Read your way through mid-life: from success to fulfilment
New passages: mapping your life across time / Gail Sheehy.
Repacking your bags: lighten your load for the rest of your life / Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro.
Are you ready to succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life/ Srikumar S. Rao.
Creating the good life: Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness / James O’Toole.
Speaker: Po Chung 鍾普洋
Date: 20 April 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Language: English
About the Books
New passages: mapping your life across time
People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to grow old. A fifty-year-old woman -- who remains free of cancer and heart disease -- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood -- beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five -- are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier -- a Second Adulthood in middle life. (from the publisher)
Repacking your bags: lighten your load for the rest of your life
Using the metaphor of baggage one carries on life's journey, the authors analyze your goals and goal-setting, and help you learn how to live with a new sense of purpose. Find where you belong; enrich your relationships; become who you want to be. (from the publisher)
Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life
The premise is simple: A person's ideal life, especially their career, can be carefully conceived and crafted. Based on Dr. Rao's popular course "Creativity and Personal Mastery" at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, this book offers a series of readings, exercises, and lessons drawn from both spiritual and commercial situations that enable you to reconstruct and improve your professional world. This transformation will turn your life around and help you become exponentially more effective in your chosen career and thereby flourish in all aspects of your life. Whether you are questioning the value of money or the core values of your life, this book is a powerful tool that will help you to "discover the purpose that can suffuse your life and bring stars to your eyes."
Creating the good life: Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness
Professionals and business people in midlife are increasingly asking themselves "what's next?" in their careers and personal lives. This book draws on the wisdom of the ages to help contemporary men and women plan for satisfying, useful, moral, and meaningful second halves of their lives. (from the publisher)
About the Speaker
Chung Po-yang (Alias Po Chung) was born in Macao and raised in Hong Kong and received his university education in the United States. In 1972, he co-founded DHL in Asia.
Po and his wife Helen love books. They have sponsored the Creativity and Innovation Resource Centre in the City Hall Library. They have also created an archive of over 25,000 volumes of Chinese County Almanacs to Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Po’s latest project is to transform the understanding and teaching of owner/operator entrepreneurship. He accomplished this by assisting the Hong Kong University set up a Centre for Asian Entrepreneurship & Business Values in January 2006.
Po is now on his eighth career: He has been a corporate executive, a world-class entrepreneur, a community service leader, a social entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a professional painter, and now author and professor.