Philosophical
What if trying less hard is the move?
Water wears down stone. Tongues outlast teeth. Babies survive falls that would break an adult's bones. Lao Tzu noticed a pattern here: the things that bend and yield tend to win over time.
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.— Lao Tzu, *Tao Te Ching*, Chapter 78
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The thinker
Ancient Chinese Sage
Lao Tzu is the legendary author of the Tao Te Ching and the foundational figure of Taoist philosophy, thought to have lived in 6th-century BCE China.
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