When facing an opponent who is too strong, a head-on confrontation is not the best option. A smart person can either pretend to flee, or pretend to be weak and secretly accumulate troops, or feign defeat and quietly set an ambush, or hide his strength and pretend to negotiate peace. This tactic may seem simple, but it can achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost.

Whether facing the brutal Ning Wang or the vicious bandit, showing weakness was Wang Yangming's trick. Wang Yangming said, "If you believe and follow them, you will fall into their trap." Ning Wang mistakenly thought that Wang Yangming was weak, and Wang Yangming burned his entire army; the bandits thought that Wang Yangming was weak, and Wang Yangming led his army to sneak into the camp in the middle of the night, causing heavy casualties to the bandit army.

He who laughs last laughs the loudest. Temporary embarrassment is for the ultimate victory. Those people around us who get angry at the slightest offense are always controlled by anger and ultimately achieve nothing.