In this restless concrete jungle of a society, amid the great wave of the rapidly rising internet, and under the sensational headlines of a media eager for quick success, starting a business and making money seem to have become our only goal in life. Pursuing wealth is not a bad thing, but why do we actually earn money? 1. Making money is not a process, but a result. Before understanding this, we need to clarify the order of things—where does our money actually come from? In reality, our money is obtained through the exchange of value. So don't rack your brains every day thinking about how to make money; instead, first ask yourself if you have value. As the saying goes: When you constantly pursue excellence, success will surely catch up with you. Similarly, when you focus all your attention on enhancing your self-worth, money will naturally fly into your pocket. You won't even know what happened; it just comes on its own. In China, you'll notice a phenomenon: generally, people in their forties or fifties won't be too poor. Even an ordinary person owning two or three apartments and one or two cars is quite normal. Apart from the dividends of China's economic development, if you have worked diligently in an industry or a professional field for ten years, building a network or honing your skills, you can easily exchange the value accumulated over ten years for wealth. Making money is not a process, but a result that comes along when you do something well. 2. How to make more money? There's a popular joke: A person worked at a company for 10 years, doing the same work in the same way every day, and receiving the same salary every month. One day, he angrily demanded a raise from his boss. He said, "After all, I have 10 years of experience." The boss sighed, "You don't have 10 years of experience; you have one experience used for 10 years." So, whether you want to make money or make more money, you must keep learning and enhance your self-worth. Then the question arises: How exactly do you continuously enhance your self-worth? Any small piece of knowledge you know today could change your tomorrow, but if you stay in place, you're done. This makes us wonder: What force drives us to know a little more than yesterday every day? The answer is to always maintain a love and curiosity for this world. Seeing this, we come to an unexpected conclusion: The reason normal people can make money is actually "love and curiosity for this world," not anything else. If you can stay forever 18, forever with tears in your eyes, you are not far from making money. Surprised? I'm also surprised, but that's the fact. 3. Why can some people make a lot of money without working hard? Everything has exceptions, and making money is no different. Every era has its dividends: the post-75s encountered real estate, the post-85s encountered the internet. When you hit these big opportunities of the times, you can basically make money without much effort. Ten years ago, housing was one or two thousand per square meter; even if you just entered society, your monthly salary could buy several square meters. Without needing a down payment and with move-in ready conditions, you casually bought two units, and ten years later, you inexplicably became a millionaire. There are too many such examples; nothing strange about it. But you can't focus your life on searching everywhere for "dividends." Every generation has its own destiny. Perhaps our generation works hard for ten years and can't even afford a toilet, but perhaps the next dividend appears tomorrow morning. The only thing you need to do is be prepared tonight. 4. Why are we so eager to make money? Since we know that "the more you want to make money, the less you make," why are we still so persistent and eager to make money? Of course, it's the media's doing. You see, "making one million in ten years" basically no one reads, but "making one million in a day" gets clicks. Humans are herd animals. When you see ten thousand wealth-creation stories every day, you can no longer sit still. So most Chinese people's life goals have been polished into a uniform four-character phrase: I want to make money! Undeniably, myths and legends are born every day on this blue planet, but most people's lives are uneventful. Life teaches us to do things with purpose, while also warning us that "the more you want to make money, the less you make." So many people have made wrong choices in making money. Now you know what to do—pursue excellence, and success will catch up with you when you least expect it! Long press the QR code below, follow, and reply with the number 1 to browse related articles by category.