On a weekend evening, I don’t feel like writing anything too complex — and you’d find it exhausting to read anyway.
So I’ve decided to distill these days of deep reflection into concise, sincere words. Something lighter, easier to sit with.
My only hope is that every sentence gives you something to think deeply about for the days ahead.
1 — Stop believing that mastering one single skill will carry you through life.
The evidence is clear. This era favors the generalist — the versatile person who knows a little about a lot and can handle a little of everything.
If your knowledge base isn’t well-rounded, no matter how strong your one specialty is, you’re like a building missing critical structural materials. Eventually, you’ll pay the price.
Gaps in medical knowledge? The healthcare system will exploit you. Gaps in financial knowledge? The financial system will exploit you. Gaps in legal knowledge? Every dispute will exploit you.
The list goes on.
You need to know at least something about everything. More importantly, develop the habit of encountering something you don’t understand and immediately going to learn it — filling in those gaps in your understanding.
2 — In this era, every drop of accumulated knowledge can be quantified in money.
Those of you who know me well know that I love buying property. I’ve always believed that quality real estate is essentially stock in a city — so nearly every year, I add one or two smaller units in cities across the country that I believe have potential.
What that experience has taught me, more than anything else, is that every piece of knowledge I’ve ever accumulated has been repaying me in hard cash, every single day.
Never mind the big topics like which cities to bet on or how to pick locations. Just knowing how to find a trustworthy agent to handle the transaction, how to renovate and fit out a unit after purchase — the more you understand, the less you lose and the more you gain.
I’ve compared notes with friends. For the same 5-million-yuan property, starting from acquisition through renovation and rental, my depth of process knowledge means I consistently outperform by at least 15%. That’s 550,000 yuan in real cash — the savings of many families accumulated over many years.
Not luck. Just one word: knowing.
3 — Every harvest in your breakthrough period comes from seeds planted during your cultivation period. So if you’ve been feeling anxious and powerless these past few years, pay attention.
That feeling is your instincts telling you: you’re weak right now.
Your abilities and understanding are no longer enough to handle your current life — and not enough to climb to the next level.
But this is not bad news. At least it means your instincts are sharp enough to recognize that a real problem exists. Better than the frog that boils slowly and never notices.
4 — In this era, emotional intelligence has never been more valuable.
I don’t have many lone wolves around me — people who claim to despise socializing and wear that as a badge of pride.
But the suffering of those people will only grow more visible in this era. Look at the young people complaining about how life isn’t working out. Almost every one of them is full of grievances against the world — yet has zero resources to change anything.
When everyone is facing headwinds, whoever can rally the people around them will live more securely, more safely, more comfortably. That is iron logic.
Choose your friends wisely. Avoid bad connections. Actively join circles of people worth being around. Invest yourself genuinely — give your energy, build your reputation, earn trust and recognition.
Don’t become one of those fools in their thirties or forties with not a single reliable friend, who find everyone scattering the moment they need help. That kind of person either has a thinking problem or a character problem.
5 — The stratification of cities is now crystal clear. Where you choose to put down roots is the single most decisive first step you’ll ever take.
If you choose a small city, don’t talk to me about getting rich there — unless your family is already among the entrenched insiders who run the place.
Small cities will see their populations, economies, and development slowly decelerate and hit ceilings. Eventually, that city becomes a cap you simply can’t shake off.
Peaceful, unhurried days — the price is scarce opportunity and thin prospects.
Once you plant yourself somewhere, turning back is costly. Have you truly thought this through?
Don’t just enjoy the comfort of coasting. Simultaneously understand the price of coasting.
As for the big cities — you will inevitably face competition. Exhaustion, frustration, restlessness, urgency, chaos will become your normal. But when you truly commit to putting down roots there, you’ll discover that all that hardship eventually amounts to… this much. Uncomfortable, yes. But not unbearable.
And the longer you stay rooted, the more you’ll find that resources, financial paths, and connections quietly accumulate on their own.
6 — Most of the right decisions in life don’t reveal their results until three to five years of patient waiting after you’ve made them.
The smart person is the one who can identify what is truly correct — and then hold steady with patience.
Trust that when the time comes, life will hand you everything it owes you, piece by piece.
The worst thing you can do during that waiting period is lose patience — constantly stirring things up, jumping to the next thing when flowers don’t bloom where you’ve planted them.
That kind of restlessness almost always produces nothing.
Why do I always encourage everyone to read biographies of remarkable people — great figures, successful people?
Because you’ll notice that almost every successful person’s trajectory is one of cultivation, not explosion. They commit to a path, work hard, get knocked down and mocked, slowly adjust their approach, and eventually succeed — step by step.
Over many years, I’ve observed circles across every level of wealth and circumstance.
My deepest insight is this: the people living abundantly, the ones providing good lives for their families, aren’t necessarily the most talented or the most intelligent. But they are genuinely, deeply persistent.
Given the same challenge, they simply have stronger resilience than others. They grind something from 40 to 60 to 80 to 100 — slowly, methodically, until it’s done.
Often, overthinking is no help at all. So many things already have successful precedents laid out before you. Just follow the template — and even if you can’t score 100, you’ll get 85. That’s enough.
7 — One last thought, from the heart.
The hardest thing in this world, in my view, isn’t summoning the will to do something earth-shattering in a single surge of energy, or reversing everything in one dramatic stroke.
The truly hardest thing is in every small, quiet choice: restraining your laziness, restraining your impulse to indulge, restraining your urge to react.
Making yourself pick up a book. Taking one more step. Understanding the essence of one more thing. Giving a little more care to the genuinely good friends in your life.
These small things hidden in the details — those are the hardest of all.
The thing I’m most proud of, in all the work I’ve done, is using the wisdom of both destiny reading (BaZi) and worldly insight to help every person who has come to me — building a life development framework that is uniquely theirs.
Step by step, steady and sure, in cycles of three to four years — bringing visible, tangible change and progress to your life.
Because in this life, the slower you walk, the faster you actually arrive.