The Underlying Logic of Success: Run Wild and Experiment for 3-5 Years, Then Deeply Cultivate for 10 Years

Spend 3-5 years wildly experimenting, and then spend 10 years stubbornly pursuing one thing. If this path is followed successfully, 90% of people can achieve success.

By studying business history and military history, and by looking at the biographies of those big shots, entrepreneurs, and strategists, you will find that this is not a shortcut, but a principle inscribed in the "I Ching," a natural law that follows the way of heaven.

Thus, in the first stage of 3-5 years, unwavering self-belief in the face of gains and losses is more important than anything else. The courage to charge ahead without fear of heaven or earth is more important than anything else. The bravery to give up stability and shatter the sense of security is more important than anything else. This period is meant for hitting the south wall, for straightening out the detours and exhausting the wrong paths.

Once you’ve survived the phase of wild experimentation and entered the second stage of deep cultivation for 10 years, the core shifts. Extreme patience becomes the key to victory, decisive decluttering and cutting out redundant links become essential subjects, and the ability to calm and settle the mind becomes a core competency. Because in this stage, it’s not brute force that matters, but strategy — exchanging time for space, seeking time through space, and only by enduring can one witness the clouds parting and the moon appearing.