Category: Reading Notes

Further along, when you're young, the first thing you need to do is build a cash flow system (a financial security system).

"Lifelong I've never strayed from the saddle, my thigh muscles wasted away; now that I don't ride anymore, flesh has returned to my thighs." Liu Bei wasn't complaining about gaining weight and needing to lose it—he was lamenting that he was growing older and still hadn't established his own power base.

When you're poor but your spouse is beautiful,
When you lack power but have ample wealth,
When you're weak but possess early brilliance,
When you're foolish but extremely greedy.

Most people in this lifetime want to obtain things they don't have without changing themselves.

Cause and effect—cause and effect. If the cause hasn't changed, how can the effect change just because someone else revealed it ahead of time?

Whether you can change yourself is the cause.