The Art of War in Daily Life

Hello super community of Read.cash entrepreneurs, we live a little fast in a digital age with the time monster always on top of us, who would not like the day to have at least 30 hours, but it is not like that and every day we must go out to the street to face any adversity and work on our goals and do things right for our families and for ourselves, it is not always easy and recently we have experienced very complicated times due to the pandemic and the different economic crises, so it is necessary to be more intelligent and more efficient in our activities, always looking for good readings I started to read a little about some conclusions of The Art of War Written in China in the 5th century BC by the military expert Sun Tzu has been a must read for soldiers and strategists and people who have wanted to use his teachings to achieve success in their projects and his chapters are objects of study and analysis.

I would like to give a personal opinion about these 8 conclusions and although it is a book for war and I can give some military examples, my opinion will be a metaphor of how these military terms can be applied to various areas of daily life or professional projects or economic, at no time will I give an opinion to achieve military objectives, on the contrary, what the world does not need is war and we must all say no to war, no to the war in Ukraine and no to any war.

The more I read about these statements, it was easy to realize that it is a whole set of strategies that knowing how to apply them in life, we would have more opportunity to achieve our goals, it is very clear that every day there is more competition especially in the world of work, so seek to improve our knowledge and have a work plan and planning would be the idea, a simple example would be an image I saw recently of a helicopter in the air with a cameraman taking some pictures and below the photo of a drone doing the same with the label 10 years before and 10 years later, the idea is to see how means of work are finished, but at the same time how new jobs are created because although we cannot see in the image, that drone is not going to hover it just needs people who prepare for the new times, more technologically advanced.

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1-Those who win plan- the soldier who does a detailed planning is more likely to achieve his goals, here I want to talk about a character that I love and is the teacher of the paper house and as one of the most important aspects of the series is detailed planning, to my way of seeing the professor what makes him super great in his way of making plans is that he does it like a game of chess anticipating the greatest number of moves against him that he can receive and how to have ready a counterattack, if you go to a job interview do not only investigate what the company does or the most common questions in the interview, look for information that shows that you are better prepared than the other applicants and beyond that put your resume in other companies to have other possible interviews, and planning applies to almost all aspects of life as that of an athlete who must plan his way of eating, sleeping and training.

2-Speed ​​and precision- in martial arts there is a saying that speed defines the winner and in war you have to know how to act and not waste any opportunity, this is a very clear point if you already know what you should do, do it because losing time and going slow can determine your defeat, that is something that I have seen in boxers who sometimes have a slow strategy and try to tire the other opponent and do not realize that the strategy is very slow and even when they want to react I already finish the fight and they couldn't apply their moves.

3-Understand where you are standing- many think about their mistakes, do not waste time on how you got there and concentrate on knowing where you are and how you are going to continue advancing. Life takes many turns and you can get to a place without being sufficiently prepared, but you have to see that each step forward is a triumph and the important thing is to be able to visualize the next steps to continue advancing, maybe you are in a country like Venezuela and you have to emigrate to be able to support your family and you have to start working in a job that is below your academic level, maybe you are an engineer and have to sell hamburger in a kiosk, this is not the time to get depressed and think about everything you left behind, it's time to think about the steps for a better job with greater economic benefits.

4-Look for points of attack- look for the weak point of the enemy, look to win the first games and every possible opportunity to later worry about the most complicated part, sometimes you just have to be still and think where to attack, if you saw the movie kun fu panda 2 in the end they attack the panda with a cannon and shoot him with a ball of metal and fire and instead of stopping the fireballs he pushes them towards his enemy attacking the enemy with his own weapon and what was the weak point of this enemy the arrogance and arrogance that made him launch more and more fireballs that the panda returned destroying their ships and killing the villain, despite the fact that the villain had the most powerful weapon, the panda had inner peace and was able to keep calm and use the hatred of the villain to win him.

5- The art of time- you have to know how to study the times of the battle so as not to attack too early or too late, it is said that patience is a virtue and you always have to try to find the ideal moment, sometimes I tried to give A first kiss on the first date can be a catastrophic mistake.

6- Nobody wins with a prolonged war- the objective of war is victory and not a long campaign, attrition can make the winner a loser, perhaps because you want to be better prepared you dedicate yourself to looking for new and novel strategies and there is someone little less prepared goes ahead and gets the victory, for example if you are at the university watching the last subjects of the career and you have an internship opportunity, the best thing is to try to get the internship while you finish passing the last subjects and possibly achieve a first job opportunity, and in the worst case you will have advanced in less time to obtain the title for doing two things at once.

7- The art of deception -intelligent leaders make their enemies know as little as possible, the more information the greater the opportunity to take the correct steps and any unexpected maneuver or confusing information will serve the objectives, this is not as easy as it is said because nowadays we have the information at the reach of a screen, even so there are always ways to be better informed if you dedicate time to research and in almost all areas of life the one who has the most information will be in advantage of those who have less, but as I always say, every day is an opportunity to learn new things and platforms like Read.cash are an example, but speaking of a historical fact that refers to this point, it was an article that said that the company coca cola in its beginnings came to canteens or shops with some employees asking if they had a coke and when they answered that they didn't have that drink they left, then another one came back person and did the same and after that strategy a merchant appeared offering the product, what an ingenious way of using the information to promote and sell your product, another interesting example about this point and how using deception has to do with my favorite movie 300 the one with the Spartans but what I am going to say is something real and that is that the Persians had an army called the immortals and this was because when they went out to battle it was a group of 10,000 men but after a hard battle some of the immortals or even many died during the battle, but they replaced the fallen and the next day a group of exactly the same number of 10,000 men left making the enemies believe that they had not killed anyone and with the use of a mask they finished organizing the deception.

8-Chaos equals opportunity- one way to achieve goals is to take risks, there will always be times when chaos clouds the mind, but if you manage to stay calm and have an open mind, it is possible to use chaos in our favor, I am a boxing fan and at this point I could give one of the many examples of courage that have been seen in boxing and it is the occasion in which a boxer is so beaten that he cannot sit down and although some have thrown in the towel in this situation there have been boxers who have stood up making the other boxer believe that they have so much strength and desire to fight that they remain standing waiting for the bell to continue the fight, which has caused a psychological impact on the opponent seeing that he has despite having dealt many blows the other boxer is standing waiting to continue the fight.

Advice on daily life from a book written for war 1500 years ago, how many interesting books are there, although I prefer short readings like the posts on these platforms, there is not always time to sit down with a great book but it is easier to read articles but with Strategies You can search for information in different ways, you just have to look for a plan and have clear priorities.

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Amig@s I hope you find interesting the opinions about this very interesting book, here korgeshy3.50 talking about everything a little and looking for a healthy debate of opinions.