![]() ![]() If there is no avoiding conflict then position yourself so that you have no option but to win. Not everything needs to be a fight, sometimes discretion is better than conflict. Make sure you are thinking of what ground you are on. If you push them into a corner with no escape you might not like the outcome of the interaction. ![]() On the flip side, if your opponent is tough then don’t put them on death ground. Applying Sun Tzu’s teaching needs to go for you and for your opponent. Fight, fight, and fight some more.Ĭharlie Munger talks about inverting ideas to see what you shouldn’t do. If it is something you absolutely must win, then make sure you are fighting on death ground. You are small and they are big, then you have to be nimble, adjust your business model, try more things more quickly, and change a problem into a strength.Īlso, if you don’t have to fight on that ground then don’t, control the terms of engagement. If it is not an advantageous place to fight, then think of ways to turn the obstacle into an opportunity. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Encircled Groundĭon’t get into a fight you don’t think you can win. Working on that business idea, the script, getting up early to go to the gym, that challenge in your relationship, these are all difficult, but not fatal. ![]() If things are hard, you need to keep working. Not really much of a choice if you ask me. This meant they had no choice but to fight or die. SurroundedĮven with their cunning strategy, they were betrayed and surrounded by the Persians. There was one problem, the Hot Gates had a path that could lead behind them so they left 1000 Phocians to guard it and their back. wall, literally on what sun tzu called death ground, with no choice but. The Spartans used the geography to their advantage and made a large force fight in smaller numbers because of the narrowness of the pass. athens under Pericles chose a delbrueckian strategy of exhausting sparta and. They had to outthink the Persian Army because they would never beat them in a straight-up battle. The basic premise was the same in history and in the story, the Spartans knew that they were vastly outnumbered. The Spartans did number 300 but they also had allies that numbered in the thousands. This battle did take place but Miller’s story did take a little bit of artistic license with the events. Fighting shield to shield, the 300 brave Spartans who were bred and trained for war, stopped the invading forces for long enough to rally all of Greece. “In difficult ground, press on In encircled ground, devise stratagems In death ground, fight.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War The Battle of ThermopylaeĪnd fight they did, King Leonidas and his bodyguard of 300 Spartans fought at the “Hot Gates” against the might of the invading Persian Empire. ![]()
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