-齐奥尔科夫斯基的话吧。-对,是航天之父的名言。-巴郎太你被骗了。那是齐奥尔科夫斯基撒的谎。二十世纪初,把宇宙旅行作为梦想的俄罗斯老头,为了实现它而撒的谎。前辈很聪明地把自己的欲望变成了整个人类的问题。我想来宇宙就来了,腻了就回去,就这样。害怕任性的人是开发不了宇宙的。- 星空清理者
最近听到一期 Podcast,讲者说自己创业是为了解决自己无聊的问题。主持人打趣说,这话不能让投资人听到。
当人们在工作、吃饭、睡觉之余有了闲暇,不免会感到无聊。
如何打发无聊的时光?
除了消费以外,还可以创造。
在大众的认知里,把学习、工作当作没用乐趣的苦差事,只是为了获得金钱上的回报和成就感,把学习、工作和玩乐对立起来,确实人类的教育系统还不够好,增加了孩子们的厌学情绪。
要做出出色的工作,需要对特点主题的痴迷
Paul graham 在博客文章 The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius 里写道
Everyone knows that to do great work you need both natural ability and determination. But there's a third ingredient that's not as well understood: an obsessive interest in a particular topic.
每个人都知道,要做出伟大的工作,你需要天赋和决心。 但是还有第三个因素没有被很好地理解: 对特点主题的痴迷。
To explain this point I need to burn my reputation with some group of people, and I'm going to choose bus ticket collectors. There are people who collect old bus tickets. Like many collectors, they have an obsessive interest in the minutiae of what they collect. They can keep track of distinctions between different types of bus tickets that would be hard for the rest of us to remember. Because we don't care enough. What's the point of spending so much time thinking about old bus tickets?为了解释这一点,我需要在一群人中毁掉自己的名声,我要选择公共汽车票收集者。 有人收集旧公共汽车票。 像许多收藏家一样,他们对自己收藏的细节有着强烈的兴趣。 他们可以记住不同类型的公共汽车票之间的区别,这对于我们其他人来说是很难记住的。 因为我们不够在乎。 花这么多时间考虑旧车票有什么意义呢?Which leads us to the second feature of this kind of obsession: there is no point. A bus ticket collector's love is disinterested. They're not doing it to impress us or to make themselves rich, but for its own sake.这就引出了这种痴迷的第二个特征: 没有意义。 公交车票收集者的爱是无私的。 他们这样做并不是为了给我们留下深刻印象或者让自己变得富有,而是为了他们自己。
The bus ticket theory also explains why people are less likely to do great work after they have children. Here interest has to compete not just with external obstacles, but with another interest, and one that for most people is extremely powerful. It's harder to find time for work after you have kids, but that's the easy part. The real change is that you don't want to.汽车票理论也解释了为什么人们在有了孩子之后不太可能做出伟大的工作。 在这里,兴趣不仅要与外部障碍竞争,还要与另一种兴趣竞争,这种兴趣对大多数人来说是极其强大的。 有了孩子之后,你很难找到时间去工作,但这是最简单的部分。 真正的改变是你不想这么做。
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