安徒生寫了醜小鴨，那不只是童話，那是他自己的故事。他長得奇怪，格格不入，父親早逝，沒有正式教育。十四歲一個人去哥本哈根說要成為明星，被拒絕了又拒絕了，但就是留下來了。 他後來寫的那些童話——醜小鴨、賣火柴的小女孩、美人魚——說的不只是兒童的世界。那些故事說的是人類最深的困境：格格不入的痛苦、貧窮和夢想的距離、為愛失去自我的悲傷。 他一生孤獨，一生沒有找到愛情。他說那個孤獨成了他的材料。那種只有真正受過那種苦的人才能寫出來的東西，後來在一百五十種語言裡被讀到。 Andersen wrote The Ugly Duckling — not only a fairy tale, but his own story. He was awkward-looking, never fit in, lost his father early, received no proper education. At fourteen he went alone to Copenhagen declaring he would become a star, was rejected again and again, and simply stayed. The fairy tales he later wrote — The Ugly Duckling, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid — speak to far more than the world of children. They address the deepest human predicaments: the pain of not belonging, the cruel distance between poverty and dreams, the sadness of losing yourself for love. He was lonely his entire life, never found real love. He said that loneliness became his material. What only someone who had truly suffered in that way could write — it is now read in one hundred and fifty languages. 安徒生, Hans Christian Andersen, 童話, 醜小鴨, 賣火柴的小女孩, 美人魚, 丹麥文學, 兒童文學, 沉思者J, ThinkerJ, 典範人物, 格格不入, 孤獨創作, 春天

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大衛霍克尼八十多歲了，還在每天早上五點拿起iPad畫畫。他說iPad是他的速寫本，他在螢幕上塗出約克郡早晨的光，然後傳給朋友說，這是今天早上的。
他花了一生研究我們是怎麼看見東西的。他說傳統照片是單點透視的，那不是眼睛真正看東西的方式。他對中國山水畫著迷，因為那種移動的觀看方式更接近真實。他說看見是需要學習的，大多數人以為那是自動發生的事。
從洛杉磯游泳池的系列畫作到約克郡四季，他跨越了六十年還在實驗。工具換了，但那個想要捕捉光線的衝動從來沒有換。
David Hockney, now well into his eighties, still starts painting on his iPad at five in the morning. He says the iPad is his sketchbook. He paints the Yorkshire morning light with his fingers, then sends it to friends with a note: this is from this morning.
He spent his entire life studying how we see. He said conventional photography uses single-point perspective — that is not how the eye actually works. He became fascinated by Chinese landscape painting because its moving, traveling gaze was closer to real seeing. He says seeing itself has to be learned; most people assume it happens automatically.
From the Los Angeles swimming pool paintings to the massive Yorkshire seasons series, he has kept experimenting across sixty years. The tool changed. The impulse to capture light never did.
大衛霍克尼, David Hockney, 英國藝術家, iPad繪畫, 當代藝術, 一個更大的水花, 視覺藝術, 創作哲學, 沉思者J, ThinkerJ, 典範人物, 好奇心, 約克郡, 洛杉磯

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一九六九年，阿姆斯壯成為第一個踏上月球的人，說出全世界都會背的那句話。但很少人知道，在成為太空人之前，他失去了不到三歲的女兒。八個月後，他就進了NASA。這本書叫登月任務，是他唯一一次對作者詹姆斯韓森完整打開自己的紀錄。這集Jenny想聊的，不是登月有多偉大，而是一個人怎麼把最深的失去，變成最鎮定的力量。同時，Jenny也想誠實地問一句，一輩子的沉默，真的是唯一的答案嗎。如果你也曾經一個人扛過什麼，這集也許是說給你聽的。 In nineteen sixty nine, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, speaking a sentence the world still remembers. But few people know that before joining NASA, he had already lost his daughter, not yet three years old. Eight months later, he entered the astronaut corps. This book, called First Man, is the only time Armstrong ever fully opened his life to a biographer, James Hansen. This week, Jenny is not talking about how great the moon landing was. She is talking about how one man turned his deepest loss into his most steady composure, and gently asking whether a lifetime of silence is really the only way through grief. If you have ever carried something alone, this episode might be speaking to you.

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一九一八年，艾蓮諾羅斯福在丈夫的行李裡，發現一疊情書。那一天，她的婚姻碎了，但她的人生，才真正開始。這集，Jenny要說一個女人，怎麼把童年被拋下的傷，還有婚姻裡被背叛的痛，一步一步走成聯合國世界人權宣言的起草人。她沒有原諒，也沒有假裝沒事，她只是決定，不讓那份傷，決定她接下來的人生。同樣的傷口，可以關上一扇門，也可以打開一扇窗。這集，我們一起看她怎麼選。 In nineteen eighteen, Eleanor Roosevelt found a stack of letters in her husbands suitcase, and her marriage quietly broke apart. That was also the day her real life began. This episode, Jenny tells the story of a woman who turned childhood abandonment and marital betrayal into decades of public service, ultimately chairing the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She never fully forgave, and she never pretended the wound had healed. She simply refused to let it decide who she became. The same wound can close a door, or open a window. This week, we look at how she chose.

