A leisurely life that begins with the possession of a game character

Zhang Jintao said regretfully: "Master, take care."

The Taoist walked past him and headed down the mountain. After walking two steps, the Taoist suddenly said, "If a person can always be calm and peaceful, all heaven and earth will belong to him. This is quite suitable for you. You should think about it yourself. This is also my advice to you."

"Master Daoyou, what does this mean?"

"It means that you should stop playing tricks, playing tricks, and over-interpreting things. It will be good for you and others."

The Taoist priest left after saying this. He was as light as a swallow and had the demeanor of an immortal. Zhang Jintao was very envious of his figure. He could transcend the mundane world and not care about worldly affairs. If he could do the same, wouldn't it be a beautiful thing in the world?

When the Taoist priest turned the mountainside and disappeared into a bamboo forest, a loud shout suddenly resounded through the forest: "Oh my god, where have all these bamboo shoots gone?"

If you don’t experience some things yourself, it’s hard to understand the feeling of disillusionment. In the past, Zhang Jintao didn’t believe in fate, but after a long time, he experienced one thing after another, stayed at home for a long time, and encountered all kinds of things every time he went out.

Zhang Jintao really believed it. Sometimes, it was fate. If you were not destined to be rich or to travel far, you had to accept it.

This kind of cognition cannot be said to be wrong, but things like fate are sometimes difficult to predict.

Zhang Lan's former boss in the south was a believer in gods and Buddhas. He believed in them so much that when the company recruited new employees, he would personally interview them, and if he was interested in senior executives, he would also look at their zodiac signs and horoscopes.

The company hired a Feng Shui master as a consultant with an annual salary of one million. His office has a statue of a deity all year round, but no one knows which deity it is. The management has to change the offerings to the shrine every week. When he has nothing to do, he will take the executives to study Chinese culture and meditate.

The former boss was a very good and wealthy man. Perhaps the money he made was not clean, so he believed in this in his later years and worked hard to do good deeds. But the master he found, Zhang Lan personally felt, was not very good at that time, and it turned out to be very good.

For example, when we first rented an office, we asked him to check the Feng Shui. He said it was excellent, but less than two years into the lease, someone jumped off the building. The place we rented consisted of two high-rise buildings and a platform garden, one on the left, one on the right, and a platform in the middle, forming a "concave" shape. He said it was a treasure pot.

Zhang Lan and her colleagues usually work in the building on the right, and after get off work they walk from the middle platform to the building on the left to eat. One night, a homeowner upstairs had a quarrel with her husband, and in a fit of rage she jumped off the building and died on the platform.

The beautiful garden, which was originally full of greenery, with a small bridge, flowing water and a fish pond, became the scene of a tragic incident. In the first few days, you could still clearly see the mess.

However, in order to eat, Zhang Lan and his friends still stubbornly passed by there. But the boss couldn't stand it, so he arranged to change the place and rent a villa instead.

On the day they moved, another person jumped from the upper floor and died on the platform. So that was not a treasure pot, but a corpse field. The colleagues in the company sincerely thanked the boss for helping them escape in time.

The local Feng Shui is very bad, and the master is not very good. But Feng Shui cannot stop the boss from believing in this, and he can only change a master at most.

Why do some people believe in gods and Buddhas? It may be that businessmen are more likely to encounter various strange events than ordinary people, and their beliefs may change after they have seen more. Take the real estate industry as an example. From the start of construction to the owner's move-in, various coincidences will occur. For example, a property consultant will complain that a certain house is extremely difficult to sell, and every time the owner comes to buy, he will always cancel the purchase due to various reasons.

For example, one time the owner was quite satisfied when he viewed the house, but before paying the deposit, the couple both had diarrhea. They thought this was a bad sign, so they took the card back, and the house could not be sold again.

For example, Zhang Lan knew another boss who did not believe in God. He once had a piece of land where he could not drive piles into. He tried replacing the pile heads and conducting geological surveys, but even though the soil looked no different from other places, he still could not drive piles into the land.

So at the meeting, he was forced to say: If it doesn't work, we can ask someone to perform a ritual. The weird thing is, they really broke in later.

In short, for rich people, whether they believe in it or not, metaphysics is also a way to solve problems. You can choose not to believe in it, but you have to spend the money you need to spend and do the things you need to do. When your own efforts don't work, you can only resort to other means.

When starting a business, you may believe that your destiny is in your own hands. But after being beaten by society for a while, it may become that 70% is determined by fate and 30% depends on hard work.

That's why they seem to take these mysterious things very seriously.

Because the higher you go, the greater the uncertainty and the greater the element of luck, so people with higher energy will believe in fate more. Whoever masters the laws of fate has the possibility of reaching a higher level.

In contrast, the life trajectory of most of us is: when we were in primary school, we didn’t need to think too much. We could easily get better grades than others and get into a better junior high school by memorizing one more poem every day. So hard work is very important.

When you get to a better junior high school, everyone works very hard. As the number of courses increases, memorizing one more poem or doing one more set of exercises will no longer make up the gap. At this time, you have to start competing for cram schools, family financial resources, educational concepts and other resources. Some families cannot afford cram schools, and nouveau riche families with money but no educational concepts are unwilling to let their children go to cram schools. At this time, if you want to enter a better high school, family background and money are very important.

Once you start working, you can rise from a clerk to a section chief. As long as you work hard and persevere for a period of time, you will always be able to get promoted.

When you move up, you need connections and background. There are many people who are qualified for higher-level positions, but some people stay at a certain level for their entire life.

This is true in fact. Most people at the bottom of society will stay at a certain level for their whole lives. After reaching a certain level, hard work and background are no longer useful. Those who reach a higher level must work hard and have background. If they want to move up to the next level, they have to rely on luck.

For example, following the right person and standing on the right team. At this time, it all depends on luck, whether you have this destiny. The higher you go, the smaller the gap becomes, and the less important your efforts and background are, because everyone who reaches this level has these.

Most people don’t work hard enough to even consider luck. By the time they work hard enough and realize they need to rely on luck, they have already achieved some success.

People who have achieved greater success in the secular world understand this process better than ordinary people: because success itself is very accidental. It is not just a matter of IQ, EQ and diligence, but also a lot of luck and coincidence.

No one knows how these things fall on a person. This person himself will be confused about his successful past and feel insecure about the future. Most people live a life as plain as boiled water, and lack the motivation to think more about the nature of fate. They are not yet at the stage to fight for luck. (End of this chapter)