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真正值钱的东西，都无法速成：
1、一门外语，往往需要一到三年才能真正流利，而不是背几个单词就能精通。
2、一个好身材，不是一个月练出来的，而是几年如一日的自律积累。
3、一本书，几天可以读完，但真正变成你的认知，可能需要很多年的实践和思考。
4、一项专业能力，不是上几节课就能掌握，而是在一次次项目中磨练出来的核心竞争力。
5、一个赚钱的账号，很少是一条爆款做起来的，而是几百篇内容慢慢建立起用户信任。
6、一家公司想穿越周期，拼的不是短期利润，而是十几年持续创造价值的能力。
7、一个品牌最值钱的资产不是产品，而是用户愿意相信你。这份信任，往往需要很多年才能建立。
8、人最大的复利，不是存款，而是长期积累的能力、认知和口碑，它们都会随着时间不断增值。
9、时间从来不会偏袒任何人，却一定会奖励长期主义者。今天看不到回报，不代表努力没有价值。
10、这个世界上，大多数看似一夜成名的人，背后都有无数个无人问津的日夜，只是你没有看到。
11、多数人失败，不是因为能力不够，而是因为太急着看到结果。刚开始没有反馈，就怀疑方向；刚遇到困难，就选择放弃。
12、真正厉害的人，也不是因为天赋异禀，而是能够在没有掌声、没有结果的时候，依然坚持做正确的事情。
13、人生最大的误区，就是高估一年能做到的事，低估十年坚持带来的变化。真正拉开人与人差距的，从来不是爆发，而是积累。
14、很多事情不是坚持了才有希望，而是因为有希望的人，恰恰都坚持得足够久。复利永远属于那些没有提前下牌桌的人。
15、如果一件事真的重要，就不要用三天的热情去衡量它。真正值钱的东西，都需要时间浇灌；真正厉害的人，都相信长期主义。
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I teach a Japanese literature class each year at the time the Nobel Prize in Lit is announced. I always dedicate a portion of the class as to why Murakami Haruki is not a serious contender for the award :P
(My bet for a current Japanese author who may deserve it? Tawada Yoko)
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bakın da ibret alın mk incelleri lavuk o averaj tip averaj boy sıfıra yakın kas ve muhtemelen üç kuruş parasıyla 5 dk daha konuşsa yüzüğü takacaktı. siz de anca ağlayın mk ezikleri
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除了 z-libaray 以外，
还有下面这些免费电子书网站，很多人还不知道
gutenberg.org — 7万+公版经典，英文为主
openlibrary.org — 借阅制电子书，资源覆盖很广
archive.org — 数字图书馆，书+影像+历史资料
manybooks.net — 5万+电子书，多格式下载
free-ebooks.net — 小说+教材资源，需注册
pdfdrive.com — PDF搜索引擎，资源量很大
annas-archive.org — 聚合搜索（覆盖多书库）
libgen.im— 学术+教材资源库
bookboon.com — 商业/教材类电子书
worldmags.net — 杂志PDF资源合集
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Some favourite Japanese novels 📚
1. Mishima: The Sea of Fertility
2. Ōe: Silent Cry
3. Kawabata: Snow Country
4. Murasaki: Tale of Genji
5. Abe: Box Man
6. Dazai: No Longer Human
7. Sōseki: Kokoro
8. Tsushima: Territory of Light
9. Kanai: Mild Vertigo
10. Ogawa: Memory Police
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4 hours with this guy > 2 weeks of whatever my teachers were trying to teach us in clg.
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More important to read Indian classics to learn profound things not known to most Westerners. Reading western classics is ok but not enough.
A realistic list of 43 classics every
high schooler should read before
graduation:
1. Genesis, The Bible
2. The Odyssey, Homer
3. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
4. Antigone, Sophocles
5. Beowulf, Anonymous
6. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
7. The Gospel According to Matthew, The Bible
8. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
9. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
10. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
11. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
12. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
13. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
14. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
15. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
16. Silas Marner, George Eliot
17. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass
19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
20. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
21. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
22. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
23. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
25. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
26. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
27. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
28. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
29. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
30. Animal Farm, George Orwell
31. 1984, George Orwell
32. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
33. Night, Elie Wiesel
34. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
35. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
36. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
37. Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
38. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
39. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
40. The Trial, Franz Kafka
41. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
42. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
43. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
tolle lege
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antes era relatos das lésbicas chinesas e agora a timeline tá entregando os vídeos delas fazendo safadezas mds tô gag
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Good list. I'd add:
> War and Peace (~1,225 pages)
> Anna Karenina (~864 pages)
> Crime and Punishment (~671 pages)
> Infinite Jest (~1,079 pages)
> 2666 (~900 pages)
> East of Eden (~601 pages)
> Moby-Dick (~635 pages)
> In Search of Lost Time (~4,215 pages)
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Long but great reads:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo ~1,312 pages
2. The Brothers Karamazov ~1,056 pages
3. Les Misérables ~1,456 pages
4. Don Quixote ~1,056 pages
5. The Master and Margarita ~448 pages
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Do you think it’s impossible to change your life in one day?
I used to think so too.
Until I read @thedankoe’s “How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day.”
Sometimes, one day is enough to stop living on autopilot, understand what you really want, and choose a new direction.
I liked the idea so much that I turned the key ideas from the article into a visual framework:
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Valid list. I'd add:
- The Metamorphosis (~70 pages)
- On the Shortness of Life (~60 pages)
- Man's Search for Meaning (~160 pages)
- Meditations (~150 pages)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (~86 pages)
High return, zero fluff.
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If you are a young man, read these 10 books:
1) Plutarch's Lives (Aubrey Stewart and George Long)
2) Illiad (Emily Wilson)
3) Odessey (Emily Wilson)
4) Ramayana (Bibek Debroy)
5) Mahabharata (Bibek Debroy)
6) The Peloponnesian War (Donald Kagan)
7) Alexander and Phillip (Adrian Goldsworthy)
8) In the Name of Lykourgos (Miltiadis Michalopoulos)
9) Morallia (All volumes by Plutarch)
10) 55 Essays (Corporate Machiavelli - the only modern book in this list)
By the end, you will have very good mental models of how reality works and what actually matters in life.
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good list. i'd add:
- letters to a young poet (~80 pages)
- the war of art (~165 pages)
- a technique for producing ideas (~48 pages)
- art & fear (~118 pages)
- the elements of style (~95 pages)
- the lessons of history (~119 pages)
- eternal pursuit of unhappiness (~66 pages)