Last Autumn, I attended Building Interpersonal Skills: An Experiential Workshop, organised by Susan Neville, Campbell Frank and a couple of other instructors, at Stanford. After this intensive program, one poem and one word repeatedly come back to me: compassion. To begin the program, the instructors read us Miller Williams's poem. Sue was very kind to … Continue reading Compassion
Month: January 2019
How to Win an Argument
How to Win an Argument - An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion is by far the best book I have read on oratory. James May translated Cicero's words into enlightening and pleasing writings. Thanks to May, the rhetorical wisdom of Cicero is comfortably accessible to us all. The rest lies in "师父领进门，修行靠个人". The … Continue reading How to Win an Argument
Meditations
I started the new year, 2019, with a long hike in the Santa Cruz mountain range. The air in the mountains was very fresh, compared with the uniquely peculiar “scent” of central London, which I merrily inhaled throughout the holiday season. Crudely stated, it was probably because of the exhaust from diesel cars and buses, … Continue reading Meditations