1. accentuate
2. rejuvenate
3. Narcissistic
4. narcissism
Friday, February 20, 2009
1. Without self-renewal, culture dies.
2. In good or bad times, style remains an optimistic, never-say-die form of self expression
3. She understands this intuitively,......
4. Color blocking is easy. It breaks up the silhouette and lets your highlight certain parts of the body.It's graphic approach. Simple, but high impact.
5. Ochre and aqua, amethyst and turquoise, tangerine and rose……Vivid mix-and-match brights gives day wear a bold new dynamism.
2. In good or bad times, style remains an optimistic, never-say-die form of self expression
3. She understands this intuitively,......
4. Color blocking is easy. It breaks up the silhouette and lets your highlight certain parts of the body.It's graphic approach. Simple, but high impact.
5. Ochre and aqua, amethyst and turquoise, tangerine and rose……Vivid mix-and-match brights gives day wear a bold new dynamism.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it lead you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and thankfully, I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it lead you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and thankfully, I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
Monday, January 19, 2009
War
On soldiersMany may experience post-traumatic stress disorder by becoming traumatized by the experience of war. They would have dedicated their lives to fighting battles, with little possibility of regaining the ability to live successfully as a civilian.Furthermore, soldiers, as well as civilians tend to run the risk of being injured, maimed, killed, and sometimes brainwashed.
[edit] On the economyTypically speaking, war becomes very intertwined with the economy. Most often the cost of war draws funding away from other governmental programs and funding.
