Still sharp and straight to the point — no rambling, no fluff. And the fifth point at the end is the most important awakening of all.
1 — The brutal truth: the women who win in the end are the ones who can hold their composure.
This means that even when the greatest challenges arrive, as long as you can steady your emotions — suppress the impulse of pure feeling, begin analyzing the problem rationally step by step, and calmly work through it — 99% of life’s hardships will not be able to break you.
Shallow theory is worthless. What has value is the blood-written knowledge forged through real combat.
The following points — if you can truly grasp even one of them, you’ll surpass so-called “professionals” with decades of experience. But if you can’t grasp a single one, then honestly, you have no business sitting at this table.
1 — On the Herd
What truly ignites the herd’s desire isn’t winning. Win right away, and they chalk it up to luck — they’ll actually take their profits and walk.
Let me get straight to the point. There’s a question I’ve been wanting to ask certain readers for a long time — one that cuts right to the bone: You’re at this age already. Have you ever seriously asked yourself why, despite being reasonably hardworking and diligent, you keep spinning your wheels without results?
I’m not asking this to mock or belittle you. I want to use this quiet evening at the tail end of the holiday to speak plainly about something that matters.
These past couple of days were supposed to be a long holiday, but I haven’t had a moment’s rest. I genuinely hoped to settle down and recharge — then the sharp market surge just before the break instantly ignited everyone’s emotions.
So friends from all corners started pulling me in every direction: dinner here, tea gathering there. And once I arrived, everyone hoped I’d say a few words.
This put me in a somewhat awkward position, because many of the guests were quite senior figures. They know my approach runs deep, so they all wanted to hear my thoughts.
It has been a long time since I’ve seen my brothers and sisters able to enjoy a holiday so freely and at ease.
In the past few years, even during the grandest festivals, there was always an underlying atmosphere of healing and quiet dejection.
Nothing like today — everyone is filled with eager anticipation for what comes after the holiday.
This is the power of hope: vibrant, full of life, radiant with sunshine.
1 - I have always loved Greek mythology more than traditional Chinese mythology.
Chinese mythology tends to focus on truth, goodness, and beauty — the luminous side of human nature — leaving you with the sense that the world will ultimately be set right.
Greek mythology, by contrast, is far more candid. It tells you plainly that whether we are speaking of human nature or divine nature, the final color is always grey — a merging of white and black.
1 — When you are still weak, the world offers countless cracks and crevices where you can hide and maneuver. But once you grow powerful, you can no longer afford to bide your time in obscurity. Every championship race throughout history has been accompanied by fierce struggle and strategic competition — it is woven into the very DNA of humanity.
2 — Struggle and competition don’t always have to end in someone’s total destruction, but they do require weakening the loser to the point where they cannot rise again for a century. That is why certain lines cannot be crossed — they must be held with gritted teeth, sustained by sheer inner strength.
Just a few straight-talking reminders. These words are only for the brothers and sisters who are truly close to me.
1. Unless it is absolutely necessary, do not publicly weigh in on the heated social topics being argued about around you. Whatever thoughts and opinions you hold — keep them in your own heart. Don’t put them out there, and don’t expect anyone else to agree with you. You never know when something you once said might become the excuse someone uses to cut ties with you — or worse, to stab you in the back later. When others are arguing and the topic makes you deeply uncomfortable, just smile, nod along, and don’t take it personally.
You must never allow yourself to wallow too deeply in a “low period” — especially not to the point where the times and circumstances strip you of your fighting spirit.
Understand this: everyone, without exception, will go through stretches of embarrassing, face-in-the-mud days due to factors beyond their control.
But the harder the days, the less you can afford to dwell on them.
Think of a child who has fallen down. The one who sits there wailing, waiting for their parents to rush over and lift them up — that child is destined to lose in life to the one who stands back up on their own, eyes red, jaw clenched.
When it comes to Mid-Autumn Festival greetings, I must be among the very last.
But that’s alright — after all, this won’t be the only Mid-Autumn Festival we share. We have three years, five years, ten years, perhaps even a lifetime of these festivals still ahead of us. [sneaky grin] Sometimes, gazing up at the sky on a night like this, you can glean a deeper truth — what people call the “Way of Heaven.”