Teaches you that blindly following the unwritten moral code of society will leave you without power and at the mercy of those who do have it.
It further teaches you to look at the world in a new way.This book also teaches you how to gain power by following the rules or how to stop others from using the rules to get power over you.It teaches that there are many kinds of power and that it exists in almost every kind of relationship.This book teaches that people want power, even if they don’t want to admit it.Instead, you need to circulate yourself among people and find allies. It’s easy for your opponents to cut off your information and resources to have you back against the wall. Law 18 – Don’t build fortresses to protect yourself. So, when you try to persuade someone, first you have to articulate their needs and desires to know how they can benefit by doing you a favor. Law 13 – When asking for help, appeal to people’s self-interest but never to their mercy or gratitude.
It may be a prospect or maybe your crush, but actually, you can gain more control and command respect by having them come to you instead of the other way around. The idea is that we are always trying to go after people we are interested in. In this book, Robert Greene outlines the 48 laws that either amplify or mute your power, and here are the three I find most impactful on how I conduct myself and interact with others. It’s a part of human nature, and that’s deeply ingrained in our dominant hierarchy. Especially if you’re a postmodernist, you tend to deconstruct the world into a binary opposition of the oppressor and oppressed.īut Machiavelli oppressed and argued that power is like the laws of physics, whether we like it or not. We don’t like to talk about power in society because it seems immoral and evil.
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