In the preceding chapter I made one bold claim and asked you to make some correspondingly bold statements. That claim: without at least a little faith, your strategy ain’t shit. From personal experience, any time I’ve worked with people who struggle with faith, they sabotage the work. When the faithless enter the dojo, they quickly leave. When the faithless attempt romantic relationship, they can only offer debasing codependence and mutual abuse.

If you know that you’ll never really understand what is True, that the mysteries of Beauty are unfathomable, and that Virtue has peaks no one can live their whole life on — and yet — that everything worth seeking in this world comes from an aspiration to goodness, beauty, and truth — then you are person of faith. Maybe you can’t even say all that. Maybe even these statements are too much certainty for you but you just believe that there is something in life worth striving for, whatever it is. That’s faith; that’s mustard seed faith. We can work with that much. And you’re going to need at least that much if you’re going to become a real strategist.

Because committing to and following through on strategic action is fucking hard. The feint of heart hesitate, lose, and die. Full stop.

Maybe you aren’t there. Maybe not yet, or maybe not any more. it’s possible that what you’ve been through has made it difficult for you to access faith. The rest of this chapter is about looking at and working on the hinderances that get between all of us and the faithful existence that ultimately serves us.

The rest of this chapter will become available following the success of this Kickstarter campaign.

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