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Today’s Sun Tzu
“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War · Chapter 10: Terrain
Fight on the merit, not the order.
What it means

The decision to fight rests on predicted victory, not on who commands it; courage is refusing bad fights too.

Use it todayDecide the fight on its merits, not on who is pressuring you.
Today’s questionAm I fighting because it is right, or because someone ordered it?
#judgment#merit#independence
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