‘The Art of Creative Thinking’ (II) + 時事評論(二)
This week, we’ll continue with ‘The Art of Creative Thinking’ by Rod Judkins
7. ‘Suspend judgment’: Try to abandon conventional criteria. Throw away hierarchies and accept that everything has qualities of some kind and you have opened yourself up to the beauty of all things.
It’s important to create freely, and it’s not possible to do that and judge at the same time. Defer forming opinions or jumping to conclusions until the end of the process.
8. ‘To achieve something, do nothing’: Our hyperactive culture believes it is better to be doing something, even if it’s futile or worthless, than doing nothing.
Make yourself do nothing. Let your thoughts settle. Sometimes we need to be patient. Instead of searching, things will come to you. The ideas and solutions were within us but we were occupied with other mundane, everyday matters. We were looking in the wrong direction.
Sometimes what we most need to do is the thing we most try to avoid.
9. ‘Achieve the perfect work-life balance’: The creative person’s work and life are one, inseparable. There is no ‘balance’ because they are bound together. If you’d rather go on holiday than go to work — — you need to change your life, now.
(Donald Trump) ‘If you’re interested in “balancing” work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.’
誰最反對大規模填海
2018–10–25
C觀點 (施永青)
反對填海的活躍分子之中，除了環保分子, 應該還暗藏著另兩類人。
第一類是擁有大量土地儲備的地產商。他們收購了大量新界的農地，目的當然不是為了養草，而是希望將來有機會申請改變土地用途，可以用作地產發展。若然東大嶼這類大型的填海計劃獲得社會支持，那他們手上持有的土地就不再那麼罕有，其價值就會大幅下降。
如果填海得來的土地將被用來取代地產商們手上的土地儲備，那就代表他們手上的潛在利益，亦有機會被蒸發五千億。地產商對此怎會不心痛？他們一定會不惜借助各種不同的力量(包括環保的力量)，對東大嶼填海計劃橫加阻撓。
第二類反對大規模填海的人，就是那批要靠販賣「為民請命」的反對派政客。香港人除了住得不好外，生活的其他層面都勝過世界大部分地方。一旦居住問題也得到解決，政客要「為民請命」，想找一個有號召力的題目也不容易。他們的社會價值就會大量消散。
政客不讓政府真正解決香港的住屋問題, 以維持市民對政府的不滿，讓政客本身有更多的活動空間。所以他們不只會反對填海，亦反對利用地產商手上的農地與政府手上的綠地……在這批政客的心目中，只有自己的政治前途；他們是不會真心想解決香港的住屋問題的。
