周六刮风下雨,懒得出门,正好在家读完了Jordan Peterson的书《Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life》,感觉也挺充盈的。
Jordan Peterson被称为是当代最有影响力的加拿大畅销书作者和热门网络媒体人,我个人认为这种称号大大低估了他在学术思想领域的贡献和影响力。
Peterson是一位有着几十年临床经验的心理医生,先后在哈佛大学和多伦多大学任教。他的书在世界各地发行500多万册,他在全球各大城市举办了几百场的公开巡讲,观众多达250万人。除此之外,他还发表过100多篇学术论文。他在1999年所著的《Maps of Meaning》彻底改变了传统的宗教心理学,被加拿大安省电视台TVO制作成了13集的电视系列讲座。感兴趣的朋友可以在YouTube上观看。
“I am not feeling the way I am supposed to feel. I am not crying. I am not overwhelmed by sorrow. I am going far too normally about my day-to-day business (something particularly likely to occur if you receive the news of a death from a distant locale)”.
”But then, as you engage in something trivial, as if things are normal, the grief will strike you like a rogue wave. That happens repeatedly, God only knows for how long. It is something that arises from the depths, and it takes you irresistibly in its grasp.”
“It is necessary to understand that, just as in the case of children, all those particularities, fragilities, and limitations are part and parcel of what it is that you come to love.”
“It is difficult for any of us to see what we are blinded to by the nature of our personalities. It is for this reason that we must continually listen to people who differ from us, and who, because of that difference, have the ability to see and to react appropriately to what we cannot detect.”
“We manage that partly in democratic systems by throwing out the people in charge on a regular basis, and replacing them with their ideological opposites.”
在这本书里,Peterson还专门有一条法则告诉大家要摈弃所谓的“主义”。
“The communists produced a worldview that was attractive to fair-minded people, as well as those who were envious and cruel.” “Unfortunately for the communists, a substantial proportion of the oppressed were incapable, unconscientious, unintelligent, licentious, power mad, violent, resentful, and jealous, while a substantial proportion of the oppressors were educated, able, creative, intelligent, honest, and caring.”
“If you confront the suffering and malevolence, and if you do that truthfully and courageously, you are stronger, your family is stronger, and the world is a better place.”
总之,我认为Jordan Peterson是当今世界很难得的一位思想者,他鼓励大家要”being truthful, responsible, grateful, and humble” 诚实,负责,感恩,谦逊,他自己也确实做到了。