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[功課] 每日想像幸福

十月 2, 2007 · 1 則留言

最近發現啊,如果小時候過著顛沛流離壓力很大的生活,長大了之後,潛意識往往會把自己的生活搞得在某種型態上顛沛流離壓力很大。如果覺得天底下的男人都是爛人,那就會嫁給一個對自己很壞的老公,甚至把好好一個男人硬改造成一個爛人,這也是常發生的。如果覺得沒有人會對你好,那你就會流露出一種氣息(俗稱的苦相),讓大家覺得對你再好都是白費。

相反的啊,如果小時候家境很富裕,即使中間父母破產之類的過了好一陣子貧窮的生活,通常長大之後還是會把自己搞得很有錢的樣子耶。

我發現,其實啊,大部分的人,在追求的其好像並不是快樂,而是熟悉感呢。

我們似乎很難離開小時候的生活太遠,因為我們很難離自己對世界的想像太遠。如果我們覺得生活應該是某一種樣子,我們就會把自己的生活變成那種樣子。

我覺得每個人心理面都有一個正常生活的原型,裡面大部分是觀察父母的生活方式,加上自己的童年體驗構成的,長大之後如果要改變,要花很大的力氣。

當我們過著和原型不同的生活的時候,我們就會覺得很不舒服,然後就會把它扭轉成讓我們舒服的狀態。但是快樂不見得是舒服的,我覺得對很多人來說,快樂是一種不熟悉的狀態,如果沒有花時間去適應和習慣,會覺得快樂的生活太陌生了,讓人很沒有安全感。

好比一個從小爸媽就早出晚歸為錢煩惱的人,長大了以後,突然要他過養尊處優的生活,他一定會沒辦法適應。這時候這個人可能就會繼續忽略自己已經非常有錢的事實,還是照樣拼命工作賺錢存錢。有時後這個人也可能會犯一個莫名奇妙的錯誤,例如借大筆的錢給信用很差的人,幫人作保,或是做一個很明顯錯誤的投資,然後把全副身家都賠光還欠債,雖然他意識上覺得自己是太笨了,但是事實上恐怕是他潛意識驅使他做出這種非常明顯錯誤的笨決定。

所以我覺得大家每天要花一點時間,來想像自己的理想生活是怎樣的,把那個想像的細節全部都想出來,視覺化那個想像,逐漸熟悉那個理想生活,讓自己在那個想像中自在的生活著。這樣才會找到幸福,並且找出自己思想裡面阻止自己幸福的那些缺失。

這個過程可能是需要一點勇氣的,請大家加油,一起努力追逐好命吧!

(我不是神祕宗教領袖,請大家不要害怕。)

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[推] 給可憐人的錦言佳句

十月 2, 2007 · 張貼留言

“Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt -
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit -
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit”

“A PhD is about finding out more and more about less and less until one eventually knows everything about nothing.”

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[論文口試] 可能出現的提問

十月 2, 2007 · 2 則留言

http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/mentors/resources/broada/cs/cs710/viva.html

以下內容摘自以上網頁。

  • What is the area in which you wish to be examined? (particularly difficult and important if your thesis fits into several areas, or has several aspects, or seems to fit into an area of its own as mine does).
  • In one sentence, what is your thesis? (Resist the temptation to run from the room!)
  • What have you done that merits a PhD?
  • Summarise your key findings.
  • What’s original about your work?
  • What are the contributions (to knowledge) of your thesis?
  • Which topics overlap with your area?
    For topic X:

    • How does your work relate to X?
    • What do you know about the history of X?
    • What is the current state of the art in X? (capabilities and limitations of existing systems)
      What techniques are commonly used?
      Where do current technologies fail such that you (could) make a contribution?
    • How does/could your work enhance the state of the art in X?
    • Who are the main `players’ in X? (Hint: you should cluster together papers written by the same people)
      Who are your closest competitors?
    • What do you do better than them? What do you do worse?
    • Which are the three most important papers in X?
    • What are the recent major developments in X?
    • How do you expect X to progress over the next five years? How long-term is your contribution, given the anticipated future developments in X?
  • How did your research questions emerge?
  • What did you do for your MPhil, and how does your PhD extend it? Did you make any changes to the system you implemented for your MPhil?
  • What are the motivations for your research? Why is the problem you have tackled worth tackling?
  • What is the relevance of your contributions?
    • to other researchers?
    • to industry?
  • Who are your envisioned users? What use would your work be in situation X?
  • What are the strongest/weakest parts of your work?
  • Why have you done it this way? You need to justify your approach – don’t assume the examiners share your views.
  • Why didn’t you do it the way everyone else does it? This requires having done extensive reading.
  • What are the alternatives to your approach?
    What do you gain by your approach?
    What would you gain by approach X?
  • Looking back, what might you have done differently? This requires a thoughtful answer, whilst defending what you did at the time.
  • How do scientists/philosophers carry out experiments?
  • How have you evaluated your work?
    • intrinsic evaluation: how have you demonstrated that it works, and how well it performs?
    • extrinsic evaluation: how have you demonstrated its usefulness for a specific application context?
  • What do your results mean?
  • How would your system cope with bigger examples? Does it scale up? This is especially important if you have only run your system on `toy’ examples, and they think it has `learned its test-data’.
  • How do you know that your algorithm/rules are correct?
  • How could you improve your work?
  • How do your contributions generalise?
    To what extent would they generalise to systems other than the one you’ve worked on?
    Under what circumstances would your approach be useable? (Again, does it scale up?)
  • How do/would you cope with known problems in your field? (e.g. combinatorial explosion)
  • Have you solved the field’s problem that you claim to have solved? For example, if something is too slow, and you can make it go faster – how much increase in speed is needed for the applications you claim to support?
  • Is your field going in the right direction? For example, if everyone’s been concentrating on speed, but the real issue is space (if the issue is time, you can just wait it out (unless it’s combinatorially explosive), but if the issue is space, the system could fall over). This is kind of justifying why you have gone into the field you’re working in.
  • Where will you publish your work? Think about which journals and conferences your research would best suit. Just as popular musicians promote their latest albums by releasing singles and going on tour, you should promote your thesis by publishing papers in journals and presenting them at conferences. This takes your work to a much wider audience; this is how academics establish themselves.
  • Which aspects of your thesis could be published?
  • What have you learned from the process of doing your PhD? Remember that the aim of the PhD process is to train you to be a fully professional researcher – passing your PhD means that you know the state of the art in your area and the directions in which it could be extended, and that you have proved you are capable of making such extensions.
  • Has your view of your research topic changed during the course of the research?
  • You discuss future work in your conclusion chapter. How long would it take to implement X, and what are the likely problems you envisage? Do not underestimate the time and the difficulties – you might be talking about your own resubmission-order! ;-)

分類: [存活]

[驚] 親身體驗耶穌受難

十月 2, 2007 · 張貼留言

這段綜藝節目裡面,有目圭浩平(我不會打他的名字啦,就是小時後那個拍攝六四天安門得獎的攝影記者)去菲律賓親身體驗耶穌受難過程的影片。包括先用一種尖銳的東西把背刮到流血,然後用一種東西自己打自己的背讓它流更多血(路人也可以打你),然後自己背著十字架遊大街,最後被釘子穿過手心,釘在十字架上面~

據說菲律賓那個地方每年在復活節這天,都會舉辦這個活動,很多人都會報名參加。

心臟不強不要看。孕婦最好也不要看。

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