Don't show the same intelligence to everyone; just put in as much effort as the thing requires. Don't waste your knowledge and talents in vain. A good falconer keeps only those hawks he can use. Don't show off your talents every day, otherwise people will no longer think there is anything special about you before long. So you always have to have some tricks up your sleeve. If you can often show off a little bit of fresh talent, people will always have expectations of you and won't know how deep and broad your talent is.
A chick asked its mother: "Why do you need an egg a day?" The hen said: "An egg a day, put aside the sword and ax. The value of the past does not represent the status of the future." This was the last time this old hen was Chicken soup.
When your dedication becomes the habit of the greedy, once you have no value, they will treat you as garbage. Don’t wait until you can’t carry the pot or digest the bread and feel dejected. You still need to know the devil's methods and the means to deal with the devil's means, and you must not let the devil know that you know their methods, nor let the devil know that you know the means of dealing with the devil.
Your love should be given to those who love you, and your wisdom should be dedicated to human society. At least you can't waste your talents, let alone become someone's tool like falcons and cormorants.
Therefore, you cannot unknowingly be brainwashed by certain concepts and lose yourself, such as being indifferent to fame and wealth, being money-oriented, being wolfish, and being detached. If you read too many books like this, you will lose yourself. . You are the center of the world, you are the whole world. Things as distant and illusory as the universe have no meaning to you.
Don't try to be a refined egoist, nor an idealist, then be a realist.
knows what he wants and sets achievable goals for himself rather than unrealistic dreams.
know what we should do, and the looks of others cannot be the criterion for our evaluation.
has clear boundaries with others, and will never do things that he cannot accomplish to avoid getting himself into trouble. Use the most practical conditions and methods to achieve the desired results.
Don't confuse realism in philosophy with realism in life. Don’t slip into the quagmire of egoism either. The goal of refined egoists is to maximize personal interests, which is unrealistic in itself. They are often the targets of attacks by idealists. The final victory cannot be theirs, because the refined egoists’ opportunistic way of thinking determines their tragic ending.
