The Art of War (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) (Fingerprint! Classics)

It was a Sonia Sanchez book called Under a Soprano Sky and with Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Of those two books, I read Sonia Sanchez's book a hundred times and I never really, I never finished reading the art of war.

You know that's art of war at its finest. Like how I don't understand I don't understand how you could give your opponent any opportunity to feel good about themselves on your half of the turf.

So what we use with our offense like with the guys is now this is I don't you know This is obviously different from when he wrote it, but like there's only five musical notes there's only five primary colors and mixing all those together, you know, having the simplicity of only five but when you add them all together you get this beautiful you know this this array of colors or the beautiful music using simplicity to you know, get complexity out of it

This is a Sun Sushi quote. You ready for this? The bell check. Yeah, exactly. He says all warfare is based on deception.

Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable. When using our forces, we must appear inactive. And when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away.

Sung Tzu, The Art of War. I actually have been picking that up again because I think we talked earlier about the need to find a way that Putin can have his golden bridge, some sense of victory.

This is something that the Chinese have followed for hundreds of years that if you can use influence operations to get the enemy to fight with each other, have the enemy defeat itself without having to fire a shot.

I think I will put the Art of War as a muse to help me write a story about something related with the samurai culture or the way of life.

He asked me if I had read the greatest book ever written about car sales. I don't think so, I told him. What is it? The Art of War, he said, by Sun Tzu.

I went to the bookstore and bought a copy, and then headed back to town and country.

Lines like, draw them in with the prospect of gain, take them by confusion, seemed especially on point.

It's kind of like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, if that had been written in the 5th century B.C.

One of the first sort of lessons in Sun Tzu's, the art of war, which every high schooler reads and thinks they understand war and conflict and strategy. But one of it is unless you're gonna annihilate your enemy, you always wanna give them an out.

what does the war we are fighting what does victory look like as sun su says in the art of war victorious warriors win first and then go to war while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win so we need to win the war first we need to have a plan

I had wardrobe. I read Art of War. I was ready.

Where in the art of war? Where? Sun Tzu said, never press your advantage. It's unseemly.

The Ukrainians took a page from Sun Tzu's Art of War, an attack where your enemy is weak, use surprise, and take as much land as possible before they can respond.

He starts reading all those books, like "The Art of War" and all this shit.

You know something? I don't need to be belittled on my own fucking podcast.

I've been reading the Art of War.

He starts reading all those books the art of war and all this shit

I've been reading The Art of War.

He starts reading all those books the art of war and all his shit

When I was 10 years old, he handed me the book, Sun Tzu, the art of war.

not art of war I read that one later on

And when people I talk to were very close to particular leaders, they'll talk to me about the books that were on their shelf, like books about Hitler, books about Mao Tse Tung, books about social psychology, wanting to learn how to control people en masse.

It's too dangerous for inmates to learn how to command Chinese armies in the fifth century or whatever *The Art of War* is about.

Art of War license plate.

I had a 20-page dissertation... I was reading The Art of War. I was reading all these poets.

You can read The Art of War by Sun Tzu, but it gotta be in you.

He said, Sun Tzu, Art of War, and Marcus Aurelius, The Dialogue.

I started listening to, um, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, audio book, this week on audio book. And I finished it cause it's incredibly short, um, which I'd forgotten. I'd read it a long, long time ago. Oh, that's so appropriate for Snapchat.

Evan went out and he bought copies of The Art of War and he gave them to each one of his employees.

the best victory that you can achieve is, is a whole victory where you don't destroy the other side, you capture the other side.

Is it Sun Tzu?

And if you go back to what, the fourth century BCE, then you see the oft quoted military genius, Sun Tzu, talking about the importance of military intelligence in, you know, the book that so many people quote, the art of war.

Oh, yes. And within that tome that is on every rapper's bookshelf. At least the cool ones, the ones that are like, he talks about or let's say he categorizes a lot of the different things that that modern spies do.

And it's really interesting to see it written out from way back then.

And this is this is stuff talking about someone acting as an informant who is just listening in, let's say, has some information, is able to share it with you.

Everything he mentions in this regard remains relevant in the modern day thousands of years later.

And if you go back to what, the fourth century BCE, then you see the oft quoted military genius, Sun Tzu, talking about the importance of military intelligence in, you know, the book that so many people quote, the art of war.

Oh, yes. And within that tome that is on every rapper's bookshelf. At least the cool ones, the ones that are like, he talks about or let's say he categorizes a lot of the different things that that modern spies do.

And it's really interesting to see it written out from way back then.

And this is this is stuff talking about someone acting as an informant who is just listening in, let's say, has some information, is able to share it with you. The penetration agent.

So Sun Tzu also notes the importance of counterintelligence and the danger of double agents, which gets so confusing so quickly. Everything he mentions in this regard remains relevant in the modern day thousands of years later.

And if you go back to what, the fourth century BCE, then you see the oft quoted military genius, Sun Tzu, talking about the importance of military intelligence in, you know, the book that so many people quote, the art of war.

Oh, yes. And within that tome that is on every rapper's bookshelf. At least the cool ones, the ones that are like, he talks about or let's say he categorizes a lot of the different things that that modern spies do.

And it's really interesting to see it written out from way back then.

And this is this is stuff talking about someone acting as an informant who is just listening in, let's say, has some information, is able to share it with you.