problematic
heroism, honour
Negotiations
never-ending story
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
widespread killings, the siege of towns, mass rape, ethnic cleansing and torture in concentration camps and crimes against humanity
All the arms we need are for hugging. ~Author UnknownWar! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan SwiftWar is fear cloaked in courage. ~William WestmorelandWar is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~Benjamin DisraeliAll wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~François FénelonThe death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Bolt!!!
評論：博爾特輕鬆心態值得劉翔學習
2008年08月21日 09:15 來源：新華網 發表評論
8月20日晚，即將於8月21日迎來22歲生日的牙買加選手尤塞恩·博爾特在國家體育場鳥巢再造神話，在北京奧運會男子200米決賽中，以19秒30獲得金牌，並打破約翰遜保持12年之久的19秒32的世界紀錄。這是繼博爾特16日晚以9秒69打破男子100米世界紀錄後，再一次在“鳥巢”創造奇跡。 中新社發 盛佳鵬 攝
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牙買加“奇人”博爾特今天又把200米世界紀錄戳了個大窟窿，雖然他的比賽異常精彩，但這位巨人賽前賽後的表演更是精彩，他的輕鬆和快樂，著實地給我們上了一課。
第一次參加奧運會的博爾特，賽前對爭冠軍相當看重，但他卻沒有壓力，輕鬆得讓人感到驚奇。今天比賽前，他在後臺調皮地在地上打起滾來，接著和他的教練開著玩笑，起跑前誇張地撓著頭皮，對著鏡頭玩射擊，就像參加一場遊戲。這個場面讓人聯想很多。奧運會雖然是個競爭的舞臺，選手們雖然全力以赴想創造好成績，但快樂應該是最高境界，把自己整得緊張得要死，能贏也得輸。
博爾特賽後的表演更是精彩，他的輕鬆和頑皮使鳥巢的9萬多觀眾發出輕鬆的笑聲，感受到體育的魅力。這個1米96的大個子，對著鏡頭毫不掩飾自己的興奮，他先是跳起詭異的舞蹈，接著，又玩起踩電門的哆嗦，逗得全場觀眾大笑不止。
他的輕鬆心態使看到他比賽的人都輕鬆起來，打破世界紀錄的過程不再令人感到窒息和緊張，奧運會最精彩、最緊張的飛人大戰，因為有了博爾特而變得妙趣橫生、精彩紛呈。
博爾特賽後說，他是個享受生活的人，不願意吃苦受累，他改跑百米就是因為教練讓他跑400米。“我愛睡懶覺，吃巧克力，你們都覺得我輕鬆地破了世界紀錄，其實，我一直感到我是在游泳，我不斷提醒自己：別淹死！”他大概講的是心裏話，但他用輕鬆的玩耍使壓力釋放出來。
放鬆心態，享受比賽，博爾特在這方面給全世界的選手上了一堂心理課。
菲爾普斯在水立方神奇地打破了7項游泳世界紀錄，博爾特在鳥巢連續刷新了兩項世界紀錄，這些傳奇巨星雖然天才過人、個性和表現不同，但都有一個共同之處，那就是心態放鬆，避免給自己壓力。
劉翔的傷病和退賽引起全國人的關注，我們的心理是否太緊張了些？其實，劉翔的性格在某些方面有點像博爾特，他一直在說北京奧運會對他而言就是場遊戲，但是，這句話在奧運之年不敢再說了，世界紀錄被羅伯斯打破後，更不敢再說了。假如劉翔能像博爾特那樣，在奧運會上也能像平時比賽一樣，對著電視做個鬼臉、開開玩笑，估計，他的腳傷不會在比賽前一天爆發，他也不會轉身退賽後哭上半小時。
