1 Laying Plans | The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Animated) 

I CAN'T BELIVE YOU USED EVERY STATEMENT IN THE ART OF WAR AND ADDED AN EXAMPLE FOR EACH STATEMENT! AMAZING!

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." Mike Tyson

I’ve read the art of war, and listened to it spoken on road trips. I found it interesting, albeit a little bit of a head scratcher. NEVER, and I do mean EVER, NEVER EVER have I heard it so well described with such excellent examples. Kudos on a job well done! But DO NOT SHARE THIS 'THE ART OF WAR' SERIES WITH ANYONE! It is best kept only for you and your "team." 😎

You should definitely publish a book based on your cool explanations, you made the points so simple and yet so effective, loved it..

The Trojan Horse held dozens (between 23 and 50, depending on the translation) of men, who waited until night and then opened the gates.

Awesome Video bro! GOOD luck on all of your hard work ! keep grinding

Beautiful! That was an amazing video. I appreciate your hard work. Thank you for the effort.

Adding the examples makes this one of my favorite RU-vid series hands down.

Amazing!Your way of deliberation with animated facts are great. 👍

So here we are. A new day has dawned and there are a few things on my mind. Head over to the teapot or decanter and pour yourself a drink... Welcome back friends, subscribers and new visitors to this modern-day agora. You may have noticed some changes in the aesthetics here: an adjusted name and a metaphorical lick of paint on these RU-vid walls being the most obvious. Like the mythical Greek phoenix, this channel has undergone a renewal and I'd like to explain why. Adam Smith coined the phrase 'paradox of value' when he spoke about water being more useful than diamonds despite the diamonds garnering a higher price. Of the many books I've read over the years, the most valuable knowledge I've gained has come from studying the classics. These books have stood the test of time for decades, centuries, or in today's particular case, millennia. Most of them are freely available, yet many are still hesitant to pick them up. This is of no surprise in an age where it seems image is everything. The cover of a book is now treated as vitally important customer-facing marketing, instead of the emphasis being solely directed towards the wisdom in the content. Would you bet on an average looking, experienced horse with a proven track record or a pristine young pony that is taking part in their first race? Nowadays, people are choosing the latter. To improve, it is not enough to simply read; the quality of the material affects your brain in much the same way as a diet affects your body. People judge books by their covers. Don't be one of them. The classics are being shelved in favour of newer literary works. How many of these new books will still be relevant in ten years’ time? How many will be read by the next generation? The classics have stuck around to this point because they are superior. They also offer a gateway to the past. The historical and cultural lessons which you can learn should not be underestimated. The Art of War is one of these books. In this video I have constructed for you, I have accompanied Sun Tzu's teaching with historic examples of how they've been used in a literal sense: through the context of warfare. With a little bit of critical thinking, you can apply these lessons to your chosen passion, be it business, romance or otherwise. This channel will not spoon feed a step-by-step process of what to do in life. It will share the knowledge of some of the greatest individuals in history from high quality literary works. Their successes and their failures show us much to learn. It is up to you if you want to use that knowledge. I have spent a considerably longer amount of time on this animation with improved production values. I hope you benefit from it and enjoy watching it as much as I have enjoyed creating it. Finally, thank you to those of you that have supported me thus far. I know many of you have shared my work with your friends and I want you to know it is appreciated. This story is continuing and I sense the next chapter will be a good one. - Adam ___ Contents 0:00 - 1: The art of war is of vital importance… 0:34 - 2: It is a matter of life and death… 1:18 - 3: The Moral Law 2:29 - 4: Heaven 3:02 - 5: Earth 3:53 - 6: The Commander 4:38 - 7: Method and Discipline 5:32 - 8: These five heads… 6:18 - 9: Modify one's plans 7:11 - 10: All warfare is based on deception 7:42 - 11: When able to attack, we must seem unable… 8:30 - 12: Hold out baits… 9:26 - 13: If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him… 10:16 - 14: If he is taking his ease, give him no rest… 11:12 - 15: Attack him where he is unprepared… 11:51 - 16: These military devices, must not be divulged… 12:37 - 17: Calculations

What a fantastic video, thoroughly enjoyed it, great idea and well articulated, Earned a new fan. :)

Looking forward to this series

Outstanding work.

Your amazing 👏 Thank you for these illustrations. Very simple to follow and it definitely taught me more than the book.

