Before the age of forty, one must endure tribulations to temper mind and spirit. This is no toxic soup of rhetoric, but stark reality: great talents are forged in the fires of great vicissitudes. Torn between anxiety before reality and a longing for freedom and joy, one must realize that life's suffering is inevitable—it is far wiser to bear it early. If you can withstand those pivotal years of youth, a breakthrough before forty is well within reach. Yet if, approaching forty, you remain utterly ignorant, lacking the capacity to earn, quick to anger, and unable to bear risk, you are truly undone. What is genuine suffering? Mere physical trial is only the prelude; true suffering is having one's spirit trampled time and again, seeing hope repeatedly extinguished only to be reignited, and standing firm in inner passion despite the world's misunderstandings... Never harbor the illusion of perpetual smooth sailing. Those who preach that a bland, passive existence yields a stable life are serving true poison. Awaken in time; do not remain a giant infant at a mature age. Actively embrace hardship, actively forge breakthroughs—do not sit waiting for opportunity, nor wait for doom.