The one thing that I'm noticing here is that many people like Robert Greene's books like '48 laws of power' or 'The art of seduction' but nobody mentions his another book 'The 33 strategies of war'

I'm also noticing there are many posts about what you need to do and how you should live. Like be dominating, weight lifts. The problem is that sometimes the best idea is to not be dominating. Sometimes the best idea is not to lead but to follow. Even follow a woman. Sometimes the best to idea to do a yoga for a while.

The art of recognising the situation and working on best possible outcome for yourself is strategy in its essense.

So what do you want to read? I should mention Sun Tzu because Sun Tzu for strategy is like Plato for philosophy. But the text is ancient and is kind of difficult to read. But you can easily find a book which will contain some commentary or some useful introduction to Sun Tzu.

Another great ancient text is 'The book of five rings' by Miyamoto Musashi. Slim book with a lot of great wisdom inside.

Robert Greene's work 'The 33 Strategies of war' is actually the best place to start.

What you should realize that business strategy and war strategy now are completely interchangeble things. Some things are created in business and come then to war and some things like OODA-cycle (work by Boyce which also worth reading) go from military world to business.

The Father of business strategy is of course Michael Porter. But his books are pretty tough you'll probably want to start with some book which introduce you to Michael Porter ideas.

There are many 'CEO-oriented books' like pretty good 'Your strategy needs a strategy'.

Psychotherapy is another synonym for strategy. What good psychotherapist (not feministic moron) should do is to teach you of strategic thinking. So many self-help and therapy books are also a great resource on strategic knowledge.

I'm occupied in a field of IT and we have our synonym for strategy there. It's called 'Enterprise Arhitecture'. If you want to be familiar with it you probably should start with a book 'Enterprise Architecture as a Strategy'. The other great source of enterprise architecture is Cay Hasselmann podcast (called something like 'Enterprise Architecture') but unfortunately he stop recording it not a while ago.

Another source of strategy is game theory. You probably may not want to dive deep to the world of mathematical formulas if you don't have specific training here but there are plenty of non-technical books on application of game theory ideas to real world. I should mention 'Game theory: a non-technical introduction' and also of course 'The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life'.

Finally novels is a great source of strategy. Women novels like works by Jane Austin is actually teaching them how to do strategic thinking. RedPill likes to think that 'women are manipulative by nature' but it's only half truth.

There are many books and works on sexual strategy but I probably shouldn't mention them in this post.

Enjoy strategy. They can't take everything out of you - your money, your kids, your job. But what they can't do is to make you forget how to think strategically.

And word of precaution - don't go to chess. Chess is an interesting game with many insights but you can't learn strategy by playing chess. Actually one of the best anecdotal story about strategy is a duel between Bobby Fischer against Boris Spassky where Boris Spassky was more qualified and skillful chess player.