Don’t Force Yourself to Fit Into Circles Without Resources

I should have said this a long time ago. A circle is essentially a trade show. If you've attended one, you understand it's really just spending money to rent an ad booth, then displaying your own resources and ads inside it to sell and generate revenue. As long as the returns exceed your costs, you can keep spending. Various circles in modern society are essentially the same kind of ad booth. If you go mixing in circles without any resources of your own, you're basically wasting your money. The person you manage to connect with now might shift their business model in a while, making your connection useless. Only by bringing your own resources to exchange and sell does being in a circle make sense.

For example, so-called elite schools are merely a type of social circle. It's like you're renting a booth at an exhibition; the purpose is to promote your own family's products. The other classmates all have their own businesses—they're there to build connections, exchange business cards, and look for opportunities to collaborate or even marry into each other's families so they can do business together. You have nothing, so besides just wasting money and inflating consumption statistics, there's little meaning to it.

In CJ7, Stephen Chow was in a dead end from the very beginning.