Your true product is a self-driven life system.

Author: Mao

Since I posted that tweet about wanting to become a "Super Individual," I received quite a few friendly jabs from friends. Some said I was coining new terms and playing with the "super" concept, while others joked that I might end up as a "super retail investor."

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But I am serious. I have spent a lot of time thinking about what a "Super Individual" is and, based on my experiences, I have established a preliminary framework for becoming a Super Individual starting from the crypto space. After nearly eight years of navigating the crypto world, I haven't achieved major results, but I have gained a lot. As one of the lucky ones, I sincerely hope you can learn about this concept early on for reference. At the same time, I hope to connect with friends who share the same philosophy through this article, so we can grow together. Additionally, I wrote a somewhat naive post last week, which essentially explained: Super Individual > Crypto Trading Life; and I used the absurd example of "Nine Lives of a Retail Investor" to illustrate it, laying a preliminary ideological foundation. My thoughts weren't very refined at the time, but I shared the joy of that moment of realization. If you're interested, you can take a look:

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1. What is a "Super Individual"?

🔹 Super Individual = Super Individual

Super Individual is closest to the original meaning, emphasizing "the awakening and growth of the individual," not just making money or starting a business. It can be further elaborated into three dimensions:

1/ Sovereign Individual 2/ Solo Entrepreneur 3/ Self-Evolving Individual

In this era of AI + Crypto, a so-called "Super Individual" is, in simple terms, someone who can master both AI productivity and financial sovereignty in a world dominated by algorithms and capital, allowing their cognition, wealth, and influence to become independent.

If we are indeed moving towards a cyberpunk world, a life that is "fed by AI," "pushed by algorithms," "led by market emotions," and "manipulated by insider trading" is quite suffocating.

I want to be the kind of ordinary person who has computing power, sovereignty, awareness, and the ability to grow. I may not earn the most money, but I can control the rhythm of my life and not be trapped by most constraints.

Don't think that only super tycoons like Musk can break free from the framework. In fact, true freedom has little to do with money or status; it is a mindset, a posture. Confucius said that at seventy, one can achieve "doing as one wishes without overstepping the bounds." I believe that in this era, even if you are not the "chosen one" making big money, this generation of Crypto Natives has every opportunity to achieve this by their twenties or thirties.

2. Why does this concept only hold in the AI + Crypto era?

In the Web2 era, people were fed by algorithms, kidnapped by traffic, exploited by data, and wrapped in value systems; in the era of Web3 + AI, we have, for the first time, two easily accessible tools and powers:

1/ The first major weapon: AI = Amplifying your cognition, creativity & productivity

It gives individuals the power of a "thousand-person think tank," lowers knowledge barriers, and forms "cognitive compounding." A person who knows how to use Vibe Coding and is willing to use AI to enhance their productivity can achieve productivity comparable to that of an entire company.

2/ The second major weapon: Crypto = Amplifying your wealth and financial sovereignty

A single wallet allows individuals to have absolute sovereignty over their assets for the first time, no longer dependent on banks, institutions, or intermediaries.

The combination of these two is the starting point of the "Super Individual." AI provides you with productivity, and Crypto gives you financial sovereignty. If you can also learn independently, earn independently, and express yourself loudly, no longer manipulated by algorithms, institutions, or emotions, then I believe you are not far from becoming a "Super Individual." As for how to proceed from there, I am still exploring.

3. Five Stages to Become a Super Individual from the Crypto Space

Our generation is unique. Because of the existence of cryptocurrencies, we have more time freedom and wealth accumulation, and we have explored our own way of survival. Some rely on trading coins, some on airdrops, some write research, and some create content.

In short, every person who survives is already closer to awakening than those who remained in the last round of the casino.

But the hardest part of the crypto space is not "surviving," but "understanding how to live."

As the author, I am still struggling in the sea of crypto and often worry that I am not the chosen one who makes big money and achieves great results. However, I have coexisted with this thought and am determined to become a Super Individual. Perhaps the following framework can inspire you:

Stage One: Awakening — From Digital Anxiety to Mental Clarity

Realizing the limitations of a "crypto trading life." We think the endpoint of the market is financial freedom, but that is merely an illusion. The wild fluctuations in coin prices are just the illusion of a bull market; the real main line is whether you can achieve your desired expectations and maintain clarity.

Practice Direction: 1/ Stop defining the value of a day by gains and losses. 2/ Start introspecting, observing your desires (what you truly want) and fears (what you truly fear).

Mindset: Find a rational anchor between greed during surges and panic during drops. The mark of awakening is that you no longer just watch the market but begin to observe your inner self.

Stage Two: Balance — Integrating Investment into Life Systems

When one day you find that making a lot of money does not bring you joy, or losing a lot of money does not make you as sad as you imagined, you will realize that the gains and losses of investments are just one dimension of life. True growth comes from balance: thinking and practice, AI and humanities, wealth and health, solitude and socializing all need balance. The market is just one of the training grounds for achieving balanced moderation.

