Four Levels of Human Worth

The top tier builds ecosystems; the rest follow fate.

The second tier understands ecosystems and positions themselves within their own niche.

The third tier respects ecosystems but lacks the capacity to claim a niche, leaving them subject to selection.

The fourth tier has no idea what game they’re playing, their minds a muddled mess. Their defining traits are constant grumbling, complaining, and negativity. They operate on assumptions, never attempting to understand the ecosystems of any industry, nor pondering the constraints and conditions of each niche.

As long as you clearly understand yourself—what you want, what you have, and what you can let go of—you can secure the third tier, aim for the second, and perhaps reach the first.

Striving is essentially the third tier’s pursuit of the second. When a person realizes the world is an ecosystem—with whole industries being large ecosystems nested within small ones—and understands that all learning, working, and practicing is about getting familiar with these ecosystems, success comes when you finally find your niche and hold onto it.

Where you are born is not something you can decide; whether you are born rich or poor is not something you can decide; even how much educational resources you receive at birth is not something you can decide. However, choosing friends with what kind of mindset and marrying someone with what kind of cognition—this truly is something you can decide.