SNACK HACKS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU EAT

via WonderHowTo

Dunk your apple slices in honey water (2 tbsp of honey and one cup of water) for 30 seconds and your apple will be good to go for up to eight hours!

自由 安定

「因為人會變，生活會變，家，也跟著變質。 渴望安定時，很多人進入一個家；渴望自由時，很多人又逃離一個家。 渴望安定的人也許遇見的是一個渴望自由的人，尋找自由的人也許愛上的是一個尋找安定的人。 家，一不小心就變成了一個沒有溫暖、只有壓迫的地方。 外面的世界固然荒涼，但是家可能更寒冷。 一個人固然寂寞，兩個人孤燈下無言相對卻可能更寂寞。 很多人在家散了之後就開始終身流浪。 」

The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness

Unless you’re winning, most of life will seem hideously unfair to you.

The truth is, life is just playing by different rules.

The real rules are there. They actually make sense. But they’re a bit more complicated, and a lot less comfortable, which is why most people never manage to learn them.

Let’s try.

Rule #1: Life is a competition

That business you work for? Someone’s trying to kill it. That job you like? Someone would love to replace you with a computer program. That girlfriend / boyfriend / high-paying job / Nobel Prize that you want? So does somebody else.

We’re all in competition, although we prefer not to realise it. Most achievements are only notable relative to others. You swam more miles, or can dance better, or got more Facebook Likes than the average. Well done.

It’s a painful thing to believe, of course, which is why we’re constantly assuring each other the opposite. “Just do your best”, we hear. “You’re only in competition with yourself”. The funny thing about platitudes like that is they’re designed to make you try harder anyway. If competition really didn’t matter, we’d tell struggling children to just give up.

Fortunately, we don’t live in a world where everyone has to kill each other to prosper. The blessing of modern civilisation is there’s abundant opportunities, and enough for us all to get by, even if we don’t compete directly.

But never fall for the collective delusion that there’s not a competition going on. People dress up to win partners. They interview to win jobs. If you deny that competition exists, you’re just losing. Everything in demand is on a competitive scale. And the best is only available to those who are willing to truly fight for it.

Rule #2. You’re judged by what you do, not what you think

Society judges people by what they can do for others. Can you save children from a burning house, or remove a tumour, or make a room of strangers laugh? You’ve got value right there.

That’s not how we judge ourselves though. We judge ourselves by ourthoughts.

“I’m a good person”. “I’m ambitious”. “I’m better than this.” These idle impulses may comfort us at night, but they’re not how the world sees us. They’re not even how we see other people.

Well-meaning intentions don’t matter. An internal sense of honour and love and duty count for squat. What exactly can you and have you done for the world?

Abilities are not prized by their virtue. Whatever admiration society awards us, comes from the selfish perspectives of others. A hard working janitor is less rewarded by society than a ruthless stockbroker. A cancer researcher is rewarded less than a supermodel. Why? Because those abilities are rarer and impact more people.

We like to like to think that society rewards those who do the best work. Like so:

But in reality, social reward is just a network effect. Reward comes down mostly to the number of people you impact:

Write an unpublished book, you’re nobody. Write Harry Potter and the world wants to know you. Save a life, you’re a small-town hero, but cure cancer and you’re a legend. Unfortunately, the same rule applies to all talents, even unsavoury ones: get naked for one person and you might just make them smile, get naked for fifty million people and you might just be Kim Kardashian.

You may hate this. It may make you sick. Reality doesn’t care. You’re judged by what you have the ability to do, and the volume of people you can impact. If you don’t accept this, then the judgement of the world will seem very unfair indeed.

Rule #3. Our idea of fairness is self interest

People like to invent moral authority. It’s why we have referees in sports games and judges in courtrooms: we have an innate sense of right and wrong, and we expect the world to comply. Our parents tell us this. Our teachers teach us this. Be a good boy, and have some candy.

But reality is indifferent. You studied hard, but you failed the exam. You worked hard, but you didn’t get promoted. You love her, but she won’t return your calls.

The problem isn’t that life is unfair; it’s your broken idea of fairness.

Take a proper look at that person you fancy but didn’t fancy you back. That’s a complete person. A person with years of experience being someone completely different to you. A real person who interacts with hundreds or thousands of other people every year.

Now what are the odds that among all that, you’re automatically their first pick for love-of-their-life? Because – what – you exist? Because you feel something for them? That might matter to you, but their decision is not about you.

Similarly we love to hate our bosses and parents and politicians. Their judgements are unfair. And stupid. Because they don’t agree with me! And they should! Because I am unquestionably the greatest authority on everything ever in the whole world!

It’s true there are some truly awful authority figures. But they’re not all evil, self-serving monsters trying to line their own pockets and savour your misery. Most are just trying to do their best, under different circumstances to your own.

