This applies to countless wealthy tycoons throughout history.
Take a certain boss’s fatal leap — from the outside, it looked like a sudden impulse. But those in the know understood it was inevitable. The only question was when.
The one genuinely surprising detail in this entirely unsurprising end? He still had his beloved amber piece on him when he went.
As for his last words before the end — “My feet hurt.”
Because this represents that no matter which direction they choose to walk, every fruit and every opening along that road will be swallowed up and seized by the crowd.
The paths that truly hold infinite possibility still exist at every moment — they simply never stop changing their appearance.
After Golden Week (China’s National Day holiday), I’ll share with everyone where those opportunities actually lie.
What prompted me to write this article today is a question from a reader in my Knowledge Planet community — asking Master Chi to analyze how to identify and capture the “leading stock” (龙头). Technically speaking, Master Chi doesn’t typically dwell on smaller tactical “techniques.” But here’s the thing: the significance of the leading stock lies not only in becoming one, but more importantly, in knowing how to follow one.
Preface: One of humanity’s greatest misconceptions is the belief that a high destiny framework (格局) must be matched with grand ambitions — so all the carp scramble to leap the Dragon Gate, leaving nothing but wreckage in their wake. The truth is, the carp is the finest among fish. Through dedicated, focused development, it can achieve enlightenment and success without ever leaping the Dragon Gate.
A few days ago, a young man came to visit me by reputation, seeking my read on his personal destiny framework.
If you pay close enough attention, you’ll notice that in today’s world, two qualities have been completely forgotten — utterly overlooked.
Yet the power and significance of these two qualities are immense. Possess them both, and greatness becomes within reach — regardless of where you stand in your life’s destiny framework (格局).
Those two qualities are: forgiveness and letting go.
Don’t believe me? Look at the people around you. The moment two people fall out, a grudge is born — and rarely released.
Yesterday, Master Chi was reading the destiny framework (格局) for a friend who was furious over a failed IPO. He had been all set to list on the ChiNext board, but due to the trade conflict, the final year’s financial audit came back with major discrepancies.
So he urgently called me over to help him see whether he could catch the next window.
After all, for someone long accustomed to wielding the sickle himself, watching other players dance through the leek fields cutting profits — it stirs no small amount of envy and resentment.
Before we begin tonight’s conversation, perhaps it would be a good idea to put on “The Hill” (山丘) as sung by Jin Wenqi.
Because on a night as tender as Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine’s Day), it’s good to let yourself unwind — to loosen that string you keep pulled taut the rest of the year.
Truth be told, I had originally planned to turn in early tonight with my wife, then wake tomorrow to carefully revise yesterday’s deleted article and present it to you again.
I despise frugality — it has always been the pitiful habit of the impoverished and small-minded. So today, Master Chi wants to share with you one simple, unvarnished truth: extravagance and luxury are by no means the only or ultimate theme of life. But deliberate poverty and frugality are absolutely the finest weapons for destroying and grinding down a person’s spirit. Because excess makes people restless — and restlessness eventually settles into calm. Only poverty deflates the soul, and a deflated soul curdles into inferiority and gloom, from which there is no easy cure.
I know you — the one reading this — are no second-generation heir.
You weren’t born into a family with vast landholdings or a prestigious lineage. You don’t have well-connected networks, abundant resources, or successful parents to pave your way.
And yet, despite all of that, there’s no need to fear.
Because today, Master Chi wants to have a candid conversation with you: regardless of your background, if you truly want to rise — steadily and without misstep — what should you actually do?
Today’s news, every single piece of it, deserves our deep reflection and careful consideration. Because everything happening today is the overture to a new era arriving — one that countless people may remember, yet just as many will overlook. Every time history’s wheels begin their thunderous advance, the hidden force capable of moving mountains and parting seas is always seen by the world as simply the natural order of things. Only when heaven and earth have transformed, when oceans have turned to mulberry fields, do people realize they have witnessed history — and participated in it.