Honestly, whether a person can get rich overnight in their lifetime largely depends on whether they can seize those few historic-style crashes.

Ironically, including myself, nine out of ten people are terrified when a crash hits, running as fast as they can to escape.

Do you remember the oil crash? I bought the dip at $40, truly believing I was an investing genius—unbeatable. But it kept falling, reaching $20, and my hands started trembling. Every minute I was sweating cold, with only one thought in my mind—escape! If I didn't, I would lose all my principal!

I cut my losses. Bloodily.

That night, it kept crashing, down to $5.

A year later? $90.

I’ve made similar stupid mistakes more than once. During SARS, silver was only $11 per gram, so I bought. When it rose to $15, I eagerly sold, thinking I had made a killing. That night, I even treated myself to a chicken drumstick to celebrate. I don’t even want to mention what happened afterward.

See, “Greed when others are fearful, fear when others are greedy”—everyone can say this, it’s everywhere.

But when real blood and chaos come, and the numbers in your account start dropping rapidly, your instinctive response is more honest than any theory. The fear that arises from your bones is something evolution has ingrained into your genes over millions of years.

Knowledge? Logic? At that moment, they all become hollow.

What does it take to truly profit from a crash? It’s the anti-humanity skills.

It’s the courage to laugh and step forward when everyone else is retreating. This isn’t stupidity, it’s enlightenment.