Chapter 3 · Attacking Stratagems
拋磚引玉
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Toss a Brick to Attract Jade
拋磚引玉
toss · brick · attract · jade
Offer something cheap to bait out something valuable — a real answer, a commitment, a rival's hand.
今 Today
You post a deliberately rough "here's my crude take" draft in the forum. The experts can't resist correcting it, and their corrections hand you the polished expertise you actually wanted, for free.
反 When it backfires
Sometimes the bait just sits there. Pitch it too crude and the experts don't rush in to correct you — they ignore you, or quietly file you as the amateur you were pretending to be.