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Why is your cognition low, and why are you poor? Think carefully: all your past experiences, your way of observing the world, and what you pursue—are they not all about seeking certainty and simpler explanations?

What is a second-hand life? It's using other people's answers to make choices for yourself. Others define value, you follow; algorithms push opinions, you accept; others summarize experiences, you directly copy. It seems like you've acquired a lot of information, but in reality, you've lost the ability to make independent judgments. To break free from a second-hand life, three things are needed: take back your right to experience, gain first-hand knowledge through personal experience; break through the information fence, understand the laws of the world; establish your own judgment system, gui

According to research, some fermented foods can reduce inflammation. For example: unsweetened yogurt with live cultures, kefir, small amounts of naturally low-salt pickles, miso, natto, and traditional fermented soybean products.

"The concept of 'nation' is not a scientific definition, but a consensus tool. In essence, it is an 'institutionalized labeling system' used to manage the real world. From a trend perspective, the form of the nation is shifting from a 'unified structure driven by a single consensus' to a 'distributed structure where multiple layers of consensus coexist.' Under the new order, the concept of the international will also be upgraded. It will gradually expand from an organizational form that emphasized territorial boundaries and sovereign centers in the past to a multi-layered consensus coordinatio

Low-level help is providing others with a life guide, letting them copy your answers; high-quality help is providing a framework for understanding the world, letting them build their own judgment system.

Cognitive awakening is not a BUG in the old order, but a new variable generated during the migration from the old order to the new one. It allows some people to see the rules changing ahead of time, but ultimately, what determines fate is not awakening itself, but whether one can leverage the new cognition to establish a new position in the new system. Because the formation of a new order requires a group of people who can understand the new rules, and cognitive awakening is precisely the talent screening mechanism during this migration process. It screens out those who can see change, underst

Why, in China, do state-owned enterprises, large internet companies, various monopolistic businesses, and influential celebrities or other public figures often have a shadow of power behind them? Because in China’s social operating logic, the power system is one of the most important mechanisms for coordinating resources. Why is the same also true in the United States, where there is often a shadow of large capital groups behind it? Because in the United States’ social operating logic, the capital system takes on a large part of the function of organizing and allocating resources. One is organ

Awakened ones tend to go in two directions: the first, towards confrontation. The second, towards growth.

In China, there is a phenomenon: when people around you are very well-off, they often were the most disobedient and mischievous kids when they were young. The difference behind this is not about being obedient or disobedient; it’s a deeper ability—subjectivity, meaning self-determination. A person who lacks subjectivity, even if they learn money-making skills, will find it hard to truly create wealth, because wealth is not fundamentally about acquiring resources. It is about proactively spotting problems, creating value, and taking responsibility for the results. Restoring one’s ability to bui

All organizations in the world have their own directions: the state pursues national interests, the enterprise pursues corporate interests, and the family pursues family interests. If a person has no direction of their own, they will naturally become the bearer of the goals of these systems. True subjectivity lies in maintaining the right to define one's own life direction while participating in various systems.

Some people use words to create a sense of presence, while masters use insight to create value. Truly formidable people speak little on ordinary days, but when they speak, everyone listens carefully. Because others know that they are not filling the air, but providing judgment.

A person's determination determines how far they can go, while a group's determination determines how big a world they can create. The essence of leadership is not having stronger beliefs, but transforming one's own beliefs into the beliefs of others. Determination that cannot be understood is just a personal obsession; determination that can be passed on becomes the consensus of the organization, ultimately forming the power to change the world.

Someone asked me, how to control one's desires? Actually, desire is not the problem; everyone has it. Being controlled by desire is the problem. The real solution is not to suppress desire, but to build a long-term system where the weight of long-term goals outweighs short-term desires. When long-term value is strong enough, desire no longer determines your behavior, but is just a signal.

Someone asked me, how do you observe your own inner self? In fact, the true inner self is not found in emotions, but in behaviors. Where you spend your time, where you spend your money, what you persist in over the long term, what you do when under pressure, and the choices you repeatedly make—these are more real than your thoughts. Don't listen to what you say; instead, observe what you keep doing. Behavior does not lie; long-term behavior is the truest vote of your inner self. When you start observing your behavior patterns rather than your emotional fluctuations, you will gradually see your

If one cannot understand the basic laws governing how the current world operates, growth is likely to remain at the experiential level or within old frameworks, making it difficult to achieve structural improvement.

Why do people say that everyone who develops well in China understands a saying: “I have someone above me”? The essential rule is meant to restrain ordinary people. Power itself is not completely constrained by rules, so at the level of implementation, rules are penetrated by power and end up becoming tools for distributing benefits.

How to tune yourself into a sustainable operating system? It's not about finding meaning, but about aligning four systems in the long term and keeping them running with low friction:
1. Motivation System (whether you are willing to keep doing it). Does what you do naturally bring back energy, rather than continuously drain it.
2. Capability System (whether you are truly good at it). Are your strengths amplified in this direction, rather than wasted.
3. Demand System (whether the world truly needs it). Is the problem you're solving a structural need or short-term noise.
4. Reward System (whethe

The understanding of the current world often begins with a simple but constantly validated premise: order is not a stable, unified existence. We need first to observe as comprehensively as possible how order is established, how it operates, and how it is continuously pulled, deformed, and even alienated by different forces in reality; on this basis, a more direct judgment can be formed: real-world order is not stable, nor does it always point to fairness and consistency. In many areas, it is constantly eroded by incentive structures, interest relationships, and implementation deviations, and i

Many people express themselves more complexly when socializing downward, yet more simply when socializing upward. Superficially, it seems like "the strong are complex, the weak are real," but the deeper reason is actually people's different judgments of risk and trust in different relationships: when a person is in a position of uncertainty or needs to control a situation, they tend to use complex expression to increase their sense of control; while in scenarios where they need to be evaluated or earn trust, they actively compress their expression to reduce the cost of understanding. But this

I plan to start a "Morris's Tea Party" series, one episode per day: Do you have any topics to discuss or questions today? Feel free to ask~