Effort doesn’t necessarily lead to results—you have to keep working hard.

In a world like the one we have now, it’s already a settled “chicken soup” idea that effort can lead to success. Not many people still think this is correct, right? Even some “anti-chicken-soup” takes have come out, like “The harder you try, the poorer you are; the more idle you are, the richer you get,” or “It takes effort but doesn’t pay, but earning money doesn’t take effort.” These takes are definitely wrong—but people are also tired of the “preachy correctness” of chicken soup. So the enemy of the chicken soup becomes a friend.



This comes from a gap in logic: if “effort leads to success” is wrong, then its opposite should be “effort doesn’t necessarily lead to success,” not “effort can’t lead to success,” nor “not trying can lead to success.”



So if effort doesn’t necessarily have results, then why keep working hard? Are you going to keep pushing yourself just for the probability of “maybe succeeding”? That probability is too small. What if you can’t succeed your whole life? Then you’ve wasted your life—better to just lie back and be comfortable. Even if you don’t succeed, at least you’ll be more comfortable.



Having that kind of thought is because you don’t understand “success.”



Success isn’t driven by effort. On the contrary, it’s full of luck factors—you need the right timing, favorable conditions, and harmony among people. That’s why no matter how hard you work, you can’t know which day will be the day you succeed. But success also requires another piece of certainty: when success arrives, you have to be “just so,” in a high-level state.



So how do you avoid missing out on success? Of course you can’t bet on luck. You can only do this: “Whether it ends up successful or not, keep a high-level state all along, and wait for that old scoundrel of success to one day notice you and take you into its favor”—you basically have to be that upward-striving, pitiful palace woman full of grievances. What else can you do? It’s because you need it, not it that needs you.



When you see someone succeed, and after the fact you analyze that it was caused by some lucky event, then go look through their resume. You’ll often find that they had already maintained a certain high-level state for a long time. Even when fate didn’t give any feedback, they still maintained a high-level state—or more precisely, maintained a high-level state as their habit and normality, something they didn’t need to force with gritted teeth and sustained effort. These people are 100% going to succeed. Yes, I mean 100%.



That’s how social hierarchy advancement works. For many years, it happens quietly and without a sound. Then, out of nowhere, it suddenly changes—there’s a mutation. You earn five or six thousand a month for years, but you’ve always been at a high level, and the value you produce is far greater than your return. There’s no thinking like “Give me as much in return and I’ll do as much.” Then, one day, the right timing, favorable conditions, and harmony among people all converge, and suddenly you’re earning 100,000 a month. This crossover might only last a few weeks—sometimes even just a few minutes. When it arrives, you’re a big pile of shit, and when it passes, it’s gone. But if you happen to match what it expects from a “high-level state,” then you succeed. It’s really that simple. You just never know which day it will come around to you.



So what you need to do is actually very simple: make “always maintaining a high-level state” your basic requirement of yourself, and success will come. Never try to haggle with fate using so-called effort—“I work hard, so you have to give me something.” Don’t do that, because success is looking for people who work hard without expecting any return.#WCTC交易王PK