Maybe they know things you don’t – like, say, your company will go bust if they don’t do something unpopular. Maybe they have different priorities to you – like, say, long term growth over short term happiness.

But however they make you feel, the actions of others are not some cosmic judgement on your being. They’re just a byproduct of being alive.

Why life isn’t fair

Our idea of fairness isn’t actually obtainable. It’s really just a cloak for wishful thinking.

Can you imagine how insane life would be if it actually was ‘fair’ to everyone? No-one could fancy anyone who wasn’t the love of their life, for fear of breaking a heart. Companies would only fail if everyone who worked for them was evil. Relationships would only end when both partners died simultaneously. Raindrops would only fall on bad people.

Most of us get so hung up on how we think the world should work that we can’t see how it does. But facing that reality might just be the key to unlocking your understanding of the world, and with it, all of your potential.

http://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-is-unfair-its-your-broken-idea-of-fairness/

My 2013 resolution haaa

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-poach-an-egg-2014-10?utm_content=buffered807&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Mad people

Stain solutions

http://web.extension.illinois.edu/stain/index.cfm

影響我最深的十本書及影視

Tagged by Wenny, Eric and Cyrus

It’s been quite a long time I haven’t played the tag games ( more popular in Xanga’s time I guess? )

Not the list of recommendation, just those which influence me or mean sth to me ( actually I do feel a bit embarrassed and ng ho e c as most of you give a list of sophisticated and inspirational books yet mine looks a bit shallow ~_~ )

BOOKS

老夫子

Um, actually I started my reading habit because of this comic book :P ( and some silly thing happened because of this book as well ) I hated reading a lot before and it’s the first book I read other that those textbooks.

The Little Prince

Super super super great one

To be frank, I got bored when I read it in my early secondary school life, and thought it was overrated. After that I picked it up again in my yr 2. It shocked me and gave me significant impacts and reflection towards love and life. And different strong feelings come across when I re-read it every time.

English dictionary

The best pastime in class when I was in secondary school

Agatha Christie’s series

It’s not my fav books yet they are recommended by one of the teachers I respect a lot. Just I was asked to read one every week and the way he taught me to read influenced me a lot, really really thanks

The Alchemist

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“楊小邪”series

Classic! Super hilarious novels. I read them when I was in my summer break of secondary school.

張小嫻’s 小說

Read them when I was at the age of 少女情懷總是詩, would cry and feel pretty upset after finishing the books yet still couldn’t stop flipping the pages. After reading them some moths and one day I found that it’s kinda stupid act to read and cry and read and cry, and there is no reason to make myself unhappy and a bit tired of it, then I stopped reading them anymore. After that, I seldom read her books lu (though I am still a 少女 :P)

100 Simple Secrets of Happy People

A great reminder, plus I love point form.

通勝

You would know why if you know me well enough :P

Movie

Serendipity

It’s just very me. I do love the movie a lot, and this word as well.

3-Iron

A Korean movie, quite interesting and full of symbols, perhaps less than 10 dialogues in the movie. I don’t know how it influences me but just it just pops up in my mind hahaha

The Fifth Element

It’s in the list because I wrote a diary entry talking about how much I didn’t wanna go to the movie with my family and eventually I enjoyed the movie a lot.

Enchanted, Blue Valentine

Heart breaking ones, yes true for Enchanted as well though it seems to be a love comedy

When Harry Met Sally, Before Sunrise before sunset before midnight

Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk, some thought provoking conversations

12 Angry Men, 12 Monkeys

OK, here’s the joke.

When a friend recommended 12 angry men to me and eventually I watched 12 monkeys…we started the discussion for some while and wondered why we were talking different languages…

Still, both movies are nice

The Double Life of Veronique

The bonding, it just pops up in my mind once I have weird feelings that I cannot explain :P

Love Letter

How are you?

Thanks for tagging :)

Total 20 still ;)

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And then you kissed me II

林二汶 樂子

樂子

有一天，我看見一個我很喜歡的朋友做了一件事，然後我就明白為什麼我如此喜歡這個朋友了。 一天我跟這位朋友去買東西，他駕駛。買完東西之後我們都要趕回家休息，很可惜途上遇上歷時很久的塞車，結果我們塞在路上，因為累和肚子餓，大家都沒有說話，而我感覺到他其實開始很不耐煩，因為他真的又餓又累了。當我們終於可以開車回家，在途上，本來很憫的他，突然間想起在路上有一家店的麵包很好吃，於是他就立刻駕駛去那家店，買他最喜歡吃的東西，吃完，他就快樂起來。從這件事我看到，這位朋友最可愛的地方是，他也有情緒，但他總會找到方法讓那個不可愛的情緒停止。這種人，就是真正快樂的人，因為他有個意識，不要讓不好的情緒干擾自己。他其實不是刻意要自己快樂起來，只是在一個會讓他發脾氣的路上，他就會自動找到一些樂子讓自己滿足和輕鬆過來。對我來說，這是一種生存的智慧。 懂得找樂子的人，只要他找樂子的動機不是傷害別人，這種就是生存的智慧。 人生中，我們總會遇上很多不同種類的不快樂，我們可以選擇讓這些不快樂纏繞我們，但我們也可以選擇用一個讓自己快樂的方式來拆解這些不快樂。生存，其實有很多很多不同的方法。在適當的時候懂得找樂子，是讓自己健康和對別人好的生存之道。我特別欣賞那些不輕易讓自己不快樂的人，因為他懂得生命本來是美好的。就算不是腦袋「懂得」生命是美好的，他的心靈也很自然就往快樂那邊靠，不怨懟，這種人最可愛。 林二汶

