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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a classic work by French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. The book summarizes twelve major characteristics of groups: 1. Impulsive, changeable, and impatient: Groups are easily influenced by external stimuli, with intense emotional fluctuations and a lack of rational thinking. 2. Easily suggestible and credulous: Groups tend to accept suggestions readily, believing unverified information without skepticism, lacking critical judgment. 3. Exaggerated and naive emotions: Group emotions often become extreme, black-and-white thinking, lacking nuance. 4. Paranoid, domineering, and conservative: Groups stubbornly cling to their beliefs, reject outsiders, and exhibit strong exclusivity. 5. Morally polarized: Groups can make the highest sacrifices or commit the most brutal crimes. 6. Lack of rational judgment: Groups do not engage in logical reasoning, only accepting simple, vivid ideas. 7. Imaginative but illogical: Groups are easily moved by vivid images and legends rather than facts and logic. 8. Lack of critical spirit: Groups do not question or verify, accepting or rejecting ideas wholesale. 9. Simplified emotions: Groups understand only simple, extreme feelings, unable to grasp complex and subtle emotions. 10. Easily influenced by authority: Groups worship authority and are easily manipulated by leaders. 11. Pursuit of ideals and beliefs: Groups need faith and ideals to unify, even if these ideals are illusory. 12. Contagiousness: Emotions, ideas, and behaviors within groups are highly contagious, causing individuals to lose self-awareness. These characteristics reveal the irrational nature of group psychology and explain why individuals in groups...

When you exhibit these 10 signs, it means you are becoming stronger: 1. Emotions are becoming more stable. Less impulsive than in youth, more thoughtful when facing issues; no longer distressed by temporary gains and losses; and not anxious about things beyond your control. 2. Your perspective is expanding. Stay calm in the face of danger, able to view problems from multiple angles, with long-term vision and a global mindset, not letting trivial matters affect your emotions. 3. You can rationally handle others' evaluations. Have your own evaluation system, able to extract valuable insights from others' feedback and discard the useless parts, transforming beneficial evaluations into motivation for growth. 4. Focus on self-improvement. Reduce unnecessary social interactions, concentrate your energy on developing core competencies and accumulating knowledge, and set actionable goals and plans to enhance yourself. 5. Dare to confront anyone. Have clear personal boundaries, able to decisively and firmly express your stance when those boundaries are touched, and avoid falling into people-pleasing traps. 6. Have clear goals. Able to set long-term and short-term actionable objectives, turning vague wishes into practical action guidelines, with intrinsic motivation for continuous effort, and regularly review your progress. 7. Prioritize physical health. Understand that health is the foundation of everything, maintain a regular routine, pay attention to healthy and nutritious diet; also focus on mental health, always maintaining an optimistic attitude towards life. 8. Dare to break conventions. Possess critical thinking, able to challenge traditional ideas within the bounds of respecting laws and regulations, solve problems with innovative ideas and approaches, and quickly adapt to new situations.

30 Tips to Improve Yourself: 1. Don't always wear dark-colored clothes. 2. See through things, understand people; don't make yourself too exhausted in any relationship. 3. Buy fewer clothes and eat less; accumulate blessings through simplicity. 4. Don't watch suspense dramas; good beliefs help you gather energy. 5. Worry less about useless things, focus on earning money, and work hard. 6. Release your emotions when needed, stay away from PUA people. 7. Smile more! People who love to smile are luckier. Smile more, feel good yourself, and others will find you approachable. 8. Listen to light music more often; it can relieve stress. Avoid noisy sounds to protect your ears. 9. People who deceive you will make you sick; those who bully you will make you suffer; those who suppress you will bring trouble to themselves; people who don't return your money will bring disaster to themselves. Be kind to others; even if blessings haven't arrived, misfortune will stay away. Being malicious to others may prevent blessings from coming. 10. Stay calm in difficult situations; don't argue over right or wrong; don't fight over wins or losses; see the essence behind things. 11. Allow everything to be as it is, and also accept when things don't go as planned. 12. Relax a little; life won't always go smoothly just because you're tense. When you're no longer anxious, the world will bloom with flowers. 13. Distance yourself from useless social interactions; let go of unnecessary old items; stay away from people who make you unhappy. 14. Say less ominous words; sometimes, speaking too much of inauspicious words can make them come true. 15. Slow down; patience makes things go smoothly, and calmness brings peace. 16. When you're in a bad mood, spend a little money within your means to do what you love—like watching a movie.

