Article PDF: 5.6.2 Acting Now [1]

Sun Tzu's eight rules describing why and how we can act on opportunities immediately.

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This article describes that though there are many principles for choosing the best action, we must internalize those principles so that our decision for action can become automatic and instantaneous. This may seem impossible because there are such a large number of interconnected principles that guide us to choose both the best opportunities to pursue and the best action to pursue them. Most of us are not more successful is simply because we don't have the right mental models and that lack creates a commonplace failure to act on our opportunities.