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Suppose someone bought the S&P 500 at the exact peak before every crash.
Four times over a lifetime, always buying at the top—what would happen?
The answer: he became a millionaire.
This is a classic backtest by investment writer Ben Carlson, using actual S&P 500 historical data:
He bought in 1972, followed by a 48% plunge.
He bought in 1987, followed by a 34% plunge.
He bought in 2000, followed by the tech-stock crash.
He bought in 2007, followed by the financial crisis and a 50% loss.
Four purchases, four perfectly timed tops, for a total investment of $184k.
When he retired in 2013, his acc

Here’s a hot take:
The essence of IP is to reduce the cost for the world to understand and trust you.

A fun fact:
At the beginning of 2025, Xiaohongshu had 300 million monthly active users, with an average annual salary of 578k, totaling 1,734 trillion.
Meanwhile, China's GDP had just surpassed 1,400 trillion in 2025!

Fun fact:
Praising you and insulting you are essentially the same thing. As an awakened person, you shouldn’t get happy just because someone praises you a few times, nor feel bad because someone insults you a few times.
Because whether they praise or insult you, they are using someone else’s measuring stick to judge you.

This viewpoint is very interesting.
Once again, fish do not know that their living environment is water, but birds flying in the sky and animals crawling on the ground do. In this metaphor, what thoughts does it evoke in you?
Those unwilling even to understand this do not know who they are. It is the twenty-first century; how much do people in the Chinese-speaking world understand about themselves?