What are the characteristics of the most likely people to cross social classes? 1. If heaven intends for you to become a person of high status, it will not let you live in a very comfortable environment in your early years. When heaven is about to entrust a great responsibility to someone, it first tests their resolve, exhausts their muscles and bones, starves their body, depletes their resources, and disrupts their plans. Life is a continuous process of renewal; only through constant breaking and rebuilding can new life be formed. The so-called hardships are merely the necessary path for the strong. 2. Many times, frustration comes from hitting walls in everything you do—perhaps a failed college entrance exam, unsuccessful interviews, setbacks in postgraduate exams, or entrepreneurial failures—but they keep fighting after each defeat. Remember, heaven will test a person by giving them more opportunities for experience. Jack Ma was rejected over 30 times in interviews, and Wang Jianlin was sued 222 times when he started his business. 3. Astonishing resilience True resilience is not just saying "I can persist," but seeing someone repeatedly knocked down and yet getting up again and continuing. Such people's ability to handle pressure often amazes onlookers—how can they keep going? But they just can. 4. Fearlessness Having a calm attitude towards life and death, with the drive to go all out. Even if they have nothing, they are not afraid of anyone. They understand to look at the bigger picture, knowing life is only about 30,000 days, and living with a fearless attitude. 5. Stable mental state Not extreme, not polarized, not self-destructive. When faced with setbacks, they won't fall into a cycle of self-doubt; when successful, they won't become arrogant. This mental stability is the foundation for sustained action. 6. Knowing how to turn cognition into real wealth Simply put, people can never earn more than what they understand.

21 Signs of Mastering Human Nature and Cunning: 1. When you want to refuse someone, don't say no directly; instead, delay. Delay until they lose interest, until the golden period of the matter has passed, and let them give up themselves—this is more dignified than refusing face-to-face. 2. When collaborating with others, think first like a villain, then like a gentleman. Lay all the worst outcomes on the table and include them in the contract. Once you've spoken all the harsh truths, the rest will be smooth sailing. 3. When you need help from others, don't say, "Can you do me a favor?" Instead, say, "Here's an opportunity for you to showcase your talents. Would you like to give it a try?" 4. When faced with someone’s questioning, the most clever response is not to explain but to ask a counter-question. Kick the ball back to them and trap them into self-justification. 5. In a new team, don't rush to show off; first learn to be a fool. Your clumsiness will numb everyone's vigilance, allowing you to secretly see everyone's true intentions. 6. To make someone follow you wholeheartedly, don't just give them money; give them a new identity and dignity they've never had before. 7. For those who talk behind your back, all you need to do in public is smile and say, "I hear you've been caring about me lately. Thanks for your effort." 8. Truly powerful people never lose their temper easily. They treat every insult and offense as energy reserves, which they store up and then unleash all at once at the most critical moment. 9. To see if someone is worth deep friendship, don't look at how good they are to you; look at whether they blame you immediately after you make a mistake or help you fix it first. 10. To gain recognition in a circle, it's not about pleasing everyone but about mastering this.

Experience

In the stock market, we often observe a peculiar phenomenon: novice traders tend to make money when buying and selling their first stock. This is the so-called "beginner's luck." Many "stock market rookies" also feel a sense of "I am the only one" after their first successful "test run," as if the stock market will become their ATM, and they can even achieve their "small goals" in life through stock trading. In fact, many times, "beginner's luck" is just luck! Making money is merely accidental, not inevitable.
When we were children, we probably learned the fable "Waiting by the Tree for the Rabbit." The original story: "There was a farmer in the Song State. In his field, there was a tree. One day, a rabbit ran and hit the tree, breaking its neck and dying. The farmer then put down his hoe and waited by the tree, hoping to catch another rabbit. But no more rabbits came, and he was laughed at by the people of the Song State." The story of waiting by the tree for the rabbit is simple, but its underlying meaning offers many warnings. The farmer took a fortunate event—hitting a rabbit with a tree— as a regular occurrence in life—waiting every day for a rabbit to hit the tree. Such good fortune without effort does not exist!
In stock trading, one must be cautious not to fall into a similar psychological trap as "beginner's luck." There is a term called "self-serving bias": when successful, attributing everything to one's own ability; when failing, blaming others or objective reasons. For example, many stock traders, once they make money, become ecstatic, believing they are chosen by heaven, and are once-in-a-lifetime stock gods; but once they lose money, they cry and complain, thinking it's bad luck or that they didn't burn incense and pray yesterday. In stock investment, mistaking luck for skill—this psychological bias—can easily lead to dangerous consequences.