輕鬆一些，再輕鬆一些，博爾特的速度當然誰也學不了，但是，他的輕鬆心態和享受快樂值得我們學習。(楊明）
http://www.cns.hk:89/olympic/news/2008/08-21/1355463.shtml
牙買加為何頻頻誕生飛人? 天賦氛圍傳統和土豆
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2008年08月22日 09:23 來源：人民日報 發表評論
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傳統
自1948年開始參加奧運會以來，牙買加在每屆奧運會上都至少獲得一枚獎牌。北京奧運會前，他們共獲得了40余塊獎牌。除一枚自行車銅牌外，其他所有的奧運獎牌都來自田徑賽場。
牙買加有一項為全國頂尖短跑選手舉行的冠軍錦標賽，從1910年延續至今，最終演變為該國每年最大的體育盛會。每屆比賽能夠吸引大約2000名來自全國各地的短跑精英參加，而且門票早早就銷售一空。賽事激勵了很多牙買加孩子從5歲就開始參加短跑比賽。
林德福德·克裏斯蒂和多諾萬·貝利分別在1992年、1996年奪得奧運會100米金牌，他們的身上都流著牙買加人的血液，只是分別代表英國和加拿大。如今，博爾特的橫空出世，讓牙買加人終於有了一位可以真正為之驕傲的本國“飛人”。
氛圍
在牙買加，只要有一塊稍微像樣的空地，就有年輕人即興舉辦短跑比賽，因為他們都夢想著有一天能夠成為“短跑之王”。牙買加每年大約有260支田徑隊、8萬多人參加近20種各級比賽。
牙買加短跑運動員身上有著一種與生俱來的驕傲感。博爾特曾說過：“我們一直相信能夠征服比賽。這是一種信念。我們小，我們窮，但是我們很自信。”牙買加體育部長格蘭傑說：“也許是我們喝的水特別乾淨，也許是因為我們沐浴的陽光特別美麗，但更重要的是一種精神。這種精神激勵著我們接受挑戰。”“這是土豆的功勞！”博爾特父親的話則詮釋了這個並不富裕的國家屢屢跑出“飛人”的精神動力所在。
數十年來，牙買加一直是美國大學獵取運動員的肥沃土地。為了防止頂尖的短跑好手離開，牙買加在約30年前設立了獎學金制度，有天賦的運動員如博爾特和鮑威爾，可以留在國內訓練，再到歐洲參加頂級賽事，目前，已有近300名短跑選手受益。該制度的實施者、牙買加科技大學體育部主管戴維斯說：“我們在很多年前就播下了種子，現在是收穫果實的時候了。”
天賦
科學家的研究表明，牙買加運動員也許天生是短跑的料。
牙買加短跑運動員的身體素質與美國運動員不相上下，他們的骨骼肌肉和心肺系統都非常適合於奔跑。英國格拉斯哥大學和西印度大學的科學家研究了200多名牙買加運動員後發現：有70%的人體內擁有一種名為ACTN3的物質，這種物質可以改進與瞬間速度有關的肌肉纖維，而這些肌肉纖維可以使運動員跑得更快。
此外，牙買加選手血液中的荷爾蒙含量與紅細胞含量都高於其他地方的人的平均值，所以能夠更快地從疲勞中恢復。臀部上翹、卜腿、胸腔小、下肢長的體型，也讓牙買加人在短跑中更佔優勢。
隨著坎貝爾·布朗在女子200米決賽中率先撞線，牙買加選手在北京奧運會男女100米和200米4個項目上包攬金牌。究竟是什麼原因，讓牙買加人在短跑項目上如此出色？
牙買加的短跑名將
赫伯特—麥肯利
赫伯特—麥肯利是上世紀中期牙買加最出色的短跑運動員之一，他曾在奧運會上獲得1金3銀。
奧蒂
奧蒂參加了7屆奧運會，總共獲得了3銀6銅的好成績，並15次當選牙買加年度最佳運動員。
坎貝爾
坎貝爾是2004年雅典奧運會200米冠軍以及2007年世錦賽女子100米冠軍兩個重量級榮譽的擁有者。
鮑威爾
鮑威爾在2005年創造了9秒77的男子100米新世界紀錄，並於2007年再次打破男子100米世界紀錄，成績為9秒74。(陳晨曦 王新萍）
http://www.cns.hk:89/olympic/news/2008/08-22/1356946.shtml
惜才政策持續30年 世界短跑進入“牙買加時代”
2008年08月19日 04:49 來源：新京報 發表評論
