Calculating the Path to Victory: 16 Action Strategies to Achieve What's in Your Mind

Author: Zi Gao Jieyi
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: As everyone knows, not everything in the world can be achieved with ease. More often, success requires continuous "struggle" against it. Therefore, the amount of "calculation method" you master often plays a decisive role—in skilled use, it is invincible; in poor use, it fails every time. So, how should the calculation method be applied? This is one of the key issues this book addresses. To this end, the book analyzes many types of "calculation method" for reference:
1. Attacking Calculation: It emphasizes not only offense but also defense. Achieving a balance between offense and defense is key to securing a decisive victory. To neglect either offense or defense is to violate the path to victory.
2. Skillful Calculation: Refers to using intelligence to determine which steps to take and which to avoid. Without skill, there will be mistakes, and mistakes lead to defeat, let alone great victories.
3. Strategic Calculation: Acting with wisdom. Great achievements in the world all stem from the word "strategy." Without strategy, no plan can succeed, and no achievement can be realized. Learning to strategize in planning can reduce many unnecessary "flaws."
4. Detailed Calculation: "Without detail, there is defeat"—this is an obvious truth. Therefore, detailed calculation is the secret to success or failure in your endeavors. What is detailed calculation? It means dividing the situations you face into smaller parts and calculating each one individually.
5. Indirect Calculation: Refers to avoiding direct confrontation when it is unnecessary. Indirectness leads to success. In most cases, failing to do so is a superficial approach.
When you think about these calculation methods, do not merely grasp them theoretically. You should apply them in practice and bring them to their full potential in real-world scenarios. Only then can they truly be considered the art of victory.
To this end, the book also analyzes and deepens the experiences of many successful figures in ancient China who were highly skilled in "calculation method"—such as Su Qin, Sun Bin, Liu Bang, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Liu Yuan, Zhao Kuangyin, Genghis Khan,, Zhu Yuanzhang, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Liu Yong, Zeng Guofan, Hu Xiyin, and Li Hongzhang—from multiple perspectives and levels. The purpose is to fully reveal the role of these "calculation methods" in practical scenarios and provide you with inspiration.