Interesting evidence on both sides

From now on, I will be collecting posts and evidences from both sides for the a same topic, either US side, the so called freedom media, and China side, the so called Communist censored media. It makes me baffled every time there is an argument from one side saying the other side is bad. In US, the mainstream media always saying China is bad at everything, from human rights, medical system, to copyright violation etc, and meanwhile, good at everything at the same time, from advanced weapons, talented hackers, and of course ambition to conquer the world (mostly US), etc. So for acquiring information from where you live, it is not possible to always collect every side of opinions for the same news, or see how the other side response to the news you see. News is just news, it is written by some biased human seeing one thing from one perspective. Do not say because you are US media press, then you are very good at being objective and comprehensive, there are so many evidence that people in US will never know about just because mainstream US media never or will not cover, or just because it is written in another language or just too lazy to think actively and critically and just rest in their own comfort zone of media. On the other hand, things backwards are really thoroughly discovered, analyzed and reported. China's media manipulation seems really well reported (outside China of course) and it seems like just in case not every generation or every people not hear of it, these kind of news are being reported again and again, even though the topic are usually the same. At times, Ai Weiwei has to be brought up, or so as the regulations on some newspaper or the green great wall. Nobody has ever investigated media like New york times or Washington post on these topics, and do they actually perform just like media in China.


Take this for example,

China's Health Care Crisis by NYT

Reporters investigated people in China for problems in China's medical systems, but really tilted news because there are so many biased translations. It is hard to believe media like NYT cannot afford one Chinese translator to do the translation rather than just thinking they are saying whatever you think they are saying.

Here is response from Nathan Rich, an American guy who is banning from YouTube (YouTube keep deleting his subscribers constantly to make his channel not reach 1000. The time I subscribe he has 755 subscribers, but several mins later, it decreased to 650, and keep decreasing now.)

Every country's medical system is not perfect, but from my own point of view, it is so much harder to see doctors in US than in China. Why US has so few people with so many well-trained(?) doctors has to push patients to make a reservation 3 months or half year ahead??? Yet, US is keeping shooting on China's medical system problem instead of looking into its own problems. This kind of information manipulation is so focus-shifting that it shifts people's attention from really problems inside to problems outside. And who is good at doing this stuff, as reported by US media? China! Now there is the really irony here.

From our perspective, people both receiving information from China and other world, it is pretty clear that every media's target reader is its own people. For media in US, it seems they can speak for the world, but in fact it is just speak for the white people's world, like Europe and Australia and countries controlled by white people like EAS and Japan ... almost the entire world. But for the people brainwashed under US media, they feel like they are standing up for the world. They feel whatever news or reports from the media they see is the real world. NOBODY SEES THE REAL WORLD! The more you see, the more complex the world is; while the less you see, you feel like it is pretty obvious about everything. So easy principle but so people know the truth. Only people who experienced media's power from both sides know about this.

self reflection

感觉自我反省这个主题自己经常在blog上面写，所以已经是不知道第多少次的self-reflection了。

这次呢，是关于自己如何让自己有动力的去做该做的事情。自己总会在做一件事情做得太多太久的时候感觉到厌烦，特别是当这件事情没有强制性的压力逼自己向前push的时候更容易产生这种情绪。所以自己很喜欢上课，上课的deadline让自己感觉自己完成的事情很多，然后自己很努力。但是其实上课只是学的是知识，当真正运用知识的时候很多情况下自己根本不知道该用什么，换言之，自己可能缺乏将问题梳理清楚，然后重新规划问题并且去解决的能力。再往深点说，其实自己也有这种能力，只不过没有足够的动力去让自己去motivate自己然后运用所有这些方法去做事情。最简单的动力的来源就是别人给定的目标，只要去达成就可以了，比如上课的deadline啊，或者老板给定下来的期限。但是这个工作的一大特点就是老板并没有真正硬性的期限。可以说是管理上面不够push，不像别的公司的老板一样给员工定目标然后去考察绩效等等。所以取而代之的就是自己需要self-motivate。今年开始自己才逐渐感觉自己回去认真想工作的事情了，而不是给个很loose的目标，然后随便做一做就好了。自己需要对每一个project的每一个细节进行管理和记录。将每一个project的每一个目标定下来，然后一点一点的记录进程，会让整个的工作觉得有效率很多。

然而现在方法掌握了，动力却有的时候还是很缺失。然后很一直苦于纠结怎么去改善，因为自己有的时候就是一干闲事然后就停不下来，还不容易停下来了也不愿意去干该做的事情。最近发现有一种方法，就是上社交网络或者各种信息渠道去看自己的朋友的进展如何。看着社交网络上面或者个人网站等等上面朋友的丰功伟绩，然后对比自己没什么成就的时候就会觉得自己真的好差，然后还在这里不务正业，然后就感觉到了内疚，从而恢复自己做事情的动力。虽然自己知道而且所有人都说最好的给自己动力的方式是去坚定自己的目标，然后要有自制力和信心，但是真正去实现这些实现目标的方式的动力还是得来自于自己觉得容易让自己获得动力的方式。我的话可能除了别人给的deadline之外最后用的就是这种peer competition了。比如说看看比我还小却很聪明然后做什么事情都能做得好发各种paper还赚钱赚的多的人的简历或者achievement，感觉自己瞬间是个傻逼，然后坐直了乖乖回去干活好了。很鸡贼的方法，所以没法在别的地方跟别人share，只能默默写在这里。

最近越来越觉得很多的话，很多的情绪需要在特定的情况去改变或者至少去控制。即便是结婚的两个人或者最亲近的家人都需要。这个也慢慢去改变吧，情商这个东西遇到人越多越高，没法遇到那么多人的话就在遇到每一个人的时候珍惜锻炼的机会吧。