Six Fundamental Ideals for Strategic Warriors

In daily life, look at things as they are, not as your emotions color them. In strategy, you must see your emotional responses to events as a kind of disease that must be remedied. Fear will make you overestimate the enemy and act too defensively. Anger and impatience will draw you into rash actions that will cut off your options. Love and affection will blind you to the treacherous manoeuvres of those apparently on your side. Be extra wary when you are angry. Take no action when you are fearful. Know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face. War demands the utmost in realism, seeing thing as they are. Ignoring it will lead to a life of endless