8月18日，北京奧運會男子200米預賽在北京國家體育場“鳥巢”舉行，牙買加選手博爾特輕鬆晉級下一輪比賽。 中新社發 盛佳鵬 攝
8月17日晚，奧運女子百米飛人大戰在“鳥巢”展開，最終牙買加選手弗雷澤以10秒78奪冠。
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男子100米決賽中，牙買加運動員博爾特在最後十米處竟然以回頭望月的姿態，拍著胸口提前慶祝勝利。博爾特以誇張的動作展露霸氣，以9秒69的駭人成績奪得了冠軍，並打破了由他自己保持的世界紀錄。接下來，牙買加的三名女將在女子100米賽事中包攬金、銀、銅，世界為此驚呼：“百米飛人”賽進入了“牙買加時代”，打破了美國人近十年來對這個項目上的壟斷。
牙買加開始在世界短跑領域稱雄，秘密其實有兩方面：一個是文化傳統，一個是惜才政策。牙買加的短跑種子播撒在1910年，博爾特成為世界最快的人，真可謂 “百年樹人”。那年牙買加的所有中學開始舉行體育聯賽，獲得冠軍的學生給獎學金，並逐漸演變成全國性的體育賽事，每年有2000運動員參賽，3萬觀眾捧場。英國《泰晤士報》的報道說，“這個島上只要你發現有荒地，一定會看到孩子們在進行即興賽跑，他們夢想有一天能登上冠軍領獎臺”。
體育上有所建樹的牙買加運動員，都會有較好的回報。1911年，諾曼•曼利(Norman Manley)成績優異，被選送參加1912年奧運會。儘管他沒能創下第一個100米世界紀錄，卻是第一位獲得獎學金到牛津大學讀書的牙買加體育特長者，牙買加的諾曼•曼利國際機場就是以他的名字命名的。
1948年，阿瑟•文特(Arthur Wint)在奧運會上為牙買加贏得第一枚金牌，此後牙買加人把眼光延伸到國際賽場。1952年芬蘭赫爾辛基奧運會上，牙買加運動員喬治•羅登在400米中獲得金牌，赫伯特•麥肯利取得銀牌，阿瑟•文特在800米中獲得銀牌，他們三人還與萊恩在4×400米接力比賽中奪得金牌並創造了世界紀錄。在他們的表率作用下，更多的短跑選手效倣前輩，奪取獎牌，其中包括英雄默琳•奧蒂，她曾經為牙買加拿回了8枚奧運獎牌。
歐美國家對牙買加的短跑選手開始垂青，用優厚的獎學金把佼佼者吸引進大學，或者搞“田徑移民”。1992年的奧運會百米冠軍克裏斯蒂(Linford Christie)、1996年奧運會百米冠軍貝利(Donovan Bailey)和200米冠軍約翰遜，分別代表著英國、加拿大和美國，但都是牙買加人。
不過西方的優厚待遇往往淹沒了他們的潛能。30年前，牙買加的有識之士為了本國的體育傳統和人才的成長，決定凡是留在牙買加受訓的運動健將，都能得到和移民到歐美國家一樣的待遇，保證上大學的獎學金和到歐美國家交流的機會，並且得到出乎意料的國家榮譽———“我們的國家雖然小，仍然貧困，但我們相信自己，我們能夠征服世界！”這樣減少了一流運動員向國外流失，近300名優秀選手進入這一計劃，鮑威爾、博爾特也在其中。
這樣的惜才政策持續30年後，世界的短跑進入“牙買加時代”。與美國不同，“牙買加時代”還有一個顯著特徵是對興奮劑的拒絕，他們身上還沒發生過醜聞。在北京奧運會男子100米比賽中獲得第六名的米歇爾•福拉斯特(Michael Frater)說：“我們的國家很小，如果你服了興奮劑，人人皆知，你會很尷尬”。
□陳冰(廣東 媒體人)
http://www.cns.hk:89/olympic/news/2008/08-19/1352508.shtml
2008年08月21日 09:15 來源：新華網 發表評論
8月20日晚，即將於8月21日迎來22歲生日的牙買加選手尤塞恩·博爾特在國家體育場鳥巢再造神話，在北京奧運會男子200米決賽中，以19秒30獲得金牌，並打破約翰遜保持12年之久的19秒32的世界紀錄。這是繼博爾特16日晚以9秒69打破男子100米世界紀錄後，再一次在“鳥巢”創造奇跡。 中新社發 盛佳鵬 攝
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牙買加“奇人”博爾特今天又把200米世界紀錄戳了個大窟窿，雖然他的比賽異常精彩，但這位巨人賽前賽後的表演更是精彩，他的輕鬆和快樂，著實地給我們上了一課。
