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The Essential Framework for Understanding The Art of War

The Art of Manliness

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What Is Sure and Why Is It Important?

The view is just how you see the world. You can have guiding principles that can shape that big view, but you have to have some flexibility on updating your mental models when we see the world change. The idea of sure - spelled S-H-I-H in Chinese and pronounced 'sure' by English readers -- is a really important concept because you hammer this home in the book. To take a particular action are the forces aligned? That's one way in which sure describes a phenomenal world. At a close point it became political advantage if they came out too soon, says Sunzoo.

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