Student Question: I transferred from a financial accounting role to a financial BP (business partner) position doing analysis three months ago. My manager has given me many analytical angles to explore and validate through data. Since the company is just building out its analysis function, I’ve been spending most of my time collecting and cleaning data sources — the work is inefficient, requires long overtime, and my output still doesn’t satisfy my manager. I have no sense of accomplishment.
This article is written especially for women born into ordinary circumstances, whose lives haven’t gone as hoped — yet who are still fighting for their future. It’s not a long read, but it’s worth every word.
As many of you know, I have a particular fondness for smart women.
Let me be clear about what that means. The essence of a smart woman is not sharp-tongued cleverness or calculated penny-pinching. And it’s certainly not the hysterical refusal to yield an inch or haggle over every last detail.
Student Question: Master Chi, you once said in your community: “Be wary of the various case analyses circulating online — most of that content is unreliable, and you shouldn’t let it influence you. Ignorance isn’t the real danger; having your thinking led astray by others is.”
My understanding is this: “You must personally record and break down cases yourself. Don’t absorb others’ analysis processes and reasoning wholesale — approach everything with a critical eye, or simply don’t look at it at all.” Is that the right way to understand it?
Student Question:
Hello Master Chi. I saw your post on the platform about choosing career tracks and wanted to discuss it with you. During my internship, my choice of industry caused me to miss out on certain big-name companies. Later, with limited opportunities and skills, I had no choice but to compromise on industry. Looking back now, I think placing too much emphasis on career track in the early years actually narrowed my options — and when your abilities aren’t there yet, you don’t really have a choice to make anyway.
Last night, I wrote these words for a reader who came to me for a destiny chart (命盘) reading.
Looking back at them in the daylight, I found they still carry real resonance — especially in today’s climate, they feel particularly timely. So I want to share them with you as well:
Most people haven’t realized this. At its most fundamental, life really comes down to just two things.
First: the ability to stand on your own without depending on others. Second: the courage to face the world without fearing its storms.
If you were an Israeli military commander facing the current battlefield situation, how would you advance? If you were a Hamas commander facing present realities, how would you set your defenses? The professional questions involved here fall into a blind spot for many people. Publishing this openly would invite endless abuse from the ignorant, so the following two pieces will be discussed within a limited circle. For field commanders, there are far fewer emotional elements mixed into decision-making — it is mostly a calculation of real-world trade-offs, choosing the lesser of two evils. Such choices may seem cold-hearted, even morally compromising.
Student Question:
After graduating, I failed the graduate school entrance exam once. I currently work as an online customer service rep — I’ve been doing it for about a year. Now I want to switch jobs and move into operations, but the problem is I have no relevant experience. Customer service has been simple, mechanical work: answering messages using fixed script templates. It doesn’t feel like something that adds value to a job application.
Student Question
Hello Master, I’m not sure how to choose my career direction. My constant struggle is: have I actually made the right choice? And how can I tell whether I’ve truly found the right job? I’d love your guidance.
Master Chi’s Response
When the skills and qualities required by your chosen career largely match your strengths, you’ve made the right choice. Let me break this down into a concrete framework for career matching.
First, let me state clearly: this article has been reluctantly revised twice under pressure.
It is pure, undiluted practical wisdom — read it slowly and cherish every word.
This is also, I believe, the most advanced wisdom about navigating human society you will find anywhere online. Every line has been distilled from my direct, firsthand observation of the top-tier families within the red walls — whether in my role as counselor or advisor. I’ll spare you the lengthy preamble. Each section deserves careful, unhurried reflection.
Student Question:
After reading your post on how to assess job candidates by asking for specific details, I started wondering — can job seekers use the same approach to evaluate their interviewer (their potential future direct manager)?
A couple of days ago I went to an interview and wanted to understand the business interviewer’s previous project experience in detail, but he wouldn’t share. He said to wait until I joined and then he’d “brag about it.” Does that mean the interviewer wasn’t very capable?