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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

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Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun…

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