林二汶 增長

One of my fav pieces

增長

我們總是期望世界會一直給機會我們，我們都相信，努力過後，還是要等待機會來臨才可以發揮。 你問問自己，有多少時候是等待機會來臨的？你自問很努力，但你還是渴望上天給你舒服的發展機會才出擊。當眼前的機會不是你想要的時候，你就埋怨這個機會不是最好的。好像你進了一家公司，以你的學歷，你應該得到的應該是主管的位置，或者，至少你在公司不應該只處理簡單文件那麼不重要。你很努力地處理文件，然後你洩氣，因為就算多努力，處理文件畢竟都是很雜務的工作，所以你開始討厭眼前的工作。曾經有一個CEO，當CEO之前，他從小職員開始做起，起初他只負責寄信，但他看到的不只是寄信，他看到的是信背後的意義。他用心認識要寄那些信的原因，然後他開始查閱很多關於公司營運的脈絡。有一次，碰巧有機會上司要問他一些關於公司的問題，他可以很清楚地解答，於是他就慢慢晉升，到最後變成公司的CEO。這個故事，有點神化，也有點老套。是的，你是否會遇上一個肯提攜自己的老闆還是一種運氣，不過，遇上不遇上，不是你努不努力的原因。 當人家給你100元，要你做100元價值的東西，你最好要求自己做夠200元的價值。那不是給人家看的，是給自己看的。你見到你自己值200 元，那麼你就會吸引值200元的工作。做200元的工作，你就做到值300元，那麼層層增長下去，你就會遇上真正的機會。這是很老套，很神化，但千真萬確的事。難就難在要我們可以樂觀地相信，然後快樂地做。從來機會四周都是，但用什麼態度和力量去好好把握，這個才是最重要的課題。

林二汶 朋友間的浪漫

朋友間的浪漫

浪漫不止在愛情，朋友間也可以很浪漫，因為浪漫，跟接吻和心跳沒有直接關係的。 愛情間的浪漫對每個人的定義都不同。有些人覺得只要一起在巴黎鐵塔，就算只是觀光，就算有多擠擁，就算湧了上去塔頂望下去那個巴黎，卻發現跟明信片差很遠，只要有巴黎鐵塔這個浪漫指標，一切就是浪漫。友情間的浪漫，有時候比愛情間的還珍貴。兩個人電光火石走在一起，擦出很深的友誼火花，這種浪漫很難得。我記得我跟我的朋友有很多浪漫事。例如是讀書的時候，放學我們就約定在門口等，放學前的幾小時就開始期待見面，因為知道一見面就會有無窮無盡的話題。在門口一見面，我們就說，不如一直走一直聊。於是我們從九龍塘步行到尖沙嘴碼頭，走了兩個小時，大家一點也不累。我忘記說了什麼話，但是我肯定我們一生都記得這些畫面。深深印在腦海的片段，能夠讓你回味很久的片段，就是浪漫。我很喜歡跟朋友散步，因為散步就是真真正正兩個人一起走在路上，沿途的風景是話題，就算連沉默也可以是話題。當兩個朋友走在一起，大家不跟大家聊天，但感受到對方在身旁就感覺很好，這也是一種很大的浪漫，浪漫得可能連情侶也沒有辦法分享。朋友間的肝膽相照也是浪漫，因為大家在大家的眼神中，看到的是肯定。那種肯定就是：我肯定，只要你需要，我就在你身旁。 假如你找到這樣的朋友，你就好好繼續這樣浪漫下去。假如你找到能夠如此當你朋友的情人，那就請你，好好愛下去，記得友誼永固。 林二汶

