"The protagonist of each story in this book encounters a variety of problems: family, friendship, love, physical disability, emotional distress, ethnic identity, and the demise of the country, and faces various situations of loss, lack, death, illness, and struggle that students have already experienced or may encounter in the future. Readers can penetrate into various life situations, feel deeply, and gain emotional resonance and intellectual inspiration from them. This book is not only needed by teenagers, but also by adults."
--Teacher Chang Hui-cheng, Teacher of Zhongshan Girls' High School, Chinese Taiwan, and advisor of Singapore's Cultivation and Learning Centre.

★This book is a reflection on youth written for teenagers by literary psychiatrist and bestselling author Mr WANG YI CHIA.

★Since the first edition in Chinese Taiwan in July 2010, it has often been ranked No. 1 on the bestseller list of Bokelai online bookstores in the past few years! In Chinese Taiwan, it has sold twice as many copies as "Wormhole Briefs"!

★For many years, this book has been a popular student group reading and morning reading anthology recommended by secondary school Mandarin teachers in Chinese Taiwan, as well as a life-growth book read by many families in Chinese Taiwan.

★The founder of the Chinese Taiwan Xuesida teaching method, Mr Chang Hui-cheng, has written a special article recommending how to use this book to practice good essay writing!

★Life is a school and a lesson. What you learn in school is what you should learn during adolescence, which is the "first lesson of youth". This book focuses on representative figures from ancient and modern times and places, and their special experiences during their youth, so that more teenagers can learn to pursue and identify themselves, and realize the meaning of their own lives. This is the "Second Lesson of Youth".

The most important lesson in life is to discover, pursue and realize the unique meaning of one's own life, and adolescence is the time to envision the future, to begin to weave their dreams and to set out to pursue them. In addition to the school textbooks they have to learn, they should also learn "knowledge of youth".

Only youth can inspire youth, and only youth can convince youth. In this book, ninety-six representative modern figures from Chinese Taiwan, the mainland of China and the West have been specially selected to identify a particular experience from their youth and establish a connection with their later brilliant lives, so that each story can provide a kind of knowledge about youth. These stories of youth show that there is a great variety of successful or satisfying self-seeking, and that "all roads lead to Rome". Readers can use this knowledge in an eclectic way to create a combination of knowledge that will lead and illuminate their own youth.

The first lesson of youth is school education, but what is the "second lesson of youth"? It is the first lesson that opens the door to a unique life. Mr Wang I-chia, who abandoned medicine to pursue a career in literature, handpicked ninety-six celebrities and great men to design compelling story titles, which always have an unexpected outcome. "Only youth can inspire youth, and only youth can convince youth." Disney, Jane Goodall, Abraham Lincoln, Ang Lee, Liu Qian, Xu Zhimo... all of these outstanding people had the same troubles as everyone else during their teenage years, encountering setbacks and difficulties, being bewildered and confused. Reading their stories not only motivates people, but also people can discover themselves and inspire courage. The valuable experience and the process of overcoming their dreams when they were young inspire students that youth is just a one-time event, and they should be filled with confidence and fly straight to their dreams, accept the most extraordinary invitation from heaven, and try their best to paint their own life by searching for beautiful youth from unlimited possibilities of life.

1. When your parents' expectations are not in line with your own ambitions, what are your hopes for the future?
2. In the face of the challenges ahead, what abilities should you possess in order to realize the unique meaning of your life?
3. What do you want to learn from the deeds of famous and great people?
4. Have you ever heard the drums of your life and learnt what you truly desire?

YI-CHIA WANG

Born in Taichung City in 1950, he graduated from the Department of Medicine at National Chinese Taiwan University. After graduation, he specialized in writing and cultural work, and has written columns for more than ten newspapers and magazines, including "China Times", "Taiwan Newspaper", "Newton", and "Taipei Review"; he has also served as editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "Healthy World", and as president of Mind Magazine and Wild Goose Publishing House.

He is the author of "Intern's Handbook", "Wormhole Briefs", "Classics Today", "Who Reaches Out the Invisible Hand? The Mysteries of Chinese Numerology" "What is Sex in the World? The Erotic and the Sex in Chinese Culture", "The Second Lesson of Youth", "New Wormhole Briefs", "Short Songs of the Floating World: This Time, Talk More About Yourself", and more than forty other titles, covering the categories of prose, interpretation of the Chinese classics, psychology, cultural commentaries, and scientific discourses, blending the intellectual and the sensual, and the scientific and the humanistic.

He has been awarded the Top Ten Best Books of the Year by "China Times", the Recommended Book of the Year by "Taiwan Newspaper" for Readers, and the Top Ten Best Books voted by college students in Chinese Taiwan. A number of articles have been selected for inclusion in the Chinese textbooks of junior high schools, high schools, and colleges and universities. He writes in a variety of styles, which are entertaining and concise, and which give the classics a different perspective, reading and interpreting a different world and life.

Series 7 How Do You Get a Tiger to Concentrate?
How Do You Get a Tiger to Concentrate? (Eldrick Tiger Woods)
Use Your Brain Before You Do It (Michael Dell)
The Notebook of Self-Management (Abdullah Durak)
In the Magnificent Otherworldliness of Kobe (Haruki Murakami)
The Stealer Who Wrote a Letter of Repentance (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
The Bread and Poetry Book Trade-Off (Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre)
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Series VIII Don't Want to Wait Until Failure to Regret
The Taihu Stone in the Lion's Grove (Ieoh Ming Pei)
Being Treated Like a Child by Your First Love (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
White and Black Dress in an Orphanage (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel)
A Lone Traveller Carrying a Lantern to School (Sir Isaac Newton)
Completing His First Deal in Tears (Konosuke Matsushita)
Passionate Admiration for a Paragon of Virtue (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy)
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