| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then
the general is to blame."
So he started drilling them again, and this time gave
the order "Left turn," whereupon the girls once more burst
into fits of laughter. Sun Tzu: "If words of command are
not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly
understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders ARE
clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the
fault of their officers."
So saying, he ordered the leaders of the two companies
to be beheaded. Now the king of Wu was watching the scene
The Art of War |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: for instance, Napoleon instinctively moving from a spot struck
immediately afterwards by a cannon ball.
XVII
Between the sphere of Abstraction and that of Specialism, as
between those of Abstraction and Instinct, there are beings in
whom the attributes of both combine and produce a mixture; these
are men of genius.
XVIII
Specialism is necessarily the most perfect expression of man, and
he is the link binding the visible world to the higher worlds; he
acts, sees, and feels by his inner powers. The man of Abstraction
Louis Lambert |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: to rotate round a magnet. In the early part of 1821, Wollaston
attempted to realise this idea in the presence of Sir Humphry Davy
in the laboratory of the Royal Institution.[1] This was well
calculated to attract Faraday's attention to the subject. He read
much about it; and in the months of July, August, and September he
wrote a 'history of the progress of electro-magnetism,' which he
published in Thomson's 'Annals of Philosophy.' Soon afterwards he
took up the subject of 'Magnetic Rotations,' and on the morning of
Christmas-day, 1821, he called his wife to witness, for the first
time, the revolution of a magnetic needle round an electric current.
Incidental to the 'historic sketch,' he repeated almost all the
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