Love your children? Keep their enemies close | Dr Ian G. McLean | TEDxTauranga
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“If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles… if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.” This was the opening quote from Dr. Ian G. McLean stated, from
Sun Tzu, “
The Art of War”, an ancient
Chinese book on military strategy. How would this apply to me, I wondered? I don’t have any enemies.
Who or what would my enemies be?
We would learn our enemies are more subtle than imagined.
Biologist Dr. Ian G. McLean discusses how the
adaptation of our behaviour to threats will allow us to survive in the face of adversity.
The knowledge of animal behaviour became the blueprint to his survival in unknown situations. From the wilds of
Canada living with
Grizzly bears, through warzones in the
Middle East supporting the clearance of land mines, to small town
New Zealand, Dr McLean learnt to “know” his enemy and to live next to it.
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