亨利·舒克曼是一位已經冥想了35年的詩人。 T.S. 艾略特曾說過，當下的時刻充滿了無限的光芒，而亨利花了一生的時間來學習如何看見這些光芒。首先是通過詩歌。然後是通過小說。接著是通過冥想。最後是通過回憶錄。 時間戳： 0:33 寫作讓你更有生氣 8:17 寫作 = 用文字畫畫 15:42 擴展你的驚奇感 28:56 詩歌像經文嗎？ 34:30 35年冥想的教訓 40:27 薩皮爾-沃爾夫假說 54:54 如何寫小說 58:04 如何寫回憶錄 1:04:48 如何寫詩 1:05:51 禪宗公案 1:18:27 從心出發生活 我已經在下面分享了完整的對話。如果你更願意在YouTube上觀看，或在Spotify / Apple上收聽，請查看回覆的推文。 @ShukmanHenry

Alain de Botton has written ~17 books and runs the School of Life YouTube channel, which now has almost 10 million subscribers. And this is a rare interview for him. Some highlights: 1. A clear night sky is a challenge to everything we think we know. 2. If we really took on board what that night sky is telling us, we'd have to lie down and just question absolutely everything. 3. Writer's block is a conflict between shame and the desire for honesty. 4. The effect of mass media is to industrialize and commercialize our thinking, which leaves no room for the free thinker, the honest thinker, and the authentic thinker. 5. You've got to be attentive to your own sensations and thoughts. That's the real work of writing. 6. Every person is an incredible library of sensations but so often, particularly in the academic world, people think: “Let’s ignore ourselves as a source of data and find out what Cicero said, or what Socrates said, or what Michel Foucault said." 7. Writing can be revenge for the silenced person, which is why so many writers are meek in person but fierce on the page. 8. A work of art is the best thing you can do with your dislocation and distress, and sometimes, it’s even an alternative to losing your mind. 9. Emerson said: "In the minds of geniuses, we find our own neglected thoughts." 10. The thoughts of geniuses aren’t fundamentally different from others. It’s just that they’re able to put words to sensations we’ve long felt but couldn’t articulate. 11. Writing prompt: If there were no rules, if you couldn't fail, if no one was going to laugh, if you were going to be dead tomorrow, what would you actually do and say? How would you write, let's say? That's the thing you should write. I've shared the full conversation with Alain de Botton below. You can watch here or on YouTube, and listen on Apple or Spotify. You'll find the links in the reply tweets.