因为理工科天赋点废了就全点人文社科了

And most importantly, admit it when you don't know. Admitting ignorance is also truth seeking.

Part of truth seeking is to acknowledge uncomfortable truth. Sometime you need to accept that you are wrong or your inadequacies.

TIme for a rant. Why is it so hard to study performance in the lab? One major reason is that what feels like a massive improvement in the real world is hard to pick up in the lab. Take super shoes, you get a 3-4% boost in performance. Massive. You feel it on race day. But in the lab, even the largest single factor boost we get...it's hard to pick apart. Now, take it a step further to a still significant but smaller boost, say 1% from high carb fueling or bicarb or any other legitimate intervention... It's near impossible to get this to show up consistently in studies on a small number of amateur or moderately trained folks. Why? The variation in performance is too large. If you're a 6 minute miler, you don't run 6min ont he dot every time you race. On a great day, you run 6:00. On a good day, maybe 6:05. Average day 6:08. Bad day 6:15. Disaster? 6:25. Hopkins & Hewson (2001) studied the day variability of performance and basically found: Elite/world-class trained: ~1.5% Sub-elite well-trained: ~2.5% Recreational/amateur: ~4% The point is the variation in day to day performance is much larger than the intervention. For amateurs, its bigger than the single biggest performance breakthrough we've had in running (super shoes!). To counteract this, we try to use larger number of folks, but in exercise science that almost never happens because of recruiting, funding, and other constraints. So what you tend to get with small N studies is that most are statistically blind to any change under 3-4%. And yet...most of our interventions from fuel to bicarb to caffeine are all relatively small effects (0.5-2%) which are practically very significant, but hard to detect in the lab. That's why... performance in the real world tends to show what works. It's not perfect. But if you've got hundreds or thousands of elites and sub-elites taking bicarb and saying: "Hmm, I ran a bit faster in each race I used it this season..." It sticks around. One of the main reasons is athletes don't just test things in a one off study. They test it in training, key workouts, numerous races, etc. Compare notes with their training partners, etc. It's easier to surface a signal over that longer period. Again, it's not perfect. But what often happens is a new supplement, tool, tech shows up. Everyone tries it. For a brief period you don't quite know as there's a copycat nature...But if the performance boost is significant it stays. If it doesn't, it fades away. So when you see someone say, "Hey in this study of 14 amateur runners, taking carbs didn't improve performance..." the answer is almost always, ya because of day to day performance variation, you can't pick up the signal from the noise. Science is great. I love research. But don't overlook the natural trend of trial and error in the arena. It generally surfaces what has value.

My first book was rejected by every agent and publisher. So I self-published it. It sold 60k+ copies. My 2nd book got rejected by 25+ publishers. Only one gave me a shot. It sold 350k+ Don't let other folks opinion of your work determine its value: open.substack.com/pub/stevemagne…

一株长在一条岩缝之中的植物不会去想为什么我不能自由，为什么我不能长在这块石头的缝隙以外的位置。

@LotusAlso 住得离公司近真的很爽

好想搬到公司旁边去，省下通勤时间就可以去健身了，不健身心情好差。

@TheBoysTV "Have you seen the memes?"

@thorino10 恕我直言，我上推的一大乐趣就是看那些有钱但是精神状态一塌糊涂的人。这样的电子宠物可多了。

@thorino10 他们通过金钱获得的自由，又拱手交给了“享乐主义”。 x.com/hakillha/statu…

突然想到年轻人为什么不再养孩子，因为对“养”的理解不同，上一辈多数觉得养孩子只要给他吃喝就够了，但我们知道养孩子不是养牲口，要了解小孩的心理状况，关心关注，了解他的兴趣遵循培养他的兴趣，懂得倾听，给他足够好的物质条件，不要让他在这上面自卑，培养独立意识安全意识安全感警惕心和信心…

WATCH: Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. An increasing number of elderly people in Taiwan’s super-aged society are hitting the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.

If you can't be a net positive, at least be a net zero.

Does anybody in a movie dance like John Travolta in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER?

这也是为什么中国人的价值观里会有“孝顺”，“乖”这样的说法

A large part of getting back in shape is remembering how to hurt. Mental toughness is a skill. It's normal for your alarm to be hyper reactive when it hasn't experience fatigue in a while. The way back is to gradually show you can handle it, without freaking out.

为什么苦难重要？因为苦难是最能激发人的创造力的一样东西。

他们在尝试了无数种做法，无数种元素后，把当中极少数合理的，成功的做法/元素以一定的方式组合起来，就成为了艺术品。

每一个伟大的艺术家也是一个伟大的冒险家。 他们的作品就是比尔博巴金斯（Bilbo Baggins）冒险后带回霍比屯的宝物——魔戒，刺针宝剑和秘银甲。他们就是带回西经的唐僧师徒四人。 你看到了酒神狄奥涅索斯在向你招手了吗？ 特洛伊的海伦的微笑会成为你的图景的一部分。向着那图景前进吧。

今天吃了人生中最贵的一顿饭。最值得的部分是听了这位店员说他们老板创业的故事。 Onward with the adventures! You will make mistakes but you will also recover from them. And those recoveries are where you truly grow! 去冒险吧！你会犯错，你会摔倒，但你也会从这些失败中恢复过来。而这些恢复的过程就是真正的成长！