The law of roots, discipline, and the limits of a person
Why the difficult early stage is when roots form, why income follows capability, and why health is a founder's last root.
No one is great, or good at everything, from the starting line. The best version of anyone is the result of a process: commitment, learning, and continuous improvement. The hard early stage is not a dead end. It is the time we push our roots deep into the soil, waiting for the day we can grow upward.
A tree without roots falls when the storm comes
The market is running on the same rules as nature. Many companies take pride in large revenue, yet behind it sits heavy dependence on third-party sales channels and almost no profit. If they do not change their model and rebuild a solid foundation, then when a market storm arrives, being pushed out is only a matter of time.
The spotlight and the law of capability
There is a saying: "A great actor appears once in ten years; a Stephen Chow only once in a hundred." The audience mostly sees him at the peak of his fame. Few think of the years he spent as an extra, quietly repeating nameless roles.
Keep working steadily and effort will be rewarded. But remember one core rule: the money we earn is always proportional to our capability. If money arrives before the capability does, life will, one way or another, take it back.
Our limits: small wealth comes from diligence, great wealth from fortune
Knowing this, I push myself to stay disciplined: upgrading my knowledge and training my body every day. Yet with the weather changing these past days, I still fell ill.
Illness makes the lesson sink in. However iron the will and however grand the vision, without health they mean nothing. More broadly, I am reminded how small a person is before the turning of the world.
We keep striving, because small prosperity comes from diligence. But great success also depends on timing and fortune. We should not carry the illusion that human effort always overcomes heaven. A single natural disaster, epidemic, or war can undo what took years to build.
In the end, the only things we truly hold are the capability in our minds and the health of our own bodies.
Work and contribute with everything you have, but do not drain yourself. Health is the last root that holds you in place when the storm arrives.
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