What Two 400 Year Old Books Can Teach You About Dominating The Modern Day World

Investors, business executives, and entrepeneurs alike all need a strong mindset to win in today's world. Practical tips & reminders to dominate.

The battlefield is not in the market. It is not in boardrooms. It is not in bank statements or balance sheets.

It’s none of those places. Never has been.

The battlefield is where your heart pounds before a trade. Where hesitation costs millions. Where markets don’t care about your feelings—only your execution. The battlefield is where your brain goes full fight-or-flight mode, and every second is crucial.

You are the warrior. You are the strategist. The one who stands at the edge of the unknown, making decisions that determine victory or defeat.

Some hesitate. Some flinch. They lose.

The great ones? They see. They act. They win.

Miyamoto Musashi, undefeated in 61 duels, knew this.

61 duels. 61 times, he walked away. 61 chances to die—but never did.

Imagine that. 61 moments where panic could have taken over. 61 moments where his opponent could have been bigger, stronger, faster. 61 times where the margin for error was literally life and death.

And yet, he won. Every single time.

His wisdom is not about swords. It is about strategy, clarity, and execution. About winning when the stakes are highest. About forging yourself into something unbreakable.

I’m giving you seven principles from his books. Seven weapons. Use them well.

1. Always See the Whole Battlefield

"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."

The amateur stares at numbers. The master sees patterns. Always patterns.

A great investor knows what the market sees—and what it doesn’t. A great business leader knows what the customer asks for—and what they truly need.

Understanding, not knowing. The wise study until knowing becomes feeling. Until the mind sees before the eyes do.

If you only see what others see, you will only win what others win.

Practical Application: Zoom out. What are the macro forces? What will matter in five years? Don’t trade trends—position for inevitabilities.

And literally alter your physical reality: Meditate. If you’re in NYC, go look at the world from the top of a skyscraper. Watch an IMAX nature movie. Stare at the stars.

Zoom out. Change your perspective. Let your mind stretch to see what others can’t.

2. Master Many Disciplines

"Know the Ways of all professions."

A swordsman who only knows one stance dies when that stance fails.

A CEO who only understands product will be crushed by a competitor who understands finance and tech. An investor who only reads earnings reports will be outplayed by someone who understands psychology, geopolitics, and human nature.

How many masters have been left behind in fields with capital outflows and low returns? What a tragedy.

Your mind must be a weapon with many edges. It must be limitless.

Practical Application: Learn outside your domain. Read history. Study game theory. If you’re a banker or bank investor, study payments companies or Fintech. If you’re a tech investor, study commodities or materials.

Broaden your horizon. You’ll see connections others miss. If you only follow one discipline, you are blind to the full picture.

3. Always Control the Rhythm

"Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm."

The great ones control tempo. They buy before the crowd. They sell before the mania. They wait when others rush.

Returns are driven by psychology, not analysis. Musashi knew this. He enraged the volatile. He lulled the sluggish. Always in control.

With investing, move too soon, and you bleed out. Move too late, and the kill is gone.

Practical Application: Recognize market sentiment. Fear and greed create waves. Don’t react to the tide—anticipate it.

4. Be Formless

"Do not develop an attachment to any one weapon or any one school of fighting."

Strategies fail. Markets change. The rigid mind dies.

You got stuck in a loser? Cut bait. You’re undersized in a winner? You know what to do.

Your thesis is not reality. Reality is reality. Adapt or die.

Marry nothing. Hold nothing sacred. Be water or be broken.

Practical Application: Never marry a stock. Never fall in love with a strategy. When facts change, move. Stay liquid. Stay lethal.

5. Eliminate the Useless

"Do nothing which is of no use."

Meetings. Distractions. Emotional trades. Over-analysis. These are the daggers of the undisciplined.

Your world is under siege. Attention leeches. Energy vampires. Soul killers.

Fight like hell to cut them out. Fight to focus—on your world, your dreams, your best self.

The best? They cut everything but the essential.

Practical Application: Audit your time. What creates value? What is noise? Cut the waste. Track it. Review it. Protect it.

Put in a time tracker. Review your calendar. Schedule time to think. Prioritize yourself. Eliminate time sucks with ruthless precision.

6. Accept What Is

"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."

Ego blinds. Wishing is worthless. Complaining is a disease.

See yourself as you are—brutally, honestly. If you can’t, ask someone who will.

Markets don’t care about your feelings. Customers don’t care about your excuses. Reality is what it is. Adapt or perish.

Nothing—nothing—is worse than the victim mentality. Accept the truth. Move forward.

The truth does not care how you feel. See it anyway.

Practical Application: Detach from emotions. Trade what is, not what you want it to be. Operate in truth, not hope.

In investing, stare at the big red losses. In business, face the terrible quarter. Own it. Learn from it. Then erase it from your mind.

7. Fear Nothing

"There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer. Everything is within. Seek nothing outside yourself."

Fear destroys. Fear of failure. Fear of loss. Fear of looking foolish.

But who cares? The people you fear judgment from? Gone soon. Just like you.

The moment fear enters, it takes everything—your clarity, your action, your edge.

The warrior who hesitates dies. The investor who hesitates in downturns stays poor.

Practical Application: Take calculated risks. Accept loss as tuition. But always start. Start small. Start now. Put real skin in the game.

Force discomfort. Act. Watch fear melt as momentum takes over.

The Way Forward

You are not in the business of predicting. You are in the business of seeing clearly and acting decisively.

Musashi mastered the sword. You master the unseen forces of money, power, and momentum.

There is no market. No enemy. No fear.

Only you. And the next move.

The best is ahead,

Victaurs