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A powerful sense of calling has healing power; this is beyond doubt. Zhou Youguang became ill with depression, but after throwing himself into his work and finding love, he recovered without treatment. Zhang Yunhe became ill with depression and endured the loss of her daughter,…

This Spring Festival I have been reading extensively, mainly the latest works in brain science and psychiatry. I would not claim to have fully integrated Chinese and Western medicine, biology, and psychiatry, but many questions I did not understand before I now genuinely grasp, and…

When I was twenty, my older brother spent some time training me to think for three seconds before every sentence, so that my speech would be more rigorous. The method was simple: as the elder brother, he stood beside me, and whenever I was about…

There is a peculiar phenomenon in my family: the children in our clan were all very lively and talkative when young, but after adolescence most became taciturn. I am no exception. Of course, when I say this, readers may find it strange — would someone…

Today is the last day of the lunar Year of the Ox. I recall that on the first day of the Ox year I wrote an article, Being a Diligent Ox—Written at the Spring Festival of the Ox Year, in which I quoted Mr. Wang…

On the evening of January 22, 2022, the WeChat Public Platform sent me a message saying I had qualified for custom red-packet covers. I did not know what WeChat red-packet covers were for, nor did I plan to learn about this novelty unrelated to my…

When I was in high school, I often scored full marks in math. There was a math teacher at our school who was not my own teacher but especially loved setting hard problems for me. He would often hand me a note on the road…

Dear readers, Happy New Year to you all! Another year has passed in the blink of an eye; we have lived for two full years under the shadow of the plague. These two years have been truly hard. Whether humanity can walk out of the…

Over the past few days I have heard from many readers. Some offered help with my gaokao review; others urged me not to waste precious time retaking the exam and studying medicine. I am very grateful for everyone's concern. Some patients worried whether my going…

The word yuanfen (fate/destined affinity) appears with very high frequency in Chinese. We often say that whether a man and a woman become husband and wife depends on yuanfen; whether two strangers become close friends depends on yuanfen; teachers and students have their yuanfen, and…