This is from a Marine Corps officer training exercise; turn the map upside down and see it from the enemy’s point of view. What areas will be attacked? Where do the defenses seem vulnerable? Is the enemy susceptible in ways you haven’t seen? Use the map as a mirror. Look at yourself from the other side. Get behind the other’s eyes. Change your perspective. Step outside yourself and see the opposite
When Things Want to Collapse, Let Them It is the conclusion of a rose to dissolve. The bud opens and the flower swims into air. Then the petals drop. Same motion, same force continuing. What is held up, kept from falling down by force or craft, has nothing more to reveal. It is arrested, made to remain in place, long after its potency is spent. When a thing is mature it dies and begins to rot, which is a transformation of matter. Therefore, collapse is allied with, and a continuation of, growth. The permanent object is in the past; life exists in the enduring, impermanent moment. The next step can't reveal itself until you let go of the last one.