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Lin Yutang is one of the few writers with a massive output of work - fiction and non-fiction books, scholarly articles, public speaking engagements and media articles on politics and culture - who had no recorded incidents of self-doubt or depression.
His supreme self-confidence and his admiration of the Taoist approach to life make him a role model for stressful times such as 2009. During his life Lin faced poverty, bankruptcy, rejection, harm from student radicals and death for expressing his political beliefs. Balancing these negatives, none of which caused him depression, he calmly restored his finances through industry - writing - and modelled and mooted simplicity as the answer to a happy life.
In the light of the present global economic crisis we can all learn from this insightful man.
His supreme self-confidence and his admiration of the Taoist approach to life make him a role model for stressful times such as 2009. During his life Lin faced poverty, bankruptcy, rejection, harm from student radicals and death for expressing his political beliefs. Balancing these negatives, none of which caused him depression, he calmly restored his finances through industry - writing - and modelled and mooted simplicity as the answer to a happy life.
In the light of the present global economic crisis we can all learn from this insightful man.
