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My Investing Rules After Losing 52% A survival-first version of value investing Three years ago, after my portfolio was down 52%, I returned to value investing. My framework was simple: Buy great companies at great prices Hold forever Let time do the work I understood these ideas. But over time, I realized: holding forever is not simple in real life. That’s why I started to rethink my approach and write down a clearer set of investing rules. This is not advice. It’s a guideline for my future self. Rule 1: Survival Comes First “What could permanently take me out of the game?” This echoes Warren Buffett’s rule: ...

Start Eight years ago, I started my investing journey with ETFs. But passive investing felt too passive — I wasn’t learning anything. So I began to accumulate strategies. I read many books, tried buy-and-hold, growth investing, value investing, dividends, day trading. I followed many gurus. I checked the news every day. But none of it worked. The more I tried to grab, the less I gained. Until I lost 50% in 2022. Only then did I understand: I needed to subtract. And unexpectedly, after that, I gained 50% annual return for three consecutive years. In this video, I’ll share why my subtraction journey made me a better investor. Buffett and Munger: Investing Should Be Simple Warren Buffett said: “Investing is simple, but not easy.” ...

The Week I Finally Understood That Everything Is Subtraction Awakening, investing, identity, peace — all follow the same law. This week, something inside me clicked. Not a small insight. Not a technique. Not a piece of advice. A universal pattern. A pattern that appears in: philosophy investing awakening emotions identity nature my daily life The pattern is one word: ⭐ Subtraction Everything I want — peace, clarity, wealth, alignment, confidence — emerges not from adding more, but from removing what does not belong. Here are the 7 patterns I finally saw. 1. Subtraction Is the Path to Truth (Daoism) This week I realized: Life becomes clear when I remove what is unnecessary. Not when I learn more. Not when I add routines. Not when I chase desires. Dao De Jing says: “To gain wisdom, subtract.” ...

Awakening always sounded mystical to me. But when it finally happened in my own life, I realized it was simple, quiet, and deeply human. Jung calls this process individuation — the shedding of everything that is not your true self so your nature can finally breathe. Looking back at this year, I didn’t awaken through addition, meditation, or effort. I awakened through subtraction. Month by month, I removed one layer that hid my truth. And what remained was clarity, discipline, purpose — and my real self. Here is my awakening, told through twelve layers of letting go. JAN — News News is the first layer of collective noise — fear-based, reactive, chaotic, urgent, and addictive. It keeps the mind in survival mode, not clarity mode. When I removed the noise of the world, my mind became quiet for the first time in years. I finally heard my own voice again. ...

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUBTRACTION — A Guide Through Laozi, Buddha, Stoicism, Jung, and Steve Jobs** Introduction — The Truth Hidden in Plain Sight i used to improve my lives by adding more: More goals. More money. More productivity. More books. More motivation. but the more i search, the more distance i am from what i want. and from this year, i did something oppisite, and to my suprise, it changed my life. only now i understand the deepest transformation comes not from addition, but from subtraction. i removed news in january, late night scorlling in feb, sugar in march, dependence in may, wanting to be seen in july, desire to prove myself in nov., seeking for extenal validation in dec. the more i removed, the more disciplined i become, the more clarity i have, the more meaningful my life become, the more clear my purpose becomes. ...

I spent the first 40 years of my life as a daughter, worker, and caregiver — trading my time, energy, and identity for survival, duties, expectations, and roles. I lived inside a life that wasn’t mine. At 40, for the first time, I saw my true self clearly. My awakening didn’t give me a new purpose — it removed everything that wasn’t mine. And when all the false layers fell away, I finally saw my own purpose for being alive. In this video, I will share the life purpose I discovered at 40 — the purpose that will guide the next forty years of my life. Multi-Skill: A Life Built by Many Abilities For many years, I lived as what my mother called a caretaker — a supporter, someone who traded her time, youth, and energy to hold up other people’s lives. ...

Why I Use YouTube Differently From 99% of Creators Most people go to YouTube to chase something: views money fame entertainment validation attention I was like that until yesterday. Yesterday I felt bothered by low views. I considered uploading less, adding B-roll, “improving quality,” doing whatever creators do to please the algorithm. But I realized something profound today: I don’t use YouTube to chase anything. I use YouTube to become someone. My channel is not a business. It is not even content. It is a cognitive training system — a place where I upgrade my mind, clarify my philosophy, and build my identity. This makes my path completely different from 99% of creators. 1. I Don’t Create for Views — I Create for Clarity Every time I record a video, something inside me becomes clearer. ...

