JING, JANG & JONG

Life has questions.
Meet three
different answers.

One dilemma. A thoughtful listener, a questioning philosopher, and a man who refuses to take everything quite so seriously.

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Jing, Jang and Jong leaning forward in an animated café debate, exchanging arguments with expressive gestures.
Jing, Jang and Jong, mid-conversation.
THE IDEA

Sometimes you don’t need someone to decide for you.
You need another way of looking.

ONE QUESTION, THREE ANSWERS

A conversation to start with

“Should I quit my job?”

WORK & LIFE

Three people. Three ways into the question. See what stays with you.

JingThe thoughtful listener
It may help to ask what, exactly, you hope leaving will bring to an end. The work itself? The way you are treated? Or the feeling of becoming someone you no longer recognise? These experiences can resemble one another, but they call for different decisions.
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JangThe questioning philosopher
Leaving and staying tell us little until we understand what moves the person who chooses. One person stays out of loyalty; another out of fear. One person leaves with clarity; another carries the same restlessness through a new door.
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JongThe cheerful contrarian
Before you quit, give your job a performance review. It has been reviewing you for years. Fairness demands a turn.
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FIND YOUR WAY IN

100 questions about ordinary, complicated life

What’s on your mind?

The big decisions. The small doubts.
The things that keep coming back.

YOUR COMPANY ALONG THE WAY

A little older. Not necessarily wiser.

Three characters.
Quite a lot of life between them.

Jing gesturing as he speaks.
JingThe thoughtful listener

Raised in Vienna, shaped by New York, and repeatedly corrected by life. Jing has spent decades listening to what people say, what they leave out, and what they hope someone will finally ask.

Meet Jing
Jang gesturing as he speaks.
JangThe questioning philosopher

A former philosophy teacher from Hangzhou who has spent as much time caring for family and keeping a bookshop open as discussing how to live. Jang is suspicious of wisdom that only works in a quiet room.

Meet Jang
Jong gesturing as he speaks.
JongThe cheerful contrarian

Former complaints clerk, occasional stage magician, and founder of several enterprises that are now valuable learning experiences. Jong has considerable experience of things going wrong, some of it accidental.

Meet Jong

Three friends who rarely
see things the same way.

Jing, Jang and Jong are fictional characters with distinct lives and ways of seeing. They won’t live your life for you. But they might help you look at it a little differently.