This beverage company saga has been flooding my feed for two days now. Honestly, I had no intention of weighing in — there are far more interesting things worth talking about with you all. But I couldn’t stand watching a sea of wrong answers online, delivered with such dead-serious confidence. It’s genuinely painful to watch.
Let me be blunt: 99.99% of what’s being said out there is pure misreading. From every angle — business, human nature, politics — all of it is wrong.
In truth, experiencing a measure of setbacks in life — and enduring some suffering along the way — is not an absolute evil.
These are the workings of an unseen force, using reality itself to remind you: it’s time to make real, concrete changes.
Take a struggling relationship, for example. That’s a signal telling you that you and your partner must adjust how you treat each other — otherwise, this bond will only drag you both further down.
Almost everyone who asks me to analyze their life pattern (格局) has one burning question: “When am I finally going to get wealthy?”
Fair enough. It’s a shallow question, but it still deserves a proper answer.
I don’t expect you to grasp this in a single read — but go through it a few times, and something will click.
If I’m right about this, what follows is the highest-level insight on this subject you’re going to find anywhere.
Let me share my personal view upfront: this morning’s eight bullets, though they failed to hit Trump, have in all likelihood dealt a fatal blow to the prospects of global peace.
Because of this event, Trump has a very high probability of locking up the presidency early. And the American hawks will use this moment to rise decisively.
Here is the logic behind that:
1. At 6:58 AM China time this morning, Trump was shot at during a campaign rally. The attacker failed — only grazing Trump’s right ear. Strictly speaking, this does not look like a staged event. The bullet did in fact hit his right ear, and had there been any slight variation, a shot to the center of the forehead would not have been impossible. The person Trump should thank most may well be his own habit of bobbing and swaying his head whenever he speaks.
In this life, you are destined to pass through a long season of emptiness.
During this time, you will pour in tremendous effort — yet see no results, reap no harvest, and receive neither understanding nor recognition from those around you.
But this is precisely what it means to take root and begin to grow.
So do not let others throw off your rhythm. And never, upon seeing someone else hand in their exam early, rush to scribble down your own answers in a panic.
1 - If you belong to any of the three generations — the 80s, 90s, or the 00–05 cohort — there is a very, very high probability that you will face at least two major career upheavals in your lifetime. The reason: a new wave of technological disruption is already knocking at the door.
Simply put, within the next ten years, the vast majority of repetitive white-collar work — writing reports, managing spreadsheets, data analysis, building PowerPoint decks and project plans — will be replaced by AI that never tires and is always available on demand.
Tonight’s piece is a lighter read — it doesn’t require complex, brain-burning analysis. Just sit with it quietly.
That said, if you don’t have any real ambition, you’ll find this hard to get through. Don’t force it. Close the tab, go to sleep. A quiet, ordinary life may suit you just fine.
But if you carry that restless feeling — the sense that you’re no less capable than anyone else, yet can’t figure out why your efforts keep coming up short — then what follows is worth your late-night attention.
Master Classics 💰 The Intelligent Investor 📘 One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch 📘 Poor Charlie’s Almanack 📘 The Essays of Warren Buffett: Letters to Shareholders 📘 Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits 📘
Investment Foundations 💼 The Wisdom of Great Investors 📘 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success 📘 The Investment Philosophy of Charlie Munger 📘
Investment Thinking 🎓 The Most Important Thing 📘 Influence 📘
Mental Frameworks 🚩 Thinking in Frameworks 📘 The Model Thinker 📘
If a person cannot read the great tides of the era, they naturally cannot find their own path through life. After all, each of us ordinary people is nothing more than an utterly insignificant pawn on the chessboard of our times.
And yet, the true tide of the era is a strange force. It is silent much of the time — but if you truly listen, it speaks with a voice that shakes you to your core.
Ladies — unless your family of origin sits on assets worth at least a hundred million, commands powerful connections in a major city, or your parents can mobilize entire industries with a single word —
Everything they’ve accumulated over a lifetime cannot match the ten hard-won truths I’m sharing in this article today.
Why am I so confident?
Because years of immersion in traditional Chinese culture and Chinese metaphysics (玄学) have allowed me to distill these genuine insights.