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Unknown - "Be smart. Notice everything. But act like you know nothing." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's jump into today's
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  quote of the day. Today's quote has no confirmed
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  original author, but it's often attributed to various strategic
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  thinkers and philosophers throughout history.
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  Its roots reached back 2500 years ago to Sun SU, the Chinese
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  military general and philosopher whose work The Art of War
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  remains one of the most studied strategic texts in human
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  history. Read today by military leaders,
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  business executives, and anyone trying to navigate a complex
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  world with intelligence and intention.
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  The quote is this Be smart. Notice everything, but act like
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  you know nothing. Three simple instructions, each
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  one deliberately positioned against the instinct most people
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  follow. But first, be smart.
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  Sounds obvious, of course, but being smart in the way Sun Tzu
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  meant it isn't about showing off your intelligence, it's about
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  cultivating it, he wrote. If you know the enemy and know
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  yourself, you need not fear the result of 100 battles.
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  Knowledge is the foundation of everything.
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  It is the preparation that happens in silence before
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  anything is revealed. The second part, notice
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  everything, is where most of us already fail.
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  We move through our day in a kind of selective attention,
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  noticing what confirms what we already think, missing what
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  doesn't fit our expectations. Sun Tzu saw observation as the
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  most powerful weapon available. Appear where you are not
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  expected. Attack where he is unprepared.
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  That kind of precision is only possible if you've been watching
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  carefully, quietly, without announcing what you see.
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  And the third part? Act like you know nothing.
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  This is the most counterintuitive of the three,
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  and it is the one that separates the truly strategic from the
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  merely intelligent. Sun Tzu was explicit.
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  All warfare is based on deception.
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  When able to attack, seem unable.
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  When active, seem inactive. Not dishonesty, Restraint, the
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  deliberate choice not to reveal your hand before the moment is
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  right. Together, these three
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  instructions form a philosophy that applies far beyond any
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  battlefield. In every relationship, every
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  negotiation, every room you walk into, the person who talks the
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  most reveals the most. The person who listens, observes
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  and withholds their conclusions and tell the moment they choose
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  to act. That person holds a quiet but
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  extraordinary form of power. The loudest voice in the room is
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  rarely the most informed. 1 The most dangerous intelligence is
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  the kind nobody knows you possess.
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  So here's the question. In the situations you're
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  currently navigating, are you spending more energy showing
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  what you know, or quietly gathering what you don't yet
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  know? Because the three steps are
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  sequential, you cannot notice everything if you're too busy
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  performing your intelligence. You cannot act with precision if
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  you haven't noticed everything first.
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  Be smart. Notice everything.
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  Act like you know nothing. This episode was brought to you
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  That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew Mcgibborn.
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  Signing off for now but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.