The world operates on two systems: the visible and the invisible lines. Those who succeed in worldly terms are well-versed in the rules of both systems. The visible line is your effort following established rules, leveling up, and pursuing externally recognizable achievements such as academic advancement, job seeking, promotion, and wealth accumulation. However, the visible line serves your invisible line. Many people focus solely on these external "halos" - obsessing over titles like the youngest CEO, youngest CMO, Forbes rankings, salaries, social evaluations, management positions, and the role of being an entrepreneur, mistakenly believing these represent control of their destiny. Once removed from a specific balanced system, they quickly devalue and even collapse, which is the so-called mid-career crisis many experience when losing control after leaving their original system. Your invisible line is what you must serve from beginning to end. Continuously add chips to your invisible line through visible results, constantly strengthening its capabilities and energy. However, you must clearly understand that the applause and fame on the visible line should not be dwelled upon. Ultimately, the invisible line determines how far, how long, and how safely you will go. As an innovator and entrepreneur, your internal cultivation continuously improves, making external visible events increasingly smaller in your life. With strong internal power, visible line events become easier and more effortless, and you become increasingly indifferent. Even if all external halos are taken away, you can start over - this is the energy of the invisible line. Enduring trials, true cultivation requires using the false. Use the visible line to cultivate your invisible line; external halos are false, internal cultivation is true - use the false to cultivate the true. The invisible line is the internal cornerstone determining your fate: cognitive depth, thinking patterns, spiritual resilience, industry positioning, social resource networks, complex balanced systems, risk-resistant knowledge reserves, strategic vision across short and long cycles - these internal cultivations of the "way" and "method" transcend the worldly rules of the visible line. This is a stage true innovators and entrepreneurs must go through. The process can be painful when taking detours, but looking back, it's all calibration, virtual testing, and correcting the balance of fate back to its original trajectory. Pursue harmony between visible and invisible, seek inner sage and outer king, and unify individual internal cultivation with external achievements. Awaken the emperor within yourself, and be like <刘邦>.

When writing these words, I thought of many famous people in history who are far away from me, but there is also a silly foreigner who is very close to me and can touch the reality and see him striving every day. @armaniferrante

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