Rule 14Make your opponent grow arrogant and underestimate you

In the Wilderness

What? Animals can’t be arrogant? And they can’t underestimate you? This rule is best applied to when wild animals jump right at you to tear your flesh apart. Your strength is nothing to them; but still, a tiger would fail a math exam (if you have the courage to give it one). So you need to set a trap, or use a powerful weapon, like a gun, only when you’re 100% sure that you’ll hit its vital organs. Otherwise, you’ll just make it even angrier and you’ll experience even more pain. Regarding bears, don’t make me repeat myself; you already know what it is. A normal grizzly bear can take up 5-6 rounds of pistol stacks consisting of fifteen 9mm rounds. So ultimately, traps are best. It should be a booby trap, not necessarily one with spikes, but at least a deep hole for the predator to fall in. And make sure you don’t grow arrogant yourself because you might fell for your own trap.

In School

What are your chances of winning against a bully? 5%? 2%? Let me get an example. Nick Vujicic, a limbless evangelist, who has been limbless since birth, has described his first battle with a school bully (Chapter 6: Armless but Harmless, Life Without Limits). So what were his chances? 5%? Or 0.001%? But what are your chances against a person with no limbs? Do you think that 125% is too high? Yes, a bigger bully, with 2 arms and legs, lost to a limbless kid half his height. But it was not because of luck alone. It was actually because of strength, determination and practice. And last but not least, the bully’s arrogance. When you think you are at a disadvantage, bullies are actually giving you an advantage thanks to their arrogance and underestimations… But that doesn’t mean you will escape the principal’s office. It may be self-defense, but if you bring that defense to the unofficial court of law in your school to explain beating a kid a foot taller than you, you can still get suspended several times over for violence and rules violations.