第一次參加奧運會的博爾特，賽前對爭冠軍相當看重，但他卻沒有壓力，輕鬆得讓人感到驚奇。今天比賽前，他在後臺調皮地在地上打起滾來，接著和他的教練開著玩笑，起跑前誇張地撓著頭皮，對著鏡頭玩射擊，就像參加一場遊戲。這個場面讓人聯想很多。奧運會雖然是個競爭的舞臺，選手們雖然全力以赴想創造好成績，但快樂應該是最高境界，把自己整得緊張得要死，能贏也得輸。
博爾特賽後的表演更是精彩，他的輕鬆和頑皮使鳥巢的9萬多觀眾發出輕鬆的笑聲，感受到體育的魅力。這個1米96的大個子，對著鏡頭毫不掩飾自己的興奮，他先是跳起詭異的舞蹈，接著，又玩起踩電門的哆嗦，逗得全場觀眾大笑不止。
他的輕鬆心態使看到他比賽的人都輕鬆起來，打破世界紀錄的過程不再令人感到窒息和緊張，奧運會最精彩、最緊張的飛人大戰，因為有了博爾特而變得妙趣橫生、精彩紛呈。
博爾特賽後說，他是個享受生活的人，不願意吃苦受累，他改跑百米就是因為教練讓他跑400米。“我愛睡懶覺，吃巧克力，你們都覺得我輕鬆地破了世界紀錄，其實，我一直感到我是在游泳，我不斷提醒自己：別淹死！”他大概講的是心裏話，但他用輕鬆的玩耍使壓力釋放出來。
放鬆心態，享受比賽，博爾特在這方面給全世界的選手上了一堂心理課。
菲爾普斯在水立方神奇地打破了7項游泳世界紀錄，博爾特在鳥巢連續刷新了兩項世界紀錄，這些傳奇巨星雖然天才過人、個性和表現不同，但都有一個共同之處，那就是心態放鬆，避免給自己壓力。
劉翔的傷病和退賽引起全國人的關注，我們的心理是否太緊張了些？其實，劉翔的性格在某些方面有點像博爾特，他一直在說北京奧運會對他而言就是場遊戲，但是，這句話在奧運之年不敢再說了，世界紀錄被羅伯斯打破後，更不敢再說了。假如劉翔能像博爾特那樣，在奧運會上也能像平時比賽一樣，對著電視做個鬼臉、開開玩笑，估計，他的腳傷不會在比賽前一天爆發，他也不會轉身退賽後哭上半小時。
輕鬆一些，再輕鬆一些，博爾特的速度當然誰也學不了，但是，他的輕鬆心態和享受快樂值得我們學習。(楊明）
http://www.cns.hk:89/olympic/news/2008/08-21/1355463.shtml
牙買加為何頻頻誕生飛人? 天賦氛圍傳統和土豆
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2008年08月22日 09:23 來源：人民日報 發表評論
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傳統
自1948年開始參加奧運會以來，牙買加在每屆奧運會上都至少獲得一枚獎牌。北京奧運會前，他們共獲得了40余塊獎牌。除一枚自行車銅牌外，其他所有的奧運獎牌都來自田徑賽場。
牙買加有一項為全國頂尖短跑選手舉行的冠軍錦標賽，從1910年延續至今，最終演變為該國每年最大的體育盛會。每屆比賽能夠吸引大約2000名來自全國各地的短跑精英參加，而且門票早早就銷售一空。賽事激勵了很多牙買加孩子從5歲就開始參加短跑比賽。
林德福德·克裏斯蒂和多諾萬·貝利分別在1992年、1996年奪得奧運會100米金牌，他們的身上都流著牙買加人的血液，只是分別代表英國和加拿大。如今，博爾特的橫空出世，讓牙買加人終於有了一位可以真正為之驕傲的本國“飛人”。
氛圍
在牙買加，只要有一塊稍微像樣的空地，就有年輕人即興舉辦短跑比賽，因為他們都夢想著有一天能夠成為“短跑之王”。牙買加每年大約有260支田徑隊、8萬多人參加近20種各級比賽。
牙買加短跑運動員身上有著一種與生俱來的驕傲感。博爾特曾說過：“我們一直相信能夠征服比賽。這是一種信念。我們小，我們窮，但是我們很自信。”牙買加體育部長格蘭傑說：“也許是我們喝的水特別乾淨，也許是因為我們沐浴的陽光特別美麗，但更重要的是一種精神。這種精神激勵著我們接受挑戰。”“這是土豆的功勞！”博爾特父親的話則詮釋了這個並不富裕的國家屢屢跑出“飛人”的精神動力所在。
數十年來，牙買加一直是美國大學獵取運動員的肥沃土地。為了防止頂尖的短跑好手離開，牙買加在約30年前設立了獎學金制度，有天賦的運動員如博爾特和鮑威爾，可以留在國內訓練，再到歐洲參加頂級賽事，目前，已有近300名短跑選手受益。該制度的實施者、牙買加科技大學體育部主管戴維斯說：“我們在很多年前就播下了種子，現在是收穫果實的時候了。”
