The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene, 1998)

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  • Never outshine the master
  • Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
  • Conceal your intentions
  • Always say less than necessary
  • So much depends on reputation - guard it with your life
  • Court attention at all cost
  • Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
  • Make other people come to you - use bait if necessary
    • Bear will turn ferocious if concerned and is impossible to hunt, instead use honey bait
  • Win through your actions, never through argument
    • Never go for pyrrhic victory
  • Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
  • Learn to keep people dependent on you
  • Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
  • When asking for help, appeal to people’s self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
  • Pose as a friend, work as a spy
  • Crush your enemy totally
  • Use absence to increase respect and honor
  • Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability
  • Do not build fortresses to protect yourself - isolation is dangerous
  • Know who you’re dealing with - do not offend the wrong person
  • Do not commit to anyone
    • Kites and crows rule the jungle and see a dying fox and decided to divide the head to crow and tail to kites. Fox say kites are more superior and should have its head. Kites and crows fight, fox win and eat its way to healed
    • Eagle have a nest in a tree above the sow’s home. Grimalkin told eagle sow is rooting the tree and told the sow eagle is prying on the piglets, both eagle and sow doesn’t leave and starved the children
    • Dog and cat have a cheese, fox divide for them, break cat’s piece to be bigger and when dog says unfair bite a huge piece from cat and so on until the whole cheese is being eaten
  • Play a sucker to catch a sucker - seem dumber than your mark
  • Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
  • Concentrate your forces
    • The arrow cannot hit 2 targets
  • Play the perfect courtier
    • Avoid ostentation, practice nonchalance, be frugal with flattery, arrange to be noticed, alter your style accordingly, never bear bad news, never criticise those above you directly, be frugal in asking those above you for favors, never joke about appearances or taste, do not be court cynic, be self-observant, master your emotions, fit the spirit of the times, be a source of pleasure
  • Recreate yourself
  • Keep your hands clean
  • Play on people’s need to believe to create a cult like following
  • Enter action with boldness
    • The bolder the life the better, lions circle the hesitant prey, boldness strikes fear; fear creates authority, going halfway with half a heart digs the deeper grave, hesitation creates gaps; boldness obliterates them, audacity separates you from the herd
  • Play all the way to the end
  • Make your accomplishments seem effortless
  • Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal
  • A king want to find the most outrageous liar and will give him a pot of gold, a man told the king he owe him a pot of gold and either way the king lose
  • Play to people’s fantasies
  • Discover each man’s thumbscrew
    • A lion chasing a chamois and it leaped over a cliff, a fox encouraged the lion to make the leap and fall. The fox eat the body of the lion
  • Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
  • Master the art of timing
  • Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
  • Create compelling spectacles
  • Think as you like but behave like others
  • Stir up waters to catch fish
  • Despise the free lunch
    • The greedy fish is a con artist, bargain demon judge everything they want, sadist make you wait for your money, indiscriminate giver give everyone and make them feel special
  • Avoid stepping into great man’s shoes
  • Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
  • Work on the hearts and minds of others
  • Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect
  • Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once
  • Never appear too perfect
  • Do not go past the mark you aimed for, in victory, learn when to stop
  • Assume formlessness


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