Tonight I only meant to have a casual chat with you. But when I finished writing, I was surprised to find the whole piece carries a quiet thread of Zen wisdom — an almost ethereal quality.
I think this may be a sign that Heaven, in its mysterious way, also wants you to see this.
Even if what follows reveals a simple yet vast heavenly secret (天机).
Not long ago, I took the time to look back over all the brothers and sisters I’ve guided over the years — a straightforward review. And I arrived at a remarkable conclusion:
To live well in this life, you don’t need extreme intelligence. You don’t need extreme luck either.
In fact, excessive cleverness and scheming tends to invite a powerful backlash — leading to the tragic outcome where “all the careful plotting, all the calculating, ends in exposure and collapse, with both people and wealth lost.”
I’ve seen far too many such cases in my own circle.
And yet, almost without exception, every person who continues to thrive well into their thirties and beyond carries one strikingly simple philosophy of life:
Good mindset & correct values.
What does “good mindset” mean? Clear thinking. Decisive action. Generous and kind. No love for inner turmoil. A genuine love of life. Willing to turn the page when things go wrong.
What does “correct values” mean? Not chasing short-term gains. Treating others with sincerity. Patient in building foundations. Persistent through repeated setback. Willing to share benefits with others and maintain mutual reciprocity.
Yes, these traits may sound common — even ordinary. But the people who genuinely live by them day after day are truly rare.
So why do these seemingly ordinary people end up achieving such remarkable life outcomes?
It’s simple. Under the dual power of a good mindset and correct values, your forward momentum becomes remarkably light and easy.
“Easy” doesn’t mean you won’t encounter hardship. It means you recover from it quickly.
While others are still stewing in frustration over life’s small irritations — still plotting how to retaliate and get even — you’ve already moved on like a carefree, radiant young spirit, throwing yourself into the next stage of growth.
Even when life deals you a serious blow, such a person will, in a short time, gather themselves back together and stride forward again.
You are that sunlit, weightless kind of person. Nothing can hold you down.
And this philosophy of life naturally draws you toward others who carry the same positive energy — the right people, the right opportunities, the right circles.
As the saying goes, like attracts like. These circles tend to be precisely where positive wealth and quality opportunities concentrate.
What’s interesting is that if you ask these people what their secret is, they often can’t quite articulate it.
They’ll simply tell you they were just doing what needed to be done.
Yes. The greatest Dao (the Way) is the simplest. The greatest form is the formless.
The truest life wisdom is nothing more than the most ordinary “sunshine and brightness.”
Over the years I’ve also spent a great deal of time reviewing the people around me — those who have repeatedly broken through wealth ceilings, and those who, after falling, have rebuilt their momentum from scratch.
I tried to find more specific, detailed advantages in each of them.
But no matter how hard I looked, each person’s details were different. The only constant thread running through all of them, without exception: good mindset & correct values.
And so over the years, whenever I’ve encountered readers weighed down by life’s struggles — faces clouded with misfortune, coming to me to have their life pattern (格局) read in search of a way forward — I would always first ask them to think clearly about three things.
1 — Your current struggle is genuinely not a big deal.
Because 99.99% of life’s difficulties, no matter how large and impossible they seem right now, will — as long as they don’t involve life and death — gradually be absorbed and adapted to within about five years.
2 — You cannot spend your days wandering in pain. No matter how hard things are, you must grit your teeth and keep moving forward.
Don’t let small scrapes scare you out of the game. Life’s error tolerance is actually far higher than you imagine.
So when you encounter hardship, learn to push through anyway. The more you keep moving, the more opportunities appear — and in the end, you will always walk out into a good outcome.
3 — As long as you have a good mindset and correct values, you cannot be trapped and you cannot be defeated.
Don’t waste your life in endless self-doubt and fear.
Look at those who have failed — and you’ll notice: the world is the same world, but they see every day as the apocalypse, with no hope in anything.
Stay far away from such people. Their Chi field (气场) will drag yours down with them.