55In retrospect, I realize that we did not exhaust all the options available to us…..I was young and impatient, and did not see any virtue in waiting. Escape seemed the only way. 84We were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues. 182I saw how my own people had remained […]
Like many, I watched Jon’s TED talk years ago; before I was married, before I had a kid. I have been feeling trapped, at work and at family, these 2 years. That gave me the motive to attend his speech in Taipei. Being poor and suffer Poor in the city The system (capitalism) and fear
Loc 453 If a man must live in a mud and go hungry and risk his flesh, you must give him a reason for it, you must give him a cause. A conclusion is not a cause. Loc 1398 Hunger, the jungle, the Japanese, not one nor all of these could be quite as corrosive
Page 20 At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie. Page 25 In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends. Page 26 Most
Page 9 You couldn’t discriminate against the right answer. But I preferred to spend my time interpreting things. Page 11 We spent summers and winters in Hsinchu; weeks would pass when the only people I spoke to were my parents and their middle-aged friends. Page 21 The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that
Page 24Big ideas and big plans are often easier – certainly no more difficult – than small ideas and small plans. Page 57Action cures fear. Page 67Your mind wants you to forget the unpleasant. If you will just corporate, unpleasant memories will gradually shrivel and the teller in your memory bank will cancel them out.
Page 2Premise of this book is that doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Page 7History never repeats itself; man always does. Page 12Your personal experience with money
Mistakes often makes us feel wronged and deeply hurt, but the next worse thing that could happen is trapping us in an inmoble, unactionable mental state. The idea of fault and responsibility mentioned in The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck could be an antidote (at least it did for me). Remove fault from
Loc 138The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. Loc 202Subtlety #1: Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different. Loc 233Subtlety #2: To not give a fuck about adversity, you
