Biography of Yongzheng

This is a systematic family education book written for parents. The author, Yu Yingzheng (Lao Yu), is the mind behind the public account "Lonely Brain" and founder of the educational institution "Future Ivy." He transfers his thinking on business and methodology to the question of children's growth, attempting to answer the three types of problems that most trouble parents: strategic problems—which direction should the child take in the future; tactical problems—how exactly to proceed in a given direction and from whom to learn; and practical problems—what to do when the child does not want to learn, does not know how to learn, or cannot learn. The book argues that answers to these questions are everywhere in reality, yet what is lacking is a scientific, systematic "panorama." The author sees the child as a tree that needs "sunshine and rain, air and water, and a forest environment" to support it together, requiring an overall ecology rather than isolated techniques; he therefore proposes a modular, visual, and operable framework: seven "golden keys"—interest, action, broad learning, achievement, happiness, hope, and win-win—each broken down into three "growth codes," twenty-one items in total, corresponding to abilities such as intrinsic motivation, trial and error and growth mindset, cross-disciplinary cognition and scientific thinking, problem-solving and compound thinking, security and resource awareness, long-termism and vision, and empathy and self-leadership. Each section comes with a corresponding "toolbox" offering principles, scenarios, and methods, advocating that parents start with small actions so that good education happens naturally in daily life. The book also discusses the "advantage compounding model," that is, finding a child's natural strengths and continuously investing resources in them. The whole book is aimed at parents rather than children, with the message: "When parents have a plan, children have a future."