A small victory relies on wisdom, while a great victory relies on virtue. This phrase encapsulates the wisdom of life.

Duang Yongping's Insight: Why do the "most honest" people tend to win in the end?

His wisdom is not exclusive to the "big shots"; instead, it feels like a "pitfall avoidance guide" tailored for ordinary people.

Those seemingly "clumsy" persistences are precisely the shortest path through the fog of life.

Duang Yongping said: "Doing the right thing is a matter of values, while doing things right is a matter of ability." The former determines life and death, while the latter determines speed.

What counts as "doing the right thing"? Here are 5 underlying logics that ordinary people can simply copy:

1. Principles are worth more than利益: "Being true to oneself" is the ultimate "traffic password".

Duan Yongping's bottom line is very firm: "Right and wrong is more important than利益. On principled issues, right is right, and wrong is wrong; right and wrong should not give way to利益."

Being upright, kind, honest, and humble is not about being a "nice guy"; it's about building your character—just like Buffett said, "Kindness is your greatest personal brand." People nowadays are not foolish; if you deceive them once, you’ll be blacklisted for life. It's simply "picking up the Gate and dropping the watermelon."

2. Long-termism: Don't rush to count the leaves during the "rooting period"

"Most people fail because they are eager to count the leaves before the roots are firmly planted." How many people's anxieties does this statement by Duan Yongping resonate with? A redwood tree only grows 3 meters in its first 10 years, but in the next 10 years, it shoots up to the sky. Liu Zhenyun advises graduates, "If you are going to plant a tree, plant a pine tree; if you are going to be a person, be like Liu Mazi." It all boils down to the same principle: long-termism is not about "waiting out time," but about being "friends with time."

The current "involution" and "fast-track anxiety" essentially stem from the desire to "skip the rooting process and directly bloom." Remember: only trees that take time to root can withstand the wind.

3. Stop Doing List: What not to do is more important than what to do.

Duan Yongping's "Non-Doing List" is a powerful weapon: "The reason we are who we are is largely because of the things we don't do." This perfectly complements the reverse thinking highly praised by Charlie Munger: "If I knew where I would die, I would never go there."

The most common mistake ordinary people make is to "want to try everything but excel at nothing." Learning to "let go and declutter" and rejecting people and things that drain your energy allows you to focus on truly valuable directions—after all, a person's energy is like a phone battery; wasting it will only lead to an early shutdown.

4. Slow is fast: shortcuts are the quickest way to get lost.

"Dare to be the last in the world" is Duan Yongping's motto, and it remains relevant today. Everyone wants to "overtake on a curve," but forgets that "it’s easiest to flip over on a curve"; everyone wants to "quickly cash out," but hasn't heard of Bezos and Buffett's famous exchange: Bezos asked, "Your investment system is so simple, why doesn't anyone follow you?" Buffett replied, "Because no one is willing to get rich slowly."

The truth is painful but practical: the biggest shortcut in life is not to take detours. Those seemingly "slow" perseverances will eventually become the "fast" that others cannot catch up with.

5. Correct errors quickly: Don't pay for sunk costs.

"Discovering mistakes and correcting them as soon as possible, no matter the cost, is the smallest price to pay." Duan Yongping's philosophy of correcting mistakes is so insightful! It's like someone getting on the wrong train, yet hesitating to get off because of the ticket cost, only to go further and further—this is not "persistence," this is "foolishness."