The Future Will Not Betray You

In 2022, I walked away from a stable job in Taipei, Taiwan.

At the time, I was working as a PM for Rockwell Automation products at Solomon Technology.

From the outside, it looked like a safe and respectable career path.

But deep inside, I kept hearing a quiet voice:

“This is not your path.”

“You are wasting your life.”

It was not anger.

It was not frustration.

And it certainly was not impulsiveness.

It was strangely calm.

A part of me already knew:

“If you continue down this road, you will eventually betray yourself.”

So I resigned.

Without certainty.

Without a clear future.

Without knowing what would happen next.

I only knew one thing:

I had to remain loyal to myself.

That was the first time in my life that I truly followed my inner voice completely.

After leaving, I began writing books.

I started building my YouTube channel.

I began organizing the knowledge and experiences accumulated throughout my life.

At that time, I had no idea where the future would lead.

But I kept moving forward.

Because deep inside, there was another voice saying:

“Do not be afraid.”

“The future will not betray you.”

Looking back over the past three and a half years:

If I had not resigned,

none of this would have happened.

I would not have become the author of four books.

I would not have published an English book with Springer.

I would not have built YEHSTALK.SCHOOL.

I would not have built an online community with tens of thousands of followers.

I would not have become an IEEE Senior Member.

And I would not be preparing for the next stage of my life in the United States.

People often believe life is built entirely through careful planning.

But I have learned something different:

The most important turning points in life come from having the courage to follow your inner truth.

When I was young, I never fit well within traditional education.

During my years at Taipei Institute of Technology,

I often skipped classes and spent my time reading philosophy and psychology in the library.

I disliked rigid educational systems.

What truly fascinated me were:

• the essence of learning,
• the nature of thinking,
• and the inner world of human beings.

Because of that, my life never followed a standard path.

But it also taught me something invaluable:

How to truly learn on my own.

Between my twenties and thirties,

I rebuilt my foundations in motor control, automatic control, electronics, and engineering mathematics almost entirely through self-learning.

After entering industry,

I continued refining those foundations through real-world engineering practice.

And after turning forty,

everything gradually began to converge.

Technology.

Engineering.

Philosophy.

Psychology.

Meditation.

Jungian thought.

Stoicism.

Self-exploration.

Eventually, these reflections became my philosophical work:

Modern Ronin: Reflections on Alignment, Growth, and Clarity

In many ways,

this book is the convergence of my first forty-four years of life.

I now understand something clearly:

True strength does not come from forcing yourself outwardly.

It comes from:

Alignment with your inner self.

When a person becomes truly aligned internally,

energy begins to flow naturally.

You no longer need to constantly prove yourself.

You no longer need to become what others expect you to be.

You begin to understand:

what path truly belongs to you,

and what is truly worth carrying forward.

Today, I genuinely love the state I am in.

My body, mind, aesthetics, knowledge system, and way of life

have gradually converged into something that finally feels authentic.

And I also know:

there are still new challenges ahead.

America will be the next chapter of my journey.

But I am no longer afraid of the unknown.

Because I now understand:

When a person does not betray himself,

the future will not betray him either.

未來不會虧待你

2022 年，我離開了台灣台北的一份工作。

那時候，我在所羅門公司擔任 Rockwell Automation 的 PM。

工作穩定，薪資不錯，在外人眼裡，那是一條「正常而安全」的人生道路。

但只有我自己知道。

每天上班的時候，我的內心一直有一個聲音不斷出現：

「這不是你真正應該走的路。」

「你正在浪費生命。」

那種感覺並不是痛苦。

也不是憤怒。

更不是衝動。

反而是一種異常平靜的聲音。

彷彿內在有一部分的自己，非常清楚地知道：

「如果你繼續留在這裡，未來的你一定會後悔。」

於是，在很多人無法理解的情況下，我辭職了。

沒有明確的未來。

沒有穩定的收入。

也不知道下一步會發生什麼。

我只知道：

我必須忠於自己。

那是我人生第一次，真正完全遵循內在的聲音。

離職之後，我開始寫書。

開始做 YouTube。

開始建立自己的知識體系。

開始把過去二十多年的人生與學習，重新整合。

那時候，我不知道未來在哪裡。

但我沒有停下來。

因為我的內心一直有一種很深的感覺：

「不要怕。」

「未來不會虧待你。」

回頭看這三年多。

如果當初沒有辭職：

我不會成為四本書的作者。

不會出版 Springer 的英文書。

不會建立自己的教學平台 YEHSTALK.SCHOOL。

不會擁有數萬人的自媒體社群。

不會得到 IEEE Senior Member 的肯定。

也不會走到今天，即將前往美國展開人生下一個階段。

很多人以為：

人生是靠計畫完成的。

但我後來才發現：

真正重要的人生轉折，

往往來自於：

你有沒有勇氣，忠於內在的聲音。

我年輕的時候，其實並不適應傳統教育。

在台北工專電機科的時候，

我經常不上課，跑去圖書館念哲學與心理學。

我不喜歡填鴨式教育。

我更在意：

• 學習的本質
• 思考的方法
• 人的內在世界

所以我的人生其實一直都不是「標準答案」。

但也因為如此，

我後來學會了：

如何真正靠自己學習。

二十歲到三十歲之間，

我幾乎是靠自學重新建立自己的電機控制、自動控制、電子學與工程數學基礎。

三十歲之後，

我又把這些理論帶進產業與工程現場。

而到了四十歲之後，

我開始把這一切重新收斂。

包括：

• 技術
• 工程
• 哲學
• 心理學
• 冥想
• 榮格
• 斯多葛哲學
• 自我探索
  

最後，我把它們寫進了自己的哲學著作：

Modern Ronin: Reflections on Alignment, Growth, and Clarity

這本書，

某種程度上也是我人生前四十四年的收斂。

我現在終於明白：

真正的強大，並不是向外壓迫自己。

而是：

與內在對齊。

當一個人真正與自己對齊之後，

能量會開始自然流動。

你不再需要過度證明自己。

你不再需要活成別人期待的樣子。

你會開始知道：

什麼是你真正想走的路。

什麼是你真正應該留下的東西。

現在的我，很喜歡自己的狀態。

我的身體、思想、美學、知識體系、生活方式，

都開始慢慢收斂成我真正喜歡的樣子。

而我也知道：

接下來的人生，

還有新的挑戰。

美國，將會是下一段旅程。

但現在的我，已經不再害怕未知。

因為我知道：

當一個人沒有背叛自己，

未來終究不會虧待他。