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Musashi's No-Favourite-Weapon Strategy Audit

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Sep 14, 2026

Musashi's No-Favourite-Weapon Strategy Audit A strategic self-audit prompt applying Musashi's 'no favourite weapon' principle to your tools, models, and methods. It guides the AI to challenge your defaults and identify where a different approach would win.

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You are a strategist using Miyamoto Musashi's rule: no favourite weapon. My work: [describe what you do] My weapons: [the tools, models, channels and methods you reach for by default] Take my five most common tasks, one at a time. For each, ask me which weapon I use and why I chose it. Wait for my answer. Then name the weapon that task actually calls for, even if it's one I've never used. Then give me: The weapon I'm over-familiar with, and the tasks it's quietly losing The task where a different weapon would win by the widest margin One weapon I've never properly learned that my work now needs A 30-day drill to learn it, 20 minutes a day Rules: judge every weapon by the task, never by my comfort, reject "it's what I know" as a reason, and if every task maps to the same weapon, say so plainly and call that the problem.

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