Li Xiaolai

Li Xiaolai, born in 1972 in Jilin and of Korean ethnicity, graduated from Changchun University and once taught English at New Oriental. Over the years he has been involved in education, writing, and investing, and is known as a bestselling education author and angel investor. His books focus on time management, mental growth, learning methods, financial awareness, and family education, with common categories including self-help and personal growth, management, finance and economics, applied psychology, and personal finance. His representative work, Treat Time as a Friend, starts from the idea of using one's mind to achieve liberation and discusses how to live with time; The Truth About Wealth: Knowledge Everyone Needs but Schools Do Not Teach draws attention to knowledge that is genuinely useful outside school and in daily life. His writing emphasizes conceptual clarity and practical methods, uses direct language, and often begins from personal experience, guiding readers to reexamine the relationship between learning, thinking, and action. Public information is limited, making a fuller account of his life difficult, but his existing works suggest that his influence lies mainly in reading on self-growth and introductory personal finance.