Creating Destiny with Reason - The Life Wisdom of Zi Wei

Author: Zhang Shengshu
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Life is like a movie. Simply put, the big difference between the theory of destiny creation and fatalism lies in traditional astrologers who emphasize fate, comparing a person's life to a pre-written script. From the moment a person is born, this script is finalized, and every event that occurs, no matter how trivial, is fixed, known as the "destined number." For centuries, fortune-tellers have tried to deduce this destined number from a person's birth time. My perspective, however, differs. While genes indeed determine many things from birth—just as you are born human or as an orangutan, which cannot be changed—beyond that, "destiny" is more like a movie outline rather than a detailed script. At different stages of life, you can add various details to make the life scripts of people with the same outline completely different. And this outline is precisely personality. People with the same outline tend to have relatively fixed thought patterns when facing the same situations. The issue lies in the fact that everyone encounters different people, events, and circumstances, so even two people born at the same time cannot have the same fate. Therefore, as I discuss in my book The Art of Reading People, the three principles of life—personality food chain principle, 80/20 principle, and competition-cooperation principle. Among them, the personality food chain principle represents how relationships can change one's destiny. When you meet someone, you interact based on each other's innate personalities, leading to certain complementary or conflicting outcomes, which then influence others. This influence is what shapes destiny, and it is interconnected. At this point, you can understand why changing fate habits can change destiny. Personality affects your behavior, and behavior, in turn, alters your destiny. Once you respond to the same relationships with different emotions, the results will naturally vary. (For a detailed explanation of destiny and fate, please refer to The Art of Reading People.)