Today’s Sun Tzu
“Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.”
水因地而制流，兵因敌而制胜
Adapt to the terrain and the opponent.
What it means
There is no fixed recipe for winning; strategy is the art of reading the ground and the opponent and shaping yourself to them. Rigidity is the enemy of effectiveness. Water wins because it takes the shape of what it meets.
Use it todayReconsider one plan that assumes a fixed set of conditions, and ask how it should adapt to the current reality.
Today’s questionWhere am I being rigid, when the situation calls for adaptation?