You must believe this: hidden within your life is a destiny script you have never once read.
Because you’ve never read it, you don’t understand why — despite all your grinding effort — you still can’t see results, noble benefactors (Gui Ren), or wealth on the horizon.
Otherwise, how do you explain it? Why can some people do just a few seemingly effortless things and immediately crack their world wide open?
Are you less capable than them? Less intelligent?
Not at all. You simply don’t know where to direct your focused energy.
His effort is a needle; yours is a hammer. Both swinging at the same sandbag — his strikes go far deeper, even if you wear yourself out a hundred times more than he does.
Now that I’m in middle age, whenever I sit with merchants and wealthy men in casual conversation, we always arrive at the same conviction: there is no form of effort in this world more meaningful than clearly understanding your own destiny script.
Why do self-made people who build wealth from nothing endure so much more suffering than others? Because they don’t know where to aim that raw force inside them.
And so they become like a wild bull — crashing through the maze of fate with flesh and years, bleeding and battered, hoping to somehow smash open a path.
So why do those raised with family wisdom traditions and guidance in Chinese metaphysics achieve results so easily?
They know what to do. They know what not to do. They know which people to seize the moment with, and which to walk away from fast.
Their thinking is crystal clear — like filling in an exam with the answer key right in front of them.
Tell me — how could that not go smoothly?
I’ve shared this perspective with readers countless times: when you are drowning in mediocrity, never try to move yourself with physical toil alone.
Always seek out people wealthier and sharper than you. Then exchange everything you can offer for their guidance and counsel.
If someone two rungs above you on the social ladder is willing to genuinely guide you, just do exactly what they say. Because the problems that have you completely stuck? They’ve solved those same problems more than once.
Their experience is your antidote.
For example — while you’re still locked in a battle of wits with low-level colleagues and shrewd small bosses, a noble benefactor steps forward and tells you: stop wasting words on them. Go work hard on one specific skill right now. Once you’ve mastered it, you’ll jump into an entirely new world.
For you, how invaluable is that kind of life-saving advice?
A reader once asked me in the comments: Master, I’m already 37 or 38 years old — is it still worth having you read my destiny chart?
Let me put it this way.
If you are only 37 or 38, then at most you’ve missed one significant window for advancement.
Ahead of you are still at least two or three more opportunities. Seize them, and you can still turn everything around — still achieve financial freedom.
So don’t be afraid. Time is still on your side.