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The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (eBook)
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1. You want to learn about Strategic Manipulation. The book actually teaches about concealing intentions, manipulating others, and exploiting weaknesses in other for selfish purposes.
2. You want to use people for selfish gain.
3. Desire to become an effective narcissist.
Basically, it celebrates taking advantage of others for completely selfish reasons and treats morality as naivety. Sure, the author celebrates Machiavelli's The Prince as a pragmatic way to navigate life.
Basically, you can either control and coerce people - actually a form of weakness. Or, you can persuade people by growing your influence through character, hard work, and maturity. That latter takes time and effort many aren't interested in. Power through manipulation is the short cut that will give short term gains, but long term misery and loss.
This book is terrible if you want to have a meaningful, happy life. The choice is yours, choose wisely (or down vote if not).
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1. You want to learn about Strategic Manipulation. The book actually teaches about concealing intentions, manipulating others, and exploiting weaknesses in other for selfish purposes.
2. You want to use people for selfish gain.
3. Desire to become an effective narcissist.
Basically, it celebrates taking advantage of others for completely selfish reasons and treats morality as naivety. Sure, the author celebrates Machiavelli's The Prince as a pragmatic way to navigate life.
Basically, you can either control and coerce people - actually a form of weakness. Or, you can persuade people by growing your influence through character, hard work, and maturity. That latter takes time and effort many aren't interested in. Power through manipulation is the short cut that will give short term gains, but long term misery and loss.
This book is terrible if you want to have a meaningful, happy life. The choice is yours, choose wisely (or down vote if not).
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1. You want to learn about Strategic Manipulation. The book actually teaches about concealing intentions, manipulating others, and exploiting weaknesses in other for selfish purposes.
2. You want to use people for selfish gain.
3. Desire to become an effective narcissist.
Basically, it celebrates taking advantage of others for completely selfish reasons and treats morality as naivety. Sure, the author celebrates Machiavelli's The Prince as a pragmatic way to navigate life.
Basically, you can either control and coerce people - actually a form of weakness. Or, you can persuade people by growing your influence through character, hard work, and maturity. That latter takes time and effort many aren't interested in. Power through manipulation is the short cut that will give short term gains, but long term misery and loss.
This book is terrible if you want to have a meaningful, happy life. The choice is yours, choose wisely (or down vote if not).
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Now, if you want to understand how some people who are narcissistic and/or who have anti-social personality disorder might sometimes view the world, it could be worth reading. Maybe check it out of a library than directly supporting the book this way. However, the book is still widely problematic.
Some main issues with the book are that it is fundamentally manipulative, deeply anti-social, and historically and psychologically inaccurate. A few notes about the inaccuracies and biases. The author relies heavily on historical anecdotes to "prove" his laws. The problem is he cherry picks history to support his claims. There's also the huge issue of survivorship bias in the people and examples he refers to. Some people were successful using the tactics he describes, but millions to billions of people have not been (they are lost in the amnesia of history). Also, he transplants "lessons" from the past to today. That can be a great thing to do, but the world is much different now than it was for many of the examples he covers. In today's corporate and social environments, the extreme ruthlessness that he describes and promotes usually leads to getting fired, canceled, or legally prosecuted. Yes, there are exceptions to that, but I don't think society thrives when people act like Greene is promoting.
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