So, when you try to persuade someone, first you have to know their needs and desires to tell them how they can be benefited by doing you a favor. Law 13 – When asking for help, appeal to people’s self-interest but never to their mercy or gratitude. It may be a prospect or may be your crush, but actually, you can gain more control and command respect by having them come to you instead of the other way around. The idea is that we are always trying to go after people we are interested in. In this book, Robert Greene outlines the 48 laws that either amplify or mute your power, and here are the three I find most impactful on how I conduct myself and interact with others. It’s a part of human nature, and that’s deeply ingrained in our dominant hierarchy.
Especially if you’re a postmodernist, you tend to deconstruct the world into a binary opposition of the oppressor and oppressed.īut Machiavelli oppressed and argued that power is like the laws of physics, whether we like it or not. We don’t like to talk about power in society because it seems immoral and evil.
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