Most people accept a mechanistic worldview without thinking about it. They choose to live as little cogs inside a world they see as a huge factory. Their potential is shackled from early on and the limits to how much they can earn in their lifetime are already drawn. They think they need to control their greed and make sacrifices, and that only then can they overcome poverty.

The reason people fall into bad relationships is that their expectations are too high. Just wanting to get things from other people blinds you. If, on the other hand, you have the attitude that ‘I’ll be the first to give’ or ‘I’ll give more than I get’, you can avoid bad relationships and enter good ones.

People need to treat valuable relationships as precious, but if that attitude spills over to bad relationships, misfortune will follow. In a lot of cases, people’s good or bad fortune is decided by their relationships with others. Just as good fortune comes through gui-in, misfortune comes through bad relationships.

The real rich all live with the motto that ‘there is no free lunch’ and they know how to cultivate and invest in good relationships with gui-in.

Good fortune is multiplied by our effort, not added to it. If your effort is zero and you multiply it, the outcome is still zero. In the end, you’ve gained nothing.