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A key insight or dreconceptualization
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You see a Key Concept, one of the most important principles according to which the world in general and the world of people operate.

These concepts are referenced throughout the Patterns series, including the Patterns for Victory series and Us or Them!. A concise summary and two or three key examples are provided at the beginning of each volume. See other key reconceptualizations.

A key concept in a book Forces of Psychohistory

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The Holy Sages of Ancient China

In the collection of cosmological concepts belonging to the Chinese conceptual legacy, the Holy Man (Shengren 聖人) appears. He is a person who can deduce from the current state of affairs what will happen. Such a being "grok" the nature of the Dao, the universal principle of all things, according to which phenomena occur in a certain way and not another. Thus attuned to the Laws of Nature, the laws governing the Universe, a person could, having seen the beginning, understand the end. "Reject emptiness, illusion, and perceive the fullness, the true world," Buddhist teachings proclaim. "Speak the truth, and the truth will set you free," Jesus exhorted. "The eye sees only what the mind is ready to accept," observed Henri Bergson.

All these and similar directives suggest that one must discard one's beliefs, prejudices, and often fallible knowledge in order to view the problem from a new perspective, usually eliminating mental blocks and enabling a brilliant solution.

Master Sun writes about such brilliant solutions in his The Art of War – in the context of winning battles and wars. The ancient strategist teaches us that the method of victory for the Master Warrior is the ability to reconfigure and reconceptualize the current and future states of the two components of force: zheng and qi. An inspired commander who manages to attune to their dynamic transformations and fluctuations will be invincible.

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