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Lesson 9 — The Way of Water
Yielding as strategy
Laozi's water wears rock not by force but by persistence and by taking the shape of what it meets. Applied socially: you rarely need to win the argument in the room, only the outcome over the year.
The misreading
Yielding is not compliance. Water never changes direction; it changes route.
The Test
All questions must be correct for the lesson to log.
1. Water in the Tao Te Ching wins through:
2. The common misreading of yielding is that it means: