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Speaker 0 (0s): Good. 

Speaker 1 (15s): Welcome to this show. Everybody how's everybody feeling out their, you have a good weekend. He get some things done. You walk out in the yard a little bit, hang out with the family, go to the beach, or have a barbecue. What did you guys do? Well, whatever it was a hope you enjoyed it. It's the moment you get to spend with your family and loved ones. It's the moments like that, that you'll remember, and that the people in your family role remember. 

So remember that make the most of your time with the people you love. We want to jump into a series today. I think you're all going to enjoy. I know I enjoy it. That is how we can apply military Strategy to our daily lives. Can we look back to some of the great battles in history and use the strategies on the battlefield that were implemented by these generals into our linguistic structure, into our daily lives in a two are relationships? 

I think the answer is yes. And I also think once you hear this episode that you will think the same thing, I'm going to go over a few points here. I'm going to go over some of Germany. Strategy in the second world war. Talk about some revolutionary techniques. They used the effects of those techniques, and then I'm going to get some commentary on how those affects can be used in your life. 

So without any further of my yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap. Without any further of that, let's dig right in here. The course of Germany's campaigns before and after the outbreak of actual war in 1939, provided a most striking demonstration of an indirect approach. He gave the technique of an indirect approach, a new extension, logistically psychologically, both in the field and in the forum later, the Germans gave up their opponents ample opportunity to exploit the indirect approach against them. 

It is wise in war, not to underrate your opponents. It is equally important to understand his methods and his mind works. Such understanding is the necessary foundation of a successful effort to foresee and forestall his moods. The peaceful power suffered a lot from missing the bus, through their slowness to gauge what Hitler would next attempt an Asian made a profit a lot. 

If the adversary Oregon's of government include it in army department, I'm sorry, an enemy department. We already have an army department covering all spheres of war and studying the problems of the war from the enemy's point of view so that in this state of detachment, it might succeed in predicting what was likely to do next. And there's a lot there. So let's dissect this part. 

It is wise and more not to underrate your opponents. I think that goes well beyond just war that goes into the heart of any type of relationship that could be adversarial, be it a debate, be it a friendly, joking, be it a relationship with someone you love, be it a business partner or a business that you are competing with. 

It is equally important to understand his methods and how his mind works. I think this is something that could be taught to kids in school. They're should be in my mind. I think that there should be a strategic life-course, you know, throughout at least when I went to school, though, it was always math and English and science, kind of the core, the core products of schooling. I I think you would be a good idea to add strategy to that particular whom room coarse, you know, financial Strategy as well as relationships Strategy in a lot of what we were talking about here, these points would be applied to both of those. 

For example, 

Speaker 2 (5m 16s): It is, 

Speaker 1 (5m 16s): It is equally important to understand his methods and how his mind works. I think if any of us take time to really get to know someone thinking about your best friend or a family member, do you understand the methods they use to get where they're going? Do you understand the plan's they have, do you understand how their mind works, maybe for your family and for your best friend, maybe even for a group of people that are in your community or even your culture. 

However, once you step outside your culture, once you step outside your neighborhood, all of a sudden the world gets pretty big. And so does the methodology which people use in order to attain their goals. The previous podcast had a lot to do with this about utilizing or processing language and the left and right hemispheres of the brain. It's so fascinating to me to think about strategic moves on the battlefield and strategic ways to wage war. 

Because I think the majority of relationships we have at times are adversarial sure. Understanding is the necessary foundation of a successful effort to foresee and forestall his moves So in any type of debate, in any type of game, be a football, basketball, wrestling, whatever it is, this is such good advice. Let's just hit the three points again, never underwrite your opponents, do your due diligence. 

It's important to understand their methods and how they think Understanding the foundation of your campaign. Kind of pre-gaming. What do you want to do will help you foresee and forestall the move of the person with whom you're debating or fighting or at war with As far as a nation might profit a lot. If the adversary Oregon's of government included an in an enemy department, I think you see a lot of that. 

Now in corporate America, they call it red teaming and it can be a successful strategy that you can implement in your life. It's a good way to teach your children about Strategy and how to be successful and how to think things through critically. You know, if you're sitting at the dinner table, regardless of what your dinner table conversation is, you could introduce a new game called red teaming. Were you, and one of your kids and your wife and the other child, you could debate topics. 

It's a pretty good idea and can be fun to sit down at a dinner table and have a debate and understand that the idea of the debate is not to hurt the other person. The idea of the debate is to solve a problem. However, as long as everyone at the table is fair game, I think it's a good strategy to try and use different techniques and know that way you can help go over your logical fallacies and why they're wrong and why they're Right. 

However, this is all stemming from, you know, strategic thinking, strategic, which ultimately is kind of a form of warfare. So let's jump right back in here in to the book, nothing, they seem more strange to the future historian than the way that the government of the democracies failed to anticipate the course with which Hitler would pursue four Never has a man of such immense ambition. So clearly disclosed before hand, both the general process and particular methods by which he was seeking to fulfill it. 

Mine confe together with his speeches and other utterances provided abundant clues to his direction and sequence of actions. If the amazingly clear self-revelation of how his mind works is the best evidence that what he achieved was not a matter of accident nor of mere opportunism. It is also the clearest confirmation of the proverbial saying what fools men are even a pulley. 

It did not show such contempt disregard for his opponents and for the risks of unveiling, his intentions. If there was a parent carelessness in this respect showed a realization that men easily miss what is right under their eye, that concealment can often be found in the obvious and that in some cases, the most direct approach can become the...