elliereads1606 's review for:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

4.0

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Truth be told I read this from a list of most influential books of all time. Social media lead me to make the decision to try this read. For very small moments I got it but mostly the teachings went in one ear out the other. Perhaps if I read this in a different mindset or multiple times I could make better sense of the teachings. They seem simple yet complex. For example we can be given 4 simple ingredients to make a dish but there’s a 100 ways to produce the dish with those 4 ingredients. The same is said of war. Perhaps the teaching that I best understood was the connection of war and water. As water ebbs and flows so does war and as water moves differently every time over its surroundings so does war.