Lesson 146: The Key Constraints on Strategy

The topic of this chapter, adaptability, serves as an introduction to the next three chapters, which offer very detailed prescriptions for dealing with specific situations. In this stanza, the first three lines echo the previous chapter, but the next ten lines reference situations discussed in detail in the next three chapters. The ten situations listed here are not, as we might first think, the specific issues discussed in this chapter. They are selected to illustrate the fact that what we can and cannot do is determined by our specific situations, not our wants and desires.

 

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