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二〇一九年五月，美國政府把華為放上制裁名單。谷歌、高通、英特爾一個個宣布斷供。全世界的媒體說華為要完了。 任正非說我們早就準備好了。 他花了幾十年把每年收入的百分之十五投入研究和開發。那個決定在做出來的當時很多人覺得瘋了。但他說依賴別人的核心技術永遠是脆弱的。你不在太平的時候準備，危機來的那一天你什麼都沒有。 他說我們就像一架飛機，發動機著火了，我們要做的是在飛行中修發動機。那個姿態說出了他這一生面對艱難的方式。 In May 2019, the United States placed Huawei on its Entity List. Google, Qualcomm, and Intel one by one announced they were cutting ties. The media around the world said Huawei was finished. Ren Zhengfei said: we have been ready for a long time. He had spent decades putting fifteen percent of annual revenue into research and development. Many people thought that decision was unreasonable when he made it. But he said depending on core technology provided by others is always fragile. If you do not prepare during peaceful times, when the crisis comes you have nothing. He said: we are like an airplane. The engines are on fire. What we have to do is repair the engines while still in flight. That posture says everything about how he has faced hardship his entire life. 任正非, 華為, Huawei, 商業, 創業, 科技逆境, 中國科技, 制裁, 研發投入, 沉思者J, ThinkerJ, 典範人物, 創業精神, 長遠視野

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弗朗茨法農是馬提尼克島出生的精神科醫生。他在法屬殖民地阿爾及利亞工作的時候，觀察到一個現象：他的阿爾及利亞病人的很多精神症狀，不只是個人的心理問題，那些症狀的源頭是殖民主義這個結構。他說殖民主義對人的摧毀首先是心理上的——讓被殖民的人用殖民者的眼睛看自己，用殖民者的標準評價自己。 他秘密加入了阿爾及利亞民族解放陣線，後來被法國當局驅逐。在得知自己罹患白血病之後，他在病床上口述了大地上的受苦者。那本書說解殖不只是把殖民者趕走，解殖必須讓被殖民的人找回用自己眼睛看自己的能力。 他在一九六一年以三十六歲的年齡去世，但那本書在他去世後繼續影響了全球的後殖民解放運動幾十年。 Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist from Martinique. While working in French-colonized Algeria he observed a pattern: many of his Algerian patients' psychiatric symptoms were not simply individual psychological problems. Their source was the structure of colonialism itself. He said colonialism's destruction of people is first psychological — it makes the colonized see themselves through the colonizer's eyes and measure themselves by the colonizer's standards. He secretly joined the Algerian National Liberation Front and was later expelled by the French authorities. After being diagnosed with leukemia, he dictated The Wretched of the Earth from his sickbed. That book argued that decolonization is not simply driving out the colonizer — it must restore to the colonized the ability to see themselves through their own eyes. He died in 1961 at thirty-six. But that book continued shaping postcolonial liberation movements around the world for decades after his death. 弗朗茨法農, Frantz Fanon, 後殖民, 大地上的受苦者, 黑皮膚白面具, 阿爾及利亞, 馬提尼克, 殖民主義, 解殖, 精神醫學, 民族解放, 沉思者J, ThinkerJ, 典範人物, 思想

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白先勇一九三七年出生廣西桂林，父親白崇禧是國民政府核心將領。一九四九年他十二歲隨家人來台灣。大學時代創辦現代文學雜誌，後在愛荷華大學讀創作，又在加州大學聖芭芭拉分校教中國文學數十年。 他的代表作台北人由十四個故事組成，說的是從大陸來台的一群人——曾經的將軍、曾經的名媛、曾經的大家閨秀——帶著那個再也回不去的過去在台北繼續活著。那個失去之後的繼續說的是他文學最深的主題。晚年他製作青春版牡丹亭，以年輕演員讓崑曲在全世界巡演超過四百場，讓古代的美在今天繼續被看見。 Born in Guilin, Guangxi in 1937, Pai Hsien-yung is the son of General Pai Chung-hsi, a core figure of the Nationalist government. He came to Taiwan with his family at twelve in 1949. At university he co-founded Modern Literature magazine; he later studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop and taught Chinese literature at UC Santa Barbara for decades. His masterwork Taipei People collects fourteen stories of people who came from mainland China — former generals, former socialites, former refined ladies — carrying a past they can never return to as they continue living in Taipei. That continuing after loss speaks of the deepest theme in his literature. In his later years he produced the Youth Edition of The Peony Pavilion, which has toured more than four hundred times worldwide, letting the beauty of centuries-old kunqu opera be seen anew by young audiences today. 白先勇, Pai Hsien-yung, 台北人, 青春版牡丹亭, 崑曲, 台灣文學, 現代文學, 失去, 記憶, 流離, 典範人物, 沉思者J, ThinkerJ, 文學, 台灣

