Poverty is often not due to laziness, but because you are too “generous”.

Friends ask you to cut a deal, and you spend 15 minutes downloading an app; relatives ask you to fix their computer, and you dedicate half a weekend; online trolls curse you, and you get so angry you can't focus on work for a whole day.

You think this is called “social etiquette,” but in the eyes of capital, it's called “asset loss.”

Real bosses don't have time to collect five-cent red envelopes in Pinduoduo groups, nor do they have time to listen to your half-hour pointless complaints.

Your time and energy are your only chips for a comeback. But you spend them all on charity, filling others' boredom.

When you start to become indifferent to others' trivial matters, your value truly begins to rise.

So-called growth is about transforming from a caring “good person” into a precisely calculating “cold-blooded animal” that weighs input and output.