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The Book Of Five Rings

Name: The Book Of Five Rings
Rating: 5 (11 reviews)
Author: Miyamoto Musashi
ISBN: 9781935785972

Miyamoto Musashi · 1988 · 60 pages

Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise.

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Joe Rogan
“Musashi has been a constant source of inspiration for me for most of my life. The Book Of Five Rings is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable things anyone has ever written. #Repost…”↗
Robert Greene
“He was this weird genius, he was like the Mozart of sword fight. He was very creative, he was very eccentric, very weird. He wrote a book on strategy and when you read it at first glance, it looks to be about swordsmanship but it’s not. It’s about the shapes, the ideas of strategy in a kind of almost spiritual sense. These are the patterns that go on in life, this is how to have a warrior stance in any kind of encounter that you have, even in business. And in Japan, where he’s from, The Book of Five Rings is required reading for every businessman because it’s the masterpiece of strategic learning.”↗
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