MUST READ: The 48 Laws Of Power

Men are in search of power this days because they want to rule reign and have dominion, but they fail because they lack the laws of power: below are some of the principles that guild power which you need.

1. Never outshine the master.
2. Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies.
3. Conceal your intentions.
4. Always say less than necessary.
5. So much depend on reputation, guard it with your life.
6. Court attention at all cost.
7. Get others to do the work for you but always take the credits.
8. Make other people come to you, use bait if necessary.
9. Win through your actions, never through your argument.
10. Infection: Avoid the unhappy and unlucky.
11. Learn to keep people dependent.
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
13. When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude.
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy.
15. Crush your enemy totality
16. Use absence to increase respect and honor.
17. Keep other others in suspense: Cultivate an air of unpredictability.
18. Do not build fortress to protect yourself - Isolation is dangerous.
19. Know who you're dealing with - Do not offend the wrong person.
20. Do not commit to anyone.
21. Play a sucker to catch a sucker - Seem dumber than your mark.
22. Use the surrender tactic: Transform weakness into power.
23. Concentrate your forces.
24. Play the perfect countier.
25. Re-create yourself.
26. Keep your hand clean.
27. Play on people's need to believe to create a cultlike following.
28. Enter action with boldness.
29. Plan all the way to the end
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless.
31. Control the options: Get others to play with the cards you deal.
32. Play to people's fantasies.
33. Discover each man's thumbscrew.
34. Be royal in your own fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one.
35. Master the art of timing.
36. Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best revenge.
37. Create compelling spectacles.
38. Think as you like but behave like others.
39. Stir up waters to catch fish.
40. Despise the free lunch.
41. Avoid stepping into a great man's shoes.
42. Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will scatter.
43. Work on the hearts and minds of others.
44. Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect.
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once.
46. Never appear too perfect.
47. Do not  go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop.
48. Assume formlessness.

SOURCE: Robert Greene.

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