《无为:当现代科学遇上生活智慧Trying Not to Try》

为与无为:当现代科学遇上生活智慧Trying Not to Try

加拿大哥伦比亚大学的教授给我们带来了一场人文与科学完美结合的思想旅行。在这本书中，中国先哲的古老智慧与*的脑神经科学、人类学和社会心理学相映生辉。

翻开这本书，开始一段美妙的旅程，你会看到孔子、墨子、老子、荀子、孟子、庄子关于“无为”与“德”思想表达被一一呈现，再辅以现代社会有趣的故事、严谨的科学实验结果加以佐证，而蕴含其中的“为与无为”的思辨，刚好可以修正以自我价值为中心的现代生活方式和思维方法。

作为中文版的读者，我们当然应该为祖先灿烂的文化而自豪，然而用更加客观和科学的角度重新理解祖先的思想，无疑胜过盲目的热爱，也能真正了解中华文化在这个时代的引领价值。

亲爱的读者，换个角度，你会更睿智，也更有智慧提升当下与未来的自己。

Doing and Doing: When Modern Science Meets Life Wisdom Trying Not to Try

A professor from Columbia University in Canada brought us a thought trip that perfectly combined humanities and science. In this book, the ancient wisdom of Chinese sages shines through with the brain neuroscience, anthropology, and social psychology.

Open this book and start a wonderful journey, you will see the expressions of Confucius, Mozi, Laozi, Xunzi, Mencius, and Zhuangzi about "doing nothing" and "de", supplemented by the interesting of modern society Stories and the results of rigorous scientific experiments corroborate it, and the speculation of "doing and doing nothing" contained in it can just modify the modern lifestyle and thinking methods centered on self-worth.

As readers of the Chinese version, we should of course be proud of the splendid culture of our ancestors. However, re-understanding the ancestor's thoughts from a more objective and scientific perspective is undoubtedly better than blind love, and can truly understand the leading value of Chinese culture in this era .

Dear reader, if you look at it from another angle, you will be smarter and smarter to improve yourself now and in the future.