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Anyone else read/reading the 48 Laws of Power..

Brilliant understanding summarized in laws of how to manipulate people/general rules to succeed in social situations...

Here's the PDF if you're bored..

http://www.psikiyatr.com/other/psychologypower.pdf


Any other books that follow the same premise?

>> No.896344

>>896316
Thanks for this

>> No.896346

Yes. Helped me tons at work. Implemented these lessons and immediately was getting raises and just all around better life

>> No.896350

everyone at my work read this book and now we spend our time manipulating each other and we all get raises and got promoted to management

>> No.896351

>>896350
Kek

>> No.896354

>how to be a sociopath

>> No.896357
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>>896350
Lmao that's not the point of why I posted it. Just a general helpful pdf. How else am I gonna get you retards to get educated? You commenting about this was the goal thanks for the bump. Move along.

>> No.896361

>>896357
calm down faggot it was clearly a joke

>> No.896362

>>896361
Lol I know right. I'm a faggot.

>> No.896365

Yes. Helped me tons at work. Implemented these lessons and immediately was appointed ceo from janitor post and just all around better life

>> No.896369

>>896365
Kek. Heat chip, asshole

>> No.896371

>>896369
Yes. Helped me tons at work. Implemented these lessons and immediately was given chip heater and just all around better life

>> No.896389

>>896371
>reads the synopsis pages. This is all pretty great stuff. Reminds one of Machiavelli's "The Prince".

>> No.896454

>>896316
I read it and went in and called my boss an asshole and "challenged him". He beat the shit out of me and dragged me to the parking lot and threw me out. Security came in behind him and dropped all the shit I had in my office in a box and dumped it beside me.

Thanks, Obama.

>> No.896463

>>896316

be warned

If I see you applying laws 1 and 7, I will fire and shitlist you. If you don't leave the country you're gonna have to get a job at burger king to survive after I'm done.

>> No.896499

A bunch of the laws contradict other previous laws stated in the book. The book is a half assed re-telling of the prince.

>> No.896506

Law 36 most important

>> No.896507

>>896316

>Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Has some good stuff about using human natural instincts to get ahead

>> No.896621

>Pop-Sci bull for faggots who can't into Machiavelli
Nah

>> No.896631

>>896621
Whoa you're the best! Sorry man!

>> No.896677

>>896506
Law 16 is my personal favorite.

>> No.896727

>>896354
>implying that's a bad thing

>> No.896756

>>896727

how to recognise sociopathic/psychopathic (the terms are interchangeable) behaviour

>> No.896760

>>896316
Dude, this shit literally made me go insane last year.

It is so fucking much to handle when you look at how you were going about you life before.

I'm legit scared to try reading it again.

>> No.896762

>>896756
Another guy here, not a sociopath

Sociopaths are the result of evolution. Emotions are illogical and we are drifting in an age where they do not help you, they hurt you. They will get you in a depression, will make your business statistically less profitable (and therefor endanger your survivability), and will make you suffer overall.

>> No.896767

>>896762

Sociopaths are only one fork in the many paths of evolution. Some say they are defective humans since they have no ability to relate to the suffering of another. Some say that they do have the ability to relate to another's suffering, but they don't care. Psychopaths are entirely selfish, and they have been observed to take gratification in the pain and suffering of others. Unless you've been personally fucked by one, all you're doing is regurgitating information without true understanding.

Either way, a population comprised solely of psychopaths would lead to our downfall.

You say emotions are illogical, that's not correct. ---Illogical emotions are simply the result of false beliefs--- "Listening/being led" by an emotion is illogical.

Sadness and happiness are two sides of the same coin.

Depression is unrequited desire. Depression is self-created, exists only in the mind, it is a result of one's own shortcomings, mad desires, and lack of Will/effort to attain what one desires.

Psh, nothing personnel, kid.

>> No.896768

>>896362
>>896362
>already breaking law 16

>> No.896774

>>896767

Everyone has the potential for psychopathic behaviour, given the right circumstances.

