Art of War: a response paper
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Response Paper I read the Art of War during my high school year as a outside of the class reading book assigned by my language art teacher. I told him I was going to major in business (marketing). So when I first started reading the Art of War I was like “hey, if I have all the time in this world I could have think of all of these stuffs.” I had a big ego that time. Then I had a discussion about the Art of War with my physics teacher(he’s a genius literally, speaks 7-8 languages, mid twenties, doing his PhD. and also teaching). I asked him about the book why this is the knowledge in this book is something I could have think of. He replied something like this: “all the knowledge in this level are like this. It’s may not seem very deep and intriguing to me. However, let a hundred people read this book. They will all interpret differently. It is as if an exotic ingredient waiting to be made into some ridiculously complex dishes. Each chef will make them differently. Depending on the chefs’ expertise. That is why it the knowledge has been used in the business field for decades. To a common people they may think “hey, I could have thought of these stuffs” but they could never improvise those knowledge into practice. That is what separates the people reading this book. Sun Tzu may write quite simply in sentences, but it’s all the interpretation of each individual to put into practice that makes the book so powerful.” To say the least a big part of my ego has been removed. I have never thought of such common thing to be this powerful.
Back to the topic you was asking me about, this man and his time. To simply put Sun Tzu was a very thoughtful man. This book tells a lot of this man’s mind “he was very cunning.” It was during the warring state time. Time of war and chaos. Some would consider this man a philosopher.
It would be intriguing to know if Sun Tzu knows that his knowledge are still being use today in the business field: what would
Response Paper I read the Art of War during my high school year as a outside of the class reading book assigned by my language art teacher. I told him I was going to major in business (marketing). So when I first started reading the Art of War I was like “hey, if I have all the time in this world I could have think of all of these stuffs.” I had a big ego that time. Then I had a discussion about the Art of War with my physics teacher(he’s a genius literally, speaks 7-8 languages, mid twenties, doing his PhD. and also teaching). I asked him about the book why this is the knowledge in this book is something I could have think of. He replied something like this: “all the knowledge in this level are like this. It’s may not seem very deep and intriguing to me. However, let a hundred people read this book. They will all interpret differently. It is as if an exotic ingredient waiting to be made into some ridiculously complex dishes. Each chef will make them differently. Depending on the chefs’ expertise. That is why it the knowledge has been used in the business field for decades. To a common people they may think “hey, I could have thought of these stuffs” but they could never improvise those knowledge into practice. That is what separates the people reading this book. Sun Tzu may write quite simply in sentences, but it’s all the interpretation of each individual to put into practice that makes the book so powerful.” To say the least a big part of my ego has been removed. I have never thought of such common thing to be this powerful.
Back to the topic you was asking me about, this man and his time. To simply put Sun Tzu was a very thoughtful man. This book tells a lot of this man’s mind “he was very cunning.” It was during the warring state time. Time of war and chaos. Some would consider this man a philosopher.
It would be intriguing to know if Sun Tzu knows that his knowledge are still being use today in the business field: what would