Think as You Like, but Behave Like OthersĤ1. Disdain Things You Cannot Have: Ignoring Them is the Best Revengeģ8.
Be Royal in Your Own Fashion: Act Like a King to Be Treated Like Oneģ6. Control the Options: Get Others to Play With the Cards You Dealģ4. Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortlessģ1. Create a Cult-like Following by Playing on People’s Need to Believeģ0. Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness Into PowerĢ7. Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker – Appear Dumber Than Your Mark Know Who You’re Dealing With – Don’t Offend the Wrong Person Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself – Isolation is Dangerous Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor When Asking for Help, Appeal to the Self-interests of Others, Never to Their Mercy or Gratitude Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm Your Victim Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and the Unlucky Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument Make Other People Come to You – Use Bait if Necessary Get Others to Do the Work for You, but Always Take the Credit So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard It With Your Life
Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends, Learn How to Use Enemies But, all in all, there is not much here to justify 23 hours of listening.Law 2. The narration is pompous and overly serious, but the narrator's pronunciation of Madame de Pompadour (and it happens many times) is funny enough to gain an extra star. Perhaps it's a satire that few have recognized as such. The whole thing is rather silly really, somewhat entertaining but not to be taken seriously. It's a repetitive book, for example Bertolt Brecht's testimony before HUAC is recounted several times each time illustrating a different law. The interpretations are often tortured, twisting and forcing the stories to demonstrate laws they often have nothing to do with.
What follows is a lot of stories and interpretations explaining how each story illustrates the law being discussed. This book comes along and claims to have the secret, the 48 "laws" of claiming power for yourself. If only we could discover the secret to being powerful. Most of us spend most of our lives feeling powerless. I can understand why people want to take this seriously. Oh, an by the way, I am a Christian and a "Shodan" at weichi. Especially when you yourself are the author of that threat.
Read it not only as a manual for knowing when and how far to press an attack, but more so as a loyal spy to warn you of an immanent threat long before it can take hold of you. With this book you will see the "games being played" by others and steer clear of them. However, With this book's Natural Laws, balanced with Biblical Morality there can be no stopping you. This world is brutal, as is this book, which reflects it. A Biblical scholar will say "This book is The World, Nature itself, The flesh." Yet in flesh we walk, under laws of nature we must obey at our peril, and in this world and under its consequences we live. Yet, its' understanding is mandatory as without it one can never tame the same wild animal into a beast of burdon from which comes success, prosperity and the very food on your table. It is morally neutral like a wild animal and just as dangerous. it is invaluable both for those seeking power and for those who would resist enslavement. Like The Art of War and The Bible, this book is a mandatory read for any true adult. A mandatory read for those who would be free.