Home is the first school in life, the embrace of the mother is the warm classroom of the child, the mother is the child's first teacher, and it is also the most important key to enlightening the child.
——(Excerpt from the preface)
"My Fate Is Up to Me"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" >01 About this book</h1>
This is a biographical book about the growth and success of the famous cartoonist Cai Zhizhong.
The book takes Cai Zhizhong's personal growth time trajectory as the line, telling the story of his youth, youth, prime-age and now old age. Divided into ten chapters, each chapter has a theme, using a combination of theory and example to explain a person's need to have the conditions and ability to succeed, which is interspersed with the success inspirational stories of other historical celebrities, which is more convincing and more likely to resonate.
From Cai Zhizhong's growth process, we can see that a person can freely develop himself, find inner preferences, and have good concentration in a well-educated and tolerant environment. That's why he's successful. He can always think about a problem without feeling tired, thinking about him is a kind of fun, a kind of spiritual nourishment, but also a happiness that can be truly experienced. And most of us, what we lack is this experience. We may not be able to go back to our childhood, but we can find some experience in it, slowly re-cultivate our interests, and find the happiness that this interest brings us.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" >02 Author Profile</h1>
Cai Zhizhong is a famous cartoonist.
More than 100 works have been published in more than 30 countries and regions in multiple languages, selling more than 40 million copies. In recent years, Cai Zhizhong and Modern Publishing House have cooperated to launch a number of comic book Chinese studies works, such as "History", "Lao Tzu", "Journey to the West", etc., which are widely praised by readers. In 2016, he cooperated with Modern Publishing House in the Classic Decryption series.
Li Hong holds a master's degree in journalism from the Communication University of China.
A senior reporter of the Global Times, he joined the Global Times in 2006 and engaged in interviews and reports in the fields of culture and education. He has traveled to more than ten countries to interview domestic and foreign cultural celebrities and principals of famous schools, and published millions of words of works.
In 2013, he published the book "One Sand and One World: The Wisdom of Life in Overseas Philosophical Stories".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > book catalog</h1>
Catalogue of "My Life Is Up to Me"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > classic statement</h1>
● Life is so short, there is only one lifetime.
● Take advantage of large chunks of time and enjoy solitude.
● Clear-sighted, not self-righteous, read your own body.
● Learn to think and do what you are best at, and do it to the extreme.
● It is useless to work hard, we must learn to change our thinking.
● Find the brush of life in time to do what you are good at to the extreme.
● Life is not a slope, you can go all the way to the peak; life is a ladder, and each step has the difficulties of each step.
● The most effective way to change yourself is to change your own concepts, hard work, perseverance, just for a while, the concept of change is a lifetime.
● People who can climb to the top are usually not the people who go the farthest and fastest, but the people who can determine the target at the first time and can approach the target every second.
● Opportunities are left to those who are prepared before they come, you must first work hard to cultivate the conditions for success that you should have, take advantage of your strengths and avoid weaknesses, overcome obstacles, and when the opportunity comes, you can go and win.