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We often say that hard work is the least useful thing. In fact, this statement is meant to break a bigger misconception: that hard work always pays off. For the wealthy, hard work more easily leads to rewards; for the poor, if this statement is taken as an absolute truth, it can become a shackle. Because the efforts of the wealthy are more likely to receive positive feedback in terms of resources, opportunities, and social circles; while the efforts of the poor still have to contend with variables such as background, rules, resources, and the era. Hard work is certainly important, but it is on

Too many people like to trade too frequently.
If you are still losing money, or even in debt, what you need is not frequent trades, but patience—waiting for a major trend opportunity, and then going all-in in the direction of the trend!
What you need is a victory, a great victory, to restore your confidence in trading.
Only then will your nervousness, hesitation, anxiety, and fear of gains and losses when facing trades... all vanish into thin air.
In life, you always need a few huge successes to inspire you to move forward, and trading is no different.

You must work hard to save up 1 million yuan—this is the first step toward escaping the “996” grind life.
Make good money, and don’t feel ashamed of earning it—earn it openly and with a clear conscience.
This was said by Cai Lan. With more savings, you get more options—and more freedom.

In life, many things don't start because you "see clearly," but you "see clearly" after you start. Choices bring opportunities, belief brings possibilities, and action brings results. What you think is far away is actually just not yet on your path. There is a stretch of road that must be walked alone. It doesn't guarantee ease or understanding, but it does guarantee that you will change. Pain, loneliness, and confusion are not deviations—they are the cost of growth. What truly sets people apart is never intelligence, but those who keep going even when no one is watching. Persistence is not a

All those who have truly made it out have an undignified past. But height is never determined by the past, but by "whether you stop repeating mistakes." Pain doesn't make you grow; it only exposes the loopholes in your system. You think you're experiencing life, but in reality, you're repeating the same reaction mechanism. The essence of growth is not becoming stronger, but recognizing patterns. The first time you realize "I always do this," real change begins. The most dangerous thing is not failure, but not updating your cognition after failure. Making mistakes is just an event; repeating th

Just saw a line in a social media comment: “Go take a stroll in the park. Those old men and women who are still sharp and in high spirits in their nineties, and who can still scold people with plenty of breath—if you ask around, not a single one of them was a trouble-free person when they were young. On the contrary, those ‘nice guys’ who spent their whole lives being kind to others and always thinking of other people—by now, the grass on their graves has grown quite tall. Is heaven not watching? No—it’s because good people consumed themselves away.” ​​​

Justin Sun said: Your first pot of gold in life isn’t meant for you to go swap it for a good car, buy a nice watch, and satisfy those pitiful vanities—that’s how people at the bottom reward themselves. Your first pot of gold is meant for you to go all in, to exchange it for your first core asset in life. This process will be painful; it will make your standard of living seem, for a long time, even worse than that of your peers who are always living in the spotlight. But trust me. Five at the most, or ten years at most from now, the gap between you and them will be worlds apart. They will still

In many Chinese family structures, if an adult continues to live with their parents long after getting married, psychological problems will sooner or later arise. It’s not that “living together itself is problematic,” but rather that the parent-child relationship often remains stuck in a pre-modern hierarchical structure that has not undergone a complete reconstruction: parents psychologically assume the right to interpret and manage, while adult children, even if fully capable of independence, are constantly pulled back into the “child role” through high-frequency daily interactions, resultin

Whether you come from a bad or a good family of origin, neither can determine your future. Because the word "fate" has two parts: destiny and luck. Destiny is what you are born with, luck is what comes later. If you have suffered hardship and succeeded, it's because you were lucky. In fact, many people who have suffered hardship still do not succeed.

