Overview
Sun Tzu developed a
complete, sophisticated strategic system. However, he did not write his
famous book, The Art of War, as a training tool to educate the
uninitiated. In ancient China, like ancient Greece, books were not written
as how-to manuals. Students learned not from reading, but by listening to
and discussing ideas with their master. Books such as Sun Tzu’s were
designed to preserve knowledge rather than to train novices. Sun Tzu’s work
in particular was written in several levels of “code,” which disguised its
secrets from the casual reader. The purpose of Warrior Class Training is to
teach you Sun
Tzu’s strategy as a master might train a student.
In this introduction, our
first twenty-one lessons give you an overview of Sun Tzu’s system before
we tackle the text itself. Because of its design, the text of The Art of
War is difficult for any reader—even one who can read ancient Chinese—to
readily understand. English readers today have no grasp of the concepts,
metaphors, and analogies that Sun Tzu uses in the text. Many of these
concepts do not translate well into English, which is why we provide a
little of the Chinese itself in our lessons. By outlining Sun Tzu’s basic
principles, this introduction provides a framework for reading the text
itself.
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How to Train:
To start the Lessons 1 - 21, click here.
Directions: Our training is based on keeping score. When you are asked
a question, you check the box you think is correct and click the [Score and
Continue] button. This will score your answer and take you to the next page
(slide). You move between non-question slides using the [Next] and
[Back] buttons on the bottom of the screen. Your score is shown below those
buttons at the bottom of the page. You can use the [UP] button in the
left column to return to this page and reset your score to zero.
Don't worry about getting answers wrong initially.
In
these early lessons, you are asked the same question both at the beginning and
at end of each lesson and you are provided the answer in between, so the
worst you can do is 50%. At the end of the chapter, if your score isn't high
enough to move on to the next chapter (75%), we give you an opportunity to
answer the questions again. Don't bother using the [BACK] button to return to a
question to correct your answer. Your second answer WON'T be counted in your
score. We can't make it that easy.
To start the Lessons 1 - 21, click here.
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