This is Jocco Podcast number 23 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

Better, and faster, and stronger, and smarter, and wiser.

Always trying to get a little bit of all those things.

And we try and get wiser, that's one of those things, that's wisdom, which technically wisdom comes from experience.

So how do you garner experience?

You can't just make yourself live longer in a shorter period of time. No, it doesn't work that way.

So what do we do to garner wisdom?

We look to the past.

You got to know your past. You got to know history.

And as I tell my son on a pretty regular basis, history revolves around war.

And in many ways history is war.

And war is a human endeavor, the worst of human endeavors, but it is a human endeavor nonetheless.

And because it is a human endeavor, it therefore reflects human nature.

And that's why we can learn so much from the history of war, not just about war itself, but about man, and about human nature.

And the same goes for principles of war.

The principles of war can be applied to life, can be applied to business, can be applied to relationships, can be applied to every human endeavor.

And so with that in mind, that full spectrum of application, let's take a look at the oldest book about the principles of war.

Written in 500 BC over 2,500 years ago.

A book whose principles still apply today.

Sunsu's The Art of War.

Sunsu said,

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