林二汶 聚散

聚散

常常聽到很多人說，人來人往，總有些人要進入你的生命，也有些人一定要離開。也許在我們這個二十尾三十頭的年紀，大部分人都沒有經歷過很多生離死別。經歷過的所謂道別，就是與一些不能再跟自己快樂地在一起的朋友，在成長中因為各走各路而別離。 我記得出來工作後不久，跟從前一些很死黨的朋友出來見面。見到面的時候，嘴裏很高興的說着從前大家怎麼樣，喉嚨卻不知道梗着什麼，有些話想說但說不出。心裏好像有隻手努力掩着臉龐，另一隻手就拉着線，你一放手，大家就會從此分開兩個世界。你知道，你現在的面貌不要隨便給他們看到，好好的喝過這餐茶就好，大家嘗試保留着從前靠在一起時的大家就好。也許現在的你不是變壞了，但你知道，只要你稍一不慎露出現在的自己，你們就得承認，那些一起靠着大家過的日子真的過去了。那一刻我明白，原來分開不是說一句再見，而是相見，但見到的大家已經是另一個人。 也許生命的過程本身就是列車，但你不能只在一輛列車上停留，你會不斷的轉車。有些朋友留在原本的列車上，你搭上下一班車，車從路軌緩緩開出，某一刻，它跟你離開的那一班列車交錯而過時，在窗裏見到的對方，已經變成彼此的風景。 「聚散有時」四個大字毫不留情地寫在成長那一章，需要多少次在不同的道別裏哽咽過，你才可以坦然地明白這些字？是的，有些人不能跟你一起搭上同一班列車，但他們守着一個連你自己也不再看見的自己，這種珍貴，也有讓我們微笑的理由吧？

林二汶 千萬不要

千萬不要

當大家有什麼不開心的時候，千萬不要忘記相擁。每個意見分歧是雙方認識大家的機會，相愛，沒有原因要因為一些可以商討和溝通的事而忘記擁抱對方。是的，意見分歧總是能夠將雙方割開，而且當討論的過程出現讓對方都傷心的時刻，我們更加難以讓大家軟化下來將大家抱緊。只是，其實都是因為太深愛，所以傷口可以愈痛和愈深，既然相愛，不要讓傷口變成鴻溝，要用擁抱提醒大家我們的牽線還是把大家緊緊相連。 當我們有什麼感受時，千萬不要忘記可以跟對方坦誠以對。真話總是難以吞下，然而，真話也是唯一可以讓彼此消除隔膜的良藥。每個人也有自己的底線與堅持，當然，跟你如此相愛的人，每當因為一些界線讓你們不能走近，大家總是會覺得難過，但當大家的底線清楚讓大家看見，疼惜對方的話，你們總會找到一個方法讓大家也能夠好好活在大家身邊。做當然做比說難多了，但這也是大家能夠相處下去的最好辦法與學習。 當你愛着的時候，千萬不要忘記，能夠愛着是多麼幸福的事。一起走的路總會遇上挫折，那些挫折可以是教你泄氣的理由，但它們也可以是你們應該走下去的理由。因為相愛幸福，挫折就是屬於你們的其中一些精彩故事，也是讓旅程豐富的小插曲。兩個人能夠修得到那麼大的緣分再在今生相擁，假如放開不是你們想要的結果，那麼就應該抱得更緊。 最後，千萬不要忘記「我愛你」。「我愛你」這幾個字，就是你們關係的根基。要是彼此心裏都有一句「我愛你」，那麼就請握緊大家走下去。

林二汶 關於愛的「 為什麼」

關於愛的「 為什麼」

為什麼在不能信任的時候，你更加要去信任？ 因為信任是勇氣。當關係沒有足夠的勇氣去經營，這段關係其實沒有把握。是的，愛人總有機會做了一些事情讓你懷疑他是否能夠繼續信任下去，但一個人要成為真正值得信任的人，除了有關他天生的性格是否夠好之外，也有關他是否願意從經歷學習。一個人如果因為愛而願意透過學習而變成可信的人，他有的誠信比天生就是老實的人也許更堅厚，因為他做的選擇經過思考和用心。假如你真的決定愛下去，那麼你要做的是跟他一起學習經營信任，要是不愛了，那麼你可以直接跳往下一段。 為什麼當你覺得軟弱的時候，你更加應該要堅強？ 因為當你軟弱無力的時候，你沒有的就是堅強。當你可以堅強，那麼你還害怕什麼軟弱呢？當然你可以反駁：「要是我已經很堅強，那我又怎會軟弱呢？」我所說的堅強，並不是退而求其次地告訴自己你可以失去你本來認為重要的人和事，而是去好好想想如何珍惜你覺得重要的東西，這種堅強是有付出的。這是很困難的，因為軟弱的時候，好像沒有什麼東西可以支撐你，但那些日子還是要過去，堅強還是應該成為最後的選擇，因為你還要活下去。既然要活下去，那麼就不如對自己要求高一點，選擇活得更好更陽光吧？ 為什麼不要隨便放棄？ 因為當你決定放棄，以上說的一切其實都沒有意義，而你們之間經歷過的一切，也沒有意義。其實，能走下去的最大理由都只是愛。為什麼要愛下去，就是因為愛，你還需要找其他原因嗎？

