Putting on a Show: A Life Skill Everyone Must Learn

Life is a performance: perform well, and you reach the heights; perform poorly, and you're doomed. It's been that way since time immemorial. The saying stings, but it's like cold dishes dressed with aged vinegar: sharply sour, yet oddly satisfying. Think only modern people understand "personal branding" and "image management"? Wrong! From the people of the Shang and Zhou dynasties holding bronze cauldrons during sacrificial rites to the ancient Greeks passionately delivering speeches in their assemblies...