|
|
本帖最后由 logique 于 6-1-2014 17:56 编辑
yearshappy 发表于 4-1-2014 17:19
Hi logique, happy new year to you.
What's your new year resolution
Are you going to ke ...
 Happy New Year!
Have to keep on trying~
How's your new year resolution?
My new year resolution is to read 100 books in 2014 and recommend some of them 
I've already finished three: 《我是一个算命先生》（易之著）、《怎样读书》（胡适等著）（both are Chinese）, and the third one is The Outliers written by Gladwell Malcolm.
These books are amazingly inspirational for me. The first book also makes me more convinced about the power of language and its delivery as well as the importance of applied pyschology.
I'd like to borrow the introduction for The Outliers from wiki as follows:
Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how The Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. 对于坚持学习英语同样有指导意义
The publication debuted at number one on the bestseller lists for The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, holding the position on the former for eleven consecutive weeks. Generally well-received by critics, Outliers was considered more personal than Gladwell's other works, and some reviews commented on how much Outliers felt like an autobiography. Reviews praised the connection that Gladwell draws between his own background and the rest of the publication to conclude the book. Reviewers also appreciated the questions posed by Outliers, finding it important to determine how much individual potential is ignored by society. However, the lessons learned were considered anticlimactic and dispiriting. The writing style, deemed easy to understand, was criticized for oversimplifying complex sociological phenomena.
Now I'm working on How to make friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie, Confidence Men by Ron Suskind and Give and Take by Adam Grant. I will probably finish How to make friends and influence people this week.
|
评分
-
查看全部评分
|
发表于 13-11-2013 04:03:47
收藏
赞
踩
发表于 13-11-2013 09:19:16
楼主
发表于 13-11-2013 20:57:28
