When we walk around the bookstore and take a book off the shelf, what will we pay attention to first? Cover, title and author; What is the first thing you see when you open the inside page? Table of contents, preface. Seeing this, we already know whether a book is interesting and worth reading. The next step is to put it in the book basket and prepare to take it home and read it carefully. Or put it back on the shelf and forget about it. So, what do we read from the above information in the book "Life is Confused and Charming"? The first is the title of the book: Life is confusing and charming. This is a soft title with some chicken soup. Does it make sense? Life is very complicated, and many things make it difficult for us to grasp and handle well, so we are confused; Life is colorful, and many things make us linger, which is certainly fascinating. It can also be understood that whether life is confusing or fascinating depends on our ability to cope: if we have enough ability to cope with and solve various problems, life will present a fascinating side; If we don't have the ability problem, we will be at a loss and hit a wall everywhere, and life will show a confused side. Which one is the author talking about? There is no answer here. Look down. Subtitle: How do modern people escape from the predicament of complex times? I know a little. The author wants to help people deal with all kinds of problems in this complex era in this book, so that the confused life can live a fascinating color. Life in trouble is confused, and life that has escaped is fascinating. The overall cover of reading, the depth of the upper and lower parts is clear, the upper part is messy and gloomy, and the gloomy face is looming; The second half is clean and refreshing. There are two lines of titles in the middle, such as the Chu River Han boundary. There are three lines of fine print in the middle of the second half, which points out the key points of the author's proposition: no era, life is so confused; Life has never been so charming. The third line is that the author is the foothold: in the era of great change, living as a social observer is lucky. It is pointed out here that the author is a social observer. What kind of person will become a social observer? When we open the homepage, we can see the author's brief introduction, and then the author's preface. It turns out that the author is not only a journalist who has been working for more than 20 years, but also a self-media person who has "accumulated millions of words and read more than one million words". Such a role is indeed a social observer. So, what does the author observe and think about in the book, and what is his opinion on the question "how do modern people escape from the predicament of complex times?" Let's look at the catalogue: chapter one, are you a qualified modern person? First, help us find out who we are. Just because we moved into a city and lived in a building does not prove that we are modern and civilized. When we are still crossing the street at will, we are still keen to take advantage of all kinds of petty advantages, and we can get someone to help us at will. We are still far from modern civilization. Below, the author discusses some rules and materials of modern civilized society with specific cases. The second chapter, the values of complex times. World outlook, outlook on life and values are collectively referred to as three views. Whether the three views are suitable for modern civilized society is reflected in people's words and deeds. If our three views are behind the times, we will naturally run into a wall when talking and doing things, and it is difficult to think about life without being confused. Chapter three, look at the world from another angle. Since the farming era, human society has inevitably become more and more complicated. Wan Weigang has a famous book called "Intellectuals-Being a Complex Modern Man", which says that modern society is already quite complicated, and it is impossible for modern people to live a simple life. If they want to live a fascinating life, they must admit complexity, accept complexity and learn to deal with it. The world is complex, so we should look at it from multiple dimensions, not simply from one angle or one dimension. Multi-dimensional, it may be easier to understand, easier to see and easier to communicate. Chapter four: why small things make big mistakes; The fifth chapter is about the right and wrong of cities; Chapter VI Between Life and Death; The seventh chapter is about the demand for business acumen in the business world; Chapter 8 is about who should decide the future of children; The ninth chapter is about the inner ups and downs in the season; The tenth chapter is about the feelings of life during the trip; Each chapter has a theme; It discusses the complexity of modern society from different angles and puts forward the author's own views. Indeed, as the author said in the preface, this is a unique book. The whole book is not a rigid theoretical framework, nor is it a mystery away from chicken soup. Instead, we take the problems of the times as the skeleton and social events as the flesh and blood, and look for ways for modern people to escape from the confusion of life and live a charming and happy life from different dimensions and angles.
Planning Unit: Huaxia Think Tank Publishing House: China Fortune Publishing House Author: Du Lairen, whose real name is Faye Wong, graduated from Chinese Department of Jilin University and worked in local media for more than 20 years. He is a veteran of traditional media and a recruit from the media. From 20 15, under the pseudonym of "Du laity", we started a self-media "laity talk" on WeChat and Sohu platforms, writing comments and reading experiences, and talking about "the world in my eyes, the life I understand". Up to now, the content has covered more than 500 articles from social changes to ordinary daily life, with over one million words and points. From 20 16, he held a public reading lecture in the city library, and shared with the public books such as A Brief History of Mankind, A Brief History of the Future, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Age, Bad World Research, My Travel Philosophy, Is Coffee Bitter, and The Brain Law of Lizards, and was hired as the main lecturer of national reading by Daqing City. Life is confusing and fascinating ―― How modern people escape from the predicament of complex times is his first original work.