USE THE SURRENDER TACTIC: TRANSFORM WEAKNESS INTO POWER
JUDGMENT - When you are weaker, never fight for honor's sake; choose surrender instead. Surrender gives you time to recover, time to torment and irritate your conqueror, time to wait for his power to wane (verb - to become weaker in strength or influence). Do not give him the satisfaction of fighting and defeating you - surrender first. By turning the other cheek (noun - rude behavior that shows you do not respect someone) you infuriate and unsettle him. Make surrender a tool of power.
Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk finally snaps. The oak that bends lives longer, its trunk growing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.
Authority: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever (pronoun - old use for whoever) shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee (pronoun - old use for you) at the law, and take away thy coat, let them have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. (Jesus Christ, in Matthew 5:38-41)
From The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
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