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[Lei Lei]

LAW 35

MASTER THE ART OF TIMING

Judgment

Never seem to be in a hurry-hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.

When it comes to power, it rarely ends up in the hands of those who start the revolution or continue it. It's the person who ends it, that is rewarded with it. Sometimes one must quietly gain support.

One must learn to master the art of timing. You must look two or more steps ahead. And what if yourself to death so that you will always be prepared. Glance at distractions and what is loud, but look at what lays dominant and hidden. Treat patience like a sword and shield. Don't get emotional, or strike out irrationally. Learn to keep cool and maintain a low profile, patiently build support if that is something you need, if not, keep things to yourself.

Time is an artificial concept that we have created to construct a concept, so that we can to some degree play tricks with. Time though it waits for no one and cheats everyone is conceptual. A child sees time as long and slow. And adult, depending on their mood, and activity, fast and hasty. If an adult has inner issues, or an emotional driven issues, time moves fast and once the control of those emotions are taken, response to events are dealt with, time slows down.

Skill and practice can help with the mastering of time. Long time is a defensive mechanism that one must master the art of not reacting on impulse and waiting for an opportunity to arise. If one races or force a fast pace out of fear or impatience, you can create a set of problems that would have otherwise been non existent and now require fixing, causing you more time than previously intended. Rushing can put you in constant crisis mode, and danger. Waiting on the other-hand, involves controlling not only your own emotions but those of your colleagues, who mistaking action for power, and may try to push you into making rash moves. When you mind is uncluttered by constant emergencies you will see further into the future. You will be able to see what is really happening, even if it is unpleasant, or makes your task harder. However you will make less mistakes. You will be able to resist baits that people will dangle in front of you, and you will keep yourself from becoming a sucker. Pay attention to opportunities that will unexpectedly arise and take them.

To build your power's foundation can take years. Remember, if you build a house on a solid foundation and a person where to strike one of its walls with a bulldozer you will only need to repair the wall. However, if you build a house on a cracked foundation the house will eventually come tumbling down on its own. Build up slowly, surely and securely.

Forced time is an offensive weapon, that upsets the timing of our opponents. Making people wait or move unanticipated on their part, can be a powerful thing. You must control the clock so that it does not blow up in your face. You must start off feeling with them slowly, they suddenly apply pressure, making them feel that everything is happening at once. Many people can not think under pressure. Apply pressure and they will think that everything is happening at once. People who lack the time to think will make mistakes. Another part to setting time is adding deadlines. Adding deadlines forces individuals to make up their minds and get to the point. Do not give indecisive people time.

End time is a plan executed with speed and force without hesitation. Play your games always with artistry and finance - waiting for the right moment to act, putting your competitors off their form and messing up their timing. But all of that means nothing if you do not know how to finish. Use speed to paralyze your opponent, cover up any mistakes you might make, and impress people with your aura of authority and finality. Be like the snake charmer, that draws the snake out with charm at steady rhythms and once the snake is out, the snake charmers foot is raised above the snakes head and he stomps him. Killing him. While he was facing him. Nothing was done by mischief. Nothing was done blind sightingly. Your mastery of timing can really only be judged by how you work with the end time - how quickly you change the pace and bring things to a swift and definitive conclusion.

[ralafontant]

Excellent article Lei Lei : the subject chosen, the way it was developped, the content of it...

There is only two things i want to add now.

People have a tendency of being submerged by the current of time, losing control of themseves, their acts and even their thoughts at the point that whoever masters the art of timing, whoever learns to stay in control of themselves even when unexpected events happen will be under the impression that they can take control of the the flow of time, take control of their destiny and that they are more conscious and have more powers then most people.

Time is relative, time is subjective. The only thing that is absolute is the events happening. The interval between them is only a comparison between the rate of the occurences and the spped of your thoughts. So to master the art of timing, one must learn to think faster than the world move. And to think faster, the energy you used to waste for useless emotions and acts, recycle it for a mental use (to be more conscious).

Merry Christmas to all!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lei Lei]

Thank you. At times in life, situations make one want to become "submerged by the current of time, losing control of themselves." the pressures of the situation combined with knowing that they can not stop the clock, can be a terrifying thing. A person who, as you put it can "learn to stay in control of themselves even when unexpected events happen" didn't necessarily "take control of the flow of time, take control of their destiny", what they in all actuality have done is learned to take control of their situations. An whether they know it or not actually, assess, planned, implemented and evaluated it to their favor.

"Time is relative, time is subjective" depending on whether or not someone is looking at an accurately set clock. There are two absolutes. "Time waits for no one and death cheats everyone." Events happening is not necessarily absolute. Think about it, if you seen a man you never seen before (and we have been dating for 2 years) give me a hug and a kiss and you were a fair distance away, what would you think that man was to me? He could be someone I am dealing with, he could be a friend or family relative that I have not seen in a long time. The only two things that are absolute in that case is that "You" seen a "Man" kissing me, and how you plan on dealing with it. Sometimes, "moving faster than the world move" can cost you to leave this world.

[ralafontant]

LeiLei i really like discussing with you. So interesting and it tell me a lot on you : you seem so beatiful in the inside as in the outside.

Now let's me answer you. I agree with your first paragraph which is normal because you're agreeing with me in it.

For the second paragraph let me clarify one thing. First of all, according to experiments which begin to find an explanation in 1905 through Einstein's work, we know that the interval between two events is not the same for every observers : it depends on their relative physical movements. Even simultaneity is not an absolute concept : i will write very soon (before Christmas) an article to explain qualitatively Special Relativity. Let's close this disgression. The same way physical time is relative, mental time (the clock in your head) is relative too. All i am saying is that the events themselves are absolute facts but the speed at which we see them happening depends on your mental condition. So it varies as you said it so well in the opening post. Considering your example now, i thing there is a misunderstanding. I was saying to try to think faster but i omitted to mention without affecting the quality of your thoughts.