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十分庆幸，在即将毕业时读到这么一本有关Critical thinking的书，尽管有些晚。
简单做了个图描述一下关键点。


这是具体问题：

1.       What are the issue and the conclusion?

2.       What are the reasons?

3.       What words and phases are ambiguous?

4.       What are the value conflicts and assumptions?

5.       What are descriptive assumptions?

6.       Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?

7.       How good is the evidence?

8.       Are there rival causes?

9.       Are the statistics deceptive?

10.   What significant information is omitted?

11.   What reasonable conclusions are possible?

 

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如果有一天离开西安，这个是绝对要怀念的。
刚看了一个电影《高兴》


里面有一个场景，高兴和五富去吃泡馍。陕西话唱的泡馍之歌真是带劲呀！


音频播放及下载地址 http://www.box.net/shared/ap8463v2ay

热爱我们所做的，包括学习、工作……

In analyzing how we spend our time, whether personally or professionally, it can be helpful to consider two dimensions: short-term satisfaction and long-term benefit. Both have value. It can be disappointing to live our lives with no meaning or pleasure in the here and now, just as it can be unfulfilling to live only for today.

Questions like, "Does this activity make me happy?" or "Do I find meaning in the activity itself?" can help us gauge the degree of short-term satisfaction that we get from any activity. Questions like, "Are the results achieved from this activity worth my effort?" or "Is the successful completion of this activity going to have a long-term positive impact on my life?" can help us gauge our expectations for potential long-term benefit from any activity.

The accompanying graph shows five different modes of behavior and how they can characterize our relationship to any activity—either at work or at home. (See above)

Stimulating is for activities that score high in short-term satisfaction but low in long-term benefit. An example of a "stimulating" activity may be the use of drugs or alcohol. While the activity may provide short-term satisfaction, it may be dysfunctional for long-term benefit. At work, gossiping with co-workers may be fun for a while, but it is probably not career- or business-enhancing. A life spent solely on stimulating activities could provide a lot of short-term pleasure but still be headed nowhere.

Sacrificing is for activities that score low in short-term satisfaction but high in long-term benefit. An extreme example of sacrificing could involve dedicating your life to work that you hate because you feel like you "have to" to achieve a larger goal. A more common example might be working out (when you don't feel like it) to improve your long-term health. At work, sacrificing might be spending extra hours on a project to help enhance your career prospects. A life spent solely on sacrificing activities would be the life of a martyr—lots of achievement, but not much joy.

Surviving is for activities that score low on short-term satisfaction and low on long-term benefit. These are activities that don't cause much joy or satisfaction and do not contribute to long-term benefit in your life. These are typically activities that we are doing because we feel that we have to do them in order just to get by. Charles Dickens frequently described the lives of people who were almost constantly in the surviving box. These poor people had countless hours of hard work, not much joy, and not much to show for all of their efforts. A life spent solely on surviving activities would be a hard one indeed.

Sustaining is for activities that produce moderate amounts of short-term satisfaction and lead to moderate long-term benefits. For many professionals, the daily answering of e-mails is a sustaining activity. It is moderately interesting (not thrilling) and usually produces moderate long-term but hardly life-changing benefit. At home, the day-to-day routine of shopping, cooking, and cleaning may be viewed as sustaining. A life spent solely on sustaining activities would be an O.K. one—not great, yet not too bad.

Succeeding is a term for activities that score high on short-term satisfaction and high on long-term benefit. These activities are the ones that we love to do and get great benefit from doing. At work, people who spend a lot of time in the succeeding box love what they are doing and believe that it is producing long-term benefit at the same time. At home, a parent may be spending hours with a child time that the parent greatly enjoys while valuing the long-term benefit that will come to the child. A life spent in succeeding is a life that is filled with both joy and accomplishment.

The perception of both short-term satisfaction and long-term benefit is dependent upon the individual engaged in the activity. Consider an immigrant who leaves a poor country and come to the U.S., where she works 18 hours a day at two minimum-wage jobs. She may have a great attitude toward her work and be saving every possible cent for her children's education. She may define her life as being largely spent in the succeeding category—filled with short-term happiness and long-term benefit.

At the other end of the professional scale, one CEO could feel resentful and grumpy about her work (and feel trapped) because a drop in stock value means that she will have to work another couple of years to have the million she told herself she needed in order to retire. She might see herself in the surviving category. Another CEO in a similar situation could feel happy and fulfilled at the prospect of leading a major organization through challenging times and see herself in the succeeding category.

