Musashi's book of five rings
by Steve Kaufman · first published 2004
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1) Musashi's Book of Five Rings 2) Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People 3) Machaivelli's The Prince 4) Sun-Tzu's The Art of War 5) Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action 6) Steven Johnson's Emergence 7) Jared Diamond's…
on “What books would you recommend reading? Why?” ↗A quick read is Wikipedia's summary of Miyamoto Musashi's "Book of Five Rings" - it's about Japanese swordsmanship in the early 1600's in a variety of situations: Full-on combat, a duel, outnumbered, with high/low ground, etc. It's strategic more than tactical, and if you like…
on “Ask HN: good books about military strategy?” ↗Brilliant. Double up-vote (if I could) on Musashi's Book of Five Rings.
on “What books would you recommend reading? Why?” ↗…intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. - Perceive those things which cannot be seen. - Pay attention even to trifles. - Do nothing which is of no use. -- A translation of Miyomoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings (http://samurai.com/5rings/ground/)
on “The Renaissance Man” ↗Resubmission of I recently went through a translation of Musashi's Book of Five Rings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660833 (1 comment)
on “Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master” ↗