This article went through two rounds of revisions before it could finally be published.
Honestly, at first I didn’t even understand which parts were so sensitive. Then I realized — a great deal of what I wrote was simply too sharp, not exactly what the general public would comfortably absorb.
Fine. Some things got softened. But the core hasn’t changed.
It’s still brutally honest. Read at your own risk — and once you’re done, I’d suggest saving it somewhere you won’t lose it.
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Many people haven’t woken up to this yet: our era has long since entered an entirely new chapter.
But this “new chapter” isn’t just about the broader environment shifting. It means your entire survival playbook — your social wisdom, your wealth mindset, your complete worldview — has been fundamentally reset.
Everything, in the quiet and unremarkable passage of time, has undergone an irreversible transformation.
What exists now is a completely different version of the world.
Put plainly: if you’re still thinking with a pre-2019 mindset, you are already completely and utterly behind.
It’s like trying to run today’s apps on a five-year-old phone. Lag and failure are inevitable.
And falling behind means being eliminated. This is nature’s eternal law — survival of the fittest, without exception.
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Right now, you truly need to stop everything. Give yourself at least three months of genuine recalibration — deep reflection, honest review, serious reckoning.
Ask yourself honestly: is your current career actually growing? Is there still a future in it? Or has it already entered irreversible decline?
And further: can the path you’re on still yield real growth, experience, genuine opportunity, and wealth going forward?
If your honest answers to these questions are mostly grim — and you can’t see a clear way out — then it’s time to grab the wheel of your own destiny, and do it urgently.
Because in truth, you are already in free fall. You just haven’t noticed.
The only reason you didn’t see it sooner is that you weren’t willing to face the question directly.
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I previously wrote a piece titled “The Trends of the Next 5 Years — I Truly Dare Not Speak Too Plainly,” which spread widely across the internet.
Many who read it finally understood clearly: the turning of this era is swift and merciless. And their own industries were squarely in that old chapter — already on the edge of being phased out.
After that, many people poured into my community looking for answers and a way forward.
Let me state the only real answer plainly: having the courage to face your own obsolescence is itself already remarkable.
The vast majority of people don’t even have the courage to face the problem. They prefer to muddle along, barely surviving — until the water is at their chin. Only then do they cry out, uselessly, for help.
My position is clear: the only one who can save you is you.
We must be absolutely clear about this: the vast majority of routine, replaceable jobs — white-collar and blue-collar alike — will face undeniable disruption and iteration in the coming decade.
So understand this: grinding through the same repetitive work day after day is not dedication. It is avoidance.
Tactical busyness means nothing. Strategic decisiveness is the only way to break free.
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I strongly encourage every single reader to begin low-cost, lightweight entrepreneurship within the next two years.
“Low-cost” means you don’t need to put capital in — but you must get yourself into real commercial activity. Use your expertise, your resources, your network, and your channels to start generating income in whatever form works.
You won’t make serious money right away, and that’s fine. But within two years, you must have proven that at least two or three of these paths actually work.
Earning little at first is acceptable. The path must be viable.
And you cannot delay this. It is far more important than your rest, your entertainment, your comfort, or your feelings.
Over the past two years, I’ve noticed more and more people coming to me for a destiny reading only after they’ve truly hit a dead end in their careers.
Without exception, they were once respectable employees who spent their best years focused solely on their jobs — never once thinking to build a fallback. And now, backed into a corner, they finally thought of me.
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Many people, even today, still refuse to face reality. Fine. Let me ask you one question.
If, right now, you suddenly lost your job — and your age and experience are no longer enough to land you another position at the same level —
What would you do?
Close your eyes. Think carefully. Don’t run from it.
This question will find you eventually.
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Over the years, I have read the destiny charts (命盘) of countless people and given an enormous volume of tailored guidance — because every person is born different, and the right path forward is different for each.
But there is one thing I have said to nearly every reader who has come to me in these past two years: the era we live in is not what it was thirty years ago. The kind of windfall fortune that could be seized through sheer passion and boldness — the defining opportunity of the 1990–2010 period — is completely gone.
The wealth ahead — whether earned income, side income, or windfall — all requires a powerful foundation of real personal capability before you can even hope to hold onto it.
In other words, good wealth fortune (财运) alone is no longer enough. This era demands both fortune and genuine ability, working together.
Without that, even during a period of strong wealth fortune, all it translates to in real life is a slightly easier time hitting your full performance bonus. That’s it.
Is that worth calling meaningful?
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Another critically important matter — something I’ve reminded readers of repeatedly — is this: your social circle matters enormously.
But “your circle matters” doesn’t simply mean making sure the people around you are decent, steady, grounded, and hardworking.
That alone is not enough.
You also need to ensure your social sphere is as diverse as possible. If everyone around you is a rank-and-file employee, then no matter how upstanding they are, the thinking you exchange never rises above the grind-and-survive mentality of the overworked.
It’s not that it’s bad — it’s just too narrow, too shallow, and ultimately useless to your real development.
Not long ago, I told a young relative: in any era, make sure your circle is diverse. You need people in institutions, people in business, people who are employed, people who invest — those who are conservative and those who are bold. You need all of them.
Only with a genuinely diverse circle can your information intake be wide and complete — protecting you from the blindness that comes from a single-channel worldview.
Never become like those whose entire world is only their home and their office cubicle, even as the outside world has turned completely upside down.
In that state, no matter what the era throws at you, you’ll always be too late to react. You’ll be the last to know, and the first to miss every opportunity.
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But don’t despair. If you can truly internalize all of the above before 2025 arrives and face it with genuine seriousness, there is still time.
Your time is not plentiful, but it is still enough.
Fortunately, it is not yet too late.