天賦
科學家的研究表明，牙買加運動員也許天生是短跑的料。
牙買加短跑運動員的身體素質與美國運動員不相上下，他們的骨骼肌肉和心肺系統都非常適合於奔跑。英國格拉斯哥大學和西印度大學的科學家研究了200多名牙買加運動員後發現：有70%的人體內擁有一種名為ACTN3的物質，這種物質可以改進與瞬間速度有關的肌肉纖維，而這些肌肉纖維可以使運動員跑得更快。
此外，牙買加選手血液中的荷爾蒙含量與紅細胞含量都高於其他地方的人的平均值，所以能夠更快地從疲勞中恢復。臀部上翹、卜腿、胸腔小、下肢長的體型，也讓牙買加人在短跑中更佔優勢。
隨著坎貝爾·布朗在女子200米決賽中率先撞線，牙買加選手在北京奧運會男女100米和200米4個項目上包攬金牌。究竟是什麼原因，讓牙買加人在短跑項目上如此出色？
牙買加的短跑名將
赫伯特—麥肯利
赫伯特—麥肯利是上世紀中期牙買加最出色的短跑運動員之一，他曾在奧運會上獲得1金3銀。
奧蒂
奧蒂參加了7屆奧運會，總共獲得了3銀6銅的好成績，並15次當選牙買加年度最佳運動員。
坎貝爾
坎貝爾是2004年雅典奧運會200米冠軍以及2007年世錦賽女子100米冠軍兩個重量級榮譽的擁有者。
鮑威爾
鮑威爾在2005年創造了9秒77的男子100米新世界紀錄，並於2007年再次打破男子100米世界紀錄，成績為9秒74。(陳晨曦 王新萍）
http://www.cns.hk:89/olympic/news/2008/08-22/1356946.shtml
惜才政策持續30年 世界短跑進入“牙買加時代”
2008年08月19日 04:49 來源：新京報 發表評論
8月18日，北京奧運會男子200米預賽在北京國家體育場“鳥巢”舉行，牙買加選手博爾特輕鬆晉級下一輪比賽。 中新社發 盛佳鵬 攝
8月17日晚，奧運女子百米飛人大戰在“鳥巢”展開，最終牙買加選手弗雷澤以10秒78奪冠。
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男子100米決賽中，牙買加運動員博爾特在最後十米處竟然以回頭望月的姿態，拍著胸口提前慶祝勝利。博爾特以誇張的動作展露霸氣，以9秒69的駭人成績奪得了冠軍，並打破了由他自己保持的世界紀錄。接下來，牙買加的三名女將在女子100米賽事中包攬金、銀、銅，世界為此驚呼：“百米飛人”賽進入了“牙買加時代”，打破了美國人近十年來對這個項目上的壟斷。
牙買加開始在世界短跑領域稱雄，秘密其實有兩方面：一個是文化傳統，一個是惜才政策。牙買加的短跑種子播撒在1910年，博爾特成為世界最快的人，真可謂 “百年樹人”。那年牙買加的所有中學開始舉行體育聯賽，獲得冠軍的學生給獎學金，並逐漸演變成全國性的體育賽事，每年有2000運動員參賽，3萬觀眾捧場。英國《泰晤士報》的報道說，“這個島上只要你發現有荒地，一定會看到孩子們在進行即興賽跑，他們夢想有一天能登上冠軍領獎臺”。
體育上有所建樹的牙買加運動員，都會有較好的回報。1911年，諾曼•曼利(Norman Manley)成績優異，被選送參加1912年奧運會。儘管他沒能創下第一個100米世界紀錄，卻是第一位獲得獎學金到牛津大學讀書的牙買加體育特長者，牙買加的諾曼•曼利國際機場就是以他的名字命名的。
1948年，阿瑟•文特(Arthur Wint)在奧運會上為牙買加贏得第一枚金牌，此後牙買加人把眼光延伸到國際賽場。1952年芬蘭赫爾辛基奧運會上，牙買加運動員喬治•羅登在400米中獲得金牌，赫伯特•麥肯利取得銀牌，阿瑟•文特在800米中獲得銀牌，他們三人還與萊恩在4×400米接力比賽中奪得金牌並創造了世界紀錄。在他們的表率作用下，更多的短跑選手效倣前輩，奪取獎牌，其中包括英雄默琳•奧蒂，她曾經為牙買加拿回了8枚奧運獎牌。
歐美國家對牙買加的短跑選手開始垂青，用優厚的獎學金把佼佼者吸引進大學，或者搞“田徑移民”。1992年的奧運會百米冠軍克裏斯蒂(Linford Christie)、1996年奧運會百米冠軍貝利(Donovan Bailey)和200米冠軍約翰遜，分別代表著英國、加拿大和美國，但都是牙買加人。
