练习与享乐

主要记下两点:
1. 商业社会对待幸福和练习的态度, 及作者的看法.
2. 好的练习 (mastery) 是怎样的.

商业社会宣传这样一种价值观: 幸福与"享乐"等价, 进而与"消费"等价. 以广告为例, 其中人表现出的幸福(快乐, 满足感, 和睦的家庭等等)都源于某种商品, 进而源于消费行为. 这样的社会环境下, 我们的逻辑被塑造成: 幸福<-消费<-挣钱. 这便是现代社会对于幸福的态度.
而对于挣钱(相当于工作, 练习)的态度, 环境的回答是: 社会不管你怎么挣钱, 有钱就行.

而作者对此不认同: "Life at its best, these commercials teach, is an endless series of climatic moments." (商业告诉我们, 好的人生是一个接着一个的高潮(消费)). 经历告诉我们, 这样的高潮不能连续, 其带来短时刺激的同时, 也带来空虚. 那幸福从何而来? 消费之外, 更多的幸福来自于练习 (practice, work).

"The achievement of goals is important. But the real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the product of out efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive."
生活中让我们 feel alive 的部分更多的是在我们的 effort 中, 而不是 effort 带来的结果中. 因此, 练习的目的就是练习本身: "Practicing regularly and hard for no particular goal at all, just for its own sake." 练习中最大的收获也是练习本身: "The ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself."

对 mastery 的态度: "If our life is a good one, a life of mastery, most of it will be spent on the plateau." 即 mastery 中更多的时间是在平台期 (plateau). "Mastery is not about perfection." "The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives." 故 master 在练习中也犯错, 犯错后继续练习. "The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year." 持之以恒.

some tips:
"The good news is that the path is the best possible cure for laziness." 面对惰性, 继续练习.
"The hacker looks at marriage or living together not as an opportunity for learning and development, but as a comfort refuge from uncertainties of the outside world." 严厉, 有"生无所息"的味道, 人能做到么?

PS:
20世纪末期的美国有股"禅"的思潮, 而且讲得还挺好.