Life's Rubik's Cube Decoded -- Twelve Principles of Practical Success

Author: Lin Junxiong
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Publish Date: 1998-12-01
Features: Lin Junxiong served as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the former China Youth Press and has long been concerned with and studied the issues of youth's success and achievement. Through editing various books on success studies and biographies of famous figures, he has conducted systematic research on success studies in China and abroad. By editing youth publications and participating in seminars in the youth media field, he has gained a deep understanding of contemporary youth. Given the flaws in previous works of this kind, his book "Decoding the Life Puzzle—Twelve Arguments on Practical Success Studies" (published by Jilin People's Publishing House) not only carefully absorbs beneficial achievements from foreign success studies but also pays great attention to mining the rich treasures of ancient Chinese success studies. It removes the dross and keeps the essence, discards the false and keeps the true, striving to make the work closely aligned with China's reality and rich in Chinese characteristics. For example, the author introduces China's strategy studies into success studies, which greatly enriches the content of success studies and broadens people's perspective on it. Based on his understanding of strategy studies, the author reorganizes the "Thirty-Six Stratagems" from Sun Tzu to Mao Zedong into three categories—politics, military, and economy—presenting them with solid foundations and logical reasoning, offering original insights and fresh perspectives. Another example is that the author summarizes ands 15 pairs of contradictions that people often encounter on the path to success, which are also known as categories in dialectics. He guides readers to treat them correctly, a rare feature in currently published books on success studies. When explaining these 15 pairs of contradictions, the author not only encourages readers to adopt a comprehensive approach without bias but also reminds them to focus on key aspects based on their individual situations and stages, avoiding indecision and losing their drive. This is highly beneficial for readers. Due to the author's long-standing work in editing youth publications and his deep understanding of youth, every aspect of this book—from its title, chapter names, and section names to the structure of its arguments, transitions, and fluctuations—is carefully designed. The book is highly targeted and practical, using rich materials and often employing stories that young people enjoy to illustrate its points, striving to be precise, lively, easy to understand, and genuinely useful.