Under the pressure of social competition, most poor people tend to form a mental framework that substitutes short-term reactions for long-term planning. Its core features are the absence of process thinking and an unstable expectation of future returns. In their behavior, this shows up as persistent anxiety, inefficient progress in taking action, and a collapse in confidence in long-term commitments; at a fundamental level, it resembles a state of learned helplessness and low self-efficacy, formed through accumulated early experiences. This psychological structure makes them more likely to fall into passive responses to negative emotions and gradually solidifies into a behavioral feedback loop of avoiding effort and reducing investment—an assumption that there is no reliable causal relationship between actions and outcomes. However, once an individual completes cognitive restructuring, building a clear goal system and establishing verifiable feedback mechanisms, their behavioral patterns may rapidly shift from low-efficiency stagnation to high-intensity iteration, showing a significant acceleration effect on growth.