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As a kid, I thought that The North Wind and the Sun had the wrong moral. It’s not about persuasion winning over force; it’s about not joining competitions you know you’ll lose. I mean, come on. There’s no way the North Wind could’ve possibly thought they could make someone remove their cloak, especially against the Sun! These days I give it a more charitable read—it’s about gentleness and indirection. In how to sail against the wind I write about how you can’t sail directly against the wind. Instead, you tack, zigzagging in the direction you want to go, never directly heading against the wind.

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