I’ve been traveling these past couple of days, but I found a moment to jot down some thoughts — consider this a gift to you.
When you’ve experienced enough in life, you’ll come to realize something.
Whether you can become wealthier and more capable ultimately comes down to one thing: whether you can handle what gets thrown at you.
To be honest, almost all of it will be trouble — messy situations, bad developments, difficult problems. But you still can’t run from them. You have to learn to meet them head-on, because these are the test questions Heaven itself has arranged for you. Pass the test, and your rank goes up.
And yet so many people are naturally conflict-averse. Their first instinct when something goes wrong is to retreat — not to sit with it and slowly work through it.
Look around. Anyone with a net worth below twenty million, anyone operating at a basic, ground-level tier — their life stories are remarkably thin. Because when things got hard, they almost always backed down.
A life with no real battles won is a life with no real wealth earned.
And that’s what robs them completely of the ability to handle big things.
When you can’t handle big things, you can’t have big breakthroughs. You end up tangled in petty, trivial matters for the rest of your life.
While others are building real wealth, acquiring major assets, running substantial enterprises — you’re still wrestling with small, inconsequential problems that drain your energy and give nothing back.
Because you’ve signaled to Heaven countless times: I don’t have what it takes to do big things. I won’t even try. I’ll fold.
So naturally, Heaven gives up on you. Stops putting opportunities in your path.
That was your choice. Who can you blame?
I’ve written a lot about “turning your life around from the bottom.” And when I talk about that topic, I never — not once — discuss mind games or clever stratagems.
Because there’s no point. At that stage, you don’t need strategy. You need courage.
The underpaid office worker, the entry-level employee, the junior staff member — what they truly need is the courage to look Heaven’s hard tests square in the face and say:
“You’re testing me? Alright. Let’s go. Watch how I handle this.”
Understand this: in the real world, all that matters is that you solve the problem. The method doesn’t matter — there are countless ways up the mountain.
That’s why smart people, at moments like these, always seek out someone more seasoned — a mentor, a noble benefactor (Gui Ren) who’s already walked this road. Nearly 99% of problems that feel impossible to you are, in the eyes of someone operating at a higher level, about as challenging as elementary arithmetic.
Why do so many people come to me with their biggest life questions? For their BaZi (Four Pillars of Destiny) readings and destiny chart analysis?
Why can I cut right to the heart of a solution in just two or three sentences?
Simply put: every problem you’re facing right now, I’ve already lived through. I’ve navigated all of it. I can move through it with ease.
One more thing I want to leave with you.
No matter how difficult the situation — when it arrives, don’t panic. Don’t fold. Use sheer tenacity to make up for whatever wisdom you lack in the moment.
Don’t expect to resolve it all at once.
Just make 1% of progress every day. Learn slowly. Find a way forward, step by step.
Trust me — when the time comes, even the most daunting problems will yield to you.
And so, to bring this home: rising above it all, in the end, means having the courage to walk straight into the tiger’s den.