The Trojan horse had about 30 to 40 armed men in it. Now thousands by any means. The men opened the gates, so that the main army could attack.

Great video, and equally great subject.

Heaven doesn't mean just the literal seasons and times. It also refers to changing circumstances. Sometimes it is right to fight, and others it is not. Some of these reasons are less clear than others.

Just found this channel! it is amazing! Can't wait to grind though all your videos!

You deserve a million subss

great video and examples man

If fighting assures your victory then you must fight!

Awesome!!!keep up the effort 😏

thank you for this

I thoroughly enjoyed this

This drawing of Great Britain was quite amazing, btw

The characters used look awfully like Ferb (from Phineas and Ferb)..... Ferb time-traveler confirmed

00:30 Don't forget about these under the goals of the state: to collect resources and to establish territory.

This has helped me alot thx

Fully watched. Great story and Amazing arts paint cartoons.

I'm here for Ferb, but this here's a good video indeed

Amazing content really helpful 🔥

Great video

I forgot who said "I find plans to be useless but I find planning essential." I heard this before but I forgot who said it and watching this I was thinking about it. Thanks for reminding me who it was, General Eisenhower.

1. Plan what you are going to do! 2. Get mentally tough enough! 3. Do it, the best u can!

Ah yes, just what I was looking for.

Love your videos. Would like to see a how to animated Invention launch, unless you just wanna be business partners and invest.

This will help me know myself, and thus my enemies...

Me and my friend are about to go to war against some other players on his Minecraft Realm, wish me luck.

*Thank u sir*

I wish for the day that no one on earth needs to plan this way.

Good video

Divide et impera translates to “Divide and rule,” impera being the word for rule. Divide et vincere would be divide and conquer. It isn’t enough to conquer, as the Romans learned in the Punic wars, you have to rule over that which you conquer or it will become a threat again in the future.

This is Sparta

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sun tzu would have likely thought the greek's "trojan horse" a failure. the plan was executed in desperation after a rag-tag group besieged a city for *ten years* and couldn't win - just to honor an informal pact among lords. its success is pure luck. a lapse of thought on the trojans part. like sure, it was deceptive. but in the context of the story it's a massive failure. not a real example of what sun tzu means by deception in this chapter.

Wow nice, will you be doing the rest of the chapters too ?

because of point eleven the 'all warfare is based on deception' isn't merely a strategem like the trojan horse or hannibals oxen trick but a mundaine part of all actions in warfare.

amen

OMG

basic 1. want to success, strategy is a must uncalculate expanse leading to shitty situation 2. knowledge is important what is swot, plan, competitor, market, all aspect in the world factor 3. integration, know the same vision, purpose etc if the staff do not know what is he doing, you are doom 4. predicted and make use of pattern, 5. different condition, 6. leadership, 7. procedure based process 8. combine human that working in company, understand what are they doing. and lead by encourage leader that know what to do from learning the past pattern and knowledge the situation additional 9. flexible 10. war start from a lie tactic 11. confuse enemy, manipulate their expectation 12. use bait 13. prepare everything possible. evade their superiority 14. when they weak go attack. make internal conflict to them 15. attack unexpected 16. keep secret special 17. calculate more lose possibility

Great video. But, the Trojan horse in legend was not a gift for Athena, but for Poseidon, which is sometimes depcted as a horse. Poseidon is also the Greek god of eathquakes, giving the alternative narrative that the city walls fell after a long siege during an earthquake. The Greeks would have seen this as a blessing of Poseidon, perhaps erecting this monument of a wooden horse thereafter.

Love these videos, they are so easy to understand. One thing tho- the last screen has EUDAIMONIA spelled "EUDIAMONIA". Which is right?

A plan is just a list of things that don't happen after the first shot is fired.

These LESSONS -Principles APPLY to PERSONAL & Business & Political lives

Man this shit is sinister

I'm disturbed by your depiction of Romans in Greek armor and Carthaginians in Roman armor.

Awesome video! But Hannible wasnt black, he was Spanish(Iberian). And if he was from carthage, he'd still be greek/meditaranian.

Whoever was in the hiding of timid them too

Hannibal wasn't black

Hi Adam, which version of the art of war did you use for this series? And which version do you recommend that is the most succinct and easiest to understand?

