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The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene (FULL AUDIOBOOK)

Notus & Friends

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How to Be a Successful Strategist

Gondi was a deceptively clever strategist whose frail, even saintly appearance constantly misled his adversaries into underestimating him. He judged them to be essentially liberal people who saw themselves as upholding traditions of political freedom and civilized behaviour. The key to any successful strategy is to know both one's enemy and one self. Many people to day are as imbivolent as the english were about having power and authority. They need power to survive, yet at the same time they have an equally great need to believe in their own goodness. To fight people with any kind of violence makes you look aggressive and ugly. And if they are stronger than you are, in effect you are playing into their

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