Lately, many of you have been asking about entrepreneurship and starting side businesses. What’s the core of it all?
Honestly? Both entrepreneurship and side businesses are inherently opportunistic. There’s nothing shameful about that — it’s simply the reality in front of us.
All the entrepreneurship frameworks, all the struggles, all the hustle — when you strip it down, it starts because you don’t have much money. It’s being broke that forces people to get creative.
Reaching middle age, the days grow easier one by one — there is often time to simply enjoy yourself.
The ultimate purpose of spiritual cultivation in the mortal world is self-evolution. Convincing others is difficult enough; better to invest that energy in educating yourself.
Only by maintaining a constant awareness of yourself can you discover the limits of your own perception and shift the way you think.
In middle age, you finally know what you want — rather than being nailed to the cross of life, struggling helplessly.
Student Question
Hello, Master. Recently I’ve been reflecting on investment, and on something deeper — we want to live authentically, to leave no regrets. We want to live freely. We want people who can support each other when loneliness comes. We want to live with greater meaning.
But we’re also bound to face certain hard truths of life:
Each of us becomes, to a far greater degree than we realize, the designer of our own life and the creator of the reality we inhabit. We are born as meaning-seeking creatures, yet thrown into a world that contains no inherent meaning. So we must set about constructing the meaning of our own lives — a meaning powerful enough to carry us through. These questions bleed into various layers of our daily lives.
I once looked at the age distribution of my readers on the backend, and I was genuinely delighted — the overwhelming majority fall between 26 and 46.
This is, without question, the most golden twenty years of a person’s life.
The peak of physical strength, mental energy, ambition, and drive — all converging at once.
Many of life’s most important goals — if you don’t set them and pursue them now, the opportunity simply won’t come around again.
First — if you’ve been under immense pressure lately and feeling anxious inside, it means you haven’t spent a single moment of energy on “reading which way the wind is blowing.” In our world, this is a cardinal mistake in how one conducts their life.
There’s a saying that rings true: in this life, you have to learn to read the sky before you eat. If you can’t even read the sky, then all I can say is — good luck to you.
“Can a child from an ordinary family — one who simply studies hard and buries their nose in books — possibly compete with the accumulated wisdom passed down through two generations of blood, sweat, and tears in another family’s tradition?
Wake up. Some paths won’t be pointed out to you, and you’ll never catch up.”
Those were my opening words when I was invited to speak at an education circle event not long ago.
Student Question:
Hello, Master. This year the pandemic restrictions have lifted. I thought transitioning from my previous career into entrepreneurship would be a real opportunity. But I severely underestimated how idealistic I was. My first venture ended in failure — a fresh-cut fruit shop.
I thought the investment costs would be modest and just dove in headfirst — only to discover how little I understood about the market. Time and again, I found myself falling into traps.
Someone asked me: why do my articles aimed at waking women up always have such aggressive titles?
Simple. Because I genuinely want the well-behaved, compliant girls to turn back and not click through to read articles that are far beyond their current worldview. There’s no need.
Well-behaved girls should indulge in romance and sentimentality — they have no business blindly chasing ambition. Just like a herbivore should never force itself to grow the fangs and claws of a predator.
Student Question
Master, I’ve been a full-time stay-at-home mother for six years. Our household income suddenly dried up. My husband was abruptly laid off by his company in July. We’re living off savings now. He’s still job hunting but hasn’t gotten a single interview — this year feels impossible for finding work. We have two children, and my husband is under enormous pressure. I haven’t worked in a long time, so finding employment isn’t easy for me either. When it comes to making money through a side income — could you offer some guidance?
Everyone must learn the art of health cultivation (养生).
The most concise and effective approach is simple: eat light, sleep more — and make it a habit.
Over time, you’ll find your condition improving day by day — your Chi and blood growing stronger, your blessings flowing more freely.
One particularly bad habit I see in many young adults today: an obsession with supplementing the body at an early age.