Most people start YouTube for views. I started posting every day… and nothing happened. Low views, no growth — but my entire life changed. Here’s why showing up daily became the most powerful habit of my life. When I first began posting on YouTube every day in my first month, I was simply eager to prove to myself that I could create. But over time, something deeper happened. Daily creation stopped being a challenge — and became a way of living. It changed how I think, how I carry myself, how I speak, and how I move through every day of my life. This video is about why consistency — even with low views and slow growth — became the most transformative force in my life. Here are the 8 reasons. The Power of Daily YouTube Creation Daily YouTube creation is powerful because it is the one activity that activates every dimension of my being at the same time: ...

Why I Don’t Need an Alarm to Get Up at 4 AM Two years ago, I used an alarm to wake up around 6 AM — and I failed after one month. Now, I never use an alarm. I still wake up around 4 AM every day — sometimes between 3:30 and 4:30. It’s not discipline. It’s not motivation. The real reason is much deeper. Here are the 5 reasons: 1. I Don’t Force Myself I don’t need to force myself to get up early. In fact, I usually wake up around 3 AM and have to force myself to sleep a bit more until around 4. Most people wake up early because they force themselves: alarms pressure guilt productivity mindset “discipline” as punishment But forcing always has long-term consequences. ...

Marcus Aurelius Wrote. I Speak. Both Are Rewiring. For years, I thought Meditations as if it were a book of wisdom. This year, I realized something much deeper: Marcus Aurelius wasn’t trying to sound wise. He was trying to save himself. He wrote Meditations to: steady his mind calm his emotions return to truth correct his weaknesses strengthen his inner world stay aligned stay awake stay human His writing was his rewiring. And suddenly, I understood something about my own journey. I am doing the same thing — but instead of writing in a notebook, I speak to a camera. Marcus Wrote to Become the Man He Wanted to Be He didn’t write because he was disciplined. He became disciplined because he wrote. Every sentence was a command to himself: ...

“I Was Erased By My Roles. Here’s How I Rebuilt Myself.” The Four Ways I Reinvented Myself This Year For ten years, I lived inside roles that slowly erased me. A wife. A mother. A woman who kept everything together except her own soul. This year, everything changed. Awakening didn’t arrive gently — it arrived through pain, truth, and the realization that life is too precious to live half-asleep. Here are the four ways I reinvented myself in one year — four pillars that rebuilt my identity from the inside out. 1. I Changed My Body and Appearance The first step of my reinvention was physical. I woke up one day and realized: I cannot build an extraordinary life with an exhausted body. So I rebuilt my foundation: ...

Why I Didn’t Lose Motivation After Awakening Many people talk about awakening as a moment of clarity followed by a strange emptiness — a loss of motivation, a sense of “nothing matters anymore,” a quiet collapse after the intensity of inner truth. But my awakening was different. I didn’t fall into emptiness. I didn’t lose motivation. I didn’t drift. Instead, awakening became the beginning of the most disciplined, focused, and creative season of my life. Here is why. 1. I Rebuilt Structure the Moment My Old Identity Collapsed Most people lose motivation after awakening because their old goals die and they have no new structure to support the new self. ...

Showing Up Daily Is Living in the Present For most of my life, “living in the present” felt vague. People said it like a spiritual slogan: “Be here now.” “Stay present.” “Live in the moment.” But no one told me how. No one explained what presence looks like in real life — not just in meditation, not just in quiet moments, but in the messy, demanding, emotional days of being human. It wasn’t until I awakened this year that I understood: **Living in the present is not a feeling. It is a practice. A decision. A daily showing up.** ...

Awakening at 40: Why Do We Need Awakening? Why do we need awakening? The best way… is simply to tell my story. Awakening wasn’t an overnight event. It was built quietly, through years of silent preparation and things I didn’t understand at the time. And when it finally happened… it didn’t just open my eyes — it opened my entire life. In this video, I will share the journey— from the village to the roles I played— and the one small decision that led to everything changing. My Story I grew up in a small village in China in the 1980s. Back then, everyone was poor. Survival was the only priority. Having enough food on the table was already a blessing. ...

Awakening — How I Stopped Wasting My Evenings Before awakening, evenings were the most dangerous part of my day. When the sun went down, everything I avoided during the day rose to the surface: emotions self-doubt fear old stories unprocessed pain I thought I needed more discipline. I thought I needed better habits. But the truth is this: Evenings expose the emotional system. And an unregulated emotional system always leads to distraction. After awakening, this changed completely. Now my emotions are processed throughout the day. By nightfall, there is nothing left to explode. My emotional body is clean, quiet, and grounded. This is why fear, self-questioning, and late-night spirals don’t show up anymore. And this is what I learned. My Experience — From Distraction to Emotional Clarity Investing taught me early: temperament is everything. Not intelligence. Not speed. Temperament — the ability to stay calm. ...