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# Two Money-Making Formulas for Ordinary People
**Formula One: Arbitrage Thinking (Middleman Mentality)**
This is connecting two resources you know about and profiting from the spread. Every successful entrepreneur got their start by creating something from nothing—this is the core skill.
This is the ability to generate value from thin air. To become a money-making master, you must master this technique. My first million came from arbitrage thinking. Otherwise, unless you were born into wealth, relying solely on salary from employment will likely leave you poor for life. The biggest trap at th

# Habits of Financially Free Wealthy People
1. **Reading**: Reading only first-rate books. 90% of financially free wealthy people read for at least 1 hour daily. They have deep reading habits and tend to read biographies, classical Chinese literature, history, philosophy, and other first-rate human classics.
2. **Friendships**: Building first-rate friendships. Financially free wealthy people tend to connect with those who have first-class thinking, clear goals, and aligned values. Moreover, their friends must be reliable.
3. **Exercise**: 90% of financially free wealthy people maintain aerobic

Few people truly practice what Duan Yongping preaches with consistency:
Keep reverse thinking forever, knowing what you don't want
If you can't clearly define where the boundaries are, it doesn't count as a real ability.
Remember:
Drowning victims are usually good swimmers. Admitting your ignorance is more important than displaying cleverness.
The first law of compound interest is: never interrupt it without reason
If you truly understand the power of compound interest, you'll realize that the key to investing isn't running the fastest, but whether you can persist in going the farthest. If you

How Can Middle-Aged People Live Like the Wealthy?
1. You must have the guts. As a certain Chinese billionaire once said, Tsinghua and Peking University are nothing compared to having guts.
2. In this world, only people with guts can live like the wealthy, while those who lack courage will never make big money.
3. Better to sleep on the floor at night and be your own boss during the day.
4. Working as an employee won't get you far; only being a boss can make you big. Once a boss scales up, they can build wealth and live like the wealthy.
5. Associate with the rich, not the poor.
6. Mixing with

Here's the compiled 315 list for this year:
Current CCTV 315 Gala exposures:
1️⃣ Celebrity chicken feet (soaked in hydrogen peroxide, chicken feet trampled by staff)
2️⃣ Anti-aging exosomes (all fake)
3️⃣ Private domain marketing gray industry profiting from targeting elderly (all scammers)
4️⃣ Youth height-increasing institutions (baseless claims just for making money)
5️⃣ Rental e-bikes exceeding national standards, some even being e-motorcycles; rental companies have connections for vehicle registration. Hellobike, Dian Lv Ge and others called out
6️⃣ Poisoning AI with information to manipu

The so-called bull market will ultimately harvest the wealth of many people.
This is the law of nature.
It's too difficult to overcome human weaknesses. Saving others is hard, and speaking too much leads to misunderstanding and resentment.
What Duan Yongping called "duty" is actually managing yourself. I think regardless of bull or bear markets, frequently remembering duty is sufficient. These two characters are truly minimalist.
Investment duty requires three things:
1. Earn money from enterprise cash flows; in crypto, earn from super-tier companies that survive bull and bear cycles.
2. Earn

# A Profound Insight from Liu Zhenyun:
When you're being set up by someone,
never think about mutual destruction or flipping the table immediately. You must understand that even a dying struggle is within the other person's calculation.
The correct way to break free is to know when to advance and retreat, and stop losses in time.
You think slamming the table and tearing your face is being tough?
Wrong. That's exactly what the other person wants to see.
The more emotional you become, the more you lose composure,
the faster you fall into the trap the other person has carefully woven.
True wisdom

The US-Iran conflict is heating up these days,
Throughout history, countless earth-shattering events have occurred,
yet ordinary people ultimately cannot influence even the slightest bit.
Rather than worrying yourself sick about world affairs,
it's better to redirect your gaze inward,
and manage yourself first.
For ordinary people:
Read more of "Water Margin" and "The Golden Lotus"—
not to study the biographies and grand writings of great figures,
but to learn the survival tactics of street-level common folk;
study less the magnificent ambitions of heroes and legendary characters;
think more a

If the US and Iran continue fighting like this, what will prices surge on?
From an investment perspective, things that are likely to rise include these main categories:
1. Oil
2. Gold and silver (recently depressed, bullish long-term)
3. Chemical products chain
Because oil is the lifeblood of industry. After oil prices rise, it will transmit throughout the entire chemical chain: methanol, polyethylene, propylene, plastic raw materials, and many manufacturing costs will be pushed higher.
4. Natural gas and fertilizers
Iran is the world's largest fertilizer exporter, and relevant stocks in the U

