Bend, Not Break - A life in two worlds is the title of a best-selling memoir by Ping Fu with my friend MeiMei Fox as co-writer. Ping Fu is the founder and CEO of Geomagic, Inc and she tells her story as a child soldier, factory worker and political prisoner in China, and her incredible journey of building a pioneering software company in the US. It's a great book on leadership, entrepreneurship, negotiation, business building, commitment, honesty, resilience and above all, the power of human spirit. I highly recommend it.
I also see it as a very relevant book related to mindfulness and conscious living. Ping Fu's entire life-journey can be said to be a great example of conscious living. Not because she's always conscious about the choices she's made (even though she comes across as having an incredible self-awareness), but because she's always looking at what she has now, right in front of her, and creates something amazing with what she has, without resisting what's given to her. Essentially a textbook case of presence in action, so to speak.
I feel deeply inspired, as well as humbled, reading about her extraordinary life and how she's always choosing to seek out the best in people while never giving up. A powerful teacher and role-model.
Jai Ma!
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