In the past two days, there have been more bickering-related hot topics. Actually, on the knowledge level, they’ve taught me a lot from the teachers involved.

Here’s my personal method and attitude toward these things:

Get to know people and make friends with a standpoint;
Watch the content with the goal of learning.

On the learning journey, anyone can be a teacher. Even if sometimes you can tell at first glance whether they’re someone you like, when it comes to cognition and learning, you actually need to set aside the “bias” in your mind.

If you’re making friends, it’s really about fate and chemistry. If you don’t like someone, then don’t—there’s no need to get deeply involved. Being a passerby is also fine.

Knowing what you want is important:

Fake it until you make it.

Another point is very counterintuitive—actually even quite hurtful:

Great concealment lies in the city; lesser concealment lies in the wilderness.

When your material ability and results have already risen to a certain stratum, your self-identity across new and old social strata must be prepared in advance. Whatever you need to cut off and let go of must be decisive (unless you can truly achieve “great concealment in the world”). Otherwise, you and the people around you will both feel awkward.

That’s also why it’s “lesser concealment in the wilderness,” not “hide yourself.” I’m not telling you to stay hidden. I’m telling you to let go of the past and step into a new world. After all, in the world above, the air is thin and storms are bigger—but the land is vast and people are sparse. Loneliness is inevitable, because success always belongs to the few.