Let me share a small personal secret with you. Can you guess when Master Chi feels most at ease each day?
Here’s the answer.
Without question, it’s those forty minutes when my driver carries me home along Shanghai’s glittering elevated highway after a full day of engagements.
In that stretch of time, I can sit back in complete comfort — watching the city lights scroll past the window while quietly, deeply reviewing every detail of the day.
In all my years, every man I’ve ever met with strong wealth fortune (财运) shared one thing in common: extraordinarily stable emotions. Even when the sky was falling around them, their inner world remained as still as a deep lake.
This makes sense. If you want to accomplish anything in this life, you will inevitably face battles on all fronts — hardship, obstacles, setbacks at every turn. So if you fly into a rage at the slightest provocation, hot-tempered and volatile day in and day out, then without a single exception, you will achieve absolutely nothing.
Good — dear brothers and sisters, Master Chi has something important to say to you.
If you’re hoping to build your career in earnest over the next few years, and enjoy the kind of income that flows in like gold every single day, then I urge you: use these next few days of holiday to truly rest.
And by rest, I don’t mean flipping your sleep schedule upside down. I don’t mean “special forces travel” — cramming yourself into overcrowded tourist spots, elbowing through the crowds, running yourself ragged until the holiday leaves you more exhausted than a week at the office.
Today’s article confronts an exceptionally harsh reality.
Master Chi will analyze from the highest vantage point what is coming in the next 5-10 years, and the challenges we will all face.
Understand this: from the moment Trump launched his tariff war, this stopped being a simple trade dispute. This is the true dress rehearsal for a full-scale cold war turning hot — and the entire world may be shaken by what follows.
Smart people will surely sense the weight behind what Master Chi is saying here.
1 — This tariff war has laid bare just how wide the gap is between Biden and Trump as leaders.
During his term, almost every move Biden made was oriented toward maintaining the Eagle’s global credibility and dominance.
Trump’s tariff war, even if it yields hundreds of billions in short-term gains, does so at the cost of the Eagle’s credibility and its standing in the world.
1 — Let me be clear upfront: I do not recommend that readers who have followed Master Chi for less than a year make any decisions based on this article.
Unless you already have substantial experience in wealth planning and capital management, you will almost certainly be unable to fully grasp what is written here — let alone translate it into effective action.
Don’t rush. Many things require a long process of learning before you can develop genuine real-world capability.
1 — Don’t be afraid to start from scratch.
Don’t be afraid to begin from zero. And don’t tell yourself that since you’ll never earn nine or ten figures anyway, you might as well give up and coast. That mindset will only push your wealth fortune into steady decline — until by middle and late age, you’ve lost your chance to command real wealth entirely.
Tell yourself this: the truly great wealth-builders all rose from nothing. Most of them didn’t break through until their thirties or forties. You still have plenty of time.
I have a deep aversion to shortcuts.
The reason is simple. From the time my father’s generation built their fortune, through every storm and reversal I’ve weathered in my own life, and having watched countless figures rise and fall across this world — my most profound conviction is this: real, lasting wealth is never built through cunning tricks or opportunistic schemes. It is built through the most literal meaning of returning to simplicity. The greatest path is always the plainest.
Pure — When carrying out your work, be grounded and diligent. Give your full effort with single-minded focus — steady, reliable, worthy of trust. Harbor no hidden agendas and no crooked schemes. Keep your mindset upright and forward-looking, aiming only for the best possible outcome.
Still — In everyday dealings with others, resist the urge to boast or show off. Instead, listen carefully and think deeply. Let what you receive become nourishment for your own growth, and keep evolving quietly from within.
I genuinely recommend you save today’s article, because even though Master Chi has written countless pieces about leveling up, wealth, destiny framework (格局), and mindset — none of them have been quite this open and expansive.
Rather than calling this an article, it’s better described as “a life philosophy guide that only those with true wisdom can fully embrace.”
If you’re willing to read it carefully and live by its principles, your Chi fortune (气运) will lift, and your life will steadily move in an ever-improving direction. This is beyond all doubt.