This book is written by American psychologist Scott Parker, who does not belong to inspirational books, but has a better sense of enlightenment than inspirational classes. Psychological diseases in our country belong to an extremely despised one of the disease, curse "neuropathy" also belongs to the more vicious category. In fact, psychological diseases in our country is very common, because our culture and social environment is more likely to breed such diseases, and because of the taboo disease taboo, resulting in a lot of human tragedy. One of the most common mental illnesses is depression. In fact, there are many people who have been depressed and committed suicide every year, in fact, many of them, if they can get the necessary treatment, can avoid the tragedy.
The author's point of view is that life is a heavy suffering, since life is difficult, then we should be calm to face the difficulties of life, through the face of suffering, face problems, and through the difficulties to achieve the maturity of the human mind. Of course, the author is not encouraging you to be an ascetic, just to encourage people in the face of difficulties or problems are not, do not choose to escape, but to meet the difficulties and face him. A bit of Lu Xun's real warrior taste---True warriors dare to face the bleak life, dare to face dripping blood. Come in and cultivate your own independent personality. This point, because of Chinese traditional culture and family education, Chinese people rarely have a relatively complete independent personality. Self-bounds are generally blurred. Of course, this is also the author's view. You don't have to agree.
To attain the maturity of the mind, the author proposes ways of self-discipline, love and religion. Self-discipline is the basic weapon of life towards maturity. In the east and West culture, I feel that is more emphasis on self-discipline, oriental culture, similar to the idea is the province alone. The difference between East and West culture in this, I think is whether to pursue the perfect difference. The purpose of self-discipline in the West is not to perfect the morals, while the provincial independence in the Oriental culture is to emphasize the moral perfection. From the operability, I think the Western self-discipline is more easy to achieve. Benjamin Franklin's 13 methods are now a viable option. In order to achieve self-discipline, the author feels that it is time to postpone satisfaction (enjoyment), to take responsibility, to respect the facts, to meet the challenge, and to maintain a balance by giving up the new. The author is obviously a more knowledgeable person, and has a better understanding of Chinese culture. Because there are many things, there are similar---"First world of gifted son gifted, enjoy", the mean, truth-seeking, willing and so on. Our traditional culture is truly splendid era is the spring and Autumn Period, but later, Confucianism became Orthodox, especially after the song, became very rigid. Completely violates the "human nature", becomes "the human eats the human" society's brainwashing technique. The result of a complete violation of human nature is a hypocrite. This is why I do not favor Confucianism. Of course, the author does not criticize China's traditional culture, these things are just my feelings.
Love here refers to the love of humanity, belongs to the category of fraternity. The author of the Love at first sight, falling in love, holding a reserved attitude, feel that this is only the self-boundary is not clear performance. Of course, the parents ' embracing love is not the author's approval. This kind of excessive love, but it is easy to produce a lot of psychological problems, in this "love", parents and children are often victims. For the love of mankind, I also agree, I think a lot of people's love for animals, should be transferred to people up. Love needs to be sustained, and it needs a sense of propriety.
Religion in the eyes of the author is a generalized concept. is a belief. Science, or Christ, can be regarded as a religion. Of course, the author encourages people to believe in science, not traditional religion. However, I think, the author is still a little "mysterious" doctrine. Of course, there are many natural phenomena or unnatural imaginations (dreams, etc.) that cannot be explained, although I am an atheist, but I also feel "three feet above my head". Of course, this deity has nothing to do with superstition, it is related to cognition.
As a technical staff, I think we still need to see some humanities or psychological aspects of books, you can adjust their mentality, to avoid some problems occur.
Other than that:
Freedom means responsibility. Are we ready to take responsibility while pursuing our freedom?
A little thought of reading "The road that few people walk through"