How do you make decisions when you don’t have enough information?
How do you close the information gap?
How do you solve problems when resources are scarce?
How do you know what you don’t know?
How do you spot the mistakes you haven’t spotted yet?
How do you expand your sources of information?
How do you bring in external resources to solve problems?
How do you increase your influence?
How do you get others to help you solve your problems?
Trolls are a resource — a strong feedback signal on social ideology.
Internet trolls can serve as lab rats for the humanities and social sciences.
They come with the following advantages:
Large numbers: No need to worry about insufficient sample sizes. Low cost: They’re everywhere online. Just discuss a controversial topic and they’ll swarm in. High data authenticity: Since the cost of speaking online is low and trolls are driven by emotion, their reactions tend to be genuine expressions of their underlying ideology. Common troll experiment scenarios:
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Also: if your parents’ net worth is under nine figures, or if they are not particularly distinguished within their own circles, then it is essentially impossible for them to have distilled the wisdom in this article into the kind of family knowledge that gets passed down to you.
Career content online will constantly — and unconsciously — tell you to master your craft, to specialize deeper, because expertise is the path to promotions and raises.
In reality, this thinking is completely wrong. You should never let your job title limit or define who you are.
The correct logic is: companies exist to make money → your expertise helps the company make money → the company hires you.
In other words, if your skills can’t generate revenue for the company, it doesn’t matter how brilliant you are. And if they can, whether you’re a polished “specialist” or not is completely irrelevant.
On a Sunday evening, at the invitation of a high-end jewelry brand, I was asked to speak to their core clientele about Chinese learning and traditional culture.
Honestly, in this day and age, talking about broad, sweeping Chinese cultural topics is entirely pointless. Anyone with even modest education can casually quote Taoist texts or Buddhist sutras.
And in circles where people have built real wealth, nobody wants to hear vague abstractions. What everyone values comes down to four simple words: real and practical.
For a woman to live well, there is only one path in this life: keep shining, keep making yourself radiate.
The moment a woman decides to lower her standards and settle for a man, her life’s tragedy begins.
If you enter a relationship having already established an attitude of tolerance and accommodation from the very start — you have already written your own tragic ending.
A man who isn’t up to your level will naturally reflect certain traits. First, he will begin constantly probing and pushing past your boundaries. Second — because people are mirrors for one another — your caliber will trigger a kind of illusion in him. He’ll start to wonder: am I really this exceptional, that a woman of her quality is chasing after me? He begins to drift. He starts trying to validate this inflated sense of his own worth out in the broader market. In the end, a man like this won’t cherish you — he’ll wreck your peace of mind.
Why, in this one life you have, should you escape a low-level environment as quickly as possible? My answer may sound a little dark, but it is completely true.
You should know that I, Master Chi, was once poor myself. Due to a reversal of family fortune, I lived for a time at the very bottom of society.
And that is precisely why I came to understand this truth so deeply in my bones: whenever you get the chance, do not — under any circumstances — stay at the bottom for too long. Because a prolonged life at the low end of society will genuinely corrupt and distort a person’s character and values.
1 - This world has never had any such thing as “the truth” — only different perspectives shaped by competing interests. All affairs of the world are affairs of interest. Such is reality.
2 - Why does your kindness so rarely lead to great achievement? Because evil understands you far better than you have ever bothered to understand evil.
3 - The vast majority of your enemies in life were slowly nurtured by your own weakness and retreat.
Let me share a personal philosophy of mine: a truly intelligent person will have remarkable clarity when it comes to marriage.
Because if someone cannot see clearly or navigate something as basic as marriage, it means their values, worldview, and life philosophy all contain enormous blind spots.
That’s why they end up tormented and overwhelmed by the endless troubles that come with it.
I’ve always said: if you can’t get past the emotional hurdle, talking about wealth and success is pointless. This is exactly why.
One afternoon over tea, a well-known figure in Shanghai’s elite social circles posed me a question: “Master, why do you have such remarkable insight when it comes to analyzing life patterns and mapping out people’s lives? Why do so many heirs — young and old alike — and women in their prime come specifically seeking you out, even asking me to book an appointment on their behalf?”
Her question caught me off guard for a moment. I reached for my teacup, buying myself a few seconds to mask the pause and gather my thoughts for a dignified response.