“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
Human experience includes those who have a special ability to discern the truth from false and witness universal realities in new and insightful ways. The likes of Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and now myself are examples of individuals who have this unique ability. We are the special witnesses
Why are you not familiar with me and aware of my unique abilities at this point in human history? The reason for that is a story I am about to relate to you. I hope to present the facts to you as I also testify of the universal truths that allow us to correctly frame the experience.
The Planning Session – A Window Into What Makes American Leadership Perverse Today
I was always an obedient child. If my mother or father asked something of me or told me to jump, I was more likely to ask how high than to resist or oppose them. This innocent trust did not serve me well at multiple points in my relationship with my mother. Our juvenile selves do not have choice or supreme control over our nature. When my family moved into a new neighborhood in 1978, after some unique experiences in Menlo Park, California, led to the need for the family to move on and into a different environment that would better accommodate my older brother's unique personality traits. I was instructed to embrace one of the new neighbor kids, follow him, and do as he said. So, per my nature, I embraced that instruction and made every effort to do so.