Waste Your Life on Beautiful Things

• [The first collection of essays by the famous financial writer Wu Xiaobo] selects 59 essays from more than 500 essays in recent years, including multiple expressions about life, wealth, and business. These words also reflect his trajectory from unknown to "China's best financial writer". • [Private expressions of a financial writer] In the book, Wu Xiaobo not only writes affectionately the words to his daughter and his insights on life, but also recalls and records some personal events from a relatively perceptual perspective, such as Wang Shi, Chu Shijian, Luo Zhenyu, Qin Shuo, He Zhiyi, etc. • ["Toilet Seat" sparks a big discussion about Made in China] Several articles such as "Waste your life on beautiful things", "Go to Japan to buy a toilet seat", "Why I never trade in stocks" were published on the official account of Wu Xiaobo's channel and received more than 500,000 views, up to 2 million. Among them, the article "Buying a Toilet Seat in Japan" caused a huge response in the country after it was published. Prime Minister Li personally mentioned it, triggering a heated discussion about Made in China from top to bottom. • [Full-color four-color printing] With exquisite illustrations, especially the illustrations of @. "I thought our dreams were lost on the road whizzing by; I think we are destined to live in an era that is not worthy of being remembered in words. " "The most expensive things in our country are freedom and ideals. They are both concrete and cannot be sold, and freedom and ideals cannot be sold to each other. " "The road of life sometimes becomes narrower and narrower, and sometimes it becomes wider and wider. However, every choice is bound to mean countless misses." "In this modern city, we are lonely only because we are hostile to each other, wary of each other, and because we are so confused and panicked about our own living conditions." "What money makes people lose is nothing more than what they don't really have in the first place, but what money makes people have is the calmness and heaviness that people are not born with. Money can make profound people deeper and shallow people shallower." "You see, we are still so curious about the world, and we still have the courage to give up everything. Even if the gold in our hands turns into gravel, if we let it go, we can still hold iron in our empty hands." "It turns out that life is a waste from beginning to end. All you need to judge is whether this waste is beautiful." This book contains more than 60 prose works by Wu Xiaobo in recent years. Different from the rational and objective nature of commercial works, the prose contains his deep affection as a father, vague memories of his interactions with old friends, his indifferent view of the world as an intellectual, and his sharp sketches of being immersed in the business world for decades. Time has a flavor, and years have left a voice. Every article is the most sincere expression.