The 33 Strategies of War

so it's what it's a strategy from my book I wrote a book on strategy my version of the art of war called 33 strategies of war but it's really about strategy the strategic thinking it's inspired from Sun Su the great Chinese strategist but it has vast philosophical implications the idea is you can almost think of it like barometric pressure

And I read very deeply about Gandhi, and I wrote about him in my third book, The Strategies of War.

When she made her stand in 92, it wasn't about ripping up the Pope's picture. It was about singing Bob Marley's war, um, acapella essentially, and, and making it about child abuse and saying that and naming that on the biggest TV show of the day.

This comes on the heels of a whole series of huge hit books, including The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, Tribe and Freedom.

Thank you to whoever brought me the Ken Burns 'The War' on DVD that was ridiculously generous of you.

I will be watching that once again the second I get through all of Ken Burns' the rest of them.

If you haven't seen it, if you're like me and you're late to the party, dude, like that's my recommendation for the week.

It's a seven-parter on World War II. Each one's about an hour and 50 minutes long.

It's effortless to watch this thing other than the amount of times you have to hit pause and go, Jesus Christ, I haven't done shit with my life.

It really ties the whole war together where for me, I've always seen like, they'll always do stuff on it on the History Channel that they'll be talking about the war in the Pacific or they'll talk about the Blitzkrieg or they'll talk about D-Day and occasionally they'll talk about Northern Africa.

It's un-fucking-real what, ah Jesus, I'm too stupid to fucking just go watch the goddamn thing.

If you haven't seen it, if you're like me and you're late to the party, dude, like that's my recommendation for the week.

It's a seven-parter on World War II. Each one's about an hour and 50 minutes long.

It really ties the whole war together where for me, I've always seen like, they'll always do stuff on it on the History Channel that they'll be talking about the war in the Pacific or they'll talk about the Blitzkrieg or they'll talk about D-Day and occasionally they'll talk about Northern Africa.

It would be like, what the fuck was that movie that they showed and they showed it backwards and the guy tattooed shit on his arm?

It's just, it's un-fucking-real what, ah Jesus, I'm too stupid to fucking just go watch the goddamn thing.

I don't I I never think about World War two until I come over here. I watched that Ken Burns the war Which is like a 90 Fucking part one out each each one was like one hour long About the war and every time I fly over here.

I got into...started watchingKen Burns The War.

it's a seven part on World War two.

just it's effortless to watch this thing other than the amount of times you have to hit pause and go Jesus Christ I haven't done shit with my life that's what it makes me feel like.

it really ties the whole war together where for me I've always seen like they'll always do stuff on it on the history channel that they'll be talking about the war in the Pacific or they'll talk about the blitzkrieg or they'll talk about D-Day and occasionally they'll talk about northern Africa but this thing kinda goes in chronological order of the whole damn thing.

I got into...went on Netflix and I started watching...Ken Burns The War...if you haven't seen it if you like me and you're late to the party dude like that's my recommendation for the week it's a seven pot on World War two.

it's effortless to watch this thing other than the amount of times you have to hit pause and go Jesus Christ I haven't done shit with my life that's what it makes me feel like I can't even begin to...you just gotta watch it.

If we just sit in our inner tube with our hands behind our head and crack open a six-pack of beer, the river of dark nature takes us towards that waterfall of the shadow.

The 33 Strategies of War is probably the one that's influenced me the most.

You can grab all those at the Painted Porch.

author who sold millions of copies, 48 laws of power, 33 strategies of war, mastery, the laws of human nature.

I remember another mentor I had pointed me to a page in the 33 Strategies of War where Robert Green talks about acting before you're ready.

At about 19, I apprenticed under a great writer named Robert Green who wrote the 40 laws of power and the 33 strategy of war.

He bought me hardcover of Robert Green's 33 Strategies of War which I still have to this day and book changed my life.

I think Robert's book, The 33 Strategies of War is one of the great books on strategy and politics and power ever written.

My analysis of it through the lens of my book The 33 Strategies of War.

In the in the loss of human nature I have a chapter that I describe I go into depth on Stalin called complete control where Stalin's main objective in life his main goal, his main ambition was to gain complete control of every aspect of the Soviet Union

in 33 strategies of war on number 15 is called control the dynamic forcing strategies and what it is is it's the ultimate of an offensive warfare

when I asked him his rank Lieutenant Captain Major he said he didn't have one when I asked him his unit's designation a platoon a company or even about Italian he said they simply called themselves a squad rank and formal military terms weren't something they worried about

or you can be the kindest person you could have the best intentions and evolve and your decisions create havoc and create the worst kind of evil unintended consequences right we see that play out over and over and over again history so you know it's this is an example where it's not just about doing the moral thing in the simplistic way it was about what are the consequences what's the long-term picture here well and that goes back to this idea of courage and i talked about this in the new book a little bit which is um you have to have the courage just to decide and then to own your decision um and the consequences of that decision and i think that's one of the reasons that people don't do things they hesitate because they know if they break it they buy it if they sign uh they they leaders want to have it both ways when really courageous leaders uh know they have to make the decision and then then stick to executing the decision with competence as we said but then you're gonna have to own the fallout the criticism you know the consequences you can you could have made the right decision with the information you had at the time and it can still go horribly wrong uh you can be morally correct and still be look like an immoral person i mean i think we're looking at this in Afghanistan right now uh extricating oneself uh extricating a country from a country uh from a war that's gone on for 20 years it's gonna be messy and unpleasant and it's not gonna look good and it's gonna reveal a lot of things that have you know predated your decision um and i could very much see why a leader would waver or change their mind under the public pressure uh that that comes from that but you got to the job of being president or leader or CEO or board of directors is making hard decisions and then you know shepherding them to completion okay

We wrote the 48 laws of power he wrote 33 strategies of war which I think anyone in your profession should read.