At 28, unemployed, dumped, and diagnosed with fatty liver disease.
Hu Yifan sat on the railing of a pedestrian overpass, staring at the thirty-eighth rejection email on his phone, when a question suddenly came to him:
What if I treated this wreck of a body as my only product and kept improving it?
No System, no golden finger.
Just a “Self-Discipline Checklist” in his phone's notes:
one push-up a day, forced shutdown at 11 p.m., and learning to say no.
A year later, his ex sent someone to ask how he was doing.
The CTO of his former company looked at this clear-eyed man and asked, “How did you change so much?”
He replied, “I refactored my life like a piece of code.”
This is the story of an ordinary man who used the simplest, clumsiest methods to turn his life around.
