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![Um, no it’s not.
How a misunderstanding about Chinese characters has led many astray
A whole industry of pundits and therapists has grown up around this one grossly inaccurate statement. A casual search of the Web turns up more than a million references to this spurious proverb. It appears, often complete with Chinese characters, on the covers of books, on advertisements for seminars, on expensive courses for “thinking outside of the box,” and practically everywhere one turns in the world of quick-buck business, pop psychology, and orientalist hocus-pocus. This catchy expression (Crisis = Danger + Opportunity) has rapidly become nearly as ubiquitous as The Tao of Pooh and Sun Zi’s Art of War for the Board / Bed / Bath / Whichever Room.
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Um, no it’s not.
How a misunderstanding about Chinese characters has led many astray
A whole industry of pundits and therapists has grown up around this one grossly inaccurate statement. A casual search of the Web turns up more than a million references to this spurious proverb. It appears, often complete with Chinese characters, on the covers of books, on advertisements for seminars, on expensive courses for “thinking outside of the box,” and practically everywhere one turns in the world of quick-buck business, pop psychology, and orientalist hocus-pocus. This catchy expression (Crisis = Danger + Opportunity) has rapidly become nearly as ubiquitous as The Tao of Pooh and Sun Zi’s Art of War for the Board / Bed / Bath / Whichever Room.
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- “Dean Miller has spent years getting journalists to lose their gut. “Your gut is the most dangerous…” (copyeditor.tumblr.com)
- 10 Frequently Used Chinese Characters (brighthub.com)
- An Excellent Book to Learn Chinese Characters (brighthub.com)
- Complicated Chinese Characters Harder To Text, Easier To Forget [Texting] (gizmodo.com)
- Chinese Characters Prove Truth Of Bible? (anadder.com)
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