The 33 Strategies of WAR by RG - S2EPI-120

life means a continual battle.

 

Your success, failure, happiness, or unhappiness mostly depends upon your knowledge of this battle. Whatever one's occupation in life, whatever one's knowledge, if you lack the knowledge of the battle of life You lack the most important knowledge of all.

Life is a war, says Franz Kafka, "a war with yourself, a war with your circumstances, a war with the fools who created these conditions ..."

Learn The 33 Strategies of War.

The 33 Strategies of War was written by American author Robert Greene in 2006. It is composed of discussions and examples of offensive and defensive strategies from a wide variety of people and conditions, applying them to social conflicts such as family quarrels and business negotiations.

 

Brilliant distillations of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and Mastery, espouse profound, timeless lessons from the events of history to help readers vanquish an enemy, ensnare an unsuspecting victim, or become the greatest in their field. In The 33 Strategies of War, Greene has crafted an important addition to this ruthless and unique series.

 

Part I

SELF-DIRECTED WARFARE

 

1: Declare war on your enemies: Polarity

You cannot fight effectively unless you can identify them. Learn to smoke them out, then inwardly declare war. Your enemies can fill you with purpose and direction.

 

2: Do not fight the last war: Guerilla-war-of-the-mind

Wage war on the past and ruthlessly force yourself to react to the present. Make everything fluid and mobile.

 

3: Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind: Counterbalance

Keep your presence in mind whatever the circumstances. Make your mind tougher by exposing it to adversity. Learn to detach yourself from the chaos of the battlefield.

 

4: Create a sense of urgency and desperation: Death-ground

Place yourself where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.

 

Create a chain of command where people do not feel constrained by your influence yet follow your lead. Create a sense of participation, but do not fall into groupthink.

 

The critical elements in war are speed and adaptability--the ability to move and make decisions faster than the enemy. Break your forces into independent groups that can operate on their own. Give them the spirit of the campaign, a mission to accomplish, and room to run.

 

Get them to think less about themselves and more about the group. Involve them in a cause, a crusade against a hated enemy. Make them see their survival is tied to the success of the army as a whole.