In Go, there is a tactic called "breaking the initiative." When your opponent just makes a move, you don't respond immediately, but instead go for a more important, more valuable position on the board. Life is actually the same way. A person's level essentially depends on who has given them the "reaction authority." Ordinary people are easily led by external influences. Someone's words, a provocation, an emotion, or a hot topic can immediately drag them into a reactive state. But experts are different; one of their most powerful abilities is to decide: what is worth entering the battlefield for themselves. Because attention, emotions, time, and mental energy are fundamentally strategic resources. Many people think they are "dealing with problems," but in reality, they are just constantly being pulled by problems and controlled by the rhythm. When someone throws something at you, and you catch it, you've already entered their game. The truly advanced skill is: it's not that they can't see, don't understand, or are afraid to respond. It's that they know: on the board, there are more important positions. So you'll find that truly skilled people often "don't react." They don't explain, prove, argue, get angry, or rush to win every local battle. Because what they always focus on is the whole game. And ordinary people often get stuck in the local.