One who does not hold a position should not meddle in its affairs.
Just as when Qin Shi Huang unified the six states: viewed from outside his perspective, everything he did brought countless suffering to innumerable commoners. But viewed from his perspective, his actions were undoubtedly great.
First, one had to dare to imagine. Then, one had to dare to act.
Only in the end was there a certain chance of success.
Of course, there were far more failures.
Because history recorded only the deeds of the successful. Failures deserved only to serve as supporting characters in the successful people's life stories.
But from another perspective—
If one did not even dare to think, then neither failure nor success would ever appear.
And from this perspective—
Never even appearing—
Was itself a kind of failure.
Therefore, thinking was undoubtedly the most important thing. Thinking did not necessarily lead to success, but not thinking would definitely lead to failure. Since the worst outcome was failure anyway, why not try working hard once?
Even if one failed, they would be no different from those who had never struggled—they were all failures. Besides, even with exactly the same failure, if the opponent was outstanding enough, did the loser not have the right to appear in the history books as a supporting character and become part of the protagonist's story?
Thus, thinking had been proven valuable.
After that, the next question that arose was—defining the limits of thought!
Thinking had value.
But wild fantasies had none.
If an ordinary person pondered how to destroy the world, there was nothing fundamentally wrong with it. But even if such thinking produced an answer, it would still be an answer that an ordinary person could never accomplish.
That even overlooked why such a thought had occurred to