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十分有趣地從人類的發展歷史去估算未來，人性的發展變得有蹟可尋，近代的幾百年已經超越了人類幾億年的發展，破壞方面更無可匹敵，是人類的宿命嗎？

失望的是作者在書的尾部浸出個人的政治理念，有意無意難定論，但似乎豪無需要吧。

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是認知、心智、心態等等人生的實用指南，明白人與人關係的一種舒服的智慧，苦惱從何而來，可以如何處置。「簡單」原來從不簡單。

倡導改變是由自己開始，要懂「安於不安」的道理，要有勇氣去面對逆境，凡事保持正念，更重要是過程中帶給平和的心態。

阿徳勒 (Alfred Adler) 是個體心理學的創始人，與佛洛伊徳和榮格是三大心理學巨頭。他不同意佛洛伊徳的創傷心理學理論，相信追究的不是過去的原因，而應更專注現在的目的。

用上哲學常用的對話描述，帶出人生的大道理，要接納自我、信任他人、貢獻群體。應定人生一切煩惱都是從人際關係產生，帶出活在當下，專注做可做的事就會走向幸福。

學術味極濃的論說，用倒敘方式把西方的重要歷史作解說，對讀者的思考並無幫助。當今世界的論述頗有趣味，帶出未來世界會變成「在線共同體」的特性，西方的分裂主意最終瓦解資本主義等等有趣的分析。

This book provides you with deep thinking about death, in terms of its nature, interpretation, argument, theory, immortality, values as well as about suicide. It demonstrates the traditional rational thinking in western philosophy about death. Interestingly, there are good arguments about the existence of soul after death and morality of suicide. It inspires me to rethink the physical and spiritual meanings of death. In particular, I appreciate the last sentence in the book mentioned by author "... invited you to face death without fear and without illusion."

A book written by a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. The author has extensive experiences and knowledge with 30 years in diplomacy and 15 years in academia. He lived in New York for over 10 years as Singapore's ambassador to the UN. With his understanding to western countries as well as Asian countries, he is qualified to make rational and objective analysis about the current situation of US and China regarding their direct confrontation since 2018. The book provides a balanced view on both giant countries in terms of their political and economical strategies. The insight reflects the wisdom of current diplomatic intelligence, and demonstrates independent thinking against biased western media. Although there has been no conclusion to the question, his insight provides us with more factual understanding.

This book was written by Kishore earlier than his "Has China Won?". He is a non-Chinese and he believes in the western democratic system. However, based on his knowledge and extensive political experiences, his conclusive statement at the end of the book mentioned that "The era of Western domination is coming to an end." In his analysis, he summaries that "It is not inevitable that China will lead the world, even though it is inevitable that China will have the world's largest economy." He thinks that the West is possible to avoid China from leading the world in the future if they are able to realize their current mistakenly used strategy and change their course toward Machiavelli's approach.

華盛頓商學院教授的著書，一貫外國學者的風格，內容冗長又有很多參考文獻，字字引經據典。標題很吸眼球而且清晰，對未來有不同方面的探討，針對商業和管理範疇，不乏有啟發性的表述，例如共享消費的模式、女權的掘起、無子世代、貨幣的革命等等。探索2030年的世界的確很有吸引力，從今天的現象和科技去推測將來，時間不太遠，正是我們這一代可以看見的未來，閱讀起來很有前瞻性。可惜的是教授的描述東拉西扯太多，頗有不聚焦的感覺，加上翻譯不理想，句子有點累贅，看起來不太順暢。

外國的學者對中國的策略論說有很多，但因中西觀念不同，所以對中國政策的理解有差異，看一本中國學者的書本可以從第一身的角度去理解真正中國的策略及其理念。(2022)

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