Strategizing depends on ability, accomplishing things depends on character: 12 abilities to change your destiny

Author: Wang Xin
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The way of being a person, integrity as the foundation; being upright, fair and square; not indulging in selfish desires, one can be detached from fame and fortune; being detached from fame and fortune, one can keep away from the vulgar and stay pure in spirit; working hard endlessly, one can achieve success. This book starts with the basic moral cultivation one should possess in life, revealing the truth of how to start being a person. Perhaps you might think that to achieve success, a person must have the ability to control everything, must have the support of a helpful person, must master professional skills, and must seize rare opportunities. Indeed, these are the key links on the path to success, the bonds leading to victory. However, an unconfident person, a person lacking decisiveness, a selfish and profit-driven person, even if they possess the above advantages, may not necessarily succeed because they lack the ability to be a person. To be a person means to be a good person, a person useful to society. Even if they lack ability, professional skills, and cannot achieve admirable accomplishments, as long as they are upright, kind, hardworking, and honest, they will still be welcomed by others and favored by fate.
The topic of "how to be a person and do things" has always been discussed and focused on by people. How can one correctly understand the relationship between the two? The author of this book starts with the 12 basic abilities of life—determination, confidence, goals, wisdom, and other aspects—and proposes the sharp conclusion that "success in planning lies in ability, while success in execution lies in being a person." This book reveals the principles of being a person, helps readers cultivate excellent character and the personality to achieve great things, and builds a bridge for readers to success in their careers.