Humanity Is a Bug, but It’s Everyone’s Bug – Overcome It and You Have a Huge Advantage

Ultimately, every soft spot you have comes down to what you care about. Once you care about something, others will exploit it to their advantage—and they’ll target your weaknesses.

You cater to others’ human nature, treat them like people, but treat yourself as nothing. You respect other people’s instincts while neglecting your own.

Everyone has a tendency toward laziness. If you overcome it, you become an academic achiever.

Top students are disciplined, but often only apply that discipline to their studies. If you also apply it to managing your physique and how you interact with others, you become a sharp, articulate, impressive achiever. When every member of a team is a top performer, and you’re the rarest of them all, you become a natural candidate for team lead.

As a team lead, you rise above your own impulses—much like Song Jiang. You make your subordinates feel comfortable and valued, so they’re eager to work hard for you. With enough time, you may even become a manager.

Some managers reach their thirties, settle into a stable rut, and begin to relax their self-discipline. Their thoughts start wandering—maybe they can leverage their position to flirt with a female vendor rep. If that indiscretion comes to light, they’re burned, fired, and their career ends. And so, you never become a senior executive.

How do people win? It’s simple: you keep going, and you realize many others will naturally drop out. More often than not, you don’t defeat anyone yourself—people eliminate themselves through their own mistakes. The one who remains becomes king.