When I write, I have a default reader in mind — someone I’m writing to.
In most cases, that person is a young man or woman who loves learning, works hard to better themselves, and genuinely believes that effort can change their destiny.
Someone like that usually isn’t in terrible financial shape. And even if they are right now, they won’t stay poor.
In other words, my default assumption is that the people following me will keep improving over time — which is why I sometimes share things that may be slightly beyond where you are today. (I’ve already watered it down considerably.)
But there are still people who, out of ignorance, arrogance, or simply because something I said hit a nerve, resort to personal attacks or pointless arguments.
These are people who have deeply internalized the belief that they are poor — and will always be poor. So whenever I write from a perspective that doesn’t match theirs, they assume I’m looking down on them from on high, projecting some kind of elite superiority.
Different positions, different worldviews. That’s just how it is.
For some people, buying themselves a ten-thousand-yuan handbag on their birthday is completely normal.
For others, that’s reckless spending — wasteful, irresponsible.
I genuinely want good things for all of you. Better lives. Better circumstances. The kind of people who hold society together.
You’re still young. There are still plenty of opportunities to get there.
At the very least, if you absorb what I share — if you take it seriously and actually practice it in your daily life — and simply keep at it, I can tell you it will make a real difference.
A person who is eager to learn and willing to work hard simply cannot stay poor.
But if you’ve already decided you’re a failure — that poverty is your permanent condition — then anything anyone says will sting. You’ll lash out, resist, refuse to take in anything new. Anger becomes your only way of expressing that your life isn’t going the way you wanted.
There’s nothing I can do about that.
So here’s my applause for you.
Clap. Clap. Clap.