THE PROCRASTINATOR IN YOUR LIFE

MANAGING PEOPLE WHO PROCRASTINATE

Due to procrastination, employees lose their productivities and cause companies billions of dollars lost.

COMMITMENT VS. COMPLIANCE

As a manager, you need to use inviting commitment rather than demands for compliance.

FOCUSING ON STARTING VS. FINISHING

Effective managers always have the ability to communicate with their employees. Focusing on starting is much more effective for a perfectionist.

GETTING RESULTS OR GIVING CRITICISM

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FINE-TUNING YOUR PROGRESS

PLANNED SETBACKS
You can try to plan procrastination when you meet a big project, and record your self-statement, these statements may be your old pattern.

RESILIENCE AND HARDINESS

Resilience
Resilience is very important when you fail, every time you fail you can bounce back from it and know your performance isn’t your self-worth, but your performance is connected to your perseverance. You don’t need to be responsible for what had happened to you, but you need… ...➔➔➔

Waging War

故兵聞拙速,未睹巧之久也。
If you exposed a war too long, even you are ingenious, you will make a mistake. leave a little to your opponent.

力屈,財襌(殫),中原內需於家,百姓之費,十去其七
Waging a war, you need to forage on your enemy.

故殺敵者, 怒也;取敵之利者, 貨也 Kill your enemy from the power generated by your anger, get benefits from your foe.

WORKING IN THE FLOW STATE

Being into the state of flow is beneficial to your mental and physical health.

USING MORE OF YOUR BRAIN
Using your left side of your brain is important, you need to shift into a state of flow. You need to stop your linear thought.

IT』S ONLY YOUR FIRST DRAFT
Creativity is important, how to get into it? You need to suspend criticism and linear thought and get into the state of flow.

LEARNING TO FOCUS
Here is an exercise of focus just needs two minutes, it is intentionally created in two minutes… ...➔➔➔

Curator and exhibition

Curator 是一個專有名稱,曾經被作為「博物館館長」之意。

做一個策展人要具備資金籌措能力。

故宮的展覽負責人以前是一個機構,以前很穩定。

從展覽體制上日本的博物館和西方沒有區別,學藝員的背景是藝術史和博物館學。 近20年當代形態的藝術開始進入博物館。 以現當代藝術命名的博物館開始出現。(美國惠特尼博物館)

從策展人到獨立策展人體現能力的提升可以把各種資源有效的進行組合。
他不涉及到賣作品,畫廊和策展人沒關係。

如果要想做一個和它相關的展覽是不是具備可能性,很多當代藝術的展覽模式可能就是需要展覽空間。

他們能敏感的發現社會當中的一個動向。澤曼先生被當成最早的獨立策展人。
策展人在很大程度上是思維的先知者。

What Kills Me Makes Others Stronger

Antifragility by layers

Some parts on the inside of a system may be required to be fragile in order to make the system antifragile as a result. All restaurants are combating with each other in order to form the antifragility of the whole group. If a single restaurant is too robust when the crisis happens, all reasons are boil down to the fragile of this restaurant.

Evolution and Unpredictability

Nature (and nature-like systems) likes diversity between organisms rather than diversity...➔➔➔

THE ODES OF ZHOU AND THE SOUTH

葛覃  GE TAN
刈yì 濩huò 絺xī 綌yì 斁yì 薄污wù我私
Why does she want to go back to her home? Maybe her life is very hard, though she was hardworking, she didn’t get any respects. In this chapter, I think this woman was from a high ranking family, not like the propaganda from the government. Even though she is elite, but she also gets distresses.

卷耳    JUAN ER
寘zhì彼周行háng 陟彼崔嵬wéi 我馬虺huī隤tuí 我姑酌彼兕sì觥gōng 陟彼砠jū矣 我馬瘏tú矣 我僕痡fū矣
From 金罍, 兕觥, 僕, We can recognize she was from a rich family, the … ...➔➔➔

Tainted Blood

In this chapter, the author introduced the families of Mi-ran and Jun-sang, Mi-ran’s father is a warrior from South Korea and he was captive by North army, he was forced to be a miner in Chojin (that town in northeastern), but he never told this to his daughters and son, until this tainted blood effects their life.

Jun-sang’s family is from Japan, they are wealthy as Japanese-Korean. when Korea divided, some Japanese-Korean thought the North government is better… ...➔➔➔

Chinese modern art history notes 1

《點石齋畫報》
編者:由吳友如主編,主要作者有吳友如,田子琳,金蟾香,周慕橋。
特點:配合新聞;注重時事;圖文互釋
表現形式:追求傳統技法,汲取明清時期木刻版畫藝術特點,同時採納西洋繪畫透視和人物解剖的特點,新穎活潑,時代氣息強。
評價:是中國近代史上最早的畫報,1884-1898年前後刊出15年,被認為是「中國近百年很好的『畫史』」。
標誌:開啟了圖文並茂因而可能雅俗共賞的「畫報體式,是傳播新知識的途徑,又是體現平民趣味的場所;
揭露:滿清封建政權的腐朽統治
反映:《點石齋畫報》所刊4000多幅美術作品,以民主求實的精神,反映19世紀末葉列強侵華史實和中國人民抵禦外侮的卓絕鬥爭;反映科學技術的進步和人民對美好生活的渴望與追求。

《真相畫報》
介紹:由二高創辦,1912-1913出版17期。
宗旨:監督共和政治,調查民生狀態,獎進社會主義,輸入世界智識。
目的:反對袁世凱,利用寫真手法揭露時局真相,震懾反動政敵真實紀錄時事新聞。… ...➔➔➔