I noticed that people on X really like “successology” and the classic grassroots comeback storylines, but the probability of something like that happening is just too low... Like it, sure, but it’s unrealistic...

I’ve shared my past before—what I did was remove the beginning and the ending. Here’s what’s left:
1、My family situation was already pretty good. In 1997, my family bought a computer. And my parents never managed or supervised me. With per-capita income of 3~500 and when computers cost more than 10,000, I could just take it apart and play however I wanted. From the earliest days of only playing games (and that even required me to figure out the runtime environment myself), to later getting bored of games and starting to self-study some simple Visual Basic and 3ds Max. But all of that also gave me the foundation for later when I was forced into a dead end and had to self-learn php to get myself something to eat.
2、I left my job at the hospital and went straight into the auto industry back then because my father already worked in an auto factory. He gave me a lot of ideas and coordinated a lot of relationships; it wasn’t something that sprang into existence out of thin air. What made me able to do it back then relied more on leaning on and depending on my father’s capabilities.
3、After going bankrupt, I had no money. I couldn’t afford food, couldn’t afford cigarettes, and the place was bare. It was more like self-punishment. My wife’s side of the family was fairly well-off, so there was no problem supporting me. It was just that I “punished” myself by living in a “bare-house” situation like that—partly to remind myself of this painful experience, rather than being truly destitute in the real sense of “bare walls.”
4、Either learn or die—just betting on a breath of stubbornness. And it was also because I was too idle. At that time, I was already running a hotel. But the hotel industry was simply too “idle”—in the truest sense of idle: so idle it makes you numb, so idle it drives you crazy. Every day, by around 3~4 PM, the place was basically full (55 rooms). It was like that every single day, leaving me with a huge amount of free time, so that’s why I thought of doing something else. It wasn’t that I would really starve if I couldn’t learn—it was just that I didn’t want to live that kind of life where you count on your fingers and can work out exactly how much you’ll earn today, how much you’ll earn at most this month, and how much you’ll earn at most this year.
You see, everything I shared earlier is true—but there are just so many things I didn’t mention in it. So how can you still believe those “grassroots comebacks” stories?
Entrepreneurial success is a low-probability event; grassroots comebacks are a low-probability event within low-probability events. There are so many books written about the success histories of big shots—out of all of them, which one can you copy and still succeed? If you can’t succeed, it’s not because the times changed or the environment changed. It’s because as long as something can be written down and shown to you, it’s destined to be impossible. The things that truly determine success are absolutely things that cannot be written down and made for people to see—😂
So from now on, when you see someone posting “success stories,” just take a glance—don’t take it seriously, and don’t let it get into your head. Whatever you do, never think, “If they can do it, I can do it too.”
As for those who claim they’ll help you make money, teach you how to start a business, or make money by doing all sorts of borderline stuff—you don’t even need to look at them. If there really were projects that could make you money without you having to squat behind fences, then maybe even your biological father wouldn’t share them with you—so why would the rest of us not just rely on them, instead of... not being their father?