Tell some gossip about my past.

There was a period when I was extremely anxious to make money, to what extent? During that time, even a mentor of mine personally told me, "If you keep going like this, I might start to think I was wrong about you. What are you so anxious about?"

It was that exaggerated.

The stupidest thing I did during that time was: I went to certain platforms to find all kinds of tutorials, asked those "side hustle masters" online, researched projects like certain products, certain platforms, headline projects... I almost studied every one of them, and spent a lot of time trying them out.

Let's call them "online entrepreneurial projects." The conclusion is, I did earn some small money from these projects, but I felt my time was being brutally undervalued — I was researching these online ventures day and night, and in the end, I only made two or three thousand yuan. But if I had fought to "start a business" (which those money-charging "teachers" who teach you online entrepreneurship would love to romanticize), and the result was only two or three thousand, with even a 70-80% chance that I’d only earn a few hundred, then why not just do a basic job, hang out with everyone, and still make two or three thousand? That would be more comfortable. No one would bother to fire you from a job earning two or three thousand.

You’ll notice all these online entrepreneurial projects have two common points:

1. None of them follow the logic of "finding needs, solving pain points, providing products/services," but almost all follow the logic of "exploiting loopholes, hacking bugs, bypassing restrictions, and clever tricks." This directly leads to one result: you can only do it for a short period, then for various reasons, you can’t continue. After that period passes, no one in the world can keep earning that money — everyone loses the opportunity.

2. After this "money-making" experience, besides the extra money (which is very likely you were scammed and didn’t really earn much), you’re still the same young person as before, with no change. You still can’t analyze the market, still lack product thinking, still don’t know how to operate a team, still don’t understand business models... This leaves you with only two paths: either find the next "online entrepreneurship teacher" and pray they’ll guide you, or return to your original life and end it all.

So, what’s the difference between this kind of "making money" and real "entrepreneurship"?

Three words: growth rate.

It’s not just about simple "growth"; the growth rate is "growth of growth." To make an analogy: if growth is like the physical concept of "speed," then the growth rate is "acceleration."

Speed only determines your current state, but acceleration not only determines your future, more importantly, it also sets your upper limit.

When a person is young, it seems like they’re making money every day — last month they were working on this project, next month they’re switching to another. If you ask, they’ll say it’s a new trend or opportunity. Trust me, if you look at such a person after ten years, they’ll still be the same — busy but hardly making a qualitative leap in wealth.

But another person, when young, might not spend 24 hours a day researching how to make money like the first one, but instead focuses on reading, building connections, attending events, studying business knowledge, analyzing cases, developing products, running a company... I dare say this person’s upper limit is infinite.

Recently, I’ve deeply realized this. Last month, my older brothers and sisters took me to see the world, and I found that the units they think about money in are different from mine. I might still think in "millions," but they think in "billions."

Why? Because I’m still using the "traffic + product" mindset, while they are already operating with the "fundraising + listing" mindset. That’s a dimensionality reduction in mode — that’s the advantage brought by a higher "growth rate."

I also plan to spend the next half-year trying to learn more advanced models like "fundraising + listing." During this period, besides studying diligently, I won’t rush to make money. For me, earning an extra 1 million or 100,000 makes little difference.

But earning 1M more or less makes a huge difference. ——————#WCTC交易赛瓜分800万USDT