Part 2, Live an Aesthetic Life

Some children go to bilingual kindergartens, read world classics, play violin or dance ballet, and their parents even take them to museums. After I became an adu

Some children go to bilingual kindergartens, read world classics, play violin or dance ballet, and their parents even take them to museums. After I became an adult, I no longer watched a Tolstoy or went to museums. I went to the cinema instead of playing the violin and sang karaoke. However, isn’t the purpose of receiving twenty years of education to lead a colorful life in the next forty or fifty years? How to have long-term happiness is to have the ability to appreciate beauty and create beauty. People often say, "Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you will not be afraid of traveling around the world." These three courses provide the basis for an intellectual life, and most people can stop learning them when they leave campus. However, music, art and sports should be continued after leaving school, because they are the basis for living an aesthetic life. With the ability to appreciate art, you can understand Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and experience the dizzying magic of that small painting like a whirlpool; you can feel the weighty texture of the apple painted by Cezanne. , if you can draw a few strokes, you can personally create and retain the beauty in life that makes you stare at it for a long time, such as the touch of autumn colors you find by accidentally stopping by the roadside.

Music started when Linghu Chong learned "Yin of the Blue Sky" from Ren Yingying in Swordsman. He believed that Linghu Chong got great comfort from music. It was difficult for the performer to explain the music in words. From the music It is also difficult to convey what you feel to others in words. With the ability to appreciate music, ordinary people can feel something rising in their hearts in the music, and the sky is blue and cloudless.

Sports represents aggression and humanity in a peaceful world. In the UK, a Manchester United fan is taught to hate Liverpool since he was a child. In the past, fans of the Beijing team always looked forward to dealing with Shenhua in the Workers' Stadium. The world of sports It provides us with an imaginary enemy. If primitive people end their day of hunting, they will dance and celebrate around a bonfire. Sports are the bonfires of modern people. Watching sports games calms people's aggression, and you can also appreciate the beauty of competition. See What kind of extreme state can a person's body reach in professional sports. The world of professional sports is also a magnifying glass for fame, wealth and human nature. We can see the aging Tyson and Gasco who seem destined to end in failure, and the indulgent Romario and Ronaldinho. At the same time, we can also see the elegant and self-disciplined people. Sampras and Federer.

The author’s arguments for each point and conclusion in the book are clarified with examples through literary works and life experiences. Therefore, the by-product of this book is a book list, which recommends three books on parenting. This book includes "The Self-Driven Child (English version)", "Nurture from the Inside Out" and "The Gardener and the Carpenter".

Children’s starting point is their parents. I don’t know what it’s like to see a book called “Letter to Da Zhuang” on the table after the child becomes literate. This epistle is a parenting book and a thinking book for adults. What do you think a good life looks like? In your experience, what experiences do you hope to pass on to your children? Teaching by words and deeds, actions speak louder than words, and are more meaningful than simply asking children to become what kind of person they are. The words and deeds of parents in life are the most important objects for children to imitate in their early years, as well as the intellectual and aesthetic standards. I believe that after a person reaches the age of thirty, he should have his own hobbies, self-awareness, sense of responsibility, spiritual pursuits and life principles. Life is concrete, a series of multiple-choice questions and exams. Therefore, when it comes to raising children, choosing what we really think is important will create a family atmosphere in which knowledge and action are unified. Similarly, since parents think it is important and think that their children should do, they will do it themselves. This is a process of education, and parents themselves are growing along with their children. Important things:

1. Learn mathematics well and enjoy the beauty of mathematics. The first reason is that mathematics is fun, and the second reason is that it is more useful. In the future world, society will be controlled by computer networks and artificial intelligence. Algorithms are the basis of networks and intelligence. Mathematics is the basis of algorithms. If you can learn mathematics well, one more person will understand it. world dimension.

Starting from the second semester of the second grade, increase the proportion of mathematics learning and try to improve your talent level in the Mathematical Olympiad.

2. Learn Chinese well and enjoy the beauty of speaking. Society provides better opportunities for people with better speaking skills, just as it provides more choices for beautiful people. How to speak well depends on writing well, and thinking well is the foundation for writing well. Therefore, to learn Chinese well, start with reading and writing.

3. Learn English well. English will bring your horizons abroad and see a larger world. This is an important weapon to improve the quality of life. It strengthens learning from two aspects: school English and extracurricular training.

4. Learn music and art, and have the ability to appreciate beauty. Continue to practice piano and set a specific goal; enroll in an extracurricular tutoring class for art based on your interests.

5. Have a good sport, experience confrontation and winning and losing in sports, continue to obtain the dopamine brought by sports, and also cultivate the ability to appreciate professional competitive sports. Continue to study tennis and learn swimming in the summer.

As a parent, there are no conditions for improvement and remediation in some of the above contents. For example, understanding as many mathematical concepts and theories as possible is currently a feasible way. Keep reading and writing, and aim to read 4 books per month and one article per week. In terms of exercise, I insist on fitness twice a week and tennis once a week.