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Laws [some of them] (from Book of Power by Robert Greene) is in conflict with GODLIKEISM PHILOSOPHY. It's mistakes is that it blocks the nature of sharing. This article is outdated.
Self-improvement is masturbation. From all those books about 'laws of success' you can get sick and can't achieve anything. If you think otherwise, ask yourself: what they've changed in your life? Read the Laws of power.
Learn fast, implement faster. It's quite simple list. Repeat it everyday: power laws, power minors.
Law 1 Never Outshine the Master Let your master feel comfortable superior.
Law 2 Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies You have to fear more from friends than from enemies.
Law 3 Conceal your Intentions If people have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.
Law 4 Always Say Less than Necessary The more you say, the more common you appear and the less in control.
Law 5 So Much Depends on Reputation. Guard it with your Life Thought reputation alone you can intimidate and win.
Law 6 Court Attention at all Cost What is unseen counts for nothing.
Law 7 Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit
Law 8 Make other People come to you, use Bait if Necessary
Law 9 Win through your Actions, Never through Argument Triumph thought argument creates resentment. Demonstrate, do not explicate.
Law 10 Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky Emotional states are infectious as disease.
Law 11 Learn to Keep People Dependent on You Never teach them enough so that they can do without you.
Law 12 Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim One sincere move will cover over dozen of dishonest ones.
Law 13 When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude
Law 14 Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
Law 15 Crush your Enemy Totally Or they would recover and seek revenge.
Law 16 Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
Law 17 Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability Keep them off-balance. Your predictability give them sense of control.
Law 18 Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself. Isolation is Dangerous It cuts you from valuable information and exposes you to more dangers.
Law 19 Know Who You're Dealing with. Do Not Offend the Wrong Person Choose your victims and opponents carefully.
Law 20 Do Not Commit to Anyone The fool always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself.
Law 21 Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker. Seem Dumber than your Mark
Law 22 Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
Law 23 Concentrate Your Forces
Law 24 Play the Perfect Courtier
Law 25 Re-Create Yourself Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define it for you.
Law 26 Keep Your Hands Clean Use others as scapegoats and cat's-paws.
Law 27 Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
Law 28 Enter Action with Boldness
Law 29 Plan All the Way to the End Plan all the way to it, taking into account all the possible obstacles.
Law 30 Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
Law 31 Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal
Law 32 Play to People's Fantasies Appeal to reality will create anger of disenchantment.
Law 33 Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew
Law 34 Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one
Law 35 Master the Art of Timing Hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself and over time.
Law 36 Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge
Law 37 Create Compelling Spectacles
Law 38 Think as you like but Behave like others Blend in and nurture the common touch, so as not to create resentment.
Law 39 Stir up Waters to Catch Fish
Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch What is offered for free often involves a trick or hidden obligation.
Law 41 Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes
Law 42 Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter Strike at the source of the trouble and neutralize their influence.
Law 43 Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others Coercion works against you. You must seduce and use weakness.
Law 44 Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
Law 45 Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once
Law 46 Never appear Perfect Occasionally display defects to deflect envy. Envy creates silent enemies.
Law 47 Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop Arrogance and overconfidence in the heat of victory would create yet more enemies.
Law 48 Assume Formlessness
The REAL POWER MINORS lies in everyday HABITS.Edit
by Robert Greene:
