# "A Long-Hodler's Final Battle: 5000u Survival Path" Day 10

**Today's Result: -6u Loss**

Continued picking up new trash today. The debot I used only lost a few u in trading, but the account shrunk by 80u( (checked on Solana block explorer for account value). This is ridiculous. Decided to never use debot for trading again. Tomorrow I'll find ways to optimize trading costs further, try using jup instead. Also adjusting my trading targets back to old memes to take a bite—I've seen successful cases.

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# Picking Stones from the River 3.17 Day 4

Watched the preface and first chapter of "People's Choice, Heaven's Choice Wheel" today. It talks about how humans' most primal desires are only two: one is greed, the other is fear. It compares human thoughts to a river, with greed and fear being two stones at the river bottom. The river water represents human thoughts, incoming water represents input information, riverbanks represent personality and values, etc. Each person's river has different width, depth, and flow speed. The river's surface is like human emotions, which blocks you from seeing the deepest essence at your river bottom. People's misfortune, Heaven's blessing—here "misfortune" doesn't mean disaster but rather refers to the price paid. Humans cannot choose their own ending, but can choose what price to pay for it.

Overall, I don't quite understand it all. Vaguely it seems to teach using this thinking method to see through the essence of things, getting closer to seeing the Dao. First see through yourself clearly, then apply it across the board to better understand others. So after practice, you can better align with the Dao in your actions, naturally increasing success rates.