不過西方的優厚待遇往往淹沒了他們的潛能。30年前，牙買加的有識之士為了本國的體育傳統和人才的成長，決定凡是留在牙買加受訓的運動健將，都能得到和移民到歐美國家一樣的待遇，保證上大學的獎學金和到歐美國家交流的機會，並且得到出乎意料的國家榮譽———“我們的國家雖然小，仍然貧困，但我們相信自己，我們能夠征服世界！”這樣減少了一流運動員向國外流失，近300名優秀選手進入這一計劃，鮑威爾、博爾特也在其中。
這樣的惜才政策持續30年後，世界的短跑進入“牙買加時代”。與美國不同，“牙買加時代”還有一個顯著特徵是對興奮劑的拒絕，他們身上還沒發生過醜聞。在北京奧運會男子100米比賽中獲得第六名的米歇爾•福拉斯特(Michael Frater)說：“我們的國家很小，如果你服了興奮劑，人人皆知，你會很尷尬”。
□陳冰(廣東 媒體人)
http://www.cns.hk:89/olympic/news/2008/08-19/1352508.shtml
明星進軍國際快捷方式
明星進軍國際快捷方式
誰說美女無腦。23歲的好萊塢女星斯佳麗·約翰遜(ScarlettJohans鄄son)被追問是否與男友瑞安·雷諾茲(RyanReynolds)訂婚時，她打個哈哈說：“我已跟奧巴馬訂婚，我的心屬於他。”竟搬出美國民主黨總統候選人奧巴馬來，四兩撥千斤，巧妙地避談緋聞。
更自爆自己是奧巴馬頭號追捧者，常與奧巴馬互通電郵，兩人已成筆友，又透露奧巴馬較為私人的一面：他是個戲精，並稱奧巴馬最欣賞她在《迷失東京》的演出，她搶先“爆料”，表明個人全力支持奧巴馬，也會呼籲自己的影迷也投奧巴馬一票。
斯佳麗的360度轉體，接前空翻，借奧巴馬回應緋聞，因為難度10分，借助奧巴馬的膽識10分，動作完美無瑕，拿滿分。
她既不承認也不否認訂婚傳聞，留自己一條後路。奧巴馬大受歡迎，象徵新希望，有品位，拉他下水，表示自己貼近社會脈搏，不只是明星歌星那樣簡單，又富娛樂性，記者樂於報道，且效果沖出娛樂版，有殺入時事或政治版的機會，如願的話，便大大提升了形象。怕不怕激怒奧巴馬?斯佳麗的話沒半點冒犯，奧巴馬在需要選票之際，樂得有個形象不錯的名人為自己拉票，明星們應好好向斯佳麗學習回應提問的技巧。
斯佳麗的完美動作，最近獲追加紅利，她的“愛奧巴馬宣言”是在今年1月說的，來到6月，奧巴馬已正式成為民主黨總統候選人，新聞價值倍升了，才有香港傳媒作重點報道，證明斯佳麗的完美動作有持續力，她於今年5月真的跟瑞安訂了婚。
期待兩岸三地藝人也有這種創意和膽識，具玩味又得體，為娛樂版帶來新意。
跟本地政經名人扯上關係，怕當事人和傳媒不夠幽默感，變質成負面新聞的話，今晚快快寫個電郵給奧巴馬，明天便發料，自稱與奧巴馬有書信來往，奔向國際，總好過來來去去傳不和及緋聞，悶死了。
誰說美女無腦。23歲的好萊塢女星斯佳麗·約翰遜(ScarlettJohans鄄son)被追問是否與男友瑞安·雷諾茲(RyanReynolds)訂婚時，她打個哈哈說：“我已跟奧巴馬訂婚，我的心屬於他。”竟搬出美國民主黨總統候選人奧巴馬來，四兩撥千斤，巧妙地避談緋聞。
更自爆自己是奧巴馬頭號追捧者，常與奧巴馬互通電郵，兩人已成筆友，又透露奧巴馬較為私人的一面：他是個戲精，並稱奧巴馬最欣賞她在《迷失東京》的演出，她搶先“爆料”，表明個人全力支持奧巴馬，也會呼籲自己的影迷也投奧巴馬一票。
斯佳麗的360度轉體，接前空翻，借奧巴馬回應緋聞，因為難度10分，借助奧巴馬的膽識10分，動作完美無瑕，拿滿分。
她既不承認也不否認訂婚傳聞，留自己一條後路。奧巴馬大受歡迎，象徵新希望，有品位，拉他下水，表示自己貼近社會脈搏，不只是明星歌星那樣簡單，又富娛樂性，記者樂於報道，且效果沖出娛樂版，有殺入時事或政治版的機會，如願的話，便大大提升了形象。怕不怕激怒奧巴馬?斯佳麗的話沒半點冒犯，奧巴馬在需要選票之際，樂得有個形象不錯的名人為自己拉票，明星們應好好向斯佳麗學習回應提問的技巧。
斯佳麗的完美動作，最近獲追加紅利，她的“愛奧巴馬宣言”是在今年1月說的，來到6月，奧巴馬已正式成為民主黨總統候選人，新聞價值倍升了，才有香港傳媒作重點報道，證明斯佳麗的完美動作有持續力，她於今年5月真的跟瑞安訂了婚。
期待兩岸三地藝人也有這種創意和膽識，具玩味又得體，為娛樂版帶來新意。
