The original plan for today had been to film five short videos. A month of irregular updates had already affected his traffic.
He got his pen and paper ready, set up the equipment, and began recording.
But when the pen touched the paper, its tip shook uncontrollably.
He wrote a few words and was deeply disappointed.
His mind was in turmoil.
Four words surfaced in his mind: know when to stop.
Right.
Stop.
In his current state, he could do nothing well. He would only make things worse.
His body relaxed, and he slumped onto the bed.
He reached beneath his pillow and pulled out the thread-bound ancient book that had changed his fate.
He opened it to a new page.
[Fourteen Arts of Fate Change: In Managing People, Begin with Doubt, and maintain it until their task is done. A rope may bind the body, but how can it fetter the will? Humans are the most intelligent of creatures; they change between dawn and dusk. Only by watching with a doubtful eye can one perceive their subtle, hidden changes.]
Wang Xiaoliang read it word by word, turning it over in his mind again and again.
His understanding was that when employing someone, or working with someone on a task, he should adopt a skeptical attitude from the very beginning, and that skepticism should last until the matter was completely over.
A rope could bind a person's body, but how could it bind their thoughts and will?
Humans were the most intelligent of all creatures, and their thoughts changed from moment to moment. What they thought in the morning might differ from what they thought at night. Only by watching them with a skeptical eye at all times could he discover those minute changes, or the changes they