Description Prologue: For You, Weary from the Struggles of Raising Your Children Part 1: What It Means to Live as a Father New Father Studies 01: What Is a Father? New Father Studies 02: The Spirit of Fatherhood Is Great New Father Studies 03: A Father Changes One's Way of Thinking New Father Studies 04: Learning Again from the Fathers of the Past New Father Studies 05: A Father Creates Heroes New Father Studies 06: Find the True Role of a Father New Father Studies 07: True Fatherly Love Protects the Family New Father Studies 08: Become Your Child's Hero Part 2: Now, Fathers Step Forward Father Mentoring 00: What Is Father Mentoring? Father Mentoring 01: Give Difficult Tasks Before Easy Ones Father Mentoring 02: Send Them into the World to Find Their Dreams Father Mentoring 03: Give Trust to Sons, Attention to Daughters Father Mentoring 04: Share Ideals with Your Child Father Mentoring 05: Instill 'Body, Virtue, Wisdom' as Habits Father Mentoring 06: Apply the Outlier's Rule Father Mentoring 07: Always Have Them Record What They Read Father Mentoring 08: A 'Persistent Fool' Beats a Genius Father Mentoring 09: Let Them Enjoy Challenges Father Mentoring 10: Awaken the Value of Friendship and Love Epilogue: First, Become a Hero to Your Wife Inside the Book In today's society, a father's authority, strength, and power have already weakened—so much so that we now find ourselves longing once again for 'the father.' However, what people want now is not a father who flexes his shoulders and asserts dominance, but one who communicates well with his family, listens carefully to their needs, and quietly exercises leadership. People long for the return of a relationship-oriented father—one who considers others while skillfully guiding them to achieve their goals, ambitions, and dreams. — From 'What Is a Father?', p.23 In his book The Father Factor, Stephan Poulter argues that when tracing the roots of the problems adult children face in their social lives, a father's influence proves to be enormous. Most of us have probably been startled at some point to realize that our words or emotions at work closely resemble our father's behavior. People often speak to their subordinates exactly the way their fathers once spoke to them, sometimes even using the very same words and expressions. — From 'A Father Changes One's Way of Thinking', p.36 Alvin Toffler has practiced newspaper clipping his entire life. He calls himself a newspaper addict, saying, "Even predicting the future begins with grasping the flow of reality through newspapers." Every day, he carefully reads six or seven authoritative newspapers from around the world, including The New York Times and Asahi Shimbun. Toffler emphasizes that there is no better tool than newspapers for acquiring knowledge and information and developing a critical perspective on society. — From 'Apply the Outlier's Rule', p.159 If you truly want to raise your children well, it might be a good idea to create a family reading list. Parents often push their children to study while rarely reading themselves. Being a parent has never been easy, then or now. Let's refer to the reading lists recommended by the U.S. College Board or top universities' recommended liberal arts books, and create a list the whole family can read together. Mao Zedong, who loved reading, reportedly read the most books while working as a librarian at Peking University. It was during this time that he became deeply absorbed in the theories of Marx and Lenin. Although he worked as a librarian for only six months, it was a period when he built the theoretical foundation to become the chairman of a communist nation and came into contact with many intellectuals and reformists. It is fair to say that the Chinese Revolution effectively began in a library. — From 'Always Have Them Record What They Read', p.169 Raising children requires endless waiting and patience. It also requires letting go of expectations and emptying the heart. Above all, when parents—and fathers—truly fulfill their roles, children's education naturally follows. To borrow an expression from Confucius's Analects: 'A father must be a father, and a child must be a child.' Father as father, child as child! Is there any father in this world who wants to be a 'bad dad'? Even when their hearts say otherwise, they find themselves too busy with work...