This is the story of Matthew Polly's journey to the Shaolin Temple in China that began by listening to his inner voice about things that were bad with himself. In the first place, when he was fifteen years old, he noticed that he was "ignorant" and discovered the way to solve this issue by reading, by writing, and by noticing he was very good at college. In second place in his issue list, he wrote "Cowardly." He concentrated very much on this weakness, and while working on that, he was getting through each one of the other items of his list, and he got to erase all of them. He was obsessed with the art of Kung Fu, and also he seemed to be very interested in the Chinese culture, influenced by the series of Kung Fu (of the year the 1970s) and also about all the Chinese American character Caine, interpreted by David Caradine. He hoped to eliminate "cowardly" practicing this discipline; he was obsessed. Still he was looking after to the achievement of his dream.
             He dropped out of the Princeton College earlier than he was supposed to, and flew from Kansas to Beijing, China and began his journey looking for the Shaolin Temple in search of spiritual enlightens and kicking powers.After he had traveled some streets and places, he arrived to the Tianan men square and so in different places he was asking about where is the Shaolin Temple, in this search he got to know about the way of life of the Chinese people.
             Finally he arrived at the Zheng Zhou and Deug Feng, the temple is thirty minutes far away.
             This book is divided into not chapters but books. Chapter one or Book 1 takes place in Topeka, Kansas and in the Princeton College. In this book there are not much of main characters, just the main character Matthew Polly. This book talks about how everything started, his goals, his desires, and the why he decided to start his journey. It introduces us about the list that he has created in his head that talks about all the things that are...