Breaking the circle is the only chance for the poor to turn their lives around.

Have you ever noticed that among classmates who graduated from the same class, after a few years, some are able to achieve financial freedom, traveling everywhere every day, living an enviable life, while others can only stay in a small county town, earning just enough to fill their stomachs with a meager salary, and going to work feels like visiting a grave? What causes this huge gap?

For example, just yesterday, a friend messaged me about his situation. He graduated from college five years ago and has been working for five years. Although he works in a well-known big company in a first-tier city, he always feels unfree, still being a 'working dog', unable to live as freely as the rich do, going wherever they want.

And among the brothers I played with in college, some are now worth tens of millions, thriving in their careers, driving Bentleys. The last time we went out for a meal, it was really impressive and quite moving to see.

He wanted to ask me why there is such a big gap between people, how this gap is created, and whether it can be quickly bridged so that he, like his brothers, can become wealthy earlier.

I understand his thoughts. We were all ordinary people before, so how is it that a few years after graduation, one is in the sky and the other is underground? This kind of disparity is really hard to accept.

I shared my opinion: I said that in life, if you want to achieve something, there are two things that are most important; everything else is secondary. What are these two things?

The first is luck. The second is the environment, which means the circle you are in.

You often see reporters asking successful people in the news why they are so successful, and they always humbly say it’s just good luck. Although there are many factors that contribute to their success, luck is indeed an indispensable factor. As the saying goes, everything is ready except for the east wind; luck is that east wind. Only with luck can things be accomplished.

A simple example is that many people experienced layoffs and unemployment during the three years of the pandemic, and with nothing else to do, they had to shift their focus online and became involved in the cryptocurrency world, buying Bitcoin. Now, they have already doubled their investment.

You have to understand that under normal circumstances, it might take years of hard work to achieve such results, but luck came along, and BTC directly doubled your assets.