this is the highly subjective way I read and interpret literature
(I mostly read classic belles-lettres, but you’ll find some examples of trashy readings here and there as well)
Maybe this is one of those cases in which I don’t see what everybody else sees, but I don’t understand why so many people praise this book for giving them great advice for their life/business.
While I would understand a Machiavelli-hype, because that man really wrote insightful and still relevant pieces of literature dealing with power and war, Sun Tzu / Sunzi (in my opinion) only states the very obvious and he does it over and over again (which is even more awkward considering how short this treatise is).
To save you some time, I let Obi-Wan summarise the crucial point: