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体检发现有轻微脂肪肝，问医生对策，开方子，查使用说明书，显示主要功能是疏肝解郁，医生也强调不能完全依赖药物，健康饮食，定时定量也不可小觑。再查百度，发现也要加强运动，运动总比花钱受罪强，再继续查，专业的知识显示每日至少需要运动约6,000步，平均3KM，约30分钟。人每天是要吃饭的，能花30分钟进食，再花30分钟运动帮助消化不必要的“食物非营养成分”，想想也是很有必要的。如同机器要运转，就得要保养上润滑油，反之亦然，不能光上润滑油，不让机器动起来，否则就会润滑油堆积，形成脏污，如同“脂肪肝”。

I was informed of my mild fatty liver during the medical check-up. The doctor gave me a prescription, which is used to soothe the liver and relieve depression according to the instructions. He also stressed the importance of keeping a regular healthy diet and avoiding full rely on medical treatment. Later by searching on the Internet, I learnt that more exercise is necessary. After all, exercise is much better than spending money on bitter pills. Searching further, the expertise suggests at least a 6, 000-step walk every day, about 3KM for 30 minutes. People have meals every day; it is ideal that we spend 30 minutes on meal and another 30 minutes on exercise to digest unnecessary non-nutrients. A machine is in need of regular lubricating oil addition to function well. But if a machine which is regularly supplied with lubricating oil dose not work at all, the oil will accumulate in it and result in filth, just like a fatty liver.

四肢如此，大脑也类似。我们是需要不断充电，放电来调节大脑功能，让其充分激活的。充电的过程就是学习新知识的过程，放电就是要把所学习，理解的知识经过消化，反思，提炼，归纳，总结，甚至通过分享给他人来再次获取新的知识，正所谓三人行，必有我师焉。否则大脑就会固化，僵化，停留在一个阶段或者一个水平，看世界总是一个角度。

The logic adapts to not only our body, but also our brain. The brain needs continual charging and discharging so as to coordinate its functioning and keep fully active. Charging is the process of learning new things, and discharging is the process of digesting, reflecting on, extracting, concluding and summarizing the knowledge leant, or obtaining new knowledge by sharing what we have learnt with others. As the saying goes, when I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. Otherwise our thoughts will be rigidified, stagnating at a constant stage and viewing things from a single perspective.

没有互联网之前，有机会看报的是机关的工作人员，如今的公务员，那时是可以称为知识分子的，因为他们获取的信息要比其他人多，要快。互联网拉平了世界，大家同时有机会获取同样多的信息，这时信息的质量就非常重要了，因为大家可用的时间是相同的。如果同样的时间，有的人直接获取了所有信息里有用信息的80%和他们只能获取有用信息的20%，差别就可想而知了。

Before the appearance of the Internet, it was employees sitting in an office that had the chance to read newspapers. Today’s civil servants could be classified as intellectuals at that time, for they had more and faster access to information than others. The Internet has made the world a flat one where everyone has equal access to equal information. This is also an age when information quality begins to matter, since everyone has the same amount of time to utilize. In a given period of time, some people draw 80% of the useful information from all the information available while others 20% only. A difference between the two will be self-evident.

教育给大家起到了很好的作用。教育让人们把所有信息里相互关联的信息整理到一块，形成板块话的知识，所谓专业；让这些相互关联的知识集中到少数人头脑里，所谓教授。这是与互联网上的论坛不同的地方，在那，信息或许非常多，每天有不同的人在问同样的问题，点击“SEARCH”，马上能给你答案，但是很可能你收到的答复是很多条信息，需要你进一步仔细鉴别，继而又会激发你进一步问下一个问题的欲望。因为那些信息是片状式的，而不是板块式的。

Education plays a very important role for us. It facilitates the aggregation of correlative information selected from all available one to form knowledge modules, which are called programs. It assists the integration of such correlative knowledge into several persons’ mind, which are called professors. This is where education is different from the BBS on the Internet. On a BBS, information is abundant and every day there are numerous people asking the same questions. You will get an answer to your question by clicking “SEARCH”. But it is possible that you get more than one piece of information, which requires your further distinction and thus stimulates your desire to ask another question, for the information is in fragment rather than in module.

