This is going to be the next song I practice. Man, the video is awesome!
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
I just read Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google. The paragraph quoted below was pretty gross:
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he’s produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.
Living in the modern society is such a stressful thing. People work day and night in search of achievements, be it wealth, reputation or even a secure retired life. How many of us are already seeing a clear path to getting what we want?
For most people, if there isn’t a clear path to Nirvana laid out, they’ll either give up or keep working harder and harder to dig out the path.
That sounds reasonable, yet it is amazing how many of us can’t see what’s wrong with such an approach. If what they are doing isn’t working, why in the world do they keep doing it harder and harder?
When I can’t solve a puzzle by pushing, the answer is often not pushing it harder, but rather to pull it. The average metropolitan today works the whole day every day, and they “sleep back the hours” on weekends. They rarely have time to come up with creative ideas. They are trapped by the society, by the Matrix. Perhaps people call this a rat race for a reason. For people in it are often forced to become as dumb as rats.
Most people can’t answer the question “what do you really want to do in your life?” We need to have a clear goal if we want to achieve anything, but we are all too busy to think about that when we are trapped in the rat race.
The way out is to give yourself a break. Muscles don’t grow when you keep pumping the iron. They grow when you recover after exercise. To really grow, in terms of wealth, health or spirituality, stop working and escape from the Matrix. Let yourself living consciously again.
