周六刮風下雨,懶得出門,正好在家讀完了Jordan Peterson的書《Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life》,感覺也挺充盈的。
Jordan Peterson被稱為是當代最有影響力的加拿大暢銷書作者和熱門網絡媒體人,我個人認為這種稱號大大低估了他在學術思想領域的貢獻和影響力。
Peterson是一位有著幾十年臨床經驗的心理醫生,先後在哈佛大學和多倫多大學任教。他的書在世界各地發行500多萬冊,他在全球各大城市舉辦了幾百場的公開巡講,觀眾多達250萬人。除此之外,他還發表過100多篇學術論文。他在1999年所著的《Maps of Meaning》徹底改變了傳統的宗教心理學,被加拿大安省電視台TVO製作成了13集的電視係列講座。感興趣的朋友可以在YouTube上觀看。
“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.”
在這本書裏,Peterson還專門有一條法則告訴大家要擯棄所謂的“主義”。
“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.”
總之,我認為Jordan Peterson是當今世界很難得的一位思想者,他鼓勵大家要”being truthful, responsible, grateful, and humble” 誠實,負責,感恩,謙遜,他自己也確實做到了。