The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene, 2018
A manual on power and self-knowledge that reads history's operators—Pericles, con artists, leaders—to show why we act against our own interests.
Robert Greene
Before writing, Greene worked dozens of jobs—construction, carpentry, Hollywood screenwriting—and drew on them for examples of power in everyday life.
Feels like curiosity, power and society.
He did not want a statue. He wanted a city that could live without him.
“I could give you many other reasons,” he concluded, “why you should feel confident in ultimate victory, if only you will make up your minds not to add to the empire while the war is in progress, and not to go out of your way to involve yourselves in new perils. What I fear is not the enemy’s strategy but our own mistakes.” The novelty of what he was proposing aroused great debate. Neither hawks nor doves were satisfied with his plan, but in the end, his reputation for wisdom carried the day and his strategy was approved. Several months later the fateful war began. Books by Robert Greene
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