Hi - I wanted to say hi. This video serie is very well done - my compliments. Some examples raised an eyebrow, but that is to be expected. But not only do you have a video serie on one of my favorite books, you named your channel Eudemonia, after the word which is translated as happiness and comes from Aristotle's "Ethica Nicomanchae", or isn't? I was learned that "Eudemonia" means somewhat litteraly "feeling like a demi- god". Not that it is a good thing - I am from the Ataraxia school of thoughts. Epicures over Aristotle every day of the week. Too bad the rest of the world has their heads too deep up Plato's ass :-D Not you I guess - I saw you even had a series on Marcus Aerelius (Meditations) and Seneca. I read The letters to... (what'shisnameagain?). Your series is half my bookcase hahahaha! Mmmmm just a top 13 of quotes from Marcus.... Watching the first.... Ay.... Most important I take out of it - as is repeated in his Meditations, that Time is limited because there is no afterlife! Time is not a resource - I understand why you say this living in 2017 but that is not the lesson I took from Marcus. There is no afterlife! That is why time is so essential. But maybe I take my Taoist approach too serious ;-) "Urgency + Focus = best chance of achieving goals???" (Really??) The second quote you discuss is about the same thing. There are no 1000 years ahead of you - as many Pythagoras followers would have you believe or Plato adepts. Fate is at your elbow - when you meet your fate (die) then there is nothing left of those 1000 years. No second life, no second chance - Providence is done! Nice quote about chance - that sparked one of the most important lessons I got from Marcus and that is the wonderfull mysterie of Nature explained. Nature, he says somewhere, the magical and wonderous part of nature that never stops amazing is this: Nature is able to fashion new life from old. Well enough said - you might not even read this comment - but again my compliments for the hard work an effort put in this project and the fine people who sponsored you doing it with your team!

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What, are we doing the Morgan Freeman Hannibal now?

Very good video! Trojan horse could not have held a thousand men let alone 'thousands of armed men"

The logo at the end of the video is misspelled.

9:00 its not a mongol strategy it's actually a Persian strategy

It's funny how so many of the comments are about Hannibal's skin colour but no one seems to mind the fact that only the Roman and British uniforms and outfits are even close to being from the right culture and/or era.

A thousand year commonwealth

only a sith deals in absolutes

TECHNOBLADE GANG

Thousands of armed men ????

The numbers don't match up with actual layout plans

3:19 Hanibal wasn't black.

Very nice video, as always. Just one question: why do the Germanic tribes look like native Americans...?

Do a on war car von clausewits

>Black Hannibal

Haha i was just noticing that all the figures look so happy and friendly even the `baddies` Except for Hitler.

Is de ort af ware

Essex Nimitz

According to various descriptions of Hannibal, he wasn't black. Does it really matter? BBC seems to think so.

Wait wait... Sparta was not militant nation! They had been teaching discipline and service to the nation from start, but they were well educated, also in military strategy. Most of nations at that era had units commanded by single leader per each unit. Spartans used more complex chain of command and using smaller units than whole phalanx. This is known that when allied nation asked Sparta for help, they often sent single advisor and this was enough to win wars without moving armies from their own country. Why? Sparta always thought of themselves as invading force occupying Peloponesia. They also were very conservative due to construction of their government - this allowed them to be stable nation and avoid radical changes, but in long run it doomed them against Athens. Oh, and the most warrior-like culture had Argos, not Sparta :) BTW> Sparta perfectly used those myth-tales to their advantage :)

Rulers are immoral. Leaders are not.

yeah hannibal was white

quite fast!!!

Hannibal was not black at all, even north Africans were white maybe a bit tan but certainly not black

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Per their gain of filth

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Ummmmm... why is Hannibal black?

Hannibal was white, not black. Phoenicians and Iberians were white.

divide and rule...look how divided we are now..proof? look at your fiat currencies, we used to use same money back then, now we have many colored fiat paper we redeem as money. just wonder who ruled us right now...

english people had better understanding of sun tzu than chinese wtf.

"A leader with integrity creates passionate, dedicated followers" *Donald Trump has entered the chat*

Who the fuck is Odessyus, its Odysseus

If on you tube still on tonight .. Lie die

Disliking cuz black hannibal.

Hannibal was a Black Moor according to the Romans, Europeans always try to white was history

Hannibal probably wasn't black, just fyi.

CHARGE!-russia

"deception about the deception" lol #woke