03/31/2025
THE 48 LAWS OF POWER
A book written by Robert Greene that offers strategies for obtaining and maintaining power in various situations. Here I leave you a summary of the 48 laws:
Don't outshine the boss: Make your superiors feel superior. Don't expose your talent too much or you might wake up their insecurity.
Don't trust your friends too much, use your enemies: Friends betray more easily, but if you manage to win an enemy, he will be more loyal.
Conceal your intentions: Keep others in uncertainty so they don't anticipate your actions.
Always say less Than necessary: Silence generates power and talking too much reveals your plans.
Protect your reputation at all costs: Reputation is the foundation of power.
Draw attention at all costs: Being visible makes you relevant.
Make others work for you and attribute it: Take advantage of the effort of others to your benefit.
Make others come to you: Don't chase others, make them seek you.
Win with actions, never arguments: Prove with facts, not words.
Avoid the losers and the unhappy: Other people's misfortune is contagious.
Make people depend on you: If others depend on you, you’re in control.
Disarm with sincerity and selective generosity: Emotional disarmament gives you an advantage.
When you ask for help, appeal to the interests of others: Not gratitude or compassion.
Introduce as a friend, act as a spy: Extract information without them realizing.
Crush your enemy completely: Do not let him recover or seek revenge.
Use absence to increase respect: scarcity increases value.
Keep others in suspense: Unpredictability confuses and grants power.
Don't isolate yourself: Loneliness weakens you, participate in a network of influence.
Know who you deal with: Choose wisely allies and opponents.
Don't compromise with anyone: Maintain your independence.
Commit to yourself only.
Pretend to be a fool to catch the cunning: Make others believe they have an advantage over you.
Use the Surrender Tactic: Sometimes giving in gives you the advantage.
Focus your forces: Don't scatter your energy, focus on what's important.
Be a master in simulation and disguise: Don't reveal all your cards.
Recreate your identity: Be the architect of your own destiny.
Keep your hands clean: Make sure others take responsibility.
Play with the needs of people to generate devotion: Earn their loyalty by satisfying their desires.
Be bold in acting: Fear is dangerous, boldness is power.
Plan everything out: A detailed plan avoids surprises.
Make your accomplishments look easy: Disguise effort so you look naturally talented.
Control other people's options: Direct your decisions with limited options.
Play with people's fantasy: Use emotions and dreams to influence.
Discover the weaknesses of others: Get to know them to manipulate their actions.
Be regulated in your conduct: Power lies in the appearance of greatness.
Master the art of timing: Don't rush, everything has its time.
Despise what you cannot have: Do not obsess over the unattainable.
Create compelling spectacles: Use theatrics to capture attention.
Think as you wish, but behave like others: Do not openly challenge rules.
Stir the waters for fishing: Destabilize others to make mistakes.
Despise the free: Free things usually come with a hidden cost.
Do not imitate great men: Forge your own path.
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter: Bring down leaders to weaken followers.
Work on the hearts and minds of others: Conquer your spirit to control them.
Disarm and anger with mirror effect: Reflect actions to destabilize.
Preach the need for change, but don't overreform: Radical change breeds resistance.
Never look too perfect: Perfection breeds envy and hatred.
Be amorphous: Adapt, don't confine yourself to one form.
These laws help understand power, but it's key to apply them with ethics and context awareness.
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