Five Capital Assets of Being a Person

Author: Shi Sheng
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Among all the knowledge in the world, there is one that is profound, difficult to learn, and difficult to imitate. This knowledge is the art of being a person. This book interprets the five capitals of being a person: good habits, good mindset, good personality, good cultivation, and good reputation. As long as you remember these five winning secrets, your life will surely become better! Chinese people emphasize being a person, so since ancient times, the "Three-Character Classic" first teaches the principles of being a person, starting with "Human nature is good at birth." Later, the "Classic of Three Teachings" begins to teach people, "It is hard to paint the skin but easy to miss the bone; knowing a person's face does not mean knowing their heart," which speaks of the defensive psychology towards people. But the result of doing so is that few people still know how to be a person, and even fewer historical figures have been remembered for eternity. Over thousands of years, generations of role models for being a person have emerged, but because the standards differ, the boundaries of being a person have become increasingly blurred. So is there really no pattern to follow in being a person? One day, I was inspired by the famous rice expert Yuan Longping. Being a person is like planting rice. The quality of the seeds is fundamental. If we can plant more healthy and upward-seedlings in our life's rice paddies that benefit both society and personal growth, won't the problem of the standards of being a person be solved?