That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
如果你做的很好,这是件令人愉快的事。相反的情况,就很令人沮丧。社会学家Emil,Durkheim分析发现,这提高了自杀率,追求个人主义的发达国家的自杀率,高过于世界上其它地方,原因是人们把发生在自己身上的事情,全当作自己的责任,人们拥有成功,也拥有失败。
跨行业和跨国界的合作对于满足世界能源需求至关重要。
任何经济理论的最终检验标准是它是否能改善现实世界的决策。
过去总是与我们同在,因为它滋养着现在。
最大的风险就是不冒任何风险。在这个快速变化的世界里,唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。
有时候你必须先输才能赢。
真正的进步不仅仅以产量衡量,更以我们创造的积极影响来衡量。
I'm interested in the space between order and chaos.
Our license to operate depends as much on social acceptance as it does on technical capability.
To exist is to have a subjective existence.