Recently, everyone should hold off on dying—China's birth rate has hit rock bottom. If you reincarnate now, you might end up in another country.
Last year, the country with the most births was India, with over 20 million. Next are those African nations, which probably wouldn't be desirable either. Birth rates in Europe and the US have always been relatively low, and without connections, you probably can't reincarnate there either.
So everyone, hang in there for now, don't die—the market is bad right now. ​​​

I dare say 99% of people don’t truly understand what “financial freedom” means.
These people naively think you can’t run out of money if your principal is big enough.
But the real key isn’t how much money you have—
it’s the speed at which your money generates money,
and whether it can consistently outpace the speed at which you spend.
You spend $36k a year.
If your return rate is 5%, and inflation is 3%,
then only the middle 2% can actually be used to cover your living expenses.
At that point, the principal you need isn’t $360k—
it’s $1.8 million.
This is the first thing ordinary people should

Don't treat Buffett, Charlie Munger, or Musk as "answer sources," but as "coordinate samples." Many of the things they say are optimal solutions in their positions, but not necessarily the optimal solutions for you. What truly matters is not "whether what he says makes sense," but rather: in your current position, will this principle make you stronger, or will it hold you back? All correct advice comes with a coordinate system. Correctness detached from its coordinate system is misleading.

Risk is “something that never happens to you,” and it has no rank. Any desire for absolute, risk-free outcomes in investing is nothing but daydreaming. The only way is to set up a stable trading system, so that the risk that is positionless and “un-worried” becomes, within that system, a “worried” risk with rank. This is the only way to defeat the market in the long run.

No matter what you are working on right now, you must force yourself to habitually strive for excellence. Never adopt a "just get by" attitude and drift through life. Stay away from the negative garbage that drains your motivation, and invest more energy in hardcore, positive pursuits.
Mediocrity often begins with compromise—take one step back, and reality will push you a hundred steps back. Only by relentlessly benchmarking against the top industry standards and engraving the pursuit of perfection into your bones can you truly carve out a path to success in society.

Since graduating from university and entering society, more than ten years have passed. I’ve come to realize that if you’re around truly capable people, at most they’ll look down on you—but they won’t mess with you, and of course, they’re also too lazy to bother with that.
But if you’re with people who are not up to par, no matter how well you do, they’ll still try to mess with you. Socializing upward is justified.

What is a love-obsessed mindset? Falling in love with a gangster in middle school, a teacher in high school, a drill instructor during military training, a college counselor in college, a driving instructor when learning to drive, a hairdresser named Tony when getting a haircut, a personal trainer when working out, a tour guide when traveling, a doctor when seeing a doctor, and a boss at work. And on top of that, falling in love with a lawyer after a divorce... Having no principles, falling in love with anyone at random, and then posting on social media claiming to be deeply affectionate and l

Why do some people become less respected the more sincere they are? Because the problem is often not sincerity, but boundaries. Sincerity is a choice—you can open up or hold back; excessive sincerity, however, is often a conditioned reflex of being unable to say no, unable to confront, and unable to protect yourself. When a person constantly gives up boundaries, reveals their hand too early, and puts others' needs ahead of their own, the cost of taking from them becomes lower and lower, and respect follows suit. What people truly respect is never your sacrifice, but your boundaries; the root o

In the world of adults, teaching almost equates to denying others, and the outcome of being a presumptuous teacher is mostly betrayal and hatred. Overflowing compassion is a calamity, and being a presumptuous teacher is a disaster. A person's destiny only changes under four circumstances: pain, coercion, desire, driven action, cognitive awakening, and resource support. Lessons that hurt to the bone are the true scriptures. Beyond that, no matter how much you say, it's useless. Just think how hard it is to change yourself, and you'll realize how naive it is to try to change others. Speak less w

Previously, I thought cognition was omnipotent, but later I discovered that the biggest trap of cognition is mistaking understanding for control.
The more you know, the easier it is to generate an illusion of having progressed, but reality only rewards actions that actually happen.
Simply put, execution is king ​​​.

Many people can't make money not because they lack ability, but because they always want to evaluate the market from outside it. They look down on impulsive buyers, on those who consume "chicken soup" content, and on the spread of crude information, forgetting that the market is not composed of rationality, but of desire, emotion, and human nature. The essence of making money is not to prove that you are smarter than others, but to understand why others make the choices they do. Those you cannot understand are often those you cannot serve; the needs you look down upon are often the real needs