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史蒂夫比科說壓迫者最強大的武器是被壓迫者的心靈。那個說法說的是那個系統最有效的壓迫方式不是用武力讓你服從，而是讓你相信你本來就是應該被壓迫的，讓你把那個壓迫內化成你對自己的看法。 他一九四六年出生南非東開普省，一九六八年幫助創立南非黑人學生組織，推動了黑人意識運動。那個運動說的是黑人必須先在心理上解放自己，才能在政治上爭取解放。從一九七三年起他被禁止公開發言和接受媒體採訪，但他繼續寫作繼續思考。 一九七七年他第四次被警察拘留，在拘留期間受到嚴重毆打，九月十二日去世，那年他三十歲。他的去世在南非和全世界引起巨大迴響，他成為反種族隔離運動最重要的象徵之一。 Steve Biko said the most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. What that says is that a system's most effective method of oppression is not making you obey through force — it is making you believe you were always meant to be oppressed, making you internalize that oppression into how you see yourself. Born in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1946, he helped found the South African Students Organisation in 1968, driving what became the Black Consciousness Movement. That movement said Black people must first liberate themselves psychologically before they can fight for political liberation. From 1973 he was banned from public speaking and media contact — but he continued to write and to think. In 1977 he was arrested for the fourth time. He was severely beaten in detention and died on September 12th at the age of thirty. His death sent enormous ripples across South Africa and around the world, and he became one of the most important symbols of the anti-apartheid movement. 史蒂夫比科, Steve Biko, 黑人意識運動, 種族隔離, 南非, 社會運動, 解放, 心靈, 沉思者J, ThinkerJ, 典範人物, 社會運動

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一九六三年，大江健三郎的兒子大江光出生了，頭顱骨頭沒有完全閉合。醫生說即使手術成功，孩子也可能終身有嚴重的障礙。他選擇讓孩子活下去。那個選擇改變了他的一生。 大江光後來成了作曲家，他的作品在日本音樂廳演奏。他也成了父親最重要的老師之一：大江光聽見了大江健三郎自己聽不見的世界——那個從鳥叫聲裡聽出了音樂的世界。 一九九四年得諾貝爾文學獎的時候，他說他是一個曖昧的日本人。他說那個在傳統和現代、東方和西方之間找不到清楚位置的狀態，不是軟弱，那是他寫作的動力。 In 1963, Kenzaburo Oe's son Hikari was born with an incompletely closed skull. Doctors said even with surgery, the child would likely have severe disabilities for life. He chose to let the child live. That choice changed everything. Hikari became a composer whose works are performed in Japanese concert halls. He also became one of his father's most important teachers: Hikari heard a world his father could not — a world where the call of a bird was already music waiting to be played. When he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994, he described himself as an ambiguous Japanese. He said that state of being unable to find a clear position between tradition and modernity, between East and West, was not weakness — it was the engine of his writing. 大江健三郎, Kenzaburo Oe, 諾貝爾文學獎, 大江光, 日本文學, 個人的體驗, 曖昧, 文學, 沉思者J, ThinkerJ, 典範人物, 選擇, 父子關係, 四國

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一九八五年，三十歲的賈伯斯，被自己創辦的公司趕出去。這集我們深讀賈伯斯傳，作者華特艾薩克森，一本連賈伯斯自己都要求不能被美化的傳記。我們會談到，他為什麼會被踢出蘋果，被踢出去的十二年他做了什麼，還有一個讓人不太舒服的真相，他的殘忍和他的偉大，很可能是同一件事的兩面。Jenny這次選擇用最直接的方式，說出這本書裡最不舒服，也最誠實的部分。 In nineteen eighty five, at just thirty years old, Steve Jobs was pushed out of the very company he founded. This episode dives into Steve Jobs, the biography written by Walter Isaacson, a book Jobs himself insisted should not soften who he really was. We talk about why he was pushed out of Apple, what he built during the twelve years that followed, and one uncomfortable truth, that his cruelty and his greatness may have been two sides of the exact same trait. This time, Jenny chooses to say the most uncomfortable, and most honest, parts of this book, directly.

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