When you're young, time seems abundant, but attention is easily distracted—market trends, emotions, social interactions, short-term stimuli—gradually filling your mind. When you get older and look back to catch up, you'll find your energy no longer keeps up.

Books, for example, don't provide immediate returns or instantly change your situation in the short term, but they gradually shift your perspective on problems. Many judgments learned later were actually repeatedly emphasized in books, just without the patience to finish reading at the time. The earlier you develop long-term thinking skills, the less likely you are to be led astray by short-term fluctuations.

Now, I no longer pursue reading a large number of books; as long as I can sit quietly and read a little each day, even just ten or so pages, I am leaving room for the future. Market conditions will change, cycles will shift, but the knowledge you absorb will rarely betray you.