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TRUST IS NOT ENOUGH
There was once a young son from an experienced veteran general. He had never been in battle, but he had thoroughly studied war strategy and history. His father, an experienced general agreed with his son’s strategy most of time, but he never used his son in battle. He told his son, “War is a serious business. One simply cannot learn strategy from books. One must have solid experience.” Later, the King gained confidence in his son and sent him to try out his strategies with the country’s entire army. No one trusted this young man. Everybody tried to talk the king out of this motion, but all failed. The son replaced the position of a very experienced old general. Within days, 400,000 of his army were slain or captured by the enemy. From then on the Chinese has had this saying: “Never trust a man who knows the war only from books.”