What needs to change is not the future, but the past.

Chapter 1: Heaven Wants Something from Me _ The Fate of Fifty

Luck is neither good nor bad / Luck
The power to achieve goals as planned
The price paid by a tree that lives for 1,000 years and a person that lives for 100 years

You must encounter good and bad luck to achieve great things / Good and bad luck
The creation of heaven and earth, all things in the universe, how does the world work?
Just as apples become tasty only after they endure frost, and iron becomes hard only after it endures fire,

If you have a clear goal, heaven will help you / Destiny
Get involved, but don't get swept away. Enjoy, but don't worry.
If you don't let luck control you, you can control your destiny.

Everyone is number one in their own life / Falza
Two things that lie in the depths of the heart
Knowing Heaven's intentions reveals the direction of your destiny.

Your fate is twisted because you run away / Giin
Living is suffering, but suffering makes you alive.
Live with the mindset that only I can walk my own path.

In the end, you live according to your own personality / temperament
Temperament and Mental Health as Organized by Comrade Lee Je-ma
If you don't know me, you'll get lost, but if you know me, you'll find your way.

Think sincerely but don't be obsessed / Optimism
If you constantly try to empty yourself, you will constantly be filled.
To unfold my life, I must keep bumping into things.

Fifty is the time when the dragon finally ascends to heaven / Fifty
From crawling to flying
What the Golden Age and Peak of Fifties Must Accept

Chapter 2: The Unchangeable Does Not Fear Change _ Reflections of Fifty

An overflowing heart inevitably brings regret / excessive greed
The one thing that puts your fifties at risk
You have to be able to stop when you have to stop.

Good things happen when yin and yang circulate / rhythm
The providence of spring, summer, fall, and winter that governs all things in the world
The first half of life is about external growth, and the second half is about internal growth.

The body needs death, the soul needs memory / Life
Why life requires physical death
My body may depart, but my soul remains forever.

What am I here for? / Meaning
The reason for living in this world
The intermediary between heaven and earth, the task that must be performed by being born as a human being

What I ate today changes both my past and future / Center
Fifty, the time to define and imprint my life
Live with the end in mind
From now on, you must have the intensity to complete your life.

When I must move forward on my own path, free from the past and others / Reflection
Now work for yourself, not others.
If you surround yourself with boundaries and find your center, you will become strong.

Change is for the sake of the unchanging one / unchanging
If you feel that life is fleeting
Live with the unchanging, ever-changing heart of the moon

Chapter 3: If you behave properly, you can rule the world - Fifty Years of Experience

Choose your boat wisely / Good luck
You should be with someone who gives you a little and repays you with a lot.
You must go to a place where you can feel the value and fulfillment of life.

As you get older, be wise in your relationships / Kimi
You have to know how to spot the signs
Know when to pour your heart out and when to keep your promises.

It is beneficial to maintain one's convictions and self-respect / Life
Three Ways to Get Your Boss to Come See You
Kingmaker's Experience

The order of words must be established to establish a relationship / words
It's hard to make something happen, but it's easy not to do it.
The order of words is the order of relationships.

Believe, protect, and then act / Mature
5 Steps to Becoming a Leader
The Three Principles of Gaining Both Popularity and Authority

Chapter 4: If you have faith and are of one mind, you will go well. _The Heart of Fifty

The heart connects people and advances the world / Jeong
A jewel shining in the depths of my heart
The world will continue to be positive

You have to be able to gain and lose people / above
After fifty, slow down your pace.
Sometimes you have to know how to use your mind differently.

To not be weak in any situation / mind
We must maintain unwavering faith
I need to know what I have to do and stick to it.

Find someone you can relate to / date
The difference between an old friend and a peer
How to make new friends after fifty

Evidence of Hope / Responsibility that Fifty Must Show
What South Korea's 52-year-olds must do as a community, not just as individuals.
Only when fifty-two become Korea's hope can Korea become the world's hope.

I have to fly through the sky like a dragon
3,000 Years of Wisdom for 50 Years of Age

The Book of Changes, which has been passed down for 3,000 years, tells us that the age of fifty is the most important time in a person's life.
It can be said that the golden age of life begins in one's fifties and is the time to truly live as oneself.
That's understandable, because life in your twenties was immature, and life in your thirties and forties was too intense.
In youth, we live in a state of confusion and fever due to luck and fate.
Fifty is the age when you accumulate experience and insight over an absolute period of time, and you are no longer swayed by luck.

