GJ的讀書心得

  It's Not TV The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO Author ： Felix Gillette & John Koblin Recommendation ：⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ☆ Preface Too many people came into meetings at HBO asking what kind of show the network was hoping to make - precisely the wrong answer. HBO was looking for writers who knew what they wanted to create and are willing to approach a topic with strong points of view. I think this mindset differentiates it from Netflix or Disney+. The book talks about the rise and fall of HBO and how it survived through merges by merges. Being the first cable channel which saw the opportunity of using satellite to broadcast box match across US of the legend, Tyson. HBO has very bold vision on how it can build up its brand. Since then, it starts to develop its own original series such as Sex and the City and The Sapranos , which touch very sensitive topics during that period. After these high peaks, HBO was merged by Warner medias and then AOL(a tech company which I never ...

  Upstream The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen Author ：   Dan Heath Recommendation ：⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ☆ Preface The reason you are reading this in English is because my sharing will be English when I read English version, and when I read mandarin version, it will be in mandarin. The reason I do this is because I hope to improve my personal English skill and also seek to force others to read some English writings as well. Although my English isn’t as good as lots of people, but I hope my review of this book may help you refresh how you think you should solve a problem. So, back to our business, what is upstream? Take COVID-19 as an example, what should be the first step we take when such a pandemic happens? Is it to develop a medicine for cure? Or is it to research for a vaccine to prevent more infections? Or maybe, a more structured system to handle and control the spread of the virus is our top priority? When things happened, we usually wanted to resolve the problem we confro...

PEAK MiND: Find your focus, own your attention, invest 12 minutes a day 作者：Jha, Amishi P. 推薦分數：⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ 英文難度： ⭐⭐⭐ ☆ ☆ （GJ的英文程度-英文指考75分，多益875分，單字量沒有高中多，口說可以表達自己但絕對不到native） Have you ever been in a situation where someone was talking to you about a very important project but your mind was thinking about the delicious meal you’re going to eat later? Or when you were eating a gorgeous dish with your lovely spouse, but you were thinking about a proposal you have to propose tomorrow? We all face issues like this, where our attention is wandering to somewhere else and can’t focus on what is in front of you. According to the author, 50% of our daily lives passed by without any of our recognitions. This is human nature, but it is also something we could train to get stronger of. When we are mind-wandering, our attentions are still working. Attention works 24/7 and never stops and we can separate our attentions into 3 categories. Flashlight, which you point it directly, highlighted and salient. Fl...

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know 作者： Adam Grant  推薦分數：⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ 英文難度： ⭐⭐⭐ ☆ ☆ （GJ的英文程度-英文指考75分，多益875分，單字量沒有高中多，口說可以表達自己但絕對不到native）   People are purpose driven animals . We stick to what we committed and we do what we learned. Not only because what you decided but also the society you live in. This is what prevents us growing and learning. We thought we know what we know, but the truth is there are still so many things to explore. Take Uber, Google, Apple, Netflix…as example, you couldn’t imagine the world dominated by these companies currently decades ago. But people who rethink about their current status had changed the world we lived in. That’s the kind of mindset that we must have. By reading through this book, I’d been thinking about what came wrong with my career. I’d remember I did have some passions at the early stage of my career. I want to do meaningful jobs and maybe marketing is something I want. Currently it seems everything went wrong, I had...

  Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones 作者：  James Clear 推薦分數：⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ 英文難度： ⭐⭐⭐ ☆ ☆ （GJ的英文程度-英文指考75分，多益875分，單字量沒有高中多，口說可以表達自己但絕對不 到native） I have heard lots of people recommending this book, including my current boss’s boss. It points out the basic facts and desires on how people can begin a new habit and last it. Just like how a stock can return you financial benefits after you keep investing in months by months. A habit starts by improving 1% day by day. Imagine how this changes your life after 365 days, you are around 37 times better than your current self. On the other hand, if you declined 1% day by day. After 365 days, you will be approximately 0 at the end of the year. The first step to do this is cue , which means to make your habit obvious . What does it mean to make it obvious? Imagine smokers seeing pictures of lungs with cancer, they start feel anxious, then they will smoke. This is the cue effect. If you want to start die...

  Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World 作者：   Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West 推薦分數：⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ ☆ 英文難度： ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ ☆ （GJ的英文程度-英文指考75分，多益875分，單字量沒有高中多，口說可以表達自己但絕對不到native） People love to talk bullshits for lots of different reasons. Maybe it’s because they can receive benefits, or maybe they accidentally said something wrong, or even just want to make fun of it. But things get worse after the boom of social media, fake news fly fast and truth never. We get eyes on dramatic headlines and share those information without confirming its authenticity, and even after there are following information that corrects this news, it doesn’t matter. Because the ordinary story is what you think is more interesting. This causes the fake news like NFL athletes burning American flags, manipulation of USA election and lots of different impacts. That’s why noticing and calling bullshit is so important and I would like to share some of the tips in the book. First let’s talk about selecti...