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3.62 AVERAGE

informative reflective slow-paced

Una breve introduzione che racconta in modo succinto la vita di Musashi è probabilmente la parte più interessante del libro.
In questa edizione ogni "libro" è preceduto da una sorta di riassunto dei temi trattati, ma quando ci si addentra nel campo degli insegnamenti del samurai si ondeggia tra nozioni belliche simili a quelle di [b:Sun Tzu - L'Arte Della Guerra|18835569|Sun Tzu - L'Arte Della Guerra|Sun Tzu|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385951847s/18835569.jpg|3200649] (il che è comprensibile, visto che sono nozioni universali e eterne, valide tutt'oggi) e precetti filosofici, passando (in quello che per me è il punto peggiore del libro) per i tipi diversi di sferzata o di attacco che il samurai può fare. Attacchi descritti con una tale passione che se non sembrano tutti uguali poco ci manca, e descritti molto rapidamente, ovviamente pensati per essere accompagnati da un maestro che li illustri, o per essere letti da qualcuno che già sappia attaccare con la spada.

Non so bene cosa mi aspettassi, affascinato probabilmente dal conoscere meglio la figura di Musashi, ma sono rimasto un poco deluso da questo trattato.

A good historical self philosophy book written as a martial arts manual. All about finding The Way and what The Way is can be defined by whatever you would like it to be but the core of it is that you do everything with intention and thoughtfulness.

Interesting. The lessons are intuitive

Fun, short book of wisdom. Had fun reading it "This should be studied in detail".

I think this will definitely help my fencing, because I'm feeling like I'm stuck at a plateau. I need to think of a fencing bout as life or death to get better, and this advice is right toward that.
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Reads more like a syllabus for a class you'll never get to take than it does a guide of any practical use. Only in the most melodramatically metaphorical sense can this be applied to literally anything beside swordsmanship, and even then it's so vague that I'm not sure how any modern swordperson is supposed to take anything useful away from it. I chuckled at the section when he outlines being unrelenting and "holding down the pillow," because that's the same logic behind the combat in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, so if you're a big nerd like me this is great as a bizarre strategy guide for that game (which has obviously taken a not-insignificant amount of inspiration from this book) but if you're also like me then you played that game in 2019 so now it's irrelevant so idk maybe skip this.

This was a fun quick read! I don't know anything about sword fighting but I found the ideas to be compelling and you gotta love a dude who starts with "I've never been defeated, I've never had a teacher, my way is the best, and everyone else is wrong" like!! What an icon