Edge people have more insights compared to central people.
The mainstream group that is opposite to edge people is called central people. For central people, there are many things that are taken for granted and natural, but for edge people, they are not taken for granted and natural, and they need to question why.
Let's take a few examples of independent individuals.
1/ "Masayoshi Son came from a poor background and is a Korean-Japanese ethnic minority in Japan, which made him face discrimination. But on the other hand, he went to Berkeley and attended high school in California, which gave him some advantages. In his teenage years, he broke away from the working class and embarked on a path to a more successful life. Having unique experiences is a good thing."
2/ "The ruler of Dubai is a person with great political ambitions, extraordinary imagination, and courage. The official religion of the United Arab Emirates is Islam, mainly Sunni. Interestingly, the ruling family of Dubai is Shiite, while the people under its rule are Sunni. The headquarters of the Shiite sect is in present-day Iran.
As an Arab Shiite, the ruler's family is different from other Arab people in terms of sect, and different from Persian people in terms of bloodline who share the same sect. The ruler of Dubai is in a special identity dilemma and is an edge person in whichever side he is on.
The ruler of Dubai is in an edge position, which forces him to ask good questions and thus find good answers.
I have also experienced being an edge person, and this experience has brought me additional insights and spiritual wealth.
When I first realized my position as an edge person, I hadn't fully transitioned from the mindset of a central person, so my initial reaction was to find similar people. When I couldn't find similar people, I encountered an identity dilemma and fell into a state of political depression and profound mental anxiety, feeling miserable every day: Why don't others see everything that has happened as a problem? Why do others forget so quickly? Why has reality evolved to this point?
This dilemma forced me to seek a way out in terms of both mentality and action.
I have confirmed that I am not one of the people on this big ship. I am looking at this big ship from elsewhere, so "who am I"?
Since I don't accept the poems sung on this big ship and don't accept the definitions given to me, I must rely on myself to sort everything out, understand more than the people on the ship, and speak more clearly than them in order to resolve this confusing identity crisis.
So I started to question the origins and reasons behind phenomena, find answers from history and the laws of large cycles, and find answers from people's experiences in the first half of their lives. I realized that ethnicity, nationality, political parties, and even religion are four different concepts, but people often mix them up and confuse them; I realized that people cannot imagine something they have never seen; I realized that propaganda and actions can be "signal left, turn right".
By sorting out the motives behind phenomena and propaganda, the boundary of "what can be changed and what cannot be changed" is no longer so rigid. I have rebuilt my subjectivity and let go of the confrontation with my past identity.
There is a set of ideas and emotions influenced by my own identity, and there is a set of livelihood skills that are not influenced by my own identity.