跟本地政經名人扯上關係，怕當事人和傳媒不夠幽默感，變質成負面新聞的話，今晚快快寫個電郵給奧巴馬，明天便發料，自稱與奧巴馬有書信來往，奔向國際，總好過來來去去傳不和及緋聞，悶死了。
運動員們有趣的「迷信」
2008-08-20
□諸宸（國際象棋棋後）
前晚，看到伊辛巴耶娃習慣性地用毛毯蒙頭靜思，突然很有感觸，俄羅斯運動員「迷信」程度的確很高。這裡所說的「迷信」，實際上更多的是一種心理暗示。
與博爾特和菲爾普斯類似，伊辛巴耶娃也是一個天才型運動員。前天的鳥巢，因為劉翔的退賽而變得沉寂，又因為伊辛巴耶娃新的世界紀錄而沸騰。其實，她在比賽中的表現並非一帆風順，三次試跳才通過了4米90。而後，在她向新的世界紀錄5米05發起沖擊時，前兩次試跳又未能過桿。此時，伊辛巴耶娃像過去比賽中一樣，選擇了用毛毯蒙頭的方式來調節情緒。經過短暫的靜思與調整，這位天才的俄羅斯姑娘終於在觀眾們有節奏的掌聲中，越過了5米05的橫桿，創造了新的世界紀錄。
伊辛巴耶娃的「蒙頭」讓我想到了教練說過的話，「俄羅斯運動員的迷信程度非常高」。其實更多的是一種「心理暗示」。很多運動員都會有自己特別心儀的衣服和配飾，就像我們都知道姚明手腕上的紅繩。對他來說，在罰球前觸摸一下那條紅繩已成為了習慣。國際象棋世界冠軍卡爾波夫在這方面表現得也很突出，他會在輸了一場比賽之後，把穿過的衣服全換掉；如果贏了比賽，他就會開心地把衣服留起來。
類似情況還有很多。有報道說，小威廉姆斯會選擇用相同的方法系鞋帶，發球時第一發要先拍五次，第二發拍兩次。英國14歲的跳水神童戴利會把一只能給他帶來好運的玩具小猴子放在跳水池旁邊的凳子上，以便自己能隨時看到它。
這些「迷信」都非常有趣，看似細小，但有時的確會對運動員的心理產生很大影響。特別是當他們把一些偶發的細節，當成了成功的「參與因素」之一時，就會在自己心理強化這種印象。當然，如果利用得好，這樣的「迷信」會對運動員正常甚至超常發揮產生正面作用。不過，凡事有度，切不可過分依賴這些因素，實力才是競技體育取勝的關鍵。
http://2008.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/91/3/1/244982/1.html
□諸宸（國際象棋棋後）
前晚，看到伊辛巴耶娃習慣性地用毛毯蒙頭靜思，突然很有感觸，俄羅斯運動員「迷信」程度的確很高。這裡所說的「迷信」，實際上更多的是一種心理暗示。
與博爾特和菲爾普斯類似，伊辛巴耶娃也是一個天才型運動員。前天的鳥巢，因為劉翔的退賽而變得沉寂，又因為伊辛巴耶娃新的世界紀錄而沸騰。其實，她在比賽中的表現並非一帆風順，三次試跳才通過了4米90。而後，在她向新的世界紀錄5米05發起沖擊時，前兩次試跳又未能過桿。此時，伊辛巴耶娃像過去比賽中一樣，選擇了用毛毯蒙頭的方式來調節情緒。經過短暫的靜思與調整，這位天才的俄羅斯姑娘終於在觀眾們有節奏的掌聲中，越過了5米05的橫桿，創造了新的世界紀錄。
伊辛巴耶娃的「蒙頭」讓我想到了教練說過的話，「俄羅斯運動員的迷信程度非常高」。其實更多的是一種「心理暗示」。很多運動員都會有自己特別心儀的衣服和配飾，就像我們都知道姚明手腕上的紅繩。對他來說，在罰球前觸摸一下那條紅繩已成為了習慣。國際象棋世界冠軍卡爾波夫在這方面表現得也很突出，他會在輸了一場比賽之後，把穿過的衣服全換掉；如果贏了比賽，他就會開心地把衣服留起來。
類似情況還有很多。有報道說，小威廉姆斯會選擇用相同的方法系鞋帶，發球時第一發要先拍五次，第二發拍兩次。英國14歲的跳水神童戴利會把一只能給他帶來好運的玩具小猴子放在跳水池旁邊的凳子上，以便自己能隨時看到它。
這些「迷信」都非常有趣，看似細小，但有時的確會對運動員的心理產生很大影響。特別是當他們把一些偶發的細節，當成了成功的「參與因素」之一時，就會在自己心理強化這種印象。當然，如果利用得好，這樣的「迷信」會對運動員正常甚至超常發揮產生正面作用。不過，凡事有度，切不可過分依賴這些因素，實力才是競技體育取勝的關鍵。
http://2008.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/91/3/1/244982/1.html
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