He says the people who survive the greatest adversity are often the truly blessed ones because their hardship reflects both a noble purpose and the chance to transcend circumstance.
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Hardship
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Jiang predicts that a form of national draft will be introduced to discipline young people through hardship, authority, work, and skill-learning because he sees them as too adrift.
Jiang says the CCP itself has already framed the present as a coming period of hardship in which people must eat bitterness and endure pain, suffering, and misery.
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"And so the one way that you know who's truly blessed and who's truly great are those who have survived the good times. The..."
"...the national draft is to discipline and train young people into hardship. The national draft doesn't necessarily mean you go to war and you..."
"...CDB has already said this, we are entering a period of hardship and decline and we need to, uh, circle eat bitterness. We need..."
"...similar in this way, but when things happen, when I experience hardship, although it sucks, it's not the best, there's part of me that's..."
"...Your parents aren't that great. You're poor. You're going to experience hardship, okay? But that's because your purpose here is to learn. And because..."
"...you one more? I want to see what was the greatest hardship you face and how did you overcome it?"
"Why face a lot of hardship? Hardships in my life. But I mean, like there are some distinct periods in my life when I..."
"...my entire family was very well, had a lot of financial hardship. So I feel that this is this is like a turning point."
"...war continues and much of the population will uh face tremendous hardship at the same time what this war is doing is rallying the..."
"...that some people need to be chased by a lion without hardship without having to fight and struggle for something the ideas that take..."
"He is looking after me. And he's built this path of hardship, of trauma, of agony. Just one day I could meet my wife..."
"...well as the universe. And that means a life of struggle, hardship, and pain. I'm sorry to say this, but that's the life we..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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