From now on, I'm going to think and write about the consilience of knowledge which has been one of my utmost intellectual interests. On the way back to Kinmen today, I'm listening In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg in my iPod. It's topic last week was Newton's laws of motion. In an insouciant state, I was struck by that how perfect Newton's laws of motion square with this world and vice versa! The axioms are not eerie statements in physics but universal "laws" of our nature. And they are also powerful in social science! They can explain or predict the interrelationship between people, personal or team spirit, or even phenomena in bioscience.
I take the First Law of Motion as an example: Every object tends to remain in a state in which it is motionless or move in a constant velocity. Like that, if I don't want to change my bad habits, they will always haunt me. Then the Second Law comes: If I want to change a bad habit (m) in my life, such as procrastination, to make it leave me (a), I have to apply some force onto myself (F). F=ma! When I make a commitment to curb procrastination, i.e. to establish a NAC (neuro-associative circuit) quoted from Anthony Robbins, I have to bear the brunt of changing myself, to leave my comfort zone. Yes, the backlash! This is the Third Law.
Such a genius from Lincolnshire and sparkle in the human history!












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