Wednesday, April 16, 2025

A Hidden Path for Ordinary People to Achieve Wealth Freedom

First, take a moment to think. Are you vying for the same things as others? Most people's answer is likely a simple "yes". Since there are only so many resources and opportunities, and everyone can see them, if you don't compete, you'll miss out. There's nothing inherently wrong with this logic. However, when applied to many current scenarios, you'll notice the problems. In today's highly information - driven world, once a product or model becomes popular, within a few days, the entire market will be filled with similar products or models. This instant - imitation survival model is rife with drawbacks. It plunges participants into an endless cycle of internal strife, ultimately driving the collective profit to the freezing point. Because when everyone is crammed onto the same track, competition devolves into a trampling - each - other quagmire. With survival already so difficult, how can one even dream of achieving wealth freedom?

In fact, true competition doesn't necessarily take place on the battlefield pre - set by opponents. You must learn the law of survival through dislocation and find your own home ground. It's better to be different than just better. I particularly like a saying from Laozi: "It is precisely because he does not compete that no one in the world can compete with him." However, this statement needs to be understood and applied dialectically. It doesn't mean you should avoid battles passively. Instead, it means you need to reconstruct your own value coordinate system. The essence of "not competing" is to transcend the rules of limited - scope games and establish a new game at a higher dimension. You can choose not to compete for some short - term and tangible benefits in the moment, but you must strive for long - term and intangible benefits. Because the underlying logic of wealth accumulation has never changed. It's just that most people are addicted to chasing the "visible path" while turning a blind eye to the "hidden path". To a large extent, we can consider short - term and tangible benefits as the visible path, as these are immediately visible and obtainable, and what everyone is vying for. While long - term and intangible benefits can be regarded as the hidden path. Because the vast majority of people are most concerned with immediate tangible benefits. But you must understand one truth: truly stable and long - lasting wealth freedom must follow a long - termist approach. In other words, it is the result of the accumulation of compound interest over time. This strategic perseverance that transcends cycles is precisely the ability that most people lack the most. Such wealth freedom is also bound to be more stable than the "get - rich - overnight" kind.

Personally, I believe that dislocation competition is the best way to practice long - term and intangible benefits. These seemingly "non - mainstream" choices often lead to broader blue oceans. Its core logic is to jump out of what everyone else is fixated on. When you extricate yourself from the quagmire of instant gratification, you'll discover that those persistences that were once ridiculed will eventually bring you extraordinary compensation in the dimension of time. Some time ago, the speech of Wang Xingxing, the founder of Unitree Robotics, went viral on the Internet. The most central sentence in it was that the era will not let down long - termists. 

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