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1 DECLARE WAR ON YOUR ENEMIES: THE POLARITY STRATEGY

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Life is endless battle and conflict, and you cannot
fight effectively unless you can identify your
enemies. Learn to smoke out your enemies, to
spot them by the signs and patterns that reveal
hostility. Then, once you have them in your
sights, inwardly declare war. Your enemies can
fill you with purpose and direction.

33 Strategies Of War By Robert Greene

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Part I

SELF-DIRECTED WARFARE

 1: Declare war on your enemies: Polarity strategy

2: Do not fight the last war: Guerilla-war-of-the-mind strategy

3: Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind: Counterbalance strategy

4: Create a sense of urgency and desperation: Death-ground strategy

Part II

ORGANIZATIONAL WARFARE

5: Avoid the snares of groupthink: Command-and-control strategy

6: Segment your forces: Controlled-chaos strategy

7: Transform your war into a crusade: Morale strategy

Part III

DEFENSIVE WARFARE

8: Pick your battles carefully: Perfect-economy strategy

9: Turn the tables: Counterattack strategy

10: Create a threatening presence: Deterrence strategy

11: Trade space for time: Non-Engagement strategy

Part IV

OFFENSIVE WARFARE

12: Lose battles, but win the war: Grand strategy

13: Know your enemy: Intelligence strategy

14: Overwhelm resistance with speed and suddenness: Blitzkrieg strategy

15: Control the dynamic: Forcing strategy

16: Hit them where it hurts: Center-of-gravity strategy

17: Defeat them in detail: Divide and conquer strategy

18: Expose and attack your opponent’s soft flank: Turning strategy

19: Envelop the enemy: Annihilation strategy

20: Maneuver them into weakness: Ripening for the sickle strategy

21: Negotiate while advancing: Diplomatic war strategy

22: Know how to end things: Exit strategy

Part V

UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE

23: Weave a seamless blend of fact and fiction: Misperception strategy

24: Take the line of least expectation: Ordinary-Extraordinary strategy

25: Occupy the moral high ground: Righteousness strategy

26: Deny them targets: The Strategy of the Void

27: Seem to work for the interests of others while furthering your own: Alliance strategy

28: Give your rivals enough rope to hang themselves: One-upmanship strategy

29: Take small bites: Fait Accompli strategy

30: Penetrate their minds: Communication strategy

31: Destroy from within: The Inner Front strategies

32: Dominate while seeming to submit: Passive-Aggression strategy

33: Sow uncertainty and panic through acts of terror: Chain Reaction strategy

Law 48: Assume Formlessness

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By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.