Solyn

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@ML_Philosophy @wealth_director its same turly

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The AI bubble is starting to deflate, but this is only the first time. Of course it’s not that AI doesn’t work—we just need to filter out some of the impurities and keep pushing forward. #ai

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@naval Choosing what benefits you and what you like is the most correct.

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@naval actually

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Don't expect others to understand you,
because everyone thinks from the standpoint of their own interests. When people's positions and interests differ, their views rarely line up—just like bosses and employees will never share the same logic. You don't need to worry about what others think of you. Whether they get you or not doesn't matter; what matters is that you understand yourself.**

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"Trump is a good president, but the public is foolish. He wants America to stand strong over the long term rather than cater to short-term interests. But for ordinary people, the price of everyday necessities is what decides who they vote for. So America has once again missed a great opportunity, and the future world order has shifted again."

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Feel free to fully enjoy the gifts of nature

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You just need to keep moving forward boldly and thinking as you go, instead of stopping to think everything through slowly. Problems are encountered in action and solved in action.

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There’s no way Binance could come up with that much money in a short time. We’re talking over $3 billion here—that’s not a small amount. Binance got fined several billion dollars before and it took a long time to settle. You really think it’s just gonna be over this time?

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The most important quality in a wife is emotional expression. Things like ability rank lower. Just imagine if you married someone who’s constantly throwing emotional tantrums or being moody with you—how would that feel?

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Why do so many Chinese people demonstrate such a strong ability to understand complex ideas and adapt across different fields?

Education, hard work, and experience certainly matter. But I want to explore an angle that often gets overlooked: How does the Chinese language train us to think?

As a metaphor, think of Chinese as a winding path.

Often, understanding a sentence in Chinese takes more than knowing what the words mean. You also have to consider who’s speaking, who they’re speaking to, and the situation they’re in.

“You’re really something” could be a compliment—or sarcasm. “Let me think about it” could signal genuine consideration—or a polite refusal.

You’re interpreting more than words. You’re picking up on tone, relationships, and what’s left unsaid.

This way of communicating offers ongoing practice in understanding information in context and connecting seemingly unrelated clues.

Complex problems often call for those same skills: approaching an issue from a different angle, making judgments based on the circumstances, and finding a way forward as conditions change.

That’s part of the beauty of Chinese: the words may be understated, but understanding them can require real depth.

So what does English bring to the table?

If certain forms of Chinese expression resemble a winding path, then the emphasis on clarity and directness in certain forms of English expression resembles a straight line.

This is especially useful in making an argument or communicating at work: What’s my point? What’s my reasoning? What evidence supports it? What am I going to do next?

Practicing this kind of communication also means practicing how to organize complex thoughts and turn vague intentions into concrete action.

One approach reminds you to read the situation. The other pushes you to state your position clearly and follow through.

Of course, “winding paths” and “straight lines” are only metaphors. Chinese can be precise and direct, and English can be subtle and complex. No language automatically makes someone smarter or braver.

But we can deliberately learn from the useful communication habits

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@ProjectM_CHINA of course welcome bro

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Today I randomly ran into someone while hiking Yangtai Mountain in Shenzhen — it was really cool.

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If you want to make real progress in the AI field, I hope you’ll move to China—especially Shenzhen. Here you’ll find the smartest talent, the fastest pace, the largest scale, and the most mature ecosystem.

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Hey, does anyone here live in Shenzhen? Foreign friends are welcome to come visit my city—mainly so I can practice my English with you guys and learn from you.

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If the goals someone’s chasing today are basically just the product of their past experiences, unconscious desires, and the social environment they grew up in, then when they talk about “becoming themselves,” are they actually discovering who they are, or just reinventing themselves?

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@wealth_director good
idea

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If you want financial freedom, you’ve gotta go after jobs where the pay can really blow up — and the money’s not capped by how many hours you put in or how hard you work. Otherwise, you can grind your whole life and still never get free.

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Success Doesn’t Make You Right About Everything

Once someone becomes successful, even their everyday habits start getting treated as the reasons they succeeded.