The point is two people could be engaged in the same activity but have completely different perceptions of what this activity means to them. It's because no one can define what short-term satisfaction or long-term benefit means for you but you. My suggestion for you is simple. Spend a week tracking how you spend your time. At the end of the week calculate how many hours you spent on stimulating, sacrificing, surviving, sustaining, or succeeding. Then ask yourself what changes you can make to help you create a life that is both more satisfying in the short-term and more rewarding in the long-term.

While the activities that take up our time can be one factor in determining our happiness and achievement, our attitude toward these activities can be an equally important factor in determining the ultimate quality of our lives. If we cannot change our activities, we can at least try to change our attitude toward them. 

Marshall Goldsmith is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Succession: Are You Ready? as well as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, a Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year. He can be reached at Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com, and he provides his articles and videos online at MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com. 

原始链接 http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/may2009/ca2009055_035203.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories

简单的说，作为世界上污染最严重的地区之一，这里新生婴儿残障比例异常的高。

By James Reynolds BBC News, Shanxi, central China

For the Li family, the best part of the day comes at noon.

Every day, after school, Li San San picks up his children from school, jams them all onto the back of his motorbike and drives them through the hills back home.

The kids cling onto each other and laugh as they try not to fall off.

 

On the main roads nearby, lines of coal trucks head off to the rest of China. The valleys are full of steelworks and heavy industry.

The Li family get back to their home, which is carved into the side of a hill.

Six-year-old Hong Wei eats his noodles and sits quietly in front of his school notebook.

He has a shy smile and hides in his sister's lap when we try to talk to him.

Hong Wei was born with an extra thumb on his right hand. His elder sister Lixia, who's 14, was born with a twisted left foot and walks with a heavy limp.

Like many people in Shanxi, this family is too poor to go to the doctors. The parents don't know why their children were born with defects. They're simply left to guess.

"The air isn't good around here," says Li San San. "When it's bad, it's difficult to breathe, it looks gloomy and smoggy out there."

The province of Shanxi is one of the most polluted places in the world.

The rate of birth defects in this region is six times higher than the national average.

In January, the director of family planning in Shanxi, An Huanxiao, told the China Daily newspaper that the province's high rate of birth defects was related to environmental pollution.

But doctors we spoke to in Shanxi are more sceptical.

One doctor at a village clinic told us that a local survey carried out in 2002 concluded that birth defects were caused by malnutrition.

As a result, he said that the authorities decided to distribute enriched flour to poor families in the area.

Poor medical care

At the Zhong Yang county maternity hospital, also in Shanxi, there's a view that malnutrition is as much to blame as pollution.

A poster on the wall encourages pregnant mothers to eat well.

Zhao Shuzhen, 23, has come in for an ultrasound as she is nine months pregnant.

"This is my first baby so we want to know whether or not the kid will be okay," she says. "My husband was worried so we discussed it and decided to come to the hospital."

The Zhang family, in the village of Gao Jiagou, has never had the benefit of proper medical attention.

The family's two eldest children, 13-year-old Yi Mei and 9-year-old Yi Long were both born with mental disabilities.

Yi Long is unable to talk. Yi Mei can only say one word and spends the day listening to music on a mobile phone.

 

Their mother has just given birth to a third child, Yi Wu. 

The new baby lies under a blanket in the middle of the only bed in the house. A cardboard box is propped up behind his pillow.

His mother believes it's too soon to tell for sure whether or not Yi Wu has been born without any disabilities.

But she keeps looking at him, hoping for signs that he is okay.

"When I look at him he seems alright," she says hopefully.

She wants him to be a doctor when he grows up.

China has promised to clear up its air and water, but in this province, industry comes before a cleaner environment.

And in the grime of this one house in Shanxi, the hopes of an entire family rest on one baby.

原始链接 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8012852.stm

现在在西安火车站，一会的火车返回山西。在这里四年了，望着对面的古城墙，给人以厚重与踏实的感觉。
介绍一点西安火车站攻略：
A.路边的纯净水不要买
B.路边的纪念品可以买。根据本人经验，介绍一下兵马佣系列的大概价格－盒装五个小兵马俑约五元每盒，兵马佣打火机约五元每个，兵马俑钥匙链/手机链约二元一个，量多均有优惠。
C.穿越古城墙到达五路口，是图书的天下，喜欢读书的同胞可以在等火车的时间一逛。
D.这里小偷巨多，敬请注意！

我们反过来，把现在当成Second Life.

弦歌和朋友在街上，聊到我，随手一指，正好指到新华文轩－－三年前我们认识的地方。感谢孔庆东同学那个雨天在西安签售。