The world has changed dramatically in the 2,500 years since Confucius’s lifetime, but in many ways we still struggle with his core concern: how to live together with a minimum of conflict. In What Would Confucius Do? , East Asian teacher and scholar E. N. Berthrong shows how Confucius’s timeless wisdom can improve your life and the world around you. Her original interpretation, based on years of studying The Analects , focuses on Confucius’s three keys to living in harmony: tact, compromise, and a willingness to see the other person’s point of view. This unprecedented collection of Confucian quotations, reflections, and advice—from "learning when to speak" to "making the most out of being alive"—is organized to follow the path of your career or life and can be applied to the workplace, family, or society in general. Berthrong’s goal, like that of Confucius, is to help everyone to discover and know the true inner satisfaction that can be achieved through living life in a civilized manner as taught by one of history’s most enduring figures.