Why do some people read so many books yet still fail to live a good life?

Because what they encounter is not true knowledge.

"Look, I can play so many pieces."

"Look, I've mastered all the GRE vocabulary."

"Look, I read a book every two days, and I've read 172 books this year."

"Look, I've taken so many exams, and they're all here, so thick, all mine."

Are these important?

Yes, any kind of knowledge is the legacy of thousands of years and the crystallization of human wisdom.

However, for you, is it the most important?

No, because these are all at the level of techniques, the minor details.For an individual, true knowledge is the framework, it is the organization of chaotic inorganic substances into organic ones, it is the simple single-celled organisms forming advanced life forms, it is the assembly of fragmented information into a system, constituting one's own worldview, outlook on life, and values.

True knowledge is by no means static and piled up there.

However, there are too many people who mistake information for knowledge, numbers for achievements, reading for thinking, and storage for mastery.

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If you truly grasp knowledge, it is impossible to live a bad life.

Unless you are holding the wrong instruction manual, but you do not know it.

The most important thing in life is to make choices.

And to make choices, one must judge right from wrong, calculate gains and losses, which requires you to have an extremely clear underlying framework in order to make accurate judgments amidst the complex and varied appearances.

Just like the laws of physics, an apple falls from the tree due to gravity, and the moon does not fall from the sky, also due to gravity.

Two seemingly opposite things are actually the same thing, only differing in speed.But if you only focus on the minor details, you will feel that they are completely unrelated.

Most people have a problematic knowledge structure; they do not distinguish right from wrong and always think that A is correct, B is correct, and C also makes sense. The result of this is that when it comes time to make a choice, they do not know what to do.

Why is it that some people in reality can talk eloquently and seem to understand everything, yet they achieve nothing? Because they do not bet!

Observe those who are extremely successful, and you will find they have a common characteristic:

They dare to stake all their resources on the thing they believe is right.

Unwavering, unyielding, resolute, and moving forward, they don't even have time to argue with others.

This is the key to creating a gap.

Everyone is not a three-headed, six-armed creature; we are all carbon-based life forms with only 24 hours each day, and the physical differences are minimal. The only thing that can create a hierarchy is choice.

To make the right choice, you must have a clear foundational framework.

For example, you can try to answer these two questions:1. Should we litter indiscriminately?

You might think not, but some people do litter and then say to the sanitation workers: "If I don't litter, wouldn't you be out of a job? You should be grateful to me for your current employment."

If you feel a sense of unease, good, then where is the problem?

2. Should we practice frugality and thrift?

Frugality and thrift are virtues, but if everyone practices frugality and thrift, wouldn't the amount of consumption decrease significantly, leading to the closure of many businesses? What if the goods produced can't be sold and pile up like mountains? Well, where is the problem?

If your answer is "We should do this and also do that," then it's equivalent to not saying anything.

The most worthless thing in life is being right but uselessly verbose.

If you don't have a clear answer, then you need this book.

The author has written many articles on hot topics that many people care about:

In the area of financial management: What pitfalls are there in the interest rates of small loans? Why is financial freedom for ordinary people a paradox? Why can compound interest never make you rich?What makes some companies with a market value of hundreds of billions unable to come up with a mere billion? If everyone makes money when the stock market rises, where do the losers go?

In terms of business logic: Gome once rose to prominence by offering high quality and low prices, so why didn't its competitors follow suit? Celebrities have so many fans, so why do many of them crash when they start selling products? Why should one never touch imitation coins, regardless of whether they rise or fall? Where is the future of live-streaming sales?

What opportunities are there for ordinary people who want to get into live-streaming sales?

In terms of real estate practice: What should young people pay attention to when buying their first home? How many names should be on the property deed? Given the high interest on mortgages, should one even consider taking out a loan to buy a house? Since apartments are cheap and not subject to purchase restrictions, can young people buy them to live in first? Why are long-term rental apartments frequently in trouble, and what's the issue? When is the best time to pay off a mortgage?

If you don't have clear and confident answers to these questions, you need this book.

Cognition is so important that once it goes wrong, life will go off course, with immense effort yielding meager returns.

Many people complain, why did he, who did nothing but buy a house, surpass me by so much?

The real answer is: buying a house is not valuable; knowing whether to buy or not, knowing where to buy, and knowing to buy and daring to bet one's life savings on it, is the key to his surpassing you.

The act of "buying" is not valuable, worth no more than a 500-yuan errand fee.

You feel envious now, but you could have bought back then too, so why didn't you?The most important thing in life is making choices.

Most things in the world are predetermined at the moment of choice, and no matter how much effort is put in afterwards, it's just a matter of fixing and patching.