Think about what hypocrisy really is—it's just strict risk control in another domain.
What you have, what you want, what you’re willing to give up. Apply this not just to yourself, but also to others: What do they have? What do they want? What are they willing to sacrifice? If you can frame every person and every situation this way, you’ll quickly know the answers to most things before you even act.
When your vision outpaces your skill, what do you call that? It’s called “eyes above hand.” Conversely, when your hands are practiced but your vision stalls, what do you call that? It’s a bottleneck—or a glass ceiling.
Last year, capital was worth 100. This year, it demands to become 110—whoever can make that happen becomes the capitalist. So money chases people, not the other way around. If you chase money, you'll never catch it.
Anything not forbidden by law is permissible. Unreasonable things are not necessarily illegal.
The mark of a wise person is understanding the food chain, and realizing that mutual dependence is what makes a relationship reliable.
For an adult, the task is simple: understand the world, then do what you can, and that's enough.
The more someone lacks something, the more they fear others seeing it. What does being face-conscious say about you? It shows inferiority—no confidence, not even self-belief. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?
The poorer a person is, the less successful they are, the more they cling to面子—the more they care about how others perceive them.
Successful people never care about others’ opinions of them; they stay focused on what they want.