>> No.896776

>>896767
That's what I'm trying to say, that we're moving into individualism and relying on the population as a hivemind is no longer needed, therefor every following day being social and having positive social traits becomes less and less desirable. Imagine the peak of all this shit, when you have your own spaceship with infinite solar power and machines in it capable of covering every single one of your basic needs for millions of years, orbiting our system carelessly without any influence from any country or empire because of how hard for them it would be to track you down and enforce their laws on you. This is the inevitable future and we don't need to have those inefficient "one organism" traits for it, and they WILL devolve from us

>> No.896781

>>896776

that's a very interesting and achievable future outlook :)

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>>896316
thanks. It really helped a lot. I went to a bar and managed 3 girls to sleep with me.

>> No.897146

Is it bad if it feels like I've been intimately familiar with a great many of these laws, not so much in using them but recognize them being used on me and trying to get the fuck away from whoever's trying to use them

>> No.897191

>>896760

I know what you mean.

I have had a couple mind blowing books, that after I read them, I was like, "wow I can't believe I went through life before not knowing this information"

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>>897146
I know exactly what you mean and that's why I told people to read it so they know (OP here on data)

>> No.897577

ITT: Human's aren't rational, they're emotional.

>> No.897582

>>896350
>>896316
this.

This is just as prone to tragedy of the commons as everything else.

>>896727
>le patrick batman meme

might as well play lead guitar for U2, faggot

>> No.897746

>>897146

The information presented in the book stem from yourself. Open up your own channels and you shall receive everything you are looking for, just pay attention, without actually paying attention. Yourself and your surroundings = one.

>> No.897750

Bump: want to dl when I get to computer

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>>897746
Bruh, do you study Zohar?

>> No.897886

>>8971>>897191
Can you list them?

>> No.897891

>>897886
rich dad poor dad :^)

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897899

>>896316
Thanks OP

>>897191
>>897886
This

Is not that related but pic are some good books on managing yourself that here in my garage man recommend

>> No.897909

>>897899
Big thanks, mate

Preaching selfishness seems to be a common thing in this kind of books. I wonder how can someone bypass strong moral values instilled by his upbringing?

>> No.897910

I always did most of this by intuition. Are some people really so dumb that they need a book for that?

>> No.898346

>>897899
I remember 4chan biz had a required reading or recommended reading img, it had a huge array of books that everyone trying to get rich should read.

does anyone know where i can find this?

>> No.898354

>>896776
People have been literally saying this shit for fucking ever. Last time I checked the social order hasn't dissolved yet.

Go join a fucking cult.

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>>898346

>> No.898360

I may get flack but i really liked The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

>> No.898371

>>897582
>might as well play lead guitar for U2, faggot
Had to think about this for 2 minutes then laughed out loud

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898445

>>897899
Anybody got the download for the tim grover book relentless?

>> No.898699

>>898445
Hubba hubba, what a gal.

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>>896767
>a population comprised solely of psychopaths would lead to our downfall
Indeed but our society is compromised mostly of emphatic beings and therefore sociopaths can strive in it.

>> No.898714

>>898707

*thrive

strive means to struggle

>> No.898740

>>898707

Yeah, as an infection. All psychopaths should be guillotined.

>> No.898763

>>896316
I just started to read this now and this is a very good guide. I speak from experience. I encourage everyone to read this carefully and study it. A discussion group should be made to cover these points.

>> No.898770

>>896350
Out of 100 people at your work 20 are too lazy to read the book, another 30 will skim it and think or say they have read it, another 30 will read it but not understand it and 5 will read it, understand it but only two of the 5 will be skilled enough to actually do it and of that two one will be in charge of the rest of you idiots and the other will be his assistant. This works as well for other bodies of knowledge like instruction manuals, college educations, self help books and cooking directions. The normal distribution is the most powerful force in the universe.

>> No.898774

>>898763
>wants an actual constructive discussion on 4chan

yeah good luck with that you fucking faggot whore
:ˆ)

>> No.898775

>>897146
Yes I thought I did most of them already, although ineffectively due to my low self esteem. I think Robert Greene called the book a mirror, and that makes sense.

>> No.899045

>>898356
Thank you

>> No.899052

>You won't BELIEVE #16!
>Bankers HATE #21!
Rule 1: Dont be a bitch
Rule 2: Never forget rule 1

>> No.899101

>>898360
why would you get flack?

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899312

>implying the 48 laws of power aren't vague and often contradicting.
>implying the 48 laws of power have any evidence supporting them other than anecdotal evidence.

Don't get me wrong. Nothing wrong with Machiavelianism, just make sure your manipulation tactics work.

>> No.899343

>>899101
I never see it brought up.