9: Use absence to increase strength and honor

• Preserve and enhance your status by withdrawing at the right moment, just before people start getting tired of you.
• Make yourself less accessible to increase your value in others' minds.
• Image: The Sun. It can only be appreciated in its absence. ...

• While spying gives you a third eye, disinformation puts out one of your enemy’s eyes.
• Create value through scarcity.
• Law of scarcity in the science of economics: By withdrawing something from the market, you create instant value.
• Make yourself less accessible and you ...

Everything in the world depends on absence and presence. A strong presence will draw power and attention to you—you shine more brightly than those around you. But a point is inevitably reached where too much presence creates the opposite effect: The more you are seen and heard from, the more your...