Vocabulary
1. chore n. 瑣事劈愚，討厭或累人的工作
2. colloquialism n. 白話浴滴、口語彻磁，方言
3. gullible adj. 易受騙的哥桥；輕信的
4. self-hypnotism ? n. ?自我催眠
5. permissible (for) adj. 可允許的辙浑，獲得準許的
6. eugenicist n. 優(yōu)生學(xué)家
Expression
If your patience were not yet exhausted, chances are you'd answer something like this: “I'm this way because I choose to be, because I've considered other sentiments and preferences and attitudes and have made my selections.
patience-exhaust 耐心耗盡
chances are 有可能
I-choose，consider拟糕，make the selections （彰顯人為因素的詞匯與表達）
If you had lived in America in colonial times, you likely would have had no objection to the practice of barring women from serving on a jury, entering into a legal contract, owning property, or voting.
時間地點限定+虛擬語氣+likely-避免異議
bar v. 阻擋
（后面幾項可做性別歧視話題的例證）
Television programmers use frequent scene shifts and sensory appeals such as car crashes, violence, and sexual encounters to keep audience interest from diminishing.
use … and … such as … to keep … from … 一氣呵成
Summary
1. Who are you?
Humans are not represented by just names, but described in more details.
However, we can't say our identities precisely because the world we all living in has a greater impact on us than most of us realize.
2. What may influence your identity?
Time and Place
Ideas
Mass Culture
Manipulation
Psychology
Excerpt
Becoming an Individual
In light of what we have discussed, we should regard individuality not as something we are born with but rather as something acquired—or, more precisely, earned. Individuality begins in the realization that it is impossi-ble to escape being influenced by other people and by circumstance. The essence of individuality is vigilance. The following guidelines will help you achieve this:
1. Treat your first reaction to any person, issue, or situation as tentative. No matter how appealing it may be, refuse to embrace it until you have examined it.
2. Decide why you reacted as you did. Consider whether you borrowed the reaction from someone else—a parent or friend, perhaps, or a celebrity or fictional character on television. If possible, determine what specific experiences conditioned you to react this way.
3. Think of other possible reactions you might have had to the person, issue, or situation.
4. Ask yourself whether one of the other reactions is more appropriate than your first reaction. And when you answer, resist the influence of your conditioning.
To ensure that you will really be an individual and not merely claim to be one, apply these guidelines throughout your work in this book, as well as in your everyday life.
Thought
第一章從Who are you入手判呕，描述了人的不同與其背后環(huán)境的關(guān)系。我從思維訓(xùn)練的角度送滞，思考了一下作者的角度和邏輯：
1侠草、時間、地點 - 自然環(huán)境
時間和地點會影響一個人對一件事的態(tài)度犁嗅。比如對于“專制”和“領(lǐng)袖”边涕，朝鮮人和中國人的理解肯定會有所不同。
2褂微、觀點 - 內(nèi)部態(tài)度
3功蜓、大眾文化 - 社會背景
大眾媒體對人的作用潛移默化，文章中提到了一個注意力轉(zhuǎn)移的問題宠蚂。由于媒體通過快速切換內(nèi)容吸引觀眾注意力式撼，觀眾越發(fā)難以得到滿足。
4肥矢、操縱 - 人為因素
5端衰、心理學(xué) - 自身發(fā)展