If they get up early, people call it discipline. If they stay up late, people call it hard work. If they’re quiet, they’re thoughtful. If they talk a lot, they’re great communicators.

But when an ordinary person does the same things, they usually don’t get the same credit.

That’s when you need to ask yourself: Do I actually agree with this idea, or am I just impressed by the person saying it?

A lot of people never really examine why a method works. They see someone’s money, status, and accomplishments, then work backward: “They’re this successful, so they must know what they’re talking about.”

But success only shows that someone got results in certain areas. It doesn’t make everything they believe correct.

And it certainly doesn’t mean their answers will work for you.

We can see someone’s decisions, the way they speak, and how they live. What we usually can’t see is everything behind those choices: their strengths, their fears, their resources, the sacrifices they’ve made, and the circumstances they were dealing with.

You see them make a big bet, but you might not know what other options they have if it goes wrong. You see them turn down an opportunity, but you might not realize their position gives them the freedom to say no.

Take away those conditions and copy the action by itself, and you could get the opposite result.

People are different, too.

Some people are good at making quick decisions in the middle of chaos. Others build their advantage through careful research. Some are great at organizing people and winning them over. Others do their best work on their own. Some can handle uncertainty for years. Others need a steady routine to keep performing well.

Those differences don’t make one person better than another. But they do affect which path makes sense for each person.

If your strength is thinking things through, forcing yourself to move fast because you admire someone else could work against you. If you’re good at building lasting trust, copying someone else’s aggressive style could do the same.

You might lose your own strengths before you ever develop theirs.

Every piece of advice also depends on the environment where it worked.

In a fast-growing market, moving quickly might matter more than getting every detail right. In a business where customers depend on reliability, breaking their trust once could undo years of work.

If your business depends on constantly finding new customers, communication skills can be incredibly valuable. If it depends on customers coming back, consistently delivering what you promised might matter more.

So when someone says, “Taking action matters most,” “Communication matters most,” or “Integrity matters most,” you need to understand the situation they’re talking about.

People often rank these qualities differently because they’re trying to solve different problems.

The questions that matter to you are: What skill would make the biggest difference in the situation I’m facing? And what weakness is most likely to cause me to fail?

Without that context, arguing over which successful person has the best philosophy won’t get you very far.

There’s another difference people often overlook: You may not want the same kind of life.

Two people can both say they want success and mean completely different things.

One wants to build a large company. Another wants control over their time. One wants influence. Another wants a stable family life. One is willing to live under constant pressure for their career. Another just wants enough money to live comfortably.

Different goals come with different costs—and different limits on what you’re willing to give up.

You can admire someone’s accomplishments without adopting their entire way of life. Otherwise, you could spend years getting closer to someone else’s version of success while moving further away from the life you actually want.

Blindly following successful people has another hidden cost: Your judgment keeps getting replaced.

Today, one person tells you to take risks. Tomorrow, another tells you to be cautious. Today, you believe in thinking long term. Tomorrow, you feel like you have to jump on every opportunity.

Each piece of advice sounds reasonable on its own. But when you throw them all together, you can lose any clear basis for making a decision.

Eventually, you can quote more and more people, but you struggle to explain why you’re making your own choices.

Learning from others is valuable. But you still have to decide what’s useful, understand why it works, and test it for yourself.

Instead of collecting everything a successful person has ever said, focus on a few specific questions: What are they exceptionally good at? Under what conditions does that ability create value? Which parts of their approach can I use? And which parts depend on advantages I don’t have?

Some people succeed by organizing people and resources effectively. Some spot opportunities others miss. Some win customers by continually improving their products.

Study how those abilities work and what you can learn from them.

As for broad statements about life that supposedly apply to everyone, you don’t need to memorize so many of them.

Over time, you need to build your own basis for making decisions. Understand what you’re good at, what you want, and what your environment rewards. Then take action, check your judgment against the results, and adjust your approach.

Other people’s experience can help you see the road more clearly. But you still have to decide which road to take.

When you can clearly explain, “This makes sense for me because…” instead of simply saying, “A successful person does it this way,” what you’ve learned has finally become something you can use.

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AI’s here to get the work done for us,
not to replace us.