Abstraction

abstraction
noun

  1. the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
  2. freedom from representational qualities in art.
  3. a state of preoccupation.
  4. the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments.

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War seems to apply to more things than just war. So, applying the metaphor of war to other competitive parts of life, I will occasionally post Sun Tzu quotes.