Master Chi wants to share a down-to-earth little story with you — and you’ll understand exactly what it means to have a noble benefactor (Gui Ren) point the way.
Not long ago, I had an old classmate I hadn’t been in touch with for nearly a decade. We were both middle-aged now, and he’d been struggling quite a bit in recent years.
With nowhere else to turn, he reached out through our mutual classmate connections — a bit awkwardly — asking for some direction. If possible, he also hoped I could help arrange a job for him.
The truth is, for most problems the human body faces — especially psychological ones — the best remedy is simply to bring more joy and happiness into your life.
The happier you are, the stronger your body’s instinct becomes: “I want to survive, and I want to thrive.” When that drive is alive in you, your Chi (vital energy) flow and overall vitality will naturally grow stronger with each passing day.
As my regular readers know, I — Master Chi — lived in North America for many years, and through business, my social circle has long included Westerners and well-established overseas Chinese families abroad.
Over the years, friends who emigrated at different points in life are now spread across every industry.
So today, I want to give a wake-up call to all the parents who still think: “My kid isn’t doing well in school here — let’s just send them abroad to pick up a degree.”
1 — Many couples know each other from their school years, some even developing early crushes and relationships during that time. They know each other inside and out, with clear emotional expectations already established. For those who met after entering the workforce, there is still a deep mutual understanding. Impulsive marriages are extremely rare.
2 — Both sets of parents are solid and dependable — either holding a certain professional position or having built a modest achievement in their own field. They may not be wealthy, but they carry themselves with dignity. This means the couple can avoid ugly financial squabbles in the early years of marriage; no one is fixated on petty gains, and no seeds of resentment are planted from the start.
Heaven is not deliberately tormenting you.
But this life of ours is filled with ups and downs and uncertainty — and inevitably, there will be years when bad things pile up on you all at once, without rhyme or reason, nothing to argue against or explain away.
So what do you do?
The worse the times, the more important it is to not panic and not make mistakes.
You must settle your mind and tell yourself: my fortune (运势) is poor right now, but that’s alright. Dark clouds always pass. So I will hold myself together with a steady, disciplined life.
If your child is an international student, then as a parent, you absolutely must read today’s article in full. It holds real value — for your child and for your family’s future.
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Today’s topic came from something a reader said to me two weeks ago, when she came to me in tears.
Her situation is a classic one. She had worked hard her entire life, and when the time came, she decided that sending her child overseas to study was the best thing she could do. So she did exactly that.
This is a sincere word from me, Master Chi, to all parent readers — if you have children, you must turn this over in your mind again and again.
What has been weighing on me recently is two parent readers who came to me for a reading of their children’s life pattern (destiny framework), and all they could focus on was their children’s grades — completely ignoring their overall capabilities.
1 - Stop being obsessed with salaried positions. Do your job diligently, but don’t give without limits. Recognize that your job is the foundation — self-growth is the core goal.
2 - Frankly acknowledge your shortcomings, rather than being inexplicably confident while having accomplished nothing. Life works in an interesting way: the more humble you are, the more you grow, and the more you prosper.
3 - When I was young, I always thought I needed to seize “opportunities to get rich.” As I matured, I came to understand that what’s truly worth seizing is “companies with long-term development potential” and “continuously improving personal abilities.”
This morning I wrote a short piece, and one line in particular — “Take a moment to think clearly: how much are you really getting out of your job?” — resonated with so many readers.
I said that not to encourage you to quit your job immediately and go start a business — because that’s a genuine one-in-ten shot at survival.
But I do genuinely want you to think clearly: what can your job actually bring you? And beyond work — where should you really be directing your energy?
1 - There’s no mystery here: artificial intelligence is the highest-certainty, highest-economic-value domain of our generation. Over the next five years, it will develop at breakneck speed and integrate into every aspect of our lives.
2 - AI will become as commonplace as tap water and WiFi, because it can replace an enormous number of traditional entry-level jobs. But it also requires massive computing power and electricity to sustain.
3 - If you missed the recent surge in computing and energy stocks, don’t be too discouraged. Your future still holds plenty of opportunity. Even the best industries go through corrections — bubbles that grow too large, briefly burst, and then restructure.