You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.
你必须弄清楚你自己的天赋是什么。如果你玩的游戏是别人有天赋而你没有的,你就会输。这几乎是你能做出的任何预测中最接近确定的。你必须弄清楚你在哪里有优势。你必须在你自己的能力圈内玩。
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
自由民主制度可能并不完美,但它是我们拥有的最好的制度。
写作是一种抵抗行为,一种重新获得声音和身份的方式。