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10 variables that change your fate: Pain forces you to move, exposure makes you want to leave, understanding tells you where to go, resources enable you to truly get out, your environment determines how many opportunities you can see, relationships connect you to a bigger world, responsibility forces you to become stronger, opportunities allow long-term accumulation to suddenly pay off, time lets advantages compound continuously, and chance may completely rewrite your path at a certain moment. What we call fate is essentially the result of these variables accumulating over the long term.

Yesterday, I saw that the 2014 iPhone 6 series sold more than 200 million units worldwide, while the 2021 iPhone 13 series also came close to 200 million. The point is not that Apple is impressive. Behind the two sales peaks were two different sentiments of the times. The former reflected people’s belief that the future would keep getting better; the latter came after the pandemic, when people briefly believed the worst was over. So many consumption peaks are, in essence, not about buying products, but about buying expectations for the future. In many ways, individuals are incredibly small in

In fact, many successes come from “not trying too hard.”

The trap ordinary people are most likely to fall into is not a lack of effort, but constantly waiting: waiting for the world to become fairer, waiting for the rules to favor them, waiting for someone, some policy, or some opportunity to suddenly change their fate. But reality will never tilt in your favor automatically just because you expect fairness. It is precisely this mentality that “someone will come and save me” that gives those who prey on others the greatest opportunity. Anyone who promises an easy turnaround, to solve your life for you, or to help you make a leap without paying a pri

Why does people’s understanding of the world differ so greatly at different ages? At 24, Du Fu wrote, “I shall ascend the highest peak and see all other mountains dwarfed beneath me,” seeing possibility; at 56, in his later years, he wrote, “In autumn, sorrowing, I am often a guest in distant lands; in old age and illness, I climb the tower alone,” seeing limits. When young, people tend to believe that effort can change their destiny; only after experiencing more do they realize that the times, their origins, illness, wealth, relationships, and luck all shape their lives. When young, people se

Conflicts among poor people often begin with pride and the desire to take advantage, but end with them trapped by ignorance of the rules and fear of the costs of conflict.

In divorce cases, you may find that love seems not to exist in this world. In criminal cases, you may discover that love truly does exist. Some forms of love involve murder and arson; some forms of not loving are called the daily necessities of life. At its most extreme, love can make people lose their reason; at its most genuine, love is often so quiet that it hardly seems like love.

For one-person companies, the more work you can delegate to AI, the less you should fill your own time. AI will make execution increasingly cheap: it can help with coding, research, analysis, and running processes; but it will struggle to decide what is worth doing, what should not be done, whether the direction is wrong, or when it is time to pivot. Even if you ask AI for the most comprehensive advice, it is essentially still optimizing within existing information and goals, while defining goals, discovering new variables, and making long-term judgments still require people. So in the future,

When everyone is competing, lie flat; when everyone starts lying flat, compete. The real opportunities are often not where the crowds are largest, but where people have just left. Don’t chase consensus; seek scarcity.

AI is not taking opportunities away from people; it is reallocating them. Money will increasingly flow toward people with ideas, creativity, and core needs.

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Don't rush to try the latest novelty. New AI models, Agents, and products are coming out almost every day. Whenever people see something new, many immediately sign up, test it, and study it, afraid of falling behind. But people's energy is extremely limited. You may think you're embracing the future earlier, but often you're simply stepping into pitfalls earlier. Remember this rule: things that truly have value usually stick around; only things that stick around are worth your long-term investment and study. If something is genuinely important, waiting a month to study it usually won't mean mi

A commercial cycle of exploiting vulnerable targets: identify vulnerable people → create trust and hope → carry out the first extraction → monopolize interpretive authority → use sunk costs to continue extracting value → discard them and rebrand once their value is exhausted.

Why do some parents give their children love, while others give them control? Because love comes from abundance, while control comes from scarcity.

A subscriber asked me: Morris, why do you always have to describe the truth about how the world works? After understanding what you say, I actually feel more pained and helpless, as if I’ve been killed and then had my heart twisted by you. But the truth is never the endpoint; it is only the first step. You must first understand how the world really operates before you can know why you lose, what constrains you, which rules can be leveraged, and which illusions should be abandoned. The second step is what truly belongs to you: growth. Seeing the patterns is not meant to make you despair, but to

Why do many people who trade understand life more deeply? Because those who have truly experienced cycles discover that emotions, careers, relationships, and life itself all follow the logic of candlestick charts: rises are followed by pullbacks, breakouts by consolidation, and peaks by troughs. What truly matters is not avoiding declines, but understanding them, enduring them, and making use of them; cutting losses in time when wrong, and preserving capital during downturns. Many people ruin themselves not because they encounter a trough, but because they mistake a single pullback for the end

Why do many merchants who previously did quite well in China feel that everyone is making things difficult for them once they expand overseas? Often, it is not that overseas rules specifically target Chinese people, but that what they were truly good at in the past was not simply running a business, but adapting to a highly complex set of local survival rules: leveraging connections, exploiting loopholes, operating in gray areas, taking advantage of information gaps, squeezing employees, occupying upstream and downstream resources as well as social resources, and continually shifting the costs

For Chinese men looking for a wife, what they should truly screen for is not “whether she treats you well now,” but whether she is capable of building a long-term life with you, sharing risks, managing wealth together, and facing conflicts together. The formula for long-term marital quality ≈ family of origin × emotional stability × conflict-management skills × empathy × sense of boundaries × sense of responsibility × wealth-management skills. Beauty and sexiness can only determine whether a relationship will begin; what truly determines whether a marriage can last is a person’s underlying cha