I sincerely recommend that every reader — health permitting — find an opportunity to participate in an amateur half-marathon.
Not for victory. Not for rankings. But for the experience.
Because a marathon is truly, deeply similar to life.
At the start, you think you’re running against your opponents. You feel anxious when someone overtakes you, and proud when you leave someone behind.
But gradually, you’ll discover that the ripples caused in your heart by everyone else’s every little move are entirely meaningless.
Night Watch Commander
Everyone understands the theory, but in practice, most people find it nearly impossible to stay rational when push comes to shove. Instead, they get led around by the nose and are easily controlled by the weaker party. Why does this happen? It comes down to one core issue: what truly gives someone power over you isn’t their tactics — it’s the fear inside you. So the real key to refusing to be manipulated is to identify your inner fears and cut them off at the root.
Just yesterday, a close friend of mine got divorced.
The cause was a devastating liquidation that wiped out every penny he and his wife had saved and built together over six years — losses that, all tallied up, came to roughly 350 million yuan. Gone, just like that.
Why do I say “again”? Because if you count carefully, this was already his third liquidation. The culprit this time was LUNA coin, the cryptocurrency that had been riding its most ferocious wave.
Today I want to cut straight to the point and tackle one critical question: “Where does money actually flow — and how do you become someone it flows toward?”
Get this right, and you’ll jump an entire level.
Most people are still stuck on the idea that money is earned. They haven’t grasped that money is operated.
This article sets the record straight. I’m going to walk you through exactly how the truly wealthy accumulate their fortunes — so you can hold a mirror up to yourself and see where you fall short.
Date: July 26, 2023 | Author: Commander of the Night Watch
Preface
These hidden constraints and the thresholds used to filter people are woven together like hidden compartments beneath the water. The fish raised in the ocean believe they now possess the entire sea — but in reality, they are still inside the grid. They don’t have much room to move, even though the nets forming that grid are indeed installed within the ocean itself.
Someone who habitually invokes Metternich has claimed that Putin is cut from the same cloth as the grandiose-but-underdelivering Mussolini. Anyone who has actually organized and led a team of more than ten people in real life — and kept it running well — would never say such a thing.
Cherry-picking fragmentary historical records and using analogy to imply inevitable causal relationships is a way of showing off cleverness, not a method for analyzing problems and making decisions. Eastern modes of thinking tend to favor association and analogy over logical argumentation and rational debate, using them to suggest that two things must have some singular, necessary correlation.
Why do some people slow down in their progress once they reach middle age?
Because they can no longer tolerate people who are more capable than themselves — and they have begun to harbor arrogance and prejudice.
In truth, all living beings share one fundamental nature: an instinctive drive to defend their interests in wealth and territory. In exactly the same way, they instinctively defend their reputation in thought and belief.
Student Question: Hello, Master! I wanted to ask about the renewal notifications that have been coming through on the community platform recently. Does renewing require direct payment, or do I need to wait for my membership to expire before rejoining? (I’m on Android.)
Master Chi’s Response: Both direct payment and rejoining work fine. Android handles this conveniently — iOS, I believe, can only rejoin after expiration, but it still comes with a discount. 😄