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1. Philosophy and Psychology

1.1. A Theory of Everything

If you are obsessed with tidying up everything, you may find the wiki outlines are healing.

Outline of academic disciplines (wiki)

List of academic fields (wiki)


Ken Wilber developed a beautiful framework which integrates all human knowledge (eastern and western).

Ken Wilber (wiki)

Integral theory (wiki)

Wilber's books which are translated in Chinese:

The Spectrum of Consciousness, 意識光譜 (eslite.com)

A Brief History of Everything, 萬法簡史 (books.com, audiobook)

Grace and Grit, 恩寵與勇氣 (books.com)


Tao Te Ching (道德經), by Lao Tzu (老子), may be an important part of a theory of everything, although the first two statements of it stated clearly that the perennial truths are unspeakable.

Tao Te Ching (text in chi, audiobook in eng, wiki)


"Most of what we encounter are thoughts. I project not only the names, but values. So that's around, judging everything. Without those projections, I can see everything." Ram Dass (youtube)

Numbers and free will (youtube)


1.2. Life, Meaning, Existentialism

Viktor Frankl (wiki)

Man's Search for Meaning (wiki, books.com, audiobook)


Emily Smith's four pillars of meaningful life: belonging, purpose, storytelling, and transcendence

Emily Smith (website)

There's more to life than being happy (youtube, books.com)


Richard Rohr (wiki)

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (youtube, amazon, books.com)


Soren Kierkegaard (wiki1, wiki2, stanford encyclopedia)

Kierkegaard's three stages of life (wiki)


Friedrich Nietzsche (wiki, stanford encyclopedia)

Nietzsche quotes (wikiquote, 維基語錄 )

"He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow." (Twilight of the Idols)

"一個有生存理由的人能夠承受幾乎任何事。" (偶像的黃昏)

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger."  (Twilight of the Idols)

"那不能殺死我的,使我更堅強。" (偶像的黃昏)

"What does your conscience say? — You should become who you are."  (The Gay Science) 

"你的良知在說什麼?—你要成為你自己。"  (快樂的科學)


1.3. Craftsmanship (工匠精神)

Craftsmanship is a combination of

1. grit, passion, perseverance;

2. suffering, resilience; 

3. repetition, practice, discipline;

4. ritual, concentration, flow, sincere, art creation.


梓慶為鐻 (莊子, 外篇, 達生)

臣將為鐻,未嘗敢以耗氣也,必齊以靜心。

齊三日,而不敢懷慶賞爵祿;齊五日,不敢懷非譽巧拙;齊七日,輒然忘吾有四枝形體也。

當是時也,無公朝,其巧專而外骨消;然後入山林,觀天性;形軀至矣,然後成見鐻,然後加手焉;不然則已。

則以天合天,器之所以疑神者,其是與?


庖丁解牛 (莊子, 內篇, 養生主)

臣之所好者道也,進乎技矣。

始臣之解牛之時,所見无非牛者。三年之後,未嘗見全牛也。

方今之時,臣以神遇,而不以目視,官知止而神欲行。

依乎天理,批大郤,導大窾,因其固然。

技經肯綮之未嘗,而況大軱乎!


Workmanship (wiki)


Angela Duckworth (website)

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (youtube, books.com)


Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Mason Currey (brainpickings, amazon, books.com)

Daily Rituals: Women at Work, Mason Currey (amazon, books.com)

Henry Miller's 11 commandments of writing and his daily creative routine (brainpickings)


2. Mathematics and Logic

List of mathematics topics (wiki)

Outline of mathematics (wiki)

Proofs and Refutations, Imre Lakatos (wiki)

Law of Form, George Spencer-Brown (wiki)

Nicolas Bourbaki (wiki)

Moore method (wiki)

Astounding: 1+2+3+4+5+...=-1/12 (youtube)

Sum of natural numbers (second proof and extra footage) (youtube)

The big picture of linear algebra (youtube)

Who was the real Good Will Hunting? (youtube, movie wiki and youtube trailer)

Why the world's best mathematicians are hoarding chalk (youtube)


2.1. Cedric Villani

Birth of a theorem (youtube)

Birth of a theorem, Q&A (youtube)

Work to live, live to work? (youtube)

What's so sexy about math? (youtube)

The extraordinary theorems of John Nash (youtube)


3. Probability and Statistics

List of probability topics (wiki)

List of statistics topics (wiki)

Outline of probability (wiki)

Outline of statistics (wiki)

History of probability (wiki)

History of statistics (wiki)

Timeline of probability and statistics (wiki)

Founders of statistics (wiki)


4. Economics and Econometrics

Outline of economics (wiki)

Schools of economic thought (wiki)

History of economic thought (wiki)

List of Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in economics (wiki)