Category: Reading Notes

“How Steel Was Tempered” explains it clearly.

The “environment” is like a blast furnace — without enough heat, no one can change the nature of that ore.

“Essence” is about whether there’s iron in you at all. If yes, you can be forged into steel; if not, all you’ll get is slag.

Some people won’t be tested until pushed — but for many more, once pushed, you realize they’re genuinely incapable.

A person can’t live in a state of not knowing what the hell they’re doing.

You can game, you can fail your classes, you can drop out—前提是, you have to know what you’re doing.

You can game, but you need to clarify why exactly you’re gaming, what your expected outcome is, and how what you’re doing connects to that goal.

You can even drop out, but you need to lay out the plan and explain clearly what dropping out is actually for.