Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 4:12 - 15, "12 - To lift autumn fur is no strength; 13 - To see sun and moon is no perception; 14 - To hear thunder is no quickness of hearing. 15 - The skillful warrior of old won easy victories."

Today's focus is on #SunTzu 4:15

Can anyone today replicate Bach's work? Or Michelangelo’s? Or Thomas Jefferson's? Or Julius Caesar’s? No. Not for a moment. There were - in whatever domain you choose - skillful warriors of old. It's an important concept. Embrace it.

As we face our enemies on the left, and as we confront the Marx/Alinsky strategy, it will be a perpetual theme that our history is not...OURS. To consider heroes of the past is mere sentimental nostalgia, they tell us. There were no heroes. There are none now. Certainly NOT you.

Jump forward 1,000 years. In 3019, we will be the warriors of old. Or not. Depending completely on whether or not we rise to the level of Master Sun's standard, his bar. Let's plunge deeper. There were many warriors of old. But most we don't remember. Who do we remember?

We remember the warriors of old who left their mark. We remember the victorious. We remember those who...you know what's coming...

We remember those who won easy victories.

That's stunning. Easy? Yes. Easy victories. Go figure.

We need to play with this. Not for lack of time, or urgency. We need to play with it to root it in mind, in heart and soul. We must own this. But no worry! Master Sun will drive this home again and again and again. Easy victories. Easy victories. It could be the name of the book.

So let's play!

1) Easy Victories
2) Difficult Victories
3) Easy Defeats
4) Difficult Defeats

It is a descending order. If you face number 4, try to at least move up to number 3. Obviously, the great line is between 3 and upwards to 2. But! Number 1 is possible.

In future verses and chapters, we'll return to that list many times, so obviously, it needs a name. We may change the name over time, but for now let's call it the "Victory Quadrant." Additionally, please always remember that warriors of old are characterized at number 1.

Let's go again.

Easy victory? Wanna see it again?
Difficult victory? Hard fought.
Easy defeat? So what?
Difficult defeat? How will we recover...WILL we recover?

Wait. Who is Master Sun trying to teach? Isn't this just for great generals?

Master Sun writes for you. In your everyday life, and when on death bed you look back at the whole of your life story, there will have been easy and difficult victories, easy and difficult defeats. You are the general of your life. Master Sun wants you to find easy victories.

Easy victories are best. In every situation, they are what you're supposed to look for. If you can't find them, the warrior of old will look down from heaven above and smiling, remember when he couldn't find his. He sees yours now but allows you to find it. It is always there.

In science, there is a term, "proof of concept." It applies as well in venture capital. Does your business plan have it; have you proven the profitability of your concept? In the politics of the left, their objective is to wipe out personal easy victories as a concept.

For the left, the ONLY victories are the collective's victories. There are no personal victories, let alone easy ones. Obama tells us, if you have a successful business, you didn't build it. HRC tells us, you can't raise your children, only a village can. No personal victories.

Let me tell you who will be a warrior of old in 3019, @realDonaldTrump. Not for his easy victories, but for his difficult ones. Master Sun will soon teach us how invisible easy victories rightly are. He has a special view. Trump's difficult victories will be his legacy.

Difficult victories are hard fought, hard won, leave scars and turn into wonderful war stories. Easy victories are boring, and do not inspire Hollywood producers with visions of raising millions for the film. Trump is not boring. He fights hard. Harder than he should have to.

Obviously, he embraces the fight. But he does NOT ask us to follow his suit, or make his battles easier. Rather, he'd have us follow Master Sun's advice and seek out easy victories, boring, not exciting, and just win, win, win and win some more. Proof of case?

Please read ahead and finish this chapter on your own. Each coming verse builds on 1 - 15 but is informed from 28 backward with equal force. We could have named this chapter Easy Victories, as well the book itself. And as you do, seek out your own. In the past. Your story.

You are your own proof of case. You, plus the warrior of old. You have both won easy victories. Find your own. Do NOT allow the boring, invisible nature of easy victories make yours invisible to you. You need to remember. You need to believe. Easy victories are possible.

Those who would keep you down and collect you and your capabilities into the great collective, do NOT want you to remember your easy victories. They don't want you to believe they're even possible. They are. Master Sun informs us they are.

And they're the goal. You proved it.

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