But strangely, it's still hard even when you're fifty.
This is because, while anything could be achieved through effort until now, there are now many things that are beyond human power.
In society, it is not possible to rise above one's current position as one wishes.
My relationships with my spouse, children, friends, and colleagues also don't go as I want them to.
Even worsening health cannot be cured by human resources.
So, it is easy to become helpless and think, ‘I’ve lived like this for fifty years, what can I possibly hope for?’ and to suddenly lose direction and become worried, complaining, ‘It’s my fate.’

According to the Book of Changes, which conveys heaven's revelations about life and the world, the golden age of fifty is accompanied by such anxieties and worries.
The age of fifty is the peak and turning point of life, as it is when “the yang energy reaches five, and the dragon begins to ascend to the sky [九五 飛龍在天 (Gu-o Bi-ryong Jae-cheon)].”
Just as plants bloom, bear fruit, and then lose strength, it is the law of nature that fifty is both a golden age and a time of uncertainty.
In this period, we need wisdom to soar through the sky like a dragon without being broken.
This is why you must read the 『Book of Changes』 when you are in your fifties.

Fortune-telling, fortune telling, life-changing
The 25th chapter of the greatest classic, the Book of Changes

The Book of Changes, which is considered the greatest scripture, is a revelation from heaven and contains the laws of all things in the world.
There are 64 paths that the protagonist, a gentleman, can encounter on his life's journey, and by traversing them, he can acquire a new way.
There are 64 ways to master the Tao.
The passages in the Book of Changes that contain this Tao are highly compressed and are supplemented by the '64 hexagrams'.
Confucius read this book until the leather strap broke three times, and he escaped a real life crisis, leaving behind the idiom 'Wei Bian San Jie (韋編三絶)'.

"Reading the Book of Changes for Those in Their Fifties" is a book written for Koreans in their fifties by Kang Ki-jin, the director of the Taegeuk Thought Research Institute and Korea's leading expert on the Book of Changes, who has devoted his entire life to the Book of Changes.
It contains 25 chapters of the Book of Changes and wisdom that are especially necessary for those in their fifties, who experience both peak and anxious periods.
Based on our experience in introducing the Book of Changes to the public in a more accessible and accurate way, we hope that those in their fifties, the backbone of South Korea, will overcome the midlife crisis and find the center of their lives, and we will guide them through the true principles and advice conveyed in the Book of Changes.
Through this book, you will be able to solve the worries you have had in life.

For example, we use the expression “one’s fate is twisted.”
However, the saying “the person’s fate is twisted” contains the insight that the problem is that the person’s fate is twisted, not the person’s fate itself.
So why do fates get twisted? Everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
I am the only one who can accept myself as I am, and I am the only one who can live my life, but I keep trying to run away from myself.
The Book of Changes also teaches us how to deal with others wisely.
How should we deal with someone who only asks for their own needs? The advice is to not grant their request twice, grant it on the third request, then not grant it again for two more requests, and grant it on the sixth.
It is difficult to make them do it, but it is easy not to do it, so I make them listen to me like this.

When it's time to take control of your destiny,
You have to change the past to change the future!

This book clearly explains how to welcome great fortune after the age of fifty.
Many people have thought that changing one's life means changing one's future.
But if you want to change your life, you have to change your past, not your future.
How can I change the past? It depends on my decision today.
Depending on how I view my life before I was fifty, and how I define my life, my past changes.
If you change your past, you can change your whole life.
This is possible because I am fifty years old.
This is because, with the experience and insight accumulated over the course of one's life, one can no longer be influenced by luck or fate and can look at one's own life from a different perspective.

Everything in the world depends solely on my mind.
So, what should I do now? It's to be clear about where I want to go.
You must confirm your unchanging values ​​and clearly define where you want to go next.
This is the beginning of changing your destiny and moving beyond it.
And to do this, we need to embrace change.
The Book of Changes describes this as “不變應萬變”, meaning “the unchanging are not afraid of all changes and are willing to respond to all changes.”
The truth is to live with the mind of the moon, which is constantly changing but never unchanging, without being obsessed with small things.

After spending the first half of my life growing externally like a tree in spring and summer, I am now in my fifties, the beginning of the second half of my life, growing internally like a tree bearing fruit.
Anyone who wants to improve their fortune, anyone who wants to live by seizing the reins of their luck, anyone who wants to change their life needs the Book of Changes.
Through this book, you will gain wisdom about human life and this world, such as the way the world works, how to deal with good and bad fortune, how to feel better, how to behave in interpersonal relationships, and the direction you should take after turning fifty, and you will be blessed with great fortune.