RIP School Survival Forums
August 2001 - June 2017
The School Survival Forums are permanently retired. If you need help with quitting school, unsupportive parents or anything else, there is a list of resources on the Help Page.
If you want to write about your experiences in school, you can write on our blog.
To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
The forums are mostly read-only and are in a maintenance/testing phase, before being permanently archived. Please use this time to get the contact details of people you'd like to keep in touch with.
My contact details are here.
Please do not make a mirror copy of the forums in their current state - things will still change, and some people have requested to be able to edit or delete some of their personal info.
Thread Rating:
- 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
|
Applicability outside the military the art of war
|
| Author |
Message |
chaos2525
Revolutionary
Posts: 143
Joined: May 2009
Thanks: 0
Given 0 thank(s) in 0 post(s)
|
Applicability outside the military the art of war
Since at least the 1980s, The Art of War has been applied to fields well outside the military. Much of the text is about how to fight wars without actually having to do battle: it gives tips on how to outsmart one's opponent so that physical battle is not necessary. As such, it has found application as a training guide for many competitive endeavors that do not involve actual combat.
Most notably the book has gained popularity in corporate life; there have been a variety of business books written that apply its lessons to "office politics" and corporate strategy. Many Japanese companies make the book required reading for their key executives. The book is also popular among Western business management, who have turned to it for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive business situations.
It has also crept its way into sport: Australian cricket coach John Buchanan handed out excerpts from the book to his players before a match against England in 2001, and the book is allegedly a favorite of University of South Carolina football head coach Steve Spurrier.
Former Brazilian football coach, and current coach of the Portuguese national football team Luiz Felipe Scolari uses the book to plot his football strategy. In the 2002 FIFA World Cup he gave each of his players copies of the book. In the recent 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany he used the book to plan his team's win against England.
It has found use in political campaigning as well; Republican election strategist Lee Atwater claimed he travelled everywhere with the book.
Some have also interpreted The Art of War as providing methods for developing social strategies, such as developing social relationships, maintaining romantic relationships, and seduction. The book stresses subtlety and always making it appear like one is trying to achieve something other than one's actual intention.
The use of individual quotations from the book as a source of fortune cookie-like proverbs and not seeing the general coherence of the text has been criticized by many scholars of Chinese history.
|
|
| 07-04-2009 04:46 PM |
|
 Thanks given by: | |
|
psychopath
Fanatic
Posts: 4,845
Joined: Jun 2007
Thanks: 0
Given 60 thank(s) in 54 post(s)
|
Re: Applicability outside the military the art of war
Lol, I knew this wasn't your own words because you never use grammar.
Anyway, I don't really think the art of war can really be applied to so many things. I suspect that it seems that way because some of its content is ambiguous, or can at least be interpreted in many ways.
|
|
| 07-04-2009 05:35 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
chaos2525
Revolutionary
Posts: 143
Joined: May 2009
Thanks: 0
Given 0 thank(s) in 0 post(s)
|
Re: Applicability outside the military the art of war
psychopath Wrote:Lol, I knew this wasn't your own words because you never use grammar.
Anyway, I don't really think the art of war can really be applied to so many things. I suspect that it seems that way because some of its content is ambiguous, or can at least be interpreted in many ways.
yes your right i never use grammar and this is from a web-site i lost the link
|
|
| 07-04-2009 06:55 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
Search
Member List
Calendar
Help
/
Applicability outside the military the art of war