林二汶 信任與欺騙

信任與欺騙

很多人在信任與欺騙裏面徘徊，當中千絲萬縷的感覺非筆墨所能形容。不過，我多想一點，究竟信任是什麼？而欺騙又是什麼？ 你相信這個人對你絕對真誠，但有一次他不小心做錯事，你就覺得一切信任都毀了。也許是他背着你結識了新朋友，你覺得，要是他心中沒有鬼，那麼為什麼不能告訴你呢？於是你認為你們之間的真誠破壞了。那一刻，沒有求證過真正原因之下，你的心可能已經涼了一截。他這個「不真誠」的行為就像一把刀，將你們之間的信任割開，但其實你有沒有想過，是你自己看見刀就衝過去將刀插在自己身上？先別管他背後的原因是什麼，你先問自己，要是你覺得自己對他有絕對的信任，那為什麼你連去求證的動作也不做，就直接為對方判罪？這一刻你要做的，不是質疑對方可不可信，而是問自己壓根底兒相信對方多少。假如你發現，原來在這麼一個考驗裏面，你看到自己對他的信任不是十足十的，那麼你先需要知道原因。也許是你底蘊裏根本不敢太相信任何人，遇上眼前這個人讓你覺得可以投資信任，你將心放下去，但你的信任，原來脆弱得不堪一擊。那麼，你可以深深思考一下，究竟是你自己本身不懂得真正的信任是什麼一回事，還是對方真的在欺騙你？ 大部分的欺騙都不是存心的，遇上有動機地做騙子的人，跟遇上絕對真誠的人一樣難，因為人本來就沒有那麼一面倒。很多時候我們覺得的欺騙與不真誠，根本就是溝通問題碰巧刺痛內心脆弱之處。懷疑的時候就問，連問也不問，談什麼信任？

林二汶 運氣

運氣

「我不知道哪裏得到這麼大的運氣，上天居然讓我擁有這樣一個你。」 有一天在facebook看見朋友status寫着這樣一句，然後還tag了他的男朋友。換轉是從前，我不會明白為什麼要這麼公開示愛。然而，當我也經歷自己的故事時，就立刻明白，其實公開這些感覺不是「晒命」，而是，就算有多少人看見或聽見你的宣言，你也不會覺得尷尬，因為你真的快樂得你想要整個宇宙都知道你的喜悅。 找到這麼一個人的感覺是這樣的：當你在某一個瞬間肯定對方就是這麼一個人，你方才明白原來自己從來都欠缺了一半，當對方來臨你的生命，你才真正明白「完整」原來是這個意思。這個人將你最壞的脾氣都收起，因為看着他你會捨不得發脾氣；這個人讓你想把自己變得更好，因為你害怕你不夠好的話上天會將這份幸福收起；這個人讓你想自己身體健康，因為你害怕身體不好你不可以長長久久地對着這個人，你很想以後都可以清醒地在他身邊照顧他和好好地仔細看他；這個人在你身邊的時候你不想睡覺，因為每一秒都變得那麼短，你怕看漏一眼會錯過他一點什麼；這個人教你明白理財的重要，因為只有好好理財，你們才可以擁有富足而安穩的生活，最重要的是，你不想他捱，你只想他安好。 人家說有運氣你就會遇上對的人，我卻覺得，其實這個你愛上的人，就是運氣本身。因為有他，你真的踏踏實實地將自己打理得更好，為了愛，你變成一個新的人。有他，你就是最幸運的人，而你一生也只會更努力，讓他成為最幸福的人。

林二汶 我寧願

我寧願

我寧願你可以安心做好自己的事，而不要為我們太操心。當你可以在做自己的事情上面得到快樂，那麼我就可以肯定你在你的路途上得到滿足感。是的，「我們」很重要，不過你的路途也重要，我愛你，我寧願你走好自己的路，路上我總會在。 我寧願你可以睡多一點。雖然你老闆要怎麼折磨你我不能控制，但起碼我可以將你休息的時間都還給你，不用你頻頻撲撲地來陪我。因為就算你沒有空陪我，我對你的信任也是完全的。要是你總是可以回到我身邊，那麼就請你在我身旁安心好好睡吧。 我寧願你可以多吃一點。是的，這世界很喜歡人苗條，但每次看你只吃兩口就說飽，看你身材是很不錯，但臉色看來卻是蒼白的，見到喜歡的食物又不敢吃。我想告訴你，你在我的世界是完美的，與其不斷減肥，不如學學我，用我的眼光來看你自己，你會看到一個完美的身體。 我寧願你花多點時間做運動。我想你身體健康，但我不可以代替你出汗來加速你的新陳代謝，我只能夠在旁鼓勵你。 我寧願你幸福快樂。我做什麼，其實也不過是想你快樂，要是你不快樂，我做什麼也沒意思。你的快樂裏面可能，也可以沒有我，但只要看見你打從心底裏笑出來，我是真心感到滿足的。也許這些一切就是我可以給你的最多，也許我真的窮得只有愛，但我寧願將這些都交給你，那麼我就可以肯定你是真心幸福的。 這麼多句「我寧願」之前，其實有一句更重要的說話，這句話不說出口，也許比說了更能夠被接收。這句究竟是什麼？看完這篇文章，你還聽不到嗎？

