MarkSu

The root cause of inability to change is insufficient pain.
Because the pain isn't severe enough, there's no desire to cure it fundamentally, no willingness to think deeply and gain insight, no awareness of what the real problem actually is.
Instead, people just want to take mild painkillers repeatedly, or use mental drugs to numb themselves and temporarily relieve the pain.
They don't dare face the truth, afraid it will hurt too much. In reality, once you look at it, the truth might just be a paper tiger—one poke and it breaks. Not daring to face it is you imagining it to be too frightening.

The fastest way to destroy an ordinary person is not to make them go broke, but to let them make a fortune through luck during a raging bull market.
When your account jumps from fifty thousand to two million in a week because you got lucky with one opportunity, the dopamine threshold in your brain is completely blown out.
From that moment on, the real world becomes a joke in your eyes.
You can no longer appreciate the few thousand yuan earned hard from working at a company or delivering food. You look at your peers squeezing onto the subway to go to work, and your eyes even carry a condescendi

Munger once said:
We don't need new ideas, we just need correct repetition.
What is correct repetition?
First, choose the right direction and let time quietly do the leveraging for you.
Second, find your advantage and continuously stack the results. True smart people are putting in dumb work.
This wisdom is worth remembering for a lifetime.

Allow your closest loved ones to hit the wall, watch those you cherish take detours, and silently observe your confidants step into pitfalls.
The most difficult practice in life is watching important people repeat their mistakes through tear-filled eyes. Pain is the chisel of the soul, while preaching is only poison wrapped in sugar coating.
That stubborn refusal to heed advice, that relentless resistance—it's not confusion, it's destiny.