How to Increase Your Win Rate?
Everyone’s family circumstances differ, as do their innate talents. Even for the same person, their needs change across different stages of life.
But the foundation of success remains the same: you have talent, you see returns, you’re young, and you have time to amplify results.
So what did Mei Lanfang do when he was young? Two words: sing opera. He had the talent, the returns, and the youth—so why not pour all his money and energy into that? What else would he do?
What makes you win is precisely this simplicity. When every effort brings a return and every step echoes, you know you’re on the right track—and only then can you keep pushing forward night after night. It’s ordinary, it’s plain, like a flower blooming, like grass growing, like a bamboo shoot breaking through the soil.
In a company’s first stage, everything feels uncertain—you’re searching for direction everywhere. But once profitability kicks in, what does it do? It zeroes in on one core business and goes all in. Master one thing, rapidly expand market share, aim for the top—that’s the most correct strategy. Diversifying at that point is simply scattering your forces. Once a company has reached the top in its original field, once it can’t expand further, will it think about diversification? Yes, definitely. If the founder ages and passes, will the strategy change? Also yes.
So what’s the normal approach? As you age, you plan ahead for what comes after.
You can’t have all your wealth as one single army. You need to convert part of it into simple assets—real estate, mines, forests, gold, bank deposits—so simple that even a layperson could handle them. The rest is your own business.
The same person, the same investor, has different needs when young versus when gradually aging.
The former’s career hasn’t taken off yet. Like Mei Lanfang, if you don’t focus on singing opera and investing in yourself, you’ll never break through. The latter, as they age, must also worry about what happens when they’re gone. Can you really invest in yourself your entire life and leave nothing behind when you die?
