Zhuangzi said, the skillful are tired from labor and the wise are worried, while the incapable have nothing to seek. Those who eat their fill and wander around, drifting like a boat without a tether. The meaning of Zhuangzi is simple: skilled people get tired from their craft, and intelligent people worry. Only those who are of little use, after eating and drinking, wander around freely, living like a small boat without anyone tying it down, drifting wherever they please. To put it plainly, your little skills and cleverness are precisely the ropes that trap you. Truly free people are exactly those who are willing to be useless.

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