Eric分享：
我每天给大家设定的日常笔记，大家只要阅读了是都能完成的。你只需要从中找出三个词来，写一段中文感受就好了。难的是阅读的部分，这本书字小，每天20多页相当于正常书的30页左右，还没有阅读习惯的人是吃不消的。
我建议大家利用早起或者碎片时间（等车时用kindle和手机看，上厕所时别刷朋友圈而是来读书），先把我们当天的阅读进度读完。读的过程中如果有不懂的地方先不要去纠结，标记一下，回头再处理。这样的话你可以把书读完，会有成就感有自信，然后就有了兴趣和继续读下去的欲望。读书也不需要每个字每行每段都读懂，你从来没读过一本书，那刚开始读，读懂70%就是极大的进步了。
不要有执念，不要跟自己过不去，每天就踏踏实实地读点写点。读书只是方式，不是目的，目的是通过读书养成好习惯～
书友分享：
From Shirley:
最大的感触是 家庭环境对一个人的成长影响巨大。Elon的家族有冒险的传统，爷爷喜欢带着一大家子乘飞机到处游历，而且对小孩子放任不管(have a laissez-faire approach to raising their children)，任他们尽情释放天性。这种宽松自由爱冒险的家风为Elon带来了强大的自信心：
We were left with the impression that we were capable of anything. You just have to make a decision and do it.
(联想到耐克的广告语：Just do it.)
我想也正是这种敢想敢做的冒险家精神，为Elon奠定了未来创业的基础。
Elon从小就表现出了极大的专注力和对阅读的嗜好。想起《刻意练习》里有目的练习的首要要素就是专注，因此我们平常要养成做事一心一意的好习惯，不要被手机等电子设备干扰，争取能像Elon一样“found a way to block out the world and dedicate all of his concentration to a single task." 好读书似乎是成功人士的标配，从Elon身上可以看到博览群书让他知识面广泛、眼界开阔，所以他有高远的志向——启迪全人类 (The only thing that makes sense to do is strive forgreater collective enlightenment.) 。当他开始读大英百科全书的时候，他意识到 “You don't know what you don't know”，的确，我们个人的经历有限，只有通过大量阅读才能看到更大的世界，不断突破思维的屏障。
但是Elon的缺点也很明显：因为懂得多，就总是喜欢指出别人的缺点，结果被小伙伴们排挤。这是个教训，人终究是要过集体生活的，与人相处还是和睦最重要，所以不要恃才傲物，否则难逃被排挤的命运。
文中有一段话很有道理：
"He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask," Musk said. ''Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask.
联想到苏格拉底的产婆术，他通过不断提问，让他人运用本身的常识来领悟出哲学的真理。可见恰当的提问有多重要，一针见血的提问往往能够命中事情的核心。高中数学老师常说，我通过你们的提问就知道你们学的怎么样了，想来确实如此，学得好的人会对解题思路或细节进行深入探讨，而没学好的人问的往往是些概念性的问题。
From 慢慢树：
Musk 的童年是什么样的呢？酷爱读书，太爱了！总是在读书，总是沉浸于自己的世界中，显露出内敛好静的书生气质。博览群书使他成为“活字典”， 但是带来的弊端就是不爱运动，没有朋友。尽管家里物质条件好，但是Musk的童年却不快乐，主要原因有两个，一是家里父亲严厉而固执，言行举止之间让小小的Musk感到压抑和受折磨。“...have to endure some form of psychological torture ” Musk回忆起来，并不愿多说，只是 “it would certainly be accurate to say that I did not have a good childhood . It may sound good , It was not absent of good ,but it was not a happy childhood ,it was like misery ” . 其二，在学校里受欺凌。"For three or four yeare , Musk endured relentless hounding at the hands of thes bullies. "
From jane:
这段对我就很有启发，警醒我在对待蛋蛋的学习方面，蛋蛋从来都不是一个标准意义上的努力的优等生，他的努力只用在他感兴趣的科目或事情方面，他也从来不想为了得到A而去背诵一些他认为毫无意义的东西，在他不感兴趣的东西上面，他不想花费一点时间，即使因此得了个不及格而会拖后他的整个总成绩。
在这里，Musk认为非洲语简直没有学下去的意义，蛋蛋认为德语简直没有必要去学，还有什么经济课。
我告诉他Musk也一样是在体育上笨手笨脚，在崇尚健美的风气下在学校没有市场，蛋蛋轻轻笑着，如释重负。蛋蛋也是这样，在运动上笨手笨脚，一度因为融不进男生都踢足球的圈子而没朋友，还被体育老师赶出健身房，害怕他弄坏运动器材，每学年体育都是倒数第一.....
但是他在他钟爱的科学方面始终如一，疯狂执着。
是啊，每个人都是不同的，每个人都是有各自特点的，我们不需要为了迎合所谓的大众规范标准而无故浪费我们的精力和时间。
人生就那么长，我们的精力和时间是有限的，做你感兴趣的事情，永远做你自己，过你想要的生活。
From 哇～：
今天的内容讲述的是Elon的成长环境，这对一个人的未来有着非常关键的作用。Elon的冒险精神，好奇心，专注力在他年少的时候就展现了出来。他经常沉浸在自己的世界里，小伙伴们跟他说话都不知道，以至于妈妈以为他的身体是不是有异常。
他还很喜欢看书，泡在书里几天几夜都没问题，畅游在自己的世界里。
At five and six, he had found a way to block out the world and dedicate all of his concentration to a single task.