馮禮慈 - 美國人為何不愛足球？

美國人為何不愛足球？

世界盃正在舉行，全球沸騰，唯獨是美國人從來對足球不大熱衷，反應平平，美國這運動強國在足球的表現甚差；美國人對足球的稱呼也異於常人，人人叫足球為Football，他們卻叫Soccer，何以故？ 　　美國神學家/宗教哲學家Stephen H. Webb在《Politico》分析了箇中原因，他說：足球是種「悲劇式」運動，所以不適合美國人性格。為甚麼足球是「悲劇式」運動？他說足球是「防止對方入球」的運動，是「防止成功」的運動多過「創造成功」，二十人在追逐一個球，追來追去九十分鐘，結果往往只是零比零、一比零、一比一或二比一，比數太小了。美國人愛得分，所以他們愛幾十比幾十的運動！ 　　哈，這觀點新鮮有趣，難怪美國人愛籃球，比數真是幾十比幾十的。就連網球，也是幾十分上落。此外，Webb又說：美國人喜歡做一哥、大哥，美國人要話事，要創造遊戲規則，但足球已由舊世界國家所控制，不會任由美國人話事，所以美國人就無興趣玩咯。這觀點就有人早提出過，應該是情況的主因之一。 　　Webb又說：足球是種集體運動或競賽，講集體紀律與合作，不崇尚個人突出自己，這跟美國崇尚個人表現與發揮相違背，所以美國人不喜歡足球。這觀點就比較牽強，事關現代足球其實已非常崇尚個人表現，足球明星身價、收入與身分超高。不過他的觀點整體有見地和有趣。

馮禮慈-放棄手寫字會有甚麼弊端

放棄手寫字會有甚麼弊端

今天男女老幼都以鍵盤輸入代替手寫字了，華人如此，西人也如此。有些人覺得這樣放棄手寫字，失去了人類文化傳統，有些人覺得這是時代進步表現，鍵盤輸入比手寫字更好。放棄手寫字對人的發展會有甚麼弊端嗎？ 　　很多教育界人士認為這沒有甚麼弊端。美國教育指引The Common Core Standards指在幼兒園至小學一年班應教導手寫字，但之後就應迅速轉往學習鍵盤輸入。不過新的研究結果有不同的發現，例如，原來學習用手寫字更能啟發小孩創造力和記憶力。雖然同是學習同一語言、同一批字，不同的學習方式會有不同效果。法國心理學家Stanislas Dehaene說用手寫字會對腦部有特別刺激，是鍵盤輸入所欠缺的。 　　另一心理學家Karin James二○一二年研究支持這看法，他發現用手寫字——甚至用手持筆胡亂塗繪，對小孩腦部發展非常有益，能令小孩腦部發展特快。Virginia Berninger進一步印證了小孩胡亂塗畫、印（即是在一張透明紙上，依原圖形印着繪畫，今天愈來愈少孩子做這玩意了）或按鍵盤，各於小孩腦部帶出不同效果，各有不同裨益。我認同這看法，即是說我們不是要抗拒鍵盤輸入，而是同時給孩子以手寫字或繪畫。不但孩子需要這幾種不同的學習與活動，成人以至老人一樣需要，不要摒棄任何一種。

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How to Be Funny

Edited by Wpendy, biuealien, Versageek, Nicole Willson and 191 others

Four Parts:Developing a Sense of HumorDeveloping a Funny PersonaStaying InspiredSample Jokes

Being genuinely humorous and encouraging people to share a laugh together can help make you popular and successful. Humor helps you experience the lighter side of life, bringing happiness to everyone you meet, and it's been recognized as an important part of getting a job. A survey of 737 CEOs found that 98 percent of them favored hiring someone with a sense of humor over someone who didn't.^[1] Shrug off your stern self and tickle your funny bone. See Step 1 for more information.

