The Unseen Code

The world operates by a hidden code: the common sense of the upper echelon is often the impenetrable secret of the lower. The gap in cognition and mindset between different social classes is often more difficult to cross than the gap in wealth itself.

Here are six principles that govern this hidden reality:

1. Information Is Power: Knowledge Rewrites Your Destiny

What truly dictates a person's fate isn't public news—it's the inside information that hasn't yet circulated. As The Godfather advises, "Never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking." In a resource-limited society, the first to acquire information holds the initiative. You aren't ordinary because you can't see the truth; you remain ordinary because you haven't yet seen the truth.

2. Without a Cognitive Breakthrough, Effort is Just Running in Place

Many people complain about a lack of opportunity. But imagine sitting before the Buddha, listening to him preach: a lampwick, a mouse, and an eagle might all achieve enlightenment, yet some people walk away empty-handed. The problem isn't opportunity—it's cognition.

Those with rigid thinking are always using an old map to search for a new continent. They repeat the same behaviors while expecting different results, ultimately becoming mere pawns in someone else's game. Once you truly wake up, you realize: societal resources are finite. Good things must be fought for; only the weak sit and wait for distribution.

3. Your Education Doesn't Teach You Wealth or Awakening

From childhood, we are drilled with the importance of studying hard and getting into a good university. Yet, no one tells us: it’s difficult to get rich by being an employee, and without cognitive insight, even the highest degree just makes you a highly-paid laborer. This isn't to say reading is useless, but rather that rote learning without understanding is worse than no book at all.

True growth comes from post-graduate experience, enlightenment, and self-education. A person's real maturation begins when they "vomit": expelling the unexamined concepts and beliefs they were force-fed, and then building a genuine, personalized framework of understanding.

4. Poverty is a Design—But Not Your Destiny

The "Tittytainment" Trap: Uses short videos, games, and binge-watching to consume your precious free time.

The Shawshank Trap: Long-term denial and limitation lead to learned helplessness, stripping you of the courage to break free.

Poverty might be a designed path, but it is not your fate. Clearly identifying these traps is the first step toward genuine upward mobility.

5. The Fastest Way to Grow: Learn from Those Who Have Results

For ordinary people seeking a breakthrough, the most efficient method is not fumbling around alone, but seeking guidance from those who have already succeeded. My first venture and my start in self-media both came after personally witnessing others achieve success.

They became my guides, building my initial confidence and helping me map out the path. Get close to people stronger than you; study their way of thinking and their operational logic. Looking at problems through the lens of a highly effective person will suddenly clear up much of your confusion.

6. The Essence of Success: Fight Your Own Nature, Conform to Others' Nature

Society operates on two parallel sets of rules: on the surface, fairness and morality; at the core, self-interest and competition.

You must align with human nature by being clear about rewards and punishments in benefit distribution, and by accurately gauging market and human needs.

However, success requires you to fight your own nature:

Others are scrolling short videos; you are quietly reading.

Others are playing games; you are writing an article.

Others are dreaming; you are practicing.

Others are controlled by emotion; you are solving the problem.

A true master isn't someone without desire but one who understands delayed gratification. They aren't emotionless, but they refuse to be derailed by emotion.

The world will never hand the truth to you. It rewards those who actively awaken, dare to reconstruct their cognition, and persistently act on the right path. When you start fighting your instincts and choosing the difficult but correct route, you are no longer the person you were—you are moving from being a pawn on the board to becoming the player.