If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of hundred battles.
If you know your self 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. Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensie.- Sun Tzu
We all have concerns with our enemies. We all win to dominate over them but only few of us can do that.
If you have read the book "Art of War" ( which you should) , you will be familiar the the above paragraph. Know your enemy to take offensive and know yourself to be defensive.
Sun Tzu also said " Attack is the secret of defense and defense is the planning of an attack". Sometime, you have to attack first. It will protect you from other attacks. Remember the time when you were in grade school, how you have to fight back when other bully you so that you won't get bullied again. Sometime, it's not just about honor. It's about being wise and defensive, and the secret to that is "Be offensive". Here , I will mention some few tips that you can use against your enemies.
I try to label the people with the characteristic of animals. That will make it a lot easier for me to explain.
Wild Animals - The people who try to push you until you break. You know what I mean. The most obvious example will be your boss or your brother/sister. They won't let it ago when they get a hold of you. Don't think about running. Imagine this. A furious dog bite your hand and you are trying to shake it off but the dog won't let go you. In this case , you are doing it wrong. As soon as you got bitten, instead of running away push him back. So, if some people who are recklessly trying to push you around ,all you have to do is push them back. Let them know what you are made of. That will solve the problem.
Wolves - When you face an enemy like wolf, don't show any weakness. Normally, wolf stay in a group so does this type of enemy. They are a group of people waiting for you to get beaten so that they will take advantage of you. Some case, they are the people who bring you down. The most common type of these people are your "so-called friends, co-workers and relatives" .Here are the some characteristic of wolves. Normally, they don't dare to do anything to you. That doesn't mean they leave you alone either. They try to surround you and looking for the moment when you become weak. They will check from time to time. First they will try to push over and finally they will get you for good. To protect yourself from them always stay on the top so that they can't jump on you. One way to beat or scare them is while you are in good shape pretend like you are hurt, try to lure few of them and kill them with they fall for the bait. Like I said, every once in a while, one or two guys from the group will come and push you around to see whether you are in the good shape or not. What you have to do is, beat him for good.That will save you from the trouble. Don't show mercy.
Snake - When you face an enemy like snake, an poisonous enemy, the best thing is to stay away from them. If you need to deal with it then you have to make them come outside where you can clearly see them. Make some noise, mis-alarm or use some bait and wait for the moment when they fall for it and kill them in that instant. Beat the bush is the good example. It will force them to come out.
Elephant - When you face a big and strong enemy like an Elephant, don't try to hide far away form them or stand in their way. What you should do is go as nearest as you can because that's their blind spot. If you want to take him down, you either do it from below or from top. Go with the flow. Make them feel secure and before they realize it strike them from their weak spot. If you can keep your presence and don't make them alert, then you will be able to pu this off.
Eagle- when you face an enemy like Eagle,the best option is to get some cover and let him fly in the air for so long without giving him a chance to rest. The moment you strike them is when they are impatient and come down to attack you.
Tiger - when you face a powerful and strong beast like Tiger, you better be prepared to sacrifice some part of your body, Unlike Elephant, they have small blind spot so you can't approach near them. Unlike some wild beast, you can't pushed him back either. So this is what you gotta do. You need to throw away your hand. You need to let him bite your hand. If you don't do so, he gonna aim for your neck and you don't want that. Be careful with what you bait, you don't want to sacrifice your leg because that will cut your mobility and in case sometime gon wrong you won't be able to run anymore. So , the best option is use your arms. Throw away one of your arm and when he goes for it, get him in that instant. If your attack fail you can run away and use the same method again.
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