If you practice them, you will end up losing the most valuable of friendships and other relationships that would have helped you out the most in life, and keep you in that hell.
They are highly dysfunctional in any healthy community, relationship, friendships of family. These rules are the revenge fantasy of a wounded child archetype. Do we the embrace the psychology of our abuser and accept that is how the world is and that it was OUR fault for being naive?
So the question is what happens when we are all those things, for the best of our ability, but we get treated poorly by a narcissist that abuses our kindness. Ultimately, take this book with a barrel of salt and maybe go for the more morally neutral laws, lest you be completely corrupted by the dark side of the world.Īll ethics, decency, courtesy and fairness falls out of the Golden Rule - "Treat others as you would like to be treated". Laws such as these are good for self-preservation, if nothing else.īut if you take everything in this book as gospel, then you may lose your humanity (as other reviewers have said) and/or you may realise that the heights of power are not what you wanted after all.
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I am not sure that I will follow each and every rule of the book, but it's an interesting read and some of the laws are fairly neutral such as being careful about what you say to people, not always showing all of your cards and never appearing or being smarter than those above you, especially in a professional work situation. I am also more excited about life somewhat, knowing that you can have fun improving yourself and your position in life and in the world. I am more aware of what other people are doing, I am actually more concerned with the welfare of others, and I realised that it is important to at least have power over your own life so I am now a much more in control person who is more disciplined. However, this book has helped me in ways that I did not expect. While this book outright advocates that you do this (because other people are bound to be doing it so why don't you join them and get them before they get you, which is a highly flawed argument), this is clearly not always the best course of action. People exist like the people described in this book who will manipulate the situation and use you for their own ends. I have lost my innocence from reading this book and realised that there really are people who are out to get you (paranoia aside). Whether your interest is conquest, self-defense, or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power will be the most important book you buy this year.
At work, in relationships, on the street, or on the five o'clock news, these Laws are exerted everywhere. Barnum, the Laws are illustrated through the tactics, triumphs, and failures of those who have wielded- and those who have been victimized by-Power. Using the stories of such figures as Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, and P. In a bold and elegant two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, Suntzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz, with the historical legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers, and con men throughout the ages.
Written by Robert Greene and produced and designed by Joost Elffers, the renowned packager of The Secret Language of Birthdays, The 48 Laws of Power will be known as the essential-and controversial-guide to modern manipulation. Laws of Power is a practical, readable guide for anyone who wants power, watches power, or want to arm themselves against power.
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