How can you and I achieve it? "The American is known as the great hustler, as the Chinese is known as a great loafer," according to the great essayist Lin Yutang, writing in 1930s America. As he saw it, the unhappiness of Americans was due to their idolization of the three "vices" of "efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success."
「美國人是聞名的偉大的勞碌者，中國人是聞名的偉大的悠閒者」，一九三○年代寓居美國的大師級作家林語堂表示：美國人之所以不快樂，是「講求效率、講求準時、希望事業成功」，這三大惡習在作祟。