会提问题也是非常重要的能力，在《跃迁》一书里，古典老师说会提问是构建自己知识体现的关键步骤，因为好的问题往往能找到事物的本质，而且自己去寻找答案不仅印象深刻，而且是在实际运用这个知识点。
He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask,'Musk said. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.
字词学习：
From 木心：
It’s easy enough to spot some of the underpinnings of Musk’s search for purpose.
1:underpin：
①本意：to put a solid piece of metal under a wall or house in order to makeit stronger.
作动词：用砖石结构等从下面支撑(墙等);加固(墙等)的基础；名词：基础材料,基础结构
②延伸为：to give strength or support to something and to help it succeed:
为(论据、主张等)打下基础;加强;巩固
例句：the theories that underpin his teaching method .这理论为他的教学方法打下基础
③underpinning 名词，支撑，支柱，基础
the underpinning of ...···的基础，基调，
✏️【帮助记忆】under-pin:pin 有“大头针”的意思，大头针下面是圆圆的基底支撑结构——加强，巩固
✏️【复习】由pin 想到pinnacle：the pinnacle of ......的顶端，顶峰
... an elite cadre of people who can say categorically that they have reachedthe pinnacle ofhuman achievement.Peak
仿写：The underpinning of excellent skill is deliberate practice
Once it arrived, and without flinching, he left home for good.3:flinchdraw back, as with fear or pain
3:flinch：draw back, as with fear or pain，退缩，畏惧
✏️not flinch from (doing) something，不畏惧做...
例句：He never flinched from doing his duty.他从不规避自己责任（替换responsible）
仿写：he had faced death without flinching .
【写作】描述一个人勇敢勇于做... 可以反义替换：不畏缩做... 替换brave 等熟词
From Joe:
书中出现大量类似构词用法：
doctor-cum-politician; sci-fi-author-sounding; twelve-year-olds;
a three-story, twenty-room house
From 楚汐：
The doctor-cum-politician had long railed against government interference in the lives of individuals and had come to see the Canadian bureaucracy as too meddlesome.
这个医生兼政治评论家长期抨击加拿大政府作风官僚，爱管闲事，干扰个人生活。
doctor-cum-politician, 介词 cum 连接两个名词，表示 “连同，兼..” 的意思, used between two nouns to show that something has two purposes. 例如，a study-cum-bedroom 表示兼作卧室的书房.
例句：He was hired as a cook-cum-dishwasher.
rail, 用作动词，口语中表示 “责备，辱骂，抱怨”，常搭配为rail against/at, to complain angrily about something, especially something that you think is very unfair.
例句：Consumers rail against the way companies fix prices.
In these pre-Internet days, Musk had to wait three agonizing weeks to get a plane ticket. Once it arrived, and without flinching, he left home for good.
在互联网问世之前，马斯克在煎熬中等待了三个星期才拿到机票。一拿到机票，他便毫不犹豫地离开了家，再也没有回来。
agonizing, 形容词，表示 “使人极度痛苦的，使人烦恼的”，extremely painful；例如：an agonizing decision；
flinch, 表示 “退缩，畏惧，犹豫”；to hesitate from doing something unpleasant or dangerous; 常见搭配flinch at/from;
例句：The boy flinched away from him.
for good, 表示 “永久地，一劳永逸地”，permanently.
例句：The injury may keep him out of football for good.
仿造句：She'd like to stay in Seattle for good.
From Shirley:
in the middle of nowhere偏僻之地
原文例句：Stuck in the middle of nowhere with no means of communication, Joshua worked for three days to fix the truck, while the family hunted for food.造句：I found myself in the middle of nowhere after driving for miles without direction.
peg sb as sth视为，看做 (informal) to think of sb in a particular way
原文例句：Maye, like many mothers do,pegged her sonasbrilliant and precocious.
造句：I peg Musk as a deity of Silicon Valley.
in one's mind's eye在想像中
原文例句：He could see imagesin his mind's eyewith a clarity and detail.
造句：When I was a kid, Europe is a paradise on earth in my mind's eye.
From 慢慢树：
He churned through(plowed through) two sets of encyclopedias and the encyclopedias turned him into a fact factory. he came off as a classic know-it-all.At the dinner table ,Tosca would wonder aloud about the distance from Earth to the Moon . Elon would spit out the exact measurement.
活脱脱的一个活字典啊，用a fact fatory 和 a classic know-it-all 都很形象。博览群书的感觉plow through ，churn through。另外一个词组wonder aloud =think aloud 说话不加思索；说话不经大脑；If youthink aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
From 哇～：
3.yearn for
As a youngester, Elon's constant yearning to correcting people's mistake and his abrasive manner put off other kids and and his feeling of isolation.
释义：literary to have a strong desire for something, especially something that is difficult or impossible to get
例： long yearn for :Hannah yearned for a child.
yearn to be/do something:Phil had yearned to be a pilot from an early age.
口语中更用long for
In everyday English, people usually say long for something or long to do something rather than yearn:
She longed for another child.
4.ACE
He aced math exams well beyond his years.
1. American English informal to do very well in an examination, a piece of written work etc:
I aced the History test
ace的原意是扑克里的A，一般都是最大的牌，可以引申为在某方面很厉害的人，比如 a soccer ace
或者网球里的ace球，再比如 hold the ace 在某一方面占尽天时地利人和
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