Why do some people seem to have opened their third eye, always catching the right moment at critical life decisions? Meanwhile, you keep choosing the wrong major, entering the wrong industry, or buying the wrong house?

Choice is greater than effort, but it depends on your “predictive ability.”
Looking at Yang Zhenning’s life, he is a perfect example of avoiding pitfalls.
In the 1950s, he stayed at Princeton to focus on academics.
In the 1970s, he was among the first to visit China, helping to rescue domestic scholars.
In the 2000s, he returned to China to settle down but retained his foreign nationality to avoid systemic constraints.
It wasn’t until 2015 that he fully returned to his homeland, achieving fame and success.
In the academic field, he also demonstrated sharp insight.
Early on, he decisively abandoned popular experimental physics to pursue theoretical physics.
In the 1950s, he defied opposition and bet on “parity violation,” winning the Nobel Prize.
In the 1970s, he accurately predicted that the “golden age of high-energy physics was over.”
He openly opposed domestic spending huge sums to build colliders just to follow trends.
Even in marriage and health, he never took a wrong turn.
Both of his marriages precisely matched his current life stage.
In life, he early on decided that swimming caused minimal joint damage.
He continued swimming until age 90, maintaining physical and mental health far beyond ordinary people.
He always seems to make the absolutely correct choice amid favorable timing, geography, and human harmony.
Ordinary people, after being harshly tested by society, painfully realize that “choice is greater than effort.”
But when facing life’s crossroads, they can only act on instinct.
Ultimately, they become “reverse indicators” in life.
Why do you always choose wrongly, while top experts never miss?
The core secret lies in a word repeatedly mentioned by Yang Zhenning: Taste.
In his speech at Tsinghua University, he regarded it as the foundation for young people to make choices. This is not only about understanding personal preferences but also about sensing the development trends of things.
Where does this high-level Taste come from?
Eastern wisdom: observing objects and taking symbols, emphasizing a holistic grasp of things.
Western empiricism: inspired by top masters, mastering hypothesis and verification through deduction.
The perfect combination of big-picture intuition and rigorous empirical evidence is what ordinary people most lack in top-tier decision-making skills.