greatest wisdom book

Chapter 91
Created a unique "snack path" and won by surprise
Attack the unprepared, take it by surprise.The victory of this military strategist cannot be passed on first.

The wisdom of "surprisingly, attacking unpreparedness" originally originated from "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and Sun Wu regarded it as "the victory of this military strategist should not be passed on first."However, this strategic thinking is not only applicable in war, but also in daily life, if used properly, it can also achieve good results.

There is such a fable:

A man named Little Stone heard a shoemaker boast that no one could fool him.So Xiaoshi wanted to try him.

One day, Xiao Shitou met the shoemaker on the street, grabbed him and said, "Stand here and wait for me for a while, and I'll come right away to show you how I lied to you." gone.

The shoemaker really thought that Shitou would come back to deceive him, and thought, I want to see what tricks you have to deceive people.As a result, he waited on the street for a long time, and the little stone didn't come back.When he was getting impatient, a friend of his came over and said, "Shoemaker, what are you doing standing here?" The shoemaker told the friend.My friend laughed loudly after hearing this: "You are so stupid, you don't know that you have fallen into the trap of others. Little Shitou lied to you, and he will never come back!"

In an unexpected way, the little stone achieved the purpose of testing the shoemaker.And what he relied on was Sun Tzu's so-called "unexpected surprise, attacking the unprepared" method.In fact, the core of the strategy thinking of winning by surprise is to look at the relationship between "odd" and "positive" dialectically, and to change and adjust the strategy in time according to the changes in the actual situation, so as to achieve the goal of "changing from being positive to being strange, and from being strange to being right, and winning from being strange and winning from being positive". magical effect.

It is said that when a leopard catches its prey, it always bites the place where the prey's hind legs cannot be kicked, such as the shoulder, neck, and back.Animals living around leopards are very aware of this.

Once, a leopard attacked a musk ox.The musk ox ran desperately towards a jungle, and the leopard chased after it, sometimes rushing to its left, sometimes rushing to the right, trying to control its escape route, and finally drove it to the edge of a deep valley.The musk ox had no way to escape, and did not dare to fight back, so it had to stand there blankly, waiting for what would happen next moment.Knowing the leopard's hunting methods, it tried to raise its head high and arch its back to prevent the leopard from biting these places.But the leopard made a "strange" move, rushed over like an arrow, and bit its hind leg.The musk ox lost its balance and fell headlong into a deep ravine. The leopard then rushed down and regarded the musk ox as a delicious meal.

The leopard's surprise victory reminds people of the fierce competition in modern society, and there are always some people who can win big by virtue of "surprise".

The chairman of a large company is about to retire, and he wants to find a talented successor.After a period of investigation, he finally selected two people - Mo Yan and Yu Shu.

Because both of them are proficient in riding, the old chairman invited them to the farm as homeowners.After the two arrived, the old chairman took out two excellent horses, handed the white horse to Mo Yan and the black horse to Yu Shu, and said, "I want you to compete in horse riding, and the winner will become my successor. But the competition rules It was 'slower', not 'faster'. The two were taken aback for a while, and soon, Mo Yan had an idea, jumped on Yu Shu's dark horse, and galloped away.

By the time Yu Shu reacted, it was already too late, his dark horse was so far ahead, and he couldn't catch up no matter what, he lost.

"Congratulations"! "Congratulations"!The old chairman happily announced that Mo Yan came up with such an innovative method and succeeded by surprise, proving that he has enough talent to take my place.He is the next chairman!
A sudden idea, some rational whimsy, opens a path for your success.This principle coincides with the "surprise victory" mentioned many times in the Art of War.Sun Wu proposed that when fighting, we should "win by using righteousness and surprises". Combat against the enemy is righteousness, and encirclement and outflanking are strange;In life, we also need this method of "surprise victory" in order to create a wonderful world.

Avoid the most common ways of thinking and paths, and try to open up some "small trails" that are ignored or even underestimated by people, which may produce the effect of "surprise, attack the unprepared" and bring unexpected surprises.

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