People’s growth mainly depends on themselves. What “parents lifting them up” can really do is not to bring out talent, but it may end up lifting out fools instead.

Hasn’t Wang Sicong already been lifted up enough? He even got 500 million to “practice,” but the result was that he created a huge hole worth tens of billions, and his dad and mom still had to clean up the mess.

Wasn’t he lifted too little? His father just gave him some tuition money, and the rest—he schemed and pounced for opportunities himself—until he became a billionaire of a generation.

When I was young, the son of my homeroom teacher was also in our class. In the final exam of fifth grade, his mom insisted on giving him extra points everywhere, raising him to tie with me for first place.

That was the best “lifting” his mom could give him, but it was actually of little use. He might also develop a psychological dependence: if he doesn’t do well, his mom will protect him.

When he was applying for high school, his father also spent several ten-thousands of yuan to send him to the same high school as mine.

In the end, it seems he didn’t get into college. Of course, that probably isn’t a big issue—if his father hadn’t died young, he still would have had the ability to arrange an official position for him. But that’s all.

Being protected too well is sometimes not a good thing.