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Before investing time into reading the whole thing, I searched for some insights on youtube into this book. Here is what I learned:
Outsourcing: save your time by paying for someone doing the task
Elimination: 80/20 principle, cut away time but achieve the same result

The uncle is very bad-tempered and he commits domestic violence

It is jaw-dropping how bullied HP is by his secondary family. With an understanding of this bulling scene setting up for future plot, I still wish younger readers can critically appraise this behavior.
HP's cousin is very spoiled. Giving everything a child asks for can spoil a kid, which does not prepare he/she for the real world. The world does not revolve around your own feeling, others around you matter too.

So far, Rowling is very good at setting the stage for whats going next. The writing is very easy to grasp.

So far, Rowling is very good at setting the stage for whats going next. The writing is very easy to grasp.

What a suffering to endure locked in syndrome!
Would someone diagnosed with it have the strength to live her/his everyday life? What would their attitudes be?
Would they live their life differently if they have a chance to be normal again?

In the Exercise Neuroscience course, I got introduced to this book about a man who suffered from the Locked-in Syndrome, but was able to dictate a book in French by blinking his eyelid. I am extremely amazed and touched by his tragic yet glorious (?) life. Just one chapter in, I can feel his agony and mental pitfalls.

Gradually grasp the main idea of this book - be the "New Rich", trade time working for hours with doing things you really want and still earn money. Similar to belief system of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad".

做自己喜欢做的事情作为职业，更容易投入精力，更容易做好。因为这个过程是非常愉快的。

多读书，少上网；多读原著，少读点评

如果要获得内心的平静，淡定从容，那么看第八辑就好了。讲了很多进退取舍，看了之后觉得豁然开朗。

- 昨天读了“ 敦煌莫高窟” 篇章，凭借记忆：

介绍其历史；原来这是以印度佛教基础，希腊文化和中华民族文化兼容的年龄悠久的古老建筑。

一个年代的繁荣昌盛和雕塑的惟妙惟肖成正比。
Amazed with 即便战争混乱，古老文化还能保存的这么好。

最后希望海外的文物能回到祖国。

She has been talking about all of the decisions she made in her life - from how she juggled between work and family, how she managed marriage when she tells something wrong in her life, how she always supports her husband’s decision, yet hold tight on everything she owns rather than dropping all for her husband. Inspiring, because I can see all of those are just part of life.

Grow up strong and centrées and also un accommodating to any form of old school patriarchy: I didn’t want them to every believer that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.

The power of speaking up

The role women play in the society. Though gaining some privilege, but are generally regarded as weaker than men.

To change the world within you need to change the world without.
You control your thought, your thought I’d under your control

Week one practice:
Fully secure yourself on the seat for fifteen to thirty minutes

All gain is the result of an accumulative consciousness, all loss is the result of a scattering consciousness.

The brain is the organ where all of our constructive, pleasant sensations come from, and it’s through the same objective mind that all distress, sickness, lack and limitations come from.

In the “experiment “ chapter, marmee is intelligent enough to conduct an experiment to teach girls to each take part of the work and only working and playing at once make life great

之所以小妇人在那个年代写出的有不一样的意义，四姐妹的母亲理念很新颖：比起嫁富人，变得快乐。

Money is a needful and precious thing and when well used, a noble thing , but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you port men’s wives if you were happy, beloved , contented, than queens on thrones, without self respect and peace.”

James Lawrence is kind enough to give his piano to Beth, who’s rather introverted and lighthearted.

“When you’re discontented, think over your blessings and be gratefully.”

How to read more: grab some of time here, some of time there

I start to end here and will come back later, as at this point, she talked about her life of balancing between child caring and her husband of running for US congress. So far, she shows her life as always going upward and her career path really proves the idea that occupation is not really a straight line but rather with changes. She showed as every decision can be though to make and obviously hardship is not uncommo

“Don’t worry. You can do this. Well figure it out. “
“Instead of teaching girls to be nice, teach them to be outspoken.”

She failed the bar exam:
1. She always over prepare any big exams
2. She burned out at law school as she found the content quite boring and the most interesting part is to volunteer at legal aid bureau

He assured me to just go for it(switching from the stable lawyer job abruptly into a new field) , to erase the worries and go towards whatever I thought would make me happy.
“The unknown wasn’t gonna kill me.”
“Don’t worry. You can do this. We’ll figure it out.”

How did she manage it?

She started to ask to be given more challenging assignments and at the same time kept an eye on job postings and networked with people who are not in law.

When she was confused and bounced between expenses and fulfillment. Her mom said “I say make the money first and worry about your happiness later.”

“Nothing was impossible, but nothing looked simple. “
“She (her mom) kept her hair short and wore a practical, in fussy clothes . “ “my mother was a force. She had little tolerance for fools.”