My eyes burn. Late nights coupled with a lot of reading results in sore eyes and an overworked brain. I am officially taking a week off, starting tonight. I will not work on anything related to school for seven days starting now. I am going to spend my time relaxing, reading, watching movies, listening to music, playing pool, teaching pool, teaching chess... I will be doing anything and everything I want to do whether its related to physics or not...
I am hoping after this week of rejuvenating myself, I will no longer doubt my competency for physics. The midterms I took this week have annihilated any confidence I ever had in my knowledge of physics.
The first paragraph of a book that was recommended to me:
"This book should carry a warning to the reader: it is intended to change your life. Many authors believe that their writing will make an real impact on its audience, but few imagine the sort of conversion that this poet sets as his ambition. The reader is badgered to pay attention like an inattentive child, to drink the sour medicine in order to be cured of fear and ignorance. It is, he keeps telling us, well worth the effort. Imagine, Lucretius would say, waking up one day and finding that the fear of death and all your insatiable appetites for power and pleasure had all evaporated. Imagine feeling contented and secure in a sound understanding of the universe and its physical laws such that life could spring no more unpleasant surprises, no bogey-men from the dark corners of our ignorance could attack us now that the whole universe was floodlit with knowledge of the laws of nature. Imagine being free of ambition for power, for money, for love, even for life itself. You could forgo any or all of these things without shedding a tear. You would enjoy life as it presented itself to you without hanking after more than you have been given. You would be untouchable serene, contented, wise. By the end of this book, Lucretius states, you too could have a life like this." I was enthralled after reading just that. If that is the first paragraph of the introduction, just imagine what the rest of the book holds in store for me.
I am hoping after this week of rejuvenating myself, I will no longer doubt my competency for physics. The midterms I took this week have annihilated any confidence I ever had in my knowledge of physics.
The first paragraph of a book that was recommended to me:
"This book should carry a warning to the reader: it is intended to change your life. Many authors believe that their writing will make an real impact on its audience, but few imagine the sort of conversion that this poet sets as his ambition. The reader is badgered to pay attention like an inattentive child, to drink the sour medicine in order to be cured of fear and ignorance. It is, he keeps telling us, well worth the effort. Imagine, Lucretius would say, waking up one day and finding that the fear of death and all your insatiable appetites for power and pleasure had all evaporated. Imagine feeling contented and secure in a sound understanding of the universe and its physical laws such that life could spring no more unpleasant surprises, no bogey-men from the dark corners of our ignorance could attack us now that the whole universe was floodlit with knowledge of the laws of nature. Imagine being free of ambition for power, for money, for love, even for life itself. You could forgo any or all of these things without shedding a tear. You would enjoy life as it presented itself to you without hanking after more than you have been given. You would be untouchable serene, contented, wise. By the end of this book, Lucretius states, you too could have a life like this." I was enthralled after reading just that. If that is the first paragraph of the introduction, just imagine what the rest of the book holds in store for me.
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