Ignore the smears and move on to success.

• Leverage notes from [Baltasar Gracián’s Philosophy of Success
• Silence the slander of others. Don’t use your energy to prove your innocence. Use your energy for your own success.

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• Ignore people’s slander.

• Silence them.

• Do not appeal to the power of the pen to clear your name.

  • What is written will remain forever, so rather than punishing the enemy, it is helping to perpetuate its name.
    • There is no revenge better than oblivion. 。

• Do not fight with others.

  • Few fight fairly.
  • The enemy will try to use whatever is available, even resorting to sneaky tactics that should not be used.
  • He has nothing to gain by doing so, but it is enough for him to feel a sense of satisfaction that he was able to get back at them.

• [The most ingenious punishment is to make your success a poison for your opponent. [The most ingenious punishment is to make your success a poison for your opponent.

• Don’t fight what you have nothing to lose.

  • Even if you defeat your opponent, you cannot get back what you have lost.

Leverage Memo: Balthasar Gracián’s Philosophy of Success - Eternal Wisdom to Improve Your Life - NISHIO Hirokazu’s Hatena Diary

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