The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for gain.#
The above discussion originated from the earliest known pre-Qin "Six Strategies and Proverbs". The ancients' description of benefits can be said to be profound. Due to recent investment losses and a bad mood, I suddenly remembered this sentence. At that time, I was thinking that everyone in the world pursues profit, but only a few succeed in investing. I pondered for a while on how these winners succeeded and came to the following conclusions:
The money you earn from investing is actually compensation for your knowledge, not a reward for your efforts. Knowledge remains unchanged, character remains unchanged. Only by constantly reading good books to improve knowledge and interacting with people who have higher knowledge than you can you break your existing knowledge and reshape it, always keeping your knowledge updated. When knowledge is achieved, there will be meticulous logic, and only then can you see opportunities with certainty. Only then can you dare to hold a heavy position and hold it firmly and calmly. In the end, money flows from people who are impatient in their hearts to people who are calm in their hearts (without the experience of heart-wrenching, how can there be calmness).
Key points to extract:
- Continuous reading
- Guidance from renowned teachers
- Integration and application
- Holding a heavy position and waiting patiently
The ideal state of life and investment#
Ultimately, reaching a state of holding a heavy position and being calm in your heart is similar to the state described in the "Diamond Sutra" as "not grasping at appearances, like a reflection, not moving". This is success because your knowledge tells you that this is a certain opportunity and a high probability of victory. As for rare events or insufficient knowledge, that's another story. It's just a matter of reviewing and updating knowledge.
In my opinion, the ideal state of life is: doing a job you love -> investing a portion of your income -> continuously updating knowledge -> continuing to invest. With the continuous updating of knowledge and a steady stream of income, we will eventually receive compensation for our knowledge (of course, the premise is not to burden life with unaffordable debts, which may interrupt and lead to a death spiral of negative feedback).