introduction.
Don't ask people, ask the classics.

Part 1.
Who am I

Why Gregor Turned into a Bug
What is 2 times 2?
Even if I only live one day, I will live it by my own will.
What are your 'dark desires'?
When you become unaware of many things, you grow.
Wake up the child sleeping inside me
A little bit lacking is best
It's never too late in life.
How much am I worth?
Are you living the life you deserve?
The meaning of time passing by
Don't live in someone's shadow
Everything is connected

Part 2.
How should we live?

Because my wishes were simple
Why We Are Always Unhappy
There is no pleasure without pain
To serve others is to serve myself.
Strong children grow up in nature.
How much will you own?
Throw away 'that' and take 'this'
A manual that never fails
The problem isn't the effort, it's the direction.
The illusion of already knowing
The joy of life in one meal!
Always remember death and overcome it.

Part 3.
What to do

Start first, then plan.
Where does the sound of Zhangzi's flute come from?
Just 10 minutes, by any means necessary
Through the eyes of an 'adventurer', not a 'victim'
How to apply the classics to real life
If you go out, you will definitely get something.
The surest strategy to win and fight
And if you draw again, your own style will emerge.
Discovering the time spent dazed
The depression that came every year disappeared.
The greatest skill in life, cooking
Reading, walking, thinking, and writing
There is no anxiety that cannot be shaken off with an hour of reading.

Going out.
Where should I be?
Classics mentioned in this book

Who am I? How should I live? What should I do?
Don't ask people, ask the classics.
The classics will answer!

He is the best lecturer of this era, with 70,000 people visiting his YouTube lectures every morning and visiting lecture halls across the country to meet readers about 20 times a month.
Bestselling author Myung-Hwan Ko, whose writings have been eagerly awaited by 300,000 readers, shares his unwavering life skills gleaned from the classics in his book, "The Classics Answer: About the Life We Should Live," which is a condensation of his life's experiences over the past decade.
The author's daily 'morning affirmation' has reached 1000 days since 2021.
The beginning was the answer I found while reading Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' to shake off the depression that came every year.
Following the classic answer that changing 'anxiety' to 'anticipation' will change the direction of your life, I recited positive affirmations for 10 minutes every day, and my life began to change in an amazing way.

When I questioned the classics, my life changed to a brighter and healthier direction.
Who am I? How should I live? What should I do? Whenever I had these questions, I opened up the classics, and they answered.
Reading classics that encapsulate hundreds of years of experience and wisdom, such as Carl Gustav Jung's "The Red Book," Blaise Pascal's "Pensées," Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian," and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow," made my direction clearer.
From concerns about interpersonal relationships to how to live a happy life and how to win, the classics offer answers to everything we desire.
A classic that moves slowly but steadily in the direction of 'growth'.
The author's guide to life, drawn from the classics, is found in this book.

“I won’t live in someone else’s shadow.”
I will live according to my own will, even if it means living just one day, free from the life I am being dragged through.

The belief that if you live as others tell you, things will turn out well, the belief that if you sacrifice just a little bit of the present, a better future will be guaranteed, the belief that money and success are the only values ​​in life.
Surprisingly, the same was true for Russians in 1886, when The Death of Ivan Ilyich was published, and for Czechs in 1915, when The Metamorphosis was published.
To such people, Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka speak through their works.
If you live your life being dragged around, putting things off, you will eventually end up regretting it in the face of death.

When people retire in their late forties, as if kicked out of a large corporation, and realize that they are living in pain while others are making billions of won and living well, they finally ask questions.
"Am I really living a good life? How long will I have to live like this?" The author, Go Myeong-hwan, felt the same way.
He only slept two or three hours a day and worked as a nightclub performer to earn money, but he realized that his life was headed in the wrong direction only after he was on the verge of death in a car accident in 2008.
I found a way to change the direction of my life in the classics.
In the adventures of Don Quixote, we learn that even if we only live one day, we must live the life we ​​have decided. In Carl Jung's Red Book, we learn that it is not abundance but lack that brings satisfaction. In Zorba the Greek, we learn that helping others ultimately helps ourselves.
Are you feeling suffocated by a life of comparison with others? Don't want to be dragged along anymore? Dream of personal transformation with "The Classics: Answers to the Life We Should Live."
Instead of turning away, awaken the giant within you.
This one book is enough

Do you want to make a lot of money? Do you want to be happy?
How to prepare for the second half of life

An era of excess where everything is overflowing.
We live in a world where we constantly pull the timeline like a slot machine handle, refreshing the screen.
But the anxiety and fear do not subside.
Rather, it only amplifies.
If you want to get good at fishing, you should ask a local who is good at fishing.
If you want to earn 100 million won a year, you should ask someone who is earning 100 million won.
If you want to do well in business, ask people who have succeeded in the restaurant business.
But in reality, we cannot meet them.
Instead, there is a book they wrote.
A book containing secret recipes proven over hundreds and thousands of years.
It is a classic that contains everything about human desires, happiness and unhappiness, and the secrets to victory and success.


The author provides answers found in the classics.
In the preface to Park Kyung-ni's "Land," it says that "pain makes people soar," in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Emile," it says that "our misfortunes stem from the imbalance between desire and ability," and in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," it says that we can only win if we wage "a war that is sure to benefit the people."
The second half of life doesn't begin with age, but with discovering who you are.
Let's break free from the shackles of anxiety about the future, constant comparison with others, self-exploitation, and burnout, and change the direction of our lives to one of challenge, excitement, satisfaction, and happiness.
This book will help you.