Sun Tzu "The Art of War

When I read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" over three decades ago, I realised I would have to summarise it and try to absorb as much of his teachings as possible.

At that time I was using a lot of mindmapping, a method created by Tony Buzan for taking notes and studying.

I had a good handful, about 10, of mindmaps from this book.

And I carried them up and down with me in a little folder.

Then I bought all the variations of this book, even a very rare one in comic book form.

The Art of War is one of the greatest treatises on strategy of all time.

"The real goal of War is Peace," says the author.

One must delve into the various layers of content and take personal responsibility for one's learning, in this case self-education.

The first commandment of self-education is for you to understand the concept of education, the educational process, that is, how our brain learns concepts and abstracts them into new synapses until it models new beliefs.

The training of Chinese literates is one of these forms of education that advocates the humanised training of students, with the purpose of awakening and developing their best charisma to serve the state in its most particular needs.

It is under this aspect that we must understand Sun Tzu, who in his 13 dense chapters, underlines all the skills that a commander must have to obtain Peace, including the skills for war.

If you are going to read The Art of War, study it.

Although it contains only a hundred pages, you will need years to unravel its entirety.

You will learn some general keys that will make sense of the many situations we encounter throughout life.

One of the greatest teachings is: Only start a war, if it is really worth it and if you are fully prepared. And if you do, do it quickly. Get in and get out fast.

All knowledge begins with the senses which represent schemas that generate abstract concepts with which we operate.

In a situation of antagonism, how does the other perceive things? Are you capable of knowing or at least trying to know? Yes, you will be the master of peace as long as you conquer yourself first and then conquer your objectives.

In the corporate world we deal with abstract concepts, but most of them are very real. We feel them in our skin.

You have there phenomena of our culture that are visible on a daily basis, but which are not in the grid of our formal education.

The distance between the university desk and the work desk is abysmal.

Sun Tzu's concepts apply to these situations and you will be able to understand them in all their real, material existential density.

Stavros Frangoulidis
Stavros Frangoulidis
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