Lesson 36: Situational Response

We adjust to our conditions, but we must never become predictable, letting our actions expose our condition. Once we become predictable, people will learn how to outmaneuver us. To be successful at bluffing our opponents, they should not be able to look at our actions and determine our true situation. In chapter 9, Sun Tzu goes into a great deal of detail about how we can determine our opponents' true condition by looking at how they behave. We must avoid being this predictable.

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