This is a collection of stories about how ordinary people survive the darkest moments of their lives.
Lao Han is 57, once a failure and now a wanderer. He has traveled across China's mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, and ventured abroad as well. He has met food delivery riders, bankrupt business owners, elderly people swindled out of their savings, and struggling housewives. He has also spoken with AI entrepreneurs, cross-border traders, wandering Jianghu adventurers, and power players in the halls of government. In every encounter, he is a participant, a chronicler, and a distiller of wisdom.
120 people, 120 lives: some struggle to survive in the cracks of algorithms, some rise and fall in the hidden battles of the business world, some search for a way out in gray areas, and some start over amid the upheavals of the times. Every story is a mirror, and every predicament has a clever way through it.
This isn't feel-good fluff or a guide to success. It's a survival manual. Business savvy, emotional intelligence, the art of love, political maneuvering, military strategy, ways of thinking, tactics, the big picture, technology, and the humanities: 200 practical insights are hidden in 120 moving true-to-life stories.
If you, too, feel lost, anxious, and unsure what to do in the second half of life, this book will show you that you're not alone.
