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What does it mean?
Use your intellect as a weapon to protect yourself.
In plain terms
Bring your thinking skills wherever you go.
What can you take from it?
Value intellect as essential self-defense.

Where it applies

  • conflict
  • negotiation
  • problem solving

Putting it to work

  • reading
  • debate
  • planning

Questions to consider

  • How are you using your mind?
  • What tools do you carry?

Another view

Physical safety sometimes requires more than just intellect.

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