Part 1 of 3: Developing a Sense of Humor

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   Learn a little about what makes you laugh. Laughter itself is unconscious. While it is possible for us to keep ourselves from laughing (not always successfully), it is very hard for us to produce laughter on demand, and doing so will usually seem "forced."^[2]Fortunately, laughter is very contagious (we're about 30 times more likely to laugh in the presence of others), and in a social context, it's easy to start laughing when others are laughing.^[3]
   • Studies have shown that three things make us laugh the most: a sense of superiority over someone else behaving "dumber" than us; a difference between our expectation of something and the actual result; or welcome relief from ananxiety.^[4]
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   Learn to laugh in boring or unfunny circumstances. It's good to know that the less funny a place is, the easier it becomes to add the element of humorous surprise. It might be easier to get people to laugh about an office workplace than to get people to laugh in a comedy club.^[5]
   • This is why The Office, the NBC show, uses an office as its setting: it's about as boring as it gets. They even process paper. How boring is that?! We're not used to looking at an office as a funny place, so when it is funny, it's especially funny.
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   Learn to appreciate witty wordplay and puns. A lot of the time, comedy comes from linguistic confusion (unintentional) or linguistic playfulness (intentional). We sometimes find things humorous when there's a gap between our words and our meanings.
   • Freudian slips are linguistic errors that are believed to expose what you werereally thinking rather than what you "meant" to say, and are often of a sexual nature.
   • Witty wordplay is more intentional: "A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion." Or this one, where the words "hockey" and "fight" are switched: "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out."
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   Appreciate irony. There's perhaps nothing in comedy more widely cited but more thoroughly misunderstood than irony. Irony occurs when there is a gap between our expectations of a statement, situation, or image and the actual experience of it.
   • Comedian Jackie Mason illustrates irony with a joke: "My grandfather always said, 'Don't watch your money; watch your health.' So one day while I was watching my health, someone stole my money. It was my grandfather."
   • This joke messes with one of our fundamental expectations: that grandparents are nice, friendly people who are utterly harmless, and that the advice they offer should be sincere.The joke is funny because, in it, we are presented with a grandparent who is rascally, thievish, and double-crossing.
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   Trust in your inner sense of humor. Being funny doesn't come in a "one-size-fits-all" package. What makes you funny is unique to you and the way you observe the world. Trust that you do have a funny bone; as babies we laugh from 4 months of age, and all children express humor naturally from kindergarten age, using humor to entertain themselves and others. It's already in you – you just need to bring it out!

Part 2 of 3: Developing a Funny Persona

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   Take yourself less seriously. Remember the most embarrassing moments in your life so far, the monumental stuff-ups, the times you refused to make changes, the breakdowns in communications that you played a major part in, and maybe even the time you tried to be funny around your friends and only crickets chirped. These things can be hilarious.
   • Telling other people about very embarrassing moments in your life is a great way to get them to laugh. Take a page from famous improv comic Colin Mochrie, who said: "He had the kind of face only a mother could love, if that mother was blind in one eye and had that kind of milky film over the other... but still, he was my identical twin."
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   Put yourself under the spotlight. Tell self-depracating jokes rather than making jokes at the expense of others. More people will be more willing to laugh. Rodney Dangerfield made fun of both his sanity and his looks with this one: "I went to the psychiatrist, and he says 'You're crazy.' I tell him I want a second opinion. He says, 'Okay, you're ugly too!'"
   • Redd Foxx had this to say about his silly devotion to drugs and alcohol: "I feel sorry for people who don’t drink or do drugs. Because someday they’re going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won’t know why."
   • A great joke from Henry Youngman: "I was so ugly when I was born, the doctor slapped my mother."
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   Know your audience. Different things make different people laugh. Some people find that sensationalism causes them to laugh; others find that satire does the trick. Learn which is which, and deliver your jokes and anecdotes so that they apply to many different categories of humor and emotion at once.
   • Not everyone knows what it's like to ride in a helicopter or be a millionaire or have a baby. But most people know what it's like to go fast, fantasize about money, and love another person deeply. So make your jokes cover more ground by utilizing really basic, but profound, human emotions.
   • When you're in a group of people you don't know, listen to what subjects they're talking about and what's making them laugh. Are they the witty banter type? The slapstick, or physical comedy type? The better you know someone, the easier it will be to make them laugh.
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   Mislead the mind. Misleading the mind is what we referred to earlier as surprise. This is when you create a difference between what someone expects to happen and what actually happens. Verbal jokes use this element to the greatest level possible, trying to misdirect your attention in the same that magic tricks do.^[6]
   • For example: "What happens to liars when they die?" Answer - "They lie still." This joke works because you have to interpret the joke in two ways, and the brain is temporarily confused by its inability to draw on usual experience.
   • Consider Groucho Marx's clever one-liner, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read," or Rodney Dangerfield's line, "My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."
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   Strike while the iron is hot. Good timing is really important, because if you give the brain too much time to work out a situation or joke, the funny moment will pass by. This is probably why jokes people have heard before don't work, as recognition dulls the humor because the brain is already primed by experience. React quickly and strike while the humorous moment exists.
   • One liners, or comebacks, can be good fun. Someone says something that, by itself, isn't funny. And you whip back with something that makes what they said really funny. Timing is crucial here. Your humorous statement needs to come out quickly and fully-formed. For example, your friend is thinking about hair, for some reason, and he says: "Isn't it weird that we only have hair on our heads and in our pubic areas?" The friend is not really even expecting a response. You say: "Speak for yourself."
   • If the timing is all wrong, don't mess with the joke. The worst you can do as a funny person is try to deliver a joke after your window of opportunity has passed. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of opportunities to crack through the silence with your whip of a wit.
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   Know when not to be funny. Be especially careful about cracking jokes or pulling pranks during funerals and weddings, places of worship (or religious events), and whenever your humor could be mistaken for harassment or discrimination, or if your humor might physically harm somebody, as in a physical prank.
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   Be observant. Jerry Seinfeld and other comedians have made millions of dollars deploying a basic style of comedy known as "observational" humor, making observations about everyday occurrences and experiences. While knowing a lot can increase your capacity for humor, there's no substitute for seeing a lot. In fact, many very knowledgeable people fail to see the humor in things. Look for the humor in everyday situations, and see what others don't. Often, the unnoticed humor that is standing right in front of our eyes has the most impact.
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   Memorize some one-liners. One liners can steal the show. Dorothy Parker was brilliant with one-liners; for example, when told that Calvin Coolidge had died, she replied: "How can they tell?"
   • You'll need quick wit and readiness for delivering good one-liners but studying other people's can inspire your own. Or think of Calvin Coolidge himself; a woman came to him and said: "Mr. Coolidge, I made a bet against a fellow who said it was impossible to get more than two words out of you." Coolidge replied, "You lose."

