Look at the people around you — every single one of them is wracking their brains trying to extract something from you, yet not one is willing to give or share with you without expecting something in return. No wonder they spend their entire lives scraping by at the bottom. Whatever you do, don’t follow their example. Because you were born to fly higher.
Today, hear a word from Master Chi — and learn exactly what it takes to win the favor of fortune.
To this day, Master Chi has always believed that the world’s most skilled gamblers and investors — when facing their chosen positions — share a remarkably uniform mindset: effortless nonchalance. Playing casually just for the fun of it is their common thread. This attitude stems partly from years of battle-hardened composure, and partly from a natural disposition that looks down on the game itself while holding firm confidence in their own abilities.
Fortune to earn, but no fate to keep it.
This is also the inevitable destiny of most so-called “dragon sons-in-law” — men who rise by marrying into wealth and power, only to be cut off the moment they overstep.
In this regard, over the past five years alone, nearly five prominent figures come to mind — each a textbook case of someone who clawed their way up from nothing.
And isn’t it so? From rags to a net worth in the hundreds of billions within a decade — could such a man ever be considered ordinary?
This morning I woke to find my phone filled with messages of blessing. For a moment, I couldn’t quite understand why. Opening them, it became clear — today is Teacher’s Day.
Seeing the warm wishes from friends and companions, Master Chi truly feels unworthy of them. The word “teacher” carries real weight — it speaks to the responsibility of passing one’s knowledge on to others. As far as Master Chi is concerned, what I have been doing all along is, at most, sharing: offering my worldview, my observations, my insights as a light embellishment woven into easy conversation. Because deep down, I know well that the knowledge Master Chi holds is, in truth, nothing remarkable — hardly worth mentioning. This is precisely why I believe you — my reader, and especially you — are far more deserving of the title “teacher.” For in you, Master Chi has seen and learned no less than anything I have ever shared with you, even without us ever having met or spoken face to face.
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.
Preface: The most terrifying thing in a person’s life may well be the word “suppression.” Unlike childhood trauma, repression tends to produce a pathological hunger in adulthood — an endless, insatiable craving for what remains just out of reach.
Today, let’s talk about the “drama” we haven’t touched on in quite a while.
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It’s been a long time since I wrote about entertainment circle gossip. Since it’s the weekend, I figured I’d share some thoughts on that one big-mouthed fellow’s recent drug trafficking arrest.
Introduction: Achievement has always required going against the crowd. Success is always born of decisive, independent action. As the saying goes — when disaster draws near, it is already too late to guard against it. The greatest slander in your life most often comes from those who are closest to you.
“A perfectly capable person — held back entirely by the six relations (liu qin) around them.”
This is something Master Chi has said with resignation ever since he began offering public consultations.
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.
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.