What is the state of a truly free professional investor?
1. Only investing with your own money, not managing money for others
2. A large enough capital base where dividends can cover all living expenses
3. Truly understanding market laws and mastering the art of investing
If you satisfy all three points, then congratulations—you are blessed.
From that point on, time is yours.
Travel, read, drink tea or wine, cook, live your days like poetry, without any constraints.
This is my understanding of financial freedom.
Not the numbers in your account, but the ability to completely control your own li

Yiming Zhang Cognitive Checklist (Full Version 60 Items)
01 Cognition and Thinking
1. Cognitive ability is the biggest gap between people.
2. Make decisions based on facts and logic.
3. Delay judgment when information is insufficient.
4. Stay rational and avoid being distorted by extreme emotions.
5. Think independently.
6. View problems from multiple perspectives.
7. Maintain curiosity about the world and keep learning.
8. Use first principles to return to the essence of things.
9. Accept uncertainty and advance amid ambiguity.
10. Continuously calibrate your cognitive weights.
02 Mindset and

Four sentences from the Mao Zedong Thought can solve ninety percent of anxiety:
1. The worse the situation, the more we need strategic resolve. Don't follow others in complaining; when others complain, their minds are already troubled.
2. Actively finding solutions is the way to solve problems. Only by believing that no problem is unsolvable can we have the ability to resolve all issues.
3. Don't get angry when hearing different opinions, thinking it's disrespectful to oneself. This is one of the conditions for treating others with equality.
4. When one contradiction is resolved, another arise

People only need to do nine things in this life.
One,
1. The first is to study how to make money. Money can solve 90% of life's problems, and the remaining 10% can be alleviated with money.
2. The second is to study human nature. Once you see through human nature, you can stand undefeated in this society.
3. The third is to take care of your health. The biggest mistake a person can make is to exchange health for external possessions.
Good habits: the top is self-discipline, second is lifelong learning, third is maintaining exercise. Possessing these three habits makes a wonderful life within r

Sentences that can only be truly understood after maturity:
1. The world is fair,
Take what you have, exchange for what you want!
2. The so-called threshold,
If you have enough ability, it's a door; if not, it's a barrier!
3. The so-called choice paralysis,
Essentially, it's poverty.
The so-called indecisiveness,
Essentially, it's cowardice.
4. The underlying logic of relatives,
Is that they dislike you being poor and are afraid you'll be rich.
5. You need to work hard to make money,
The older you get, the less anyone will forgive your poverty.
6. Most unhappiness in adulthood,
Either comes fr

People with a narrow mind must read
Having no heart is not wrong, but being unguarded is foolish! Here are 20 practical tips to help you avoid unnecessary losses in social interactions.
1. Keep your financial situation private: Regardless of whether you are wealthy or not, avoid discussing your family background with outsiders to prevent jealousy or scheming.
2. Keep your secrets to yourself: Your secrets, embarrassing moments, and emotional entanglements should stay in your heart; let heaven, earth, and yourself know.
3. Beware of sudden friendliness: Especially overly enthusiastic older stra

Highly perceptive individuals typically possess three core traits:
1. Preferring solitude and inward growth
They don't conform or engage in trivial chatter, enjoy being alone, and accumulate energy in quietness.
2. Sharp insight and clear understanding
Sensitive and meticulous, they perceive others' intentions; their thinking is profound, getting to the essence, never superficial.
3. Communing with the spirit of nature and the universe
They enjoy reading philosophy and psychology, learning effortlessly; during quiet nights, they often gaze into the cosmos and contemplate destiny.
In short: the

The 18 Fastest Ways to Improve Yourself and Achieve a Counterattack:
1. Benchmark and Imitate: Find outstanding people around you, copy their thinking, behaviors, and speech patterns. Drop your inertia and directly apply the logic of the strong.
2. Wake Up Early and Work Hard: Don't stay up late and drain yourself. Take crazy action for 3-5 years, focus intensely, and keep pushing. The more you do, the smoother it gets.
3. 48-Hour Law: Act immediately when you think of something. Don't wait until tomorrow. Things that don't get done within 48 hours are likely to be abandoned.
4. Persist in Rea