Develop your antennae for trends that have yet to crest.Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence. Like a child, find something new to be absorbed by, something worthy of your focus. Keep your mind constantly moving, excited and curious. Keep the mind moving, respond to the moment.Erase memories of the last war for success makes us lazy and complacent while failure makes us afraid and indecisive.Be brutal with the past, with tradition, with the old ways of doing things.You must cut yourself loose from the past and open your eyes to the present. Actually, your past successes are your biggest enemies - everything is different and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. Never take for granted that your past successes will continue into the future. The greatest generals stand out not because they have more knowledge but because when necessary, they are able to drop their preconceived notions and focus intensively on the moment. Then suddenly someone who does not respect tradition, who fights in a new way, comes and only then will we realize our ways of thinking and responding have fallen behind times. We are listening to our own thoughts, reacting to things that happened in the past, applying theories and ideas that have nothing to do with the predicaments in the moment.Īs we grow older, we become more rooted in the past. What makes us go astray in the first place is that we are unattuned to the present moment.
The problem is that we imagine knowledge is what was lacking. The problem, though, is not that we only have the solution when it is too late. In looking back to unpleasant experiences, we usually think: only ifs.
Always look to draw a line between you and your enemies once that line is clear, back off. Keep your suspicion to yourself, so if you are wrong, no one will know. It is the downfall of many tyrants to see an enemy in everyone. Reversal: You want clarity, not paranoia. However, without gravity, you wouldn’t be able to move meaningfully and develop those muscles. Gravity makes you heavy, preventing you from flying and hurts your knee. Enemies are good for you - they give you a sense of purpose, define who you are, keep you to the ground and bring out the best in you. Face your enemy directly - it is the only way out. Confronted by danger, do not play the victim or avoidance game. Personalize the fight, eyeball to eyeball. An enemy is often large and hard to pinpoint.
Get them emotional: people are more sincere when they argue. Often the best way to get people to reveal themselves is to provoke tension and argument. People are usually good at hiding their hostility. Widen your concept of enemy to include those who are working against you. Constant battles help you stay alert, define what you believe in. By always seeking the path of least resistance, the path of conciliation, you forget who you are, and you sink into the center with everyone else, easily replaced by yet another man. Internal enemies: if you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friends and foes, you have only yourself to blame.Įxternal enemies: do not crowd into the center. Athena vs Ares Part 1: Self-directed Warfare 1.