Think Like Napoleon I Robert Greene

your mind is rigid if you come up with a

plan that's just very linear and going

going from A and B to C and you just

know this is where you're going to go

you're going to fail because life or war

will come up with things that you don't

expect once again the icon in that

chapter was Napoleon I use Napoleon a

lot because he was a genius but

Napoleon's genius was in the planning

stage he was a master at organizing and

planning and what he did was he looked

at everything of this in the situation

that was happening he analyzed

everything he put it on on these note

cards Etc if I did a how will the enemy

respond if they respond with that well

I'll do this this and this and then out

of all of this he would create a plan

that was very loose he would Place

himself in a position in which he could

go this direction that direction or

whatever the enemy gave him and this was

so so brilliant and so novel and I think

this is a model for how we can plan in

business and politics but also in

anything that we have to do in life