Human nature will inevitably become distorted when position management is neglected.

When the swings far exceed your financial resilience, everyone distorts.

Profit and loss share the same root. Think of a single trade: you first set a risk-reward ratio, such as “nothing below 3.” If you lose, you cap it at one month’s salary—meaning your profit also won’t exceed three months’ salary. Want to earn more? Fine. But when you play the game, you pay your debts. If you target thirty months’ salary in profit, then you’re also exposing yourself to ten months’ salary in loss. Profit and loss come from the same source.

That, of course, is a burden you cannot bear.

An ironclad army pushes itself within the rules of engagement. The Steel Seventh Company was a dagger against enemies, a razor in training, and a bone-scraping knife against itself. If you want more profit, upgrade yourself. You’re full of flaws with massive room to improve—do you expect to rely on luck instead? If you bank on luck without changing yourself and chase that thirty-month profit window, you’ll inevitably carry the ten-month loss window. Profit and loss are two sides of the same coin. Then you wriggle on the ground, unable to take the hit, and wonder who to blame?

Discipline never hinders your growth; it only helps you grow steadily.

A life’s quality isn’t measured by how high you climb, but by whether you’re always climbing uphill. Happiness depends on expectations, not facts.