When Jin Shengtan commented on the 81st chapter of the Water Margins, he said that when talking about big things, one must first be extremely clever. What did he mean by that?
When Jin Shengtan commented on the 81st chapter of the Water Margins, he said that when talking about important matters, one must first wait for a very clever person to have a need and a person with an idea. He believed that when dealing with important matters, one needed not only intelligence but also sufficient judgment and decision-making ability. Jin Shengtan believed that if a person was too smart, he might be too self-aware and inflated, easily leading to wrong judgments and decisions that might even endanger the interests of himself and others. On the contrary, if a person was not very smart, they might lack enough judgment and thinking ability to make the right decision. Therefore, when dealing with important matters, it was necessary to find people who were both intelligent and determined to make wise decisions. The meaning of this sentence was to remind people that when dealing with important problems, they not only needed to use their own intelligence and wisdom, but also needed to learn to rely on others to listen to their opinions in order to make more correct decisions.