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Despite having the world’s largest proven oil reserves and once being among the richest countries, Venezuela’s leaders nationalized foreign oil firms and used high oil revenues to fund massive welfare, subsidies, and populist handouts instead of developing diversified industries and sound institutions. When oil prices fell, printing money led to hyperinflation, shortages, poverty, and mass emigration. True freedom is personal responsibility - not dependence on government wel

How did Mexico's drug heaven develop from the context of U.S. drug policies and geography? U.S. prohibitions on opium, alcohol, and marijuana pushed the black industry to Mexico, while Mexico's poverty and corruption fueled its growth. Since 1971, the U.S. "War on Drugs" has ended in failure, giving rise to countless smaller, more violent criminal gangs. Today, both countries suffer: Mexico is plagued by the chaos of drug cartels, while the U.S. faces mass drug addiction.

Reading aloud develops language pattern recognition, which is crucial for fluency and natural expression. Humans process language in chunks or “patterns”, not word by word. Through repeated exposure, common sentence structures and collocations become automatic mental modules. Native speakers acquire these patterns unconsciously through massive input, forming intuition about what “sounds right”. Second-language learners lack this environment, but extensive reading aloud replic

Regular aloud reading transfers expressions from short-term to long-term memory, making them instinctive. Moreover, reading aloud cultivates a natural sense of rhythm and flow in language, which formal education rarely teaches. Lacking such training leads to awkward, unbalanced writing and poor expression, even in one’s native language. Thus, reading aloud builds fluency, intuition, and stylistic grace.

Reading aloud powerfully strengthens memory and comprehension. Fluent language use, testing success, and logical reasoning all depend on language memory. Reading aloud transforms understanding into memory through repetition and active engagement. Memory and comprehension reinforce each other: better memory enhances understanding, and deeper understanding improves memory. Thus, extensive reading aloud builds the mental foundation for fluency, logic, and efficient learning.

“listening practice” is unnecessary and misguided, because true listening ability comes naturally from strong speaking ability.Real improvement in listening comprehension requires improving expressive ability—especially through extensive reading aloud, which strengthens pronunciation, rhythm, and comprehension, addressing the true root of listening difficulties.

Real reading involves three natural methods - skimming, silent reading, and lip reading - each suited to text difficulty. The true bottleneck is how fast the brain understands meaning, not how fast the eyes scan words. Since reading aloud strengthens comprehension and trains accurate sentence reconstruction, it is the most effective way to increase reading speed and understanding, especially for advanced language learning and exams.

The passage argues that reading aloud is a simple but powerful training method for comprehension, neglected by most people in both native and foreign language learning. Inability to read aloud smoothly usually signals poor comprehension. Repeated reading aloud reinforces this skill. Thus, reading aloud is not mere performance but a foundational exercise that shapes thinking and lifelong learning quality.

The essay argues that reading aloud is humanity’s oldest and most effective language-learning method, yet it is often neglected. Xiaolai Li illustrates this through a personal story in the junior high school: Later, as a teacher, he recognized that his success in English test in school came not from talent but from simple, consistent, and powerful habit of daily reading.

The text argues that reading aloud is humanity’s most powerful yet forgotten language learning method. The author recounts regaining true English fluency by daily reading bible verses aloud, proving its transformative effect. He criticizes modern “efficiency” myths and indicate that reading aloud is both cognitive training and spiritual therapy, a simple, universal way to strengthen the brain and reshape the mind.

Reading Aloud is the most rewarding personal activity. This is because language ability is the highest-leverage skill, serving as the foundation for the most profitable fields (AI, marketing, media) and for all advanced human cooperation and civilization. The alarming decline in public language skills, evidenced by fragmented thinking and social chaos, stems from abandoning practices like reading aloud.

American right, through its deep alliance with evangelical Christians, is pushing the U.S. toward theocracy. This movement promotes anti-science views and legislates religious doctrine, particularly through abortion bans, creating a fundamental conflict over America's secular identity.

Economics is value-neutral, while left and right are judgments about value.  Regardless of left or right, neither of them is a small government. Left-wing still upholds the fundamental principles of the French Revolution, also known as natural human rights. Its philosophy is that everyone has equal rights. Constant expansion of the boundaries of rights, e.g. equality of outcome, is one of the greatest mistakes of the left.

In today's economy, making money efficiently no longer depends on sheer effort or being a jack-of-all-trades. Instead, it lies in combining your personal expertise (such as cooking, writing, or manufacturing) to the capital goods platforms built by tech giants like Wechat, TikTok and Uber, etc., thereby achieving the most efficient specialization. Understanding and leveraging the rules and logic of these platforms is the wealth code for today.

Despite having the best conditions, India fails to become an industrial powerhouse and its industrial output is only about one-eighth that of China's. The primary reason is the overly restrictive labor laws in India. The second reason why industry struggles to develop in India is the land issue.

Europe has already fallen into the trap of welfarism.  The biggest evilness of the welfare system is that it fundamentally subverts a person's values, leading people to believe that survival is a right without effort, and that taking from others is more natural and justifiable than giving. History has repeatedly shown that welfare-state policies ultimately lead to the collapse of the system.

Pull your attention away from the news of ups and downs in the market, and instead, focus it on the world "outside of investing", especially on improving your ability to make money off the field. Sales is helping other people sell their time repeatedly many times

Successful investing is fundamentally a journey of self-mastery, not market prediction. The greatest obstacle to wealth is our own irrational behavior. The solution presented here is a dual strategy: Internally, we must stop fighting ourselves and instead train our rational mind to work in harmony with our emotions and instincts. Externally, this means recognizing the boundary of our control and sticking to a simple, passive strategy like Regular Investing.

How much money should you set aside for investing? The answer is simple and the criteria is that you should not use this money for any kind of spending within at least the next two major market cycles.

Investing is the best starting point to solve the problem of having no money. Investing would force you to improve your ability to earn money and to upgrade your “personal business model”.