Practice Direction: 1/ Dedicate 40% of your energy daily to "the non-market self." 2/ Make creation, reading, and exercise your remedies against anxiety.

Stage Three: Autonomy — Rebuilding the Value System

The biggest illusion in the crypto space is the belief that "others know the answers" through comparison. True autonomy is comparing only with your past self and redefining your belief system.

Practice Direction: 1/ Do not be swayed by major exchanges, KOLs, token issuers, or social opinions. 2/ Establish your own "mental research model" and "asset allocation system." 3/ Extend wealth sovereignty into time sovereignty and spiritual sovereignty.

Stage Four: Long-term Compounding and Sovereign Self — Growth is Faith

Compounding is not just the growth of asset curves but also the multidimensional accumulation of cognition, personality, skills, influence, and spiritual power. The market is unpredictable, but only time will compound for the awakened. When you start to learn to stretch time, for example, thinking in ten-year units, you will navigate the market with more ease and confidence.

At the same time, sovereignty is the core keyword of this stage. It is a sense of control that means not only controlling your assets, keys, and identity but also controlling your emotions, choices, attention, and the rhythm of your destiny.

Practice Direction: 1/ Design a life blueprint in ten-year units: wealth, skills, works, connections, and spirit across five dimensions. 2/ Let AI be your cognitive leverage: learn faster, express stronger, and gain deeper insights. 3/ Let Crypto be your capital leverage: understand the underlying logic of ownership, liquidity, and value transfer. 4/ Build your own Life Operating System (Life OS): including five major modules: mental management, information intake, learning cycles, financial reviews, and creative output.

Mindset: True freedom is not about doing whatever you want but about not being forced to do anything. When you have sovereignty, you no longer rely on external stimuli to confirm your existence because you have become the "Root Node" of your own system.

Stage Five: Infinite Possibilities and Infinite Games

At this point, your goal is no longer to "make money" or "win the game," but to enter a state of infinite games.

In finite games, people pursue victory or defeat; in infinite games, people pursue continuity and creation. Starting from the crypto market, you begin to understand that the market is not a casino but an energy amplifier. It allows you to continuously unlock infinite possibilities while transcending cycles, using the rules of the market to feed back into more dimensions of life.

In investment: Stability is fundamental, aiming for small gains; you no longer chase the dream of getting rich quickly, nor do you easily go all in. Instead, you establish a mechanism of "long-term stable allocation + small high-risk attempts":

Large positions for stable compounding — stablecoins, BTC, are the dividends of the era.

Small positions reserved for pursuing excess returns and high-risk exploration.

You can afford to lose and enjoy the gains; both wins and losses can bring learning and inspiration.

In life: Let the market feed back into life. When you are no longer bound by money, money begins to serve you. Any aspect of having the following mindset can be very helpful:

Making money is not the goal; it is to buy back time and freedom.

The returns on investment are not just numbers but allow you the luxury to read, travel, exercise, and create.

The setbacks and fluctuations the market brings you become the most authentic psychological training camp.

Practice Direction: 1/ Build your own asset portfolio and cash flow system: stability as the main focus, trial and error as a supplement. 2/ Let making money be the fuel that drives the quality of life, not a source of pressure. 3/ Let losses be feedback, not punishment. 4/ Use market cycles as the rhythm of life, driving the compounding of time, health, and cognition with wealth.

Mindset: True experts are not those who exit the market but those who can continue to evolve their lives amid market fluctuations. The endpoint of the infinite game is not "winning," but continuous upgrading, sustained existence, ongoing creation, and continuous growth.

🌌 Summary

Finally, I want to say to ordinary people still struggling in the sea of crypto (including myself), regarding money, don't be that loser who makes a lot of money but feels empty, anxious, and pretentious. A "Super Individual" may be a life posture that even the big shots who have made money over the past few decades envy.

Moving towards this goal, wealth may just be a byproduct of the energy you emit. Your true product is a self-driven life system.

This preliminary framework is essentially an evolutionary chain from trader → investor → long-term compounder → infinite game player → Super Individual.

Although there are still many imperfections, I plan to establish a small-scale, long-term "Super Individual" group soon, which will only accept members through recommendations.

I hope to gradually transform from "crypto trading friends" into true life friends. I hope to slowly transition from a "crypto trading life" to becoming a "Super Individual" who controls their own life.

Perhaps this is just a bit of my utopian fantasy, a moment of clarity. Will a misstep lead to total loss? Will I still sink into the sea of trading? Will I still be close to inverted dreams? I don't know.

But what I sincerely look forward to is this path to becoming a Super Individual.

The road is long and winding; being able to encourage and grow with like-minded people may increase the chances of success!

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