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The lower the barrier to an industry/job, the harder it is to make money.

Take the stock market or the crypto world. The barriers are low: no age limit, no education requirement—just a phone is enough to participate. There are only two actions: buy and sell. Sounds simple, right? But making money from it is extremely difficult. To make big money is even rarer than rare.

Street vending, going into an electronics factory to screw bolts—these also have relatively low barriers, yet earning money is still very difficult. Even to make a small amount, you have to earn it piece by piece with your own hands. As the saying goes, “Money is hard to make, and dung is hard to eat”—that’s exactly the case.

So how can an ordinary person make money? Ordinary people are “ordinary” because their thoughts and behavior patterns are pretty much the same: they seek profit and avoid harm, pursue low risk and high returns—driven by human greed and fear. In the stock market, it’s “buy high and sell low,” “hold on to losses and run at small gains.” That’s why it’s so hard for ordinary people to make money through speculation.

People give up long-term benefits for short-term pleasures. Most people are like that. I’m no exception: for the pleasure of the moment, I gave up long-term planning. I was unwilling to put down my phone to study, research financial statements, and collect industry information—I only passively absorbed other people’s information. Even the market screen: I only knew how to trade, not how to truly observe. Failure was inevitable. Even if you’re careful, it just means your capital struggles desperately, and in the end it inevitably ends up at zero.

If you want to make money and change your destiny, you need to break away from ordinary people’s way of thinking and behaving. Whether you’ve awakened and whether you can make money is determined mainly by you. Other people, market conditions, and economic cycles can’t decide it for you. Even if you only have 200u left, even if you’re currently living in a rented room, as long as you still have hope for doing good trades and refuse to surrender to your current environment, success is only a matter of time.

But can you do it? There’s a huge mountain between knowing and doing. You know human nature, market sentiment, and economic cycles—but you still can’t, because you won’t give up the pleasures of the present for the results of the next ten or twenty years. That’s the reason you failed in life over the past thirty years.

I admit: my life in the past was a failure. Thirty years of living without purpose, unremarkable and ineffective—dominated by dopamine. No ideals, no goals. Just getting by day to day. I let down my youth and my parents’ expectations.

Do you accept that?