许多的信息是来自于实践的，而不是凭空捏造，因而长期从事某方面工作的专业人士得以将实践的体会，心得归纳汇总，形成书籍。这些书籍的内容，再加上作者从结尾的引用页中的扩展知识中所吸取的精华，很大程度上能将作者想描述的领域有个全方位的说明。

Most information comes from practices rather than sheer fabrication. Therefore experts engaged long in a certain domain are able to write down their experiences and thoughts in books. The content of the books, plus the citations extracted from other books, can, to a large extent, give a comprehensive description of the domain in which the author is engaged.

我个人是鼓励大家多读书，少看微文章的。书籍如同正餐，微文章如同快餐。从博客，到微博，从短信到微信，微信到表情符号.白岩松说这个时代太追求速度了，以致忘了质量。乘书本价格的涨幅还低于物价的涨幅时，多读些书吧。

Personally speaking, I am in favor of reading more books but less micro articles. A book is like a dinner while a micro article is like a fast food which evolves from blog to micro blog and from message to micro message, and now it’s trending to emoji, Bai Yansong, a well-known Chinese TV presenter, once noted that this was an era so indulged in speed that it let go of quality.  So read books more while the increase in book price is still below the inflation of overall prices.

在供应商管理的板块，大家如果有机会对比国内外的文章或者书籍，会发现中文的书籍或许更多实战性的内容，而外文的书籍会描述的更加全面。外文的书价格通常价格比较昂贵（我不知道为什么当年我MBA的一些英文原版教材价格还算便宜），以最近出的The Certified Supplier Quality Professional Handbook （认证供应商质量专员手册）为例，价格如下：

In the module of supplier management, a comparison between Chinese and foreign articles and books will come to a finding that whereas Chinese books contain more practical content, foreign books provide more comprehensive description of theoretical issues. Foreign books are usually more expensive (I have no idea why some of my MBA English original textbooks were priced relatively low.) Take a recently published book, The Certified Supplier Quality Professional Handbook, as an example. Following is how it is priced.

ASQ官网非会员价135美金，亚马逊美国135美金，亚马逊中国，京东，当当，都没有销售，亚马逊印度居然只售1,195卢比（约美金18.5），其他地区我没有查。如果有机会，还是托人从印度买了带过来，当然我也愿意帮这个忙。

It is sold at a price of 135 dollars on ASQ official website and US Amazon, but not available on China Amazon, JD or Dangdang. However, the price on India Amazon should be as low as 1,195 rupees (about 18.5 dollars). I did not check the price in other areas. If you have chances to have someone to buy in India and courier to you it would be the best and I am also pleased to help you in such case.

   

专业的书籍会让大家的知识结构更加有条理，也让工作变得相对轻松一些。而不是像农民种地，种了几辈子，也不见出产增加了多少，但是袁隆平配合科学的方法，就让农民兄弟们涨了见识。

By reading professional books, we will have a better-organized knowledge structure and our work will be less intensive. Take farmers working in the land as an example. Although they have done farming work from generation to generation, the outcome does not increase significantly. But Yuan Longping, Father of Hybrid Rice in China, has broadened their horizon through scientific methods.

我不是专业搞理论的，但是会尽力将所了解的供应商管理专业知识和书籍推荐给大家，如果大家有补充的也请不吝赐教。

Although I am not specialized in theory study, I will do my utmost to present to you the expertise in and the books on supplier management that I have learnt. Any Complement from you will be warmly welcome.

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGE GIVEN TO MS.Wang Qian (Claire) FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS OVER THE TRANSLATION.