Jia Jiang – författare

From the bestselling author of Rejection Proof, a guide to making hard actions easy by using pleasure - not willpower - to achieve your goals. Work can be fun. Focus can be automatic. And success can be easy.Most people think that because great achievements are difficult, they must also feel difficult. They resort to grind culture and sheer willpower, attempting to bully themselves into success, only to be left with broken dreams and diminished self-confidence. The truth is, great accomplishments are rarely achieved through mental toughness. Rather, the most successful people find a way to make hard actions feel easy.Drawing on twelve epic stories from history and pop culture, bestselling author Jia Jiang outlines the four pillars of Easy Discipline-Enjoyment, Artistry, Systems, and Yourself-so you can take hard actions on a consistent basis, love yourself in the process, and achieve life-changing results. You'll learn:- How to harness the power of the One Action Goal system.- Why creative constraints are your best friend.- How to generate momentum in your early actions to help you succeed later on.- How to actively control and curate media consumption to educate and inspire you toward your goal.A love letter to ambitious people everywhere who are disorganised, undisciplined, and distracted, Easy Discipline will give you the mindsets and tools to turn flaws into assets, obstacles into stepstones, and dreams into realities.

Negotiating Citizenship Education (CE) explores the dynamics, tensions, and space in Chinese socialist CE, focusing on how the political, economic, social, and educational structures in China, as well as individual agency, shape CE curriculum, teaching, and learning.In contrast to the West, China, as a party-state, has been promoting socialist CE for regime support since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took over the leadership in 1949. However, this version of CE has been challenged by China’s economic development, individualization of society, and globalization. This volume traces the historical changes of the Party-state-defined citizenship and CE curriculum in response to social changes. Importantly, drawing upon a qualitative study setting in two high schools in a relatively liberal province in China, it vividly documents how Chinese teachers and students negotiate with official CE discourse in their classroom teaching and learning through a new comprehensive theoretical framework of social structure and agency. Ultimately, it advocates for a reconstruction of the CE curriculum, educational system, and civic environment to cultivate agentic citizens.This book will be a beneficial read for scholars, academics, and students in the fields of international and comparative education, sociology of education, CE, China studies, and citizenship studies.