The Book of Five Rings

By Miyamoto Musashi

Categories: Business & Money, Self-Help

In 1643 the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi withdrew to a cave and wrote down what a lifetime of duels had taught him about swordsmanship, strategy, and winning. His advice covers how to read an opponent, throw them off balance, and seize the advantage. Musashi argues that true mastery is a matter of the mind, not just technique. That idea has made the book a favorite of martial artists and of anyone who has to deal with conflict or competition.

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• Shane Parrish: ““When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive and incisive texts on strategic thinking ever to come from Asia.””
• Aubrey Marcus: “The Book of Five Rings should be required reading in schools, it languishes on the shelves.”