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The Art of Fighting Without Fighting<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cSupreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy\u2019s resistance without fighting.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013Sun Tzu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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\u201cIt is useless to fight against people\u2019s rigid ways, or to argue against their irrational concepts. You will only waste time and make yourself rigid in the process. The best strategy is to simply accept rigidity in others, outwardly displaying deference to their need for order. On your own, however, you must work to maintain your open spirit, letting go of bad habits and deliberately cultivating new ideas.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013Robert Greene<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagine you are back in high school and a bully starts making fun of you in front of everyone. What do you do? Poke fun back? Cry? Run? Punch him in the face? What? The answer is none of the above.<\/p>\n

The best way to deal with a bully who is making fun of you is to make fun of yourself better than the bully did. The worst way to deal with a bully is to retaliate. This is because retaliation perpetuates the bully\u2019s agenda and leads to violence, whereas making fun of yourself uses self-deprecating humor to derail the bully\u2019s agenda while forcing the bully into a confused psychosocial dilemma. It\u2019s a power-play, and it\u2019s all psychological. The bully expects you to poke fun back at him, or cry, or run, or throw a punch; anything but you making fun of yourself. And if you can do it better than the bully did, then bully for you. Pun intended.<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0Carlos Castaneda<\/a>\u00a0said:<\/p>\n

\u201cFeeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid\u2026 Self-importance is man\u2019s greatest enemy. What weakens him is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of his fellow men. Self-importance requires that one spend most of one\u2019s life offended by something or someone\u2026 The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Art of Fighting Without Fighting \u201cSupreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy\u2019s resistance without fighting.\u201d\u00a0\u2013Sun Tzu \u201cIt is useless to fight against people\u2019s rigid ways, or to argue against their irrational concepts. You will only waste time and make yourself rigid in the process. The best strategy is to simply accept rigidity in others, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7266,7467,5168,7468,6092,854],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-civil-disobedience","tag-fighting","tag-resistance","tag-sun-tzu","tag-twoicefloes","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}