The Path by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh

A self-help (although self-cultivation would be the better word) book. Puett and Gross-Loh summarize the philosophies of Chinese thinkers and write about their contemporary applications for a popular audience. They highlight some very practical lessons. Better than a lot of the self-help books I read in my teens.

Some notes:

- good bibliography for learning more about the philosophers 
- interesting use of ritual (not sure if it's a redefinition of how ritual is conceptualized in Anthropology, Professor Puett is trained as an anthropologist)
- goodness as being contextually created, not stable and universal like how Occidental philosophers define it
- self-divination through self-cultivation, a provocative concept
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