Rebellion is a sign of excellence.

Rebellion represents self-awareness, and the awakening of self-awareness marks the beginning of a person's gradual maturation. Many people want to rebel, but very few actually dare to do so.
Because in traditional environments, in order to maintain order, parents, teachers, and society launch a 360-degree siege against children, students, and youth.
What this order protects is naturally not the young, but the vested interests.
The scale and speed of class mobility permitted by the order are strictly limited, so young people can only rely on their own efforts and struggle, directly entering the market to fight and prove their value—there is no other path.
The siege exists because if everyone rebelled, the existing power structure would collapse; rebellion is necessary because if no one rebels, people would be completely alienated into tools. Thus, the intensity of the siege is proportional to the potential for rebellion.
Therefore, rebellion is not the goal, but a means.
It is not rebellion for the sake of rebellion, but to escape the default script.
But rebellion does not come without costs.
You have to bear the costs of misunderstanding, loneliness, failure, ridicule, and even being seen as "not doing proper work" in the short term.
The deepest rebellion requires no audience. Once you start seeking identity as a "rebel," you have already fallen into a new trap of siege.
True rebellion is: goal-oriented, bearing your own costs, not seeking understanding, and directly betting on yourself.
This is the most controversial aspect of him, but perhaps it is exactly the most realistic lesson he offers ordinary people.
——— Reprinted from Sun Xue