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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
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Terrible, nonsensical book. I'm sure this was a great wise text for swordsmen in the 1600s, but it is useless today. The finance bros and productivity-horny men who idolize this book are as insecure about their emotions as they are about their inability to derive any real meaning from this pile of crap. All of the folks trying to state that this is a "reflective" or "deep" text are kidding themselves.
The Five Rings are five chapters split into themes about Musashi's "The Way": Ground, Fire, Earth, Wind, Void. Mostly though, these chapters are Musashi explaining his swordsman technique and strategy through the lense of various contexts such as one's foot positions when locked in a duel with another swordsman, or how it relates to the techniques of other warrior schools in his time. The worst of which is the last chapter, the Void. It is an absolute phoned in joke of two pages of contradictory bull. I'm convinced Musashi had no less than 4 glasses of wine when he wrote it.
This book is probably what ChatGPT would spit out if you asked it to write a book based on the paragraph summary of The Five Rings and is every bit as contradictory and meaningless. Do not waste your time.
The Five Rings are five chapters split into themes about Musashi's "The Way": Ground, Fire, Earth, Wind, Void. Mostly though, these chapters are Musashi explaining his swordsman technique and strategy through the lense of various contexts such as one's foot positions when locked in a duel with another swordsman, or how it relates to the techniques of other warrior schools in his time. The worst of which is the last chapter, the Void. It is an absolute phoned in joke of two pages of contradictory bull. I'm convinced Musashi had no less than 4 glasses of wine when he wrote it.
This book is probably what ChatGPT would spit out if you asked it to write a book based on the paragraph summary of The Five Rings and is every bit as contradictory and meaningless. Do not waste your time.
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inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced