Description PART 1. Your Thoughts Are Your Future: The Classics Revolution What Does It Mean to Be Reborn? - In Fact, We Are Revolutionizing Every Day - Open Your Eyes Wide and See How the World Truly Turns - Will You Live as a Frog, or as a Tortoise? A Single Great Encounter Can Change a Life - Greatness Gives Birth to Greatness - 'Receiving' an Answer vs. 'Thinking' an Answer - Live in the Gray Zone Two Steps to Completing the Classics Revolution - Witness — Understanding the World - Interpret — Applying Understanding Thought Management #1. Lee Ji-seong and Hwang Gwang-woo Discuss the Reborn Life PART 2. A Deep-Rooted Tree Does Not Waver: The Self Revolution What Does an Unshakable Self Look Like? - Awaken Your Second Survival Instinct - Pretending Is Not Courage - Don't Mock the Fickle How to Awaken the Sleeping Giant Within - Impossibility Is the Refuge of Cowards - The Root of Disaster and the Seed of Hope Lie in the Same Place - Luck Smiles Only on the Prepared - Shake Hands with Mistakes, Embrace Failure with Encouragement Four Steps to Completing the Self Revolution - Think — Expanding Thought - Question — Expanding Perspective - Change — Expanding Practice - Think, Question, and Change Again — Expanding the Expansion Thought Management #2. Lee Ji-seong and Hwang Gwang-woo Discuss the Unshakable Self Chapter 3. Change Leads to Change: The Relationship Revolution The World Is Made Up of Countless Versions of 'Me' - Will We Perish Together, or Live Together? - 'The Me I Know' vs. 'The Me Others Know' - I Am Still Only Holding Back How to Lead Together Without Being Swayed - Notice the Signs, and You Won't Be Swayed - Show Interest, and You Can Lead - Go Together, and It Becomes a Path Three Steps to Completing the Relationship Revolution - Read — Change in Knowledge - Share — Change in Daily Life - Be Together — Change in Relationships Thought Management #3. Lee Ji-seong and Hwang Gwang-woo Discuss Change in Relationships Chapter 4. Write Your Own Classic, Boldly: 10 Essential Eastern and Western Humanities Classics That Awaken You and the World Break Yourself to Meet a Greater Self - The World You 'Know' vs. the World You 'Live In': Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi - Nothing Is Ever Fixed: Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Is Happiness a Place, or a State of Mind? - Paradise Is Nowhere, and Yet Everywhere: Thomas More, Utopia - Change Your Mind, and Hell Becomes Paradise: Huineng, The Platform Sutra What Is a Nation? - A Society Where You, I, and Everyone Become One: Confucius, The Analects - A Nation Led by Philosophers Who Neither Deceive Nor Are Deceived: Plato, The Republic What Kind of Leader Do We Want? - Only a Powerful Monarch Can Build a Powerful Nation: Machiavelli, The Prince - Scholarship Means Nothing If It Doesn't Change Reality: Yi I, Seonghak Jibyo Who Holds the Power That Drives Wealth and Economy? - Seek and You Shall Find: Park Je-ga, Bukhagui - Self-Interest Drives Society Forward: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Excerpt Amid the fierce chill of an ongoing economic crisis, we've come to realize one truth: neither the nation, nor a company, nor anyone else can protect us. In this storm, the only shelter is ourselves. We cannot survive this era by simply being swept along by it. We cannot sit idle, staring at a stump, wondering what change will come next. The center of the world, the center of life, must now become 'me.' Only then can we stand firm against outside change. The revolution we need today is to reorganize a life that has long depended on school, company, and country — and instead, center it on ourselves. --- From PART 1, "What Does It Mean to Be Reborn?" Both the words 'revolution' and 'innovation' contain the character for 'leather' (革). Why would leather come to symbolize great transformation? The Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese dictionary compiled during the Han Dynasty, explains: "When the fur is removed and trimmed from an animal's hide, it is called hyeok (革)." An animal's hide can only be used after its fur is removed and it undergoes tanning to become soft and pliable. Through this process, the hide finally becomes useful. That is how the character for 'leather' came to mean 'to reform' and 'to renew.' The self revolution may seem rough and unrefined at first, but...