Chapter 1 · Winning Stratagems
以逸待勞
Yǐ yì dài láo
Wait at Leisure While the Enemy Labors
以逸待勞
with · ease · await · toil
Let the other side exhaust themselves rushing to you. Arrive rested to a fight they're too tired to win.
今 Today
Your club rival tears off the start line of the marathon, weaving through the crowd in the first mile. You hold your boring, even pace — and glide past them at kilometre thirty-five, on a hill they no longer have the legs for.
反 When it backfires
Resting can curdle into complacency. Wait too leisurely and the labouring enemy reaches the prize first, while you conserve for a fight that's already over.