if it is earlier. Another early memory is that I walked on the country road with my brother, and went to his relatives' home with another partner. Then there were pomegranates blooming outside the wall. I got lost, and then I returned home somehow.

In recent years, I also feel that my memory has begun to decline. For example, I remember carrying a knife with me in the morning, but I couldn't find it. I turned around and found that the time between putting down the knife and looking for it should be less than five minutes. But there was hardly any impression.

When I was a child, my memory was very good. I had never worried about writing a composition since the third grade. The reason was that my mother bought a composition selection. In the scarce youth, the book was turned over several times, and then in the subsequent exam, almost most of the compositions were written from memory.

I have also seen many movies about genius. Without exception, the characters in the movies have super memories, even the memory of copying photos. When memorizing words, I have seen Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, but I have never practiced it. I don't know if talent is not gifted, but a person with a good memory should not be a fool.

With curiosity about memory, I opened this Oxford general knowledge book Memory to understand how science has done research on memory and what conclusions can be falsified.

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When I was young in literature and art, I disdained to read Haruki Murakami. When choosing literary and artistic works, I must be small, the words must be awkward, and the thoughts must be profound. At best, few people in the world can read Ulysses, for example. Later, it should be that the hormone retreated, and began to realize that he was an ordinary person. After being beaten by life, he began to stop literature and art. Who hasn't had a sentimental youth?

Bob Dylan sang in "Blowing in the wind": "How many roads must a man walk to be a man, and how many seas must a white dove fly to rest on the beach". One day you will realize that life is a process, not a result. It is not painful to realize this, but the painful thing is how to spend this life. I used to think that Gulong's flaming life was enviable. I think it is still related to hormones. Some people's hormones are kept at a high level all the time. Life is a battle. I once thought I was, but later I found that I was not. It was like being beaten down by the charterer in Kung Fu.

In the preface of "Running", Haruki Murakami made his own interpretation of Somerset Maugham's "Every razor has its own philosophy": about that, no matter how insignificant the action, as long as you stick to it every day, there will always be something similar to objective cognition. Only then did I realize that there might be another way of life: this kind of life, which seemed insignificant at first, could not compete in rowing at all, but gradually became a towering mountain. Just like Buffett in investment, you may not see how excellent his investment returns are in a year or two, but if you lengthen the time track to 50, 60, 70 years, there will be few rivals.

Of course, although I mentioned this book, I have forgotten almost the content. I only remember that the writer who is over 70 years old can still run a full marathon, still maintain a "serious" attitude of running ten kilometers a day, six days a week, and still maintain high-quality writing.

A life of self-discipline is worth trying.

For myself, I decided to pick up the habit of running and reading again and make two attempts:

1. Create pages, 2020/7/21 , record running data and summarize monthly.
2. Make a reading summary, sell books, and try positive and negative incentives.

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