Focus and Diversity

1. Read the core chapters on the relationship between focus and diversification first, then go back to the theoretical groundwork on contradiction theory.
2. After each section, connect it to a current work or life decision and write down what the principal contradiction is.
3. Compare the book's examples with your own experience and note points of disagreement or possible additions to form reading notes.
4. Read alongside basic works on materialist dialectics to deepen understanding of the concept of principal contradiction.

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