Life's Admonition: Escaping Life's Defeats

Author: Zhang Peichai (Translated)
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Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: In fact, even now, some people are deeply trapped in certain failures in life, unable to realize, awaken, or extricate themselves from them. This so-called "failures" are not limited to career setbacks but also include failures in personality, relationships, psychological and emotional failures, marital and family failures, and failures in life experiences. In summary, wherever life makes one feel unhappy, we categorize it as a failure in life. These failures mostly stem from our inherent psychological ailments and the temptation of desires. Once we recognize and avoid these failures, each of us could potentially become a great strategist for career success and a wise person who grasps the path to life's happiness. However, in reality, these failures often elude our active awareness, rarely captured by our insight. As a result, they often linger around us in ambiguous forms or lurk beneath our feet in a subtle manner. By the time they starkly appear and are fully recognized, it is often too late—too late for regret! This book compiles the latest research findings in contemporary humanities, sociology, psychology, education, ethics, marital studies, and successology, offering a fresh perspective to deeply analyze and widely verify the many factors that mislead people into obsession and decline, leading to failures in character. From a certain philosophical and sociological height, it identifies the causes of life failures. Unlike Hill's successology, which focuses on the logic of success, this book explores life success from the reverse logic of failure, making it one of the most thought-provoking works on failure in modern China. This book is suitable for those who have paid a price for pursuing success and happiness.