Part 3 of 3: Staying Inspired

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   Learn from funny people. You can expand your reach a good deal by listening to other funny people. Whether they're professional comedians, your parents, your kids, or your boss, learning from the funny people in your life is a key step to being funny yourself. Keep a note of some of the funnier things these people say or do. And find what you admire most in these people. Even if all you do is cobble together your own funny plan based on one admired trait from each person, you'll be improving your sense of funny tremendously. Immersing yourself like this will help you develop a toolbox of techniques you can use to be funny.
   • Comedy has taken the podcast world by storm in recent years. Comedy podcasts by people like Marc Maron and Joe Rogan are available for free online and feature hilarious interviews, jokes, and stories you can upload to mobile devices. Ride the bus while listening to a comedy podcast and weird everyone out when you laugh suddenly in your headphones.
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   Watch funny shows. There are many, many TV shows and movies packed with excellent comedy. The British, for example, have a very dry, witty sense of humor that concerns itself primarily with cultural matters, whereas Americans have more of a slapstick, physical humor that often involves issues of sex and race. Getting a good helping of both will help you understand different cultural attitudes towards humor.
   • Watch improvisational comedians. All good comedians are improvisers, but comedians choose to improvise for a living and the experience can be hilarious. Attend an improv show and take part in it as much as you can – you'll laugh a lot and observe exactly how they take vague, unknown scenarios and turn them into something instantly funny.
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   Broaden your factual knowledge for joke material. It is much easier to find funny moments in material you know well – your workplace attitudes, your amazing knowledge of 17th century poetry, your familiarity with fishing trips that went wrong, etc. Whatever the material, though, it also needs to resonate with your audience, meaning that your concise ability to deconstruct a 17th century poem might not hit its mark with somebody not familiar with the piece!
   • Broaden your horizons so that you are tuned-in regardless of who you're speaking to. If you can find the humor in physics and Paris Hilton, for example, you're well on your way. Drawing an interesting parallel between two wildly different subjects can be very funny, if done well.
   • Work your smarts. In a way, being funny is simply showing that you are intelligentenough to find the humorous nuances that others miss. Comics do this routine all the time. They point out the hygienic customs of the clergy, for example, or the breeding practices of chimpanzees, relating it effortlessly back to something the average person knows and understands.
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   Read, read, read. Get your hands on anything and everything that is funny, and consume it like your mom told you not to. Chemists become chemists by reading and practicing chemistry; sports writers become sports writers by reading and writing about sports; you're going to become a funnier person by reading and practicing jokes.
   • Read works by people like James Thurber, P.G. Wodehouse, Stephen Fry, Kaz Cooke, Sarah Silverman, Woody Allen, Bill Bryson, Bill Watterson, Douglas Adams, etc. (Don't forget children's books by good authors; they can be a terrific source for good humor!)
   • Read joke books. It won't hurt to have a few good jokes memorized. Hopefully, reading good jokes might inspire you to start making up your own jokes and witticisms. When reading them, try to pick apart the elements that make them good jokes. Equally, try to work out why some jokes do not work. Just because you wrote it doesn't mean that it's good; it can be hard to stare at our own work objectively, so get feedback from someone who doesn't know you well (that way they won't sugarcoat the news, whatever it is).
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   Be an active listener and learn everything you can about comedy. Listen carefully to others, really hear them, and understand what they're about. There's nothing more humble than admitting that you can always learn to be funnier from other people. When you're busy focused on people other than yourself, you'll get a better sense of how to help others through humor. It will also enable you to observe and relate the small joys of life too – making your funny self more believable and empathetic.