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Someone messaged me asking: Does human suffering come from one’s own understanding? If you have never seen much of the world and live your whole life naively, would you actually be happier? Often, it is not understanding that brings pain, but understanding that shatters an originally false sense of stability. A person in a closed environment may feel satisfied, but this satisfaction may not be genuine happiness; rather, it is an adaptation formed within limited information, limited choices, and a shaped value system. When someone begins to see a larger world and different possibilities for lif

Many foreign corporate partners I used to know still treat our relationships the same way as before when I reconnect with them after a long time. But when I contact former Chinese corporate clients or friends I once had good relationships with, they often first ask what I’m doing now and how much I’ve earned recently, then decide whether to continue communicating with me—or say they’re a little busy right now and suggest talking when they have time.

Getting stronger doesn’t come from figuring everything out; it comes from continually engaging with reality, solving real problems, and then leveling up through new problems.

No matter how old you are, never stop setting new goals and having new dreams. Life truly ends not when you grow older, but when you stop believing that you can still change.

Why don’t ordinary Chinese people trust good things that come for free? This is not simply a “cognitive issue,” but a behavioral logic shaped by a long-term environment. In an environment of limited resources, intense competition, and high costs of trust, people develop a defensive mechanism: free things often imply hidden costs, and value is difficult to trust without an exchange. That is why, for many people to accept an opportunity, three conditions need to be met: actively pursuing it, proving that it was earned through their own abilities; additional conditions, proving that it is not mea

Someone sent me a private message asking me to evaluate some prominent figures, but I don’t really like evaluating “people”; I’m more accustomed to looking at issues structurally. That’s because the outcome of a person’s actions is often not determined solely by personal qualities, but by the combined effects of the institutional environment, power structure, incentives and constraints, individual choices, and historical outcomes. Anyone who enters a particular position will be influenced by the power, responsibilities, interests, and limitations that position confers. Therefore, when evaluati

Formula for the lower-class mutual-harm pattern (Shang Yang version):
Institutional design → resource scarcity (deprivation) → increased survival pressure → intensified competitive threats (competition) → individuals entering defensive competition → others being viewed as resource predators → declining trust (distrust) → collaborative relationships breaking down → falling into a zero-sum game → mutually draining each other (internal friction) → declining collective production efficiency (low efficiency) → weakened capacity to accumulate resources → resources becoming even scarcer (greater depr

What does it mean to love yourself? It does not mean believing unconditionally that you are always right, but having a stable system for evaluating yourself. Many people grow up surrounded by comparison, expectations, and criticism, gradually turning external standards into the yardstick by which they measure themselves. They end up living as others expect them to, while losing the ability to judge for themselves. People who truly love themselves can listen to advice without being defined by others’ opinions; they can acknowledge their shortcomings without denying their own worth because of fa

Life is not determined by “average effort,” but by a few key decisions. Many people are cautious about trivial matters yet take risks with major life decisions: they repeatedly compare prices to save a few dozen yuan, but decide in a few minutes on a career path that will shape the next ten years; they work desperately hard every day, yet never seriously consider which industry to enter or what position to choose. Truly capable people do not maintain high intensity at all times; they know when to conserve energy and when they must give their all. They understand that their time, energy, and at

Many wealthy people appear to be tolerant of everyone, not necessarily because they identify with everyone, but because it is a strategy for managing boundaries. They understand how to respect differences without easily intruding into other people’s worlds; they do not waste their time and emotions arguing with, judging, or trying to change others. Tolerance, in many cases, is not about closeness, but about maintaining an appropriate distance and saving one’s energy for the people and things that truly matter. True strength is not controlling everyone, but refusing to let meaningless people an

Why is stupidity harder to deal with than malice? A person’s value cannot be judged solely by their intentions, but by the results produced by their actions. Intelligent people create incremental value, villains pursue benefits, useless people sacrifice themselves to help others, while stupid people harm both others and themselves without gaining anything. The most dangerous aspect of stupidity is not a lack of ability, but the fact that it does not follow any stable logic of self-interest, making it impossible to predict, trade with, or constrain. Malicious people may be dangerous, but their

Low cognition essentially means being unable to understand that the world is complex, using overly simplistic models to explain it, and refusing to revise them.

Most of the risks faced by cryptocurrency holders essentially stem from a lack of understanding and human weaknesses.

The biggest flaw of ordinary people is that they spend a great deal of time on irrelevant information and gossip. The vast majority of good things you see actually have nothing to do with you; while most bad things often affect you through the environment, rules, and trends. They either directly target your interests or subtly change your perceptions and behavior, shaping your choices. What truly matters is not knowing more information, but identifying which information will change your destiny.

Many people reverse the logical order of exploration and verification. If the goal is innovation, you must first make bold hypotheses and start by exploring what may not exist, allowing yourself to consider impossible possibilities, because every breakthrough is born from imagining the unknown. But if the goal is to explain the world, you must start with falsification, constantly seeking counterexamples and verifying evidence to avoid mistaking personal experiences and subjective judgments for objective laws. Truly powerful thinking is not about choosing between belief and doubt, but knowing w

Confidence comes from honoring your commitments to yourself. Every time you keep a promise to yourself, you become someone you can trust.

In the future, productivity may no longer be the core of human value, while mental abilities will become more important competitive strengths: imagination, perception, creativity, curiosity, the ability to be alone, and the ability to build a rich inner world and continuously feel, think, and create meaning.

True wealth is not merely about how much money you possess, but about not having people around you who constantly drain you. A person’s time, emotions, and cognition are all influenced by those they spend time with over the long term, so choosing people is like choosing your fate. Being close to pure-hearted people brings inner peace and mutual nourishment; being close to complicated people creates chaotic relationships and drains your energy; being close to foolish people impairs your judgment and makes life prone to pointless conflicts. A person’s social circle determines their state of bein

What travel truly changes is not how much geographical knowledge you gain, but your definition of “normal.” If a person has never left their own environment, it is easy for them to regard their way of life, values, and social rules as the only correct answers. But after visiting enough places, you will discover that human societies operate in many different yet equally effective ways. People in some places are warm and outgoing, while people in others maintain their distance; some cultures emphasize individual freedom, while others emphasize collective order; some societies pursue efficiency,