Have you ever had this feeling — when looking at history, you feel that opportunities are everywhere; but when looking at the present, all you see are problems.

This sense of dislocation is deadly. Young people lament over candlestick charts, "If only I had been born ten years earlier, I would definitely have caught the Crypto train"; post-90s envy post-80s for their timing in buying houses; post-80s reminiscing about their parents' era, feeling that although it was poverty-stricken, opportunities were abundant.

We all subconsciously believe that it is the era that creates these people. But in fact, this is survivor bias at work.

Was it really that easy to buy Bitcoin ten years ago? Back then, there were no decent exchanges, no reliable wallets, and everyone around was saying it was a scam. Was it simple to bottom out the real estate market twenty years ago? The mortgage debt was crushing, no one knew urbanization would evolve into what it is today. Was starting a business during the early days of reform and opening up easy? That was called "going to sea," and it was embarrassing to admit. Business rules were a tangled mess, all about blind improvisation.

No era has ever been clear, comfortable, and filled with gold. Everything later touted as a "hot spot" looked like a crazy gamble at the time — even a game of life and death. Filled with chaos, mockery, and endless uncertainty.

Those who ultimately succeed are not because they see through the future. It’s because, when most people choose stability, they choose to take risks and enter the game.

Now it’s our turn. AI is redefining productivity, Crypto is reconstructing the financial system, biotech breakthroughs are beyond imagination — you probably don’t understand these new things, right? The noise, chaos, and controversy now, does it make you annoyed?

This precisely shows we haven't missed out. The chaos of the housing market and the internet bubble back then looked just as messy as now.

What will 2026 look like twenty years from now? The next generation will definitely envy us to death, regret why they didn’t do more in 2025.

The key question is: when those later people look back at us, are we already at the poker table? Or are we just sitting outside, sighing?