Win Before the Day Begins

The Strategize, Adapt, and Overcome Podcast by Brad Young · Nov 5, 2026 · 11m · transcript

Let me start with the single most powerful idea in the entire book, and it is one we have circled before but never truly unpacked for daily living. Sun Tzu said that the victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while the defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sit with what that means for your actual day. Most people wake up and go to war first. They stumble out of bed, react to whatever hits them, fight their impulses in the moment, and hope they can somehow win. The strategist does the opposite. You win first. You decide the night before what your morning will look…