Robert Greene on the War in Ukraine
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 24 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Bismark says that “Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.” The best way to understand the present is to study the past. That’s what makes Robert Greene’s work so great. He crystalizes the best historical lessons about war, strategy, and power that can help us make sense of the problems that we face in the modern world.
In today’s episode Robert Greene brings you his take on the war that is taking place in Ukraine, seen through the lens of his book the 33 Strategies of War.
Robert Greene is an American author known for his books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature. His new book The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature is a daily devotional designed to help you seize your destiny.
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| 2:06.0 | I said before that the way to understand what's happening in the present is almost always by studying the past. |
| 2:14.0 | Because although they're great news reporters and news outlets out there, they are subject to the wicked incentives of their medium, which I talk about and trust me online. |
| 2:24.0 | They have agendas that can be biased, they're also just dealing with an incomplete picture and they're dealing with real time information. And unless you're a hedge fund trader or directly involved in politics, you don't need real time information. |
| 2:41.0 | What you need is perspective, you need an understanding of the whole picture, not the micro elements of the small picture. And I think reading is the best way to do this almost always. But the other way is to talk to someone who has studied this topic and many other topics like it for their whole life. |
| 2:59.0 | They don't necessarily have to be a credentialed expert, but they should be a master of the subject. And when I'm trying to understand world events, geopolitical events, trying to understand wars, et cetera. |
| 3:15.0 | One of the people I talked to is the great Robert Green. And as I was struggling to sort of understand the terrible events of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Robert and I have both been active in donating the royalties from our Ukrainian and Russian editions to resistance fighters and aid workers in Ukraine, which I'll link to below. |
| 3:41.0 | Anyways, I've had some long conversations with the one and only Robert Green about this. And so I was very pleased when he called Brent, who works with me here at Daily Stoke to ask if he'd come out to Robert's place in LA. |
| 3:56.0 | So Robert could shoot like an in-depth video slash podcast episode about his understanding of what's happening in Ukraine, what we should take out of it, how we should understand it, what actions we should take because of it. |
| 4:10.0 | And I know this isn't technically what we talk about here in Daily Stoke, but I think what we're after is truth, we're after understanding, we're after being informed citizens. |
| 4:22.0 | And so I wanted to share this deep dive into the subject matter that Robert Green put together. It's about 40 minutes, which I know isn't the shortest, but you're going to take a lot out of it. |
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