Name: Never Reveal This About Yourself — The Psychology of Power | Robert Greene Motivation
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This is the most important law and power that I want you to engrave in your brain right now as you listen to me.

Everybody has insecurities and has an ego.

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And the worst thing you can do for your boss, for your colleagues, for the people underneath you, is to violate their ego, to make them feel insecure.

You will pay a price for it, they will resent you, it will work against you, they will betray you in the end.

So never lose sight that everybody around you has an ego and has insecurities.

You know, a lot of power is thinking ahead two or three moves ahead.

And in order to think several moves in advance, you know what your intentions are, you know where you're going to go in six months, right?

And so you have to have a vision of where you're headed, but

you have to keep everybody else in the dark so that they can't predict what's happening next.

So part of concealing intentions, part of business, part of power, is the ability to think strategically, to think in advance, to think several moves in advance.

And that means having intentions, having moves that you've planned out, but

you want to keep other people on their heels.

They don't know where you're going to go next.

When you make other people think about what's going on in your head, you're the one in control of the situation.

Whereas if they know everything that you're thinking, everything that you're doing, then they have power, they have power over you.

You know, business is very matter of fact, but it's also pure psychology, right?

You've got to understand the psychology behind power.

And there's weakness, there's things that show weakness that people can kind of feed off of you, they smell it.

you want to create this aura of power, even though inside you might not feel so powerful or feel so comfortable or secure, but

outwardly you want to show this appearance that makes people think, wow, this guy, he's authority, I respect him.

It makes you look larger than you actually are.

People think, he's mysterious, he or she's mysterious.

If you can't control your own mouth, if you can't control that, then what can you control?

You can't control your emotions, you can't control your behavior.

Whereas talking less, you're not going to say something stupid.

And then when you do speak, it going to carry a lot of weight.

It's actually extremely important to understand the psychology of what gives the appearance, the aura of power and what doesn't.

Some are good actors, some act more, some are bad actors.

It's deeply, deeply ingrained in all of us because we're a social animal.

If you went around just speaking everything that you thought, you would offend everyone around you.

So get over this notion that we can all just hang out and just be who we are.

You're always acting to some degree in business or politics, whatever.

It would be somebody who could change with the times, who they rose to power based on a strength.

They see that it's not quite the right quality, and they adapt and they become.

And you're kind of moving like the water.

But being rigid and having a form and having a strategy that you always rely on and having a personality that you always exude to the world and perform as is weak because you can't adapt to change yourself, to become fluid, to be something different, means you have to let go of the past.

These are these set laws that I have to follow.

It's got to be A or B or C. Open your mind up.

But if you're too stuck, if you're too always the same, people are going to be bored with you.

So the game in 2025 and moving forward has a lot to do with attention.

Attention is something that you can monetize, right?

In order to gain people's attention, people get very bored, right?

If you're always the same, if you always have one note, you have to know the game of absence and presence.

Sometimes you have to be absent, and sometimes you have to be present.

You have to understand that the person above you has an ego and has probably a bigger ego than you do, obviously, because they're powerful.

But with an ego comes insecurities, okay?

So you must be aware that the person above you has insecurities and probably has more than you do, because they're constantly worried.

Am I getting as much Attention as I deserve.

They're thinking about these things all of the time.

So what happens is, if you try too eagerly to impress them and you do such a good job on some project or something, and

then all the attention accrues to you for doing that, then you're going to trigger their insecurities.

Wow, this person's getting the attention and not me.

They're not going to consciously think this because they don't want to admit that they're insecure.

They're thinking things that maybe you're a threat, right?

And slowly they're going to build up kind of resentment towards you.

And what will happen is you'll probably be fired or you'll be demoted.

But you got to let the person above you take some of the credit, take some of the glory.

Otherwise they're going to be wondering about you.

They're going to be thinking that you think that you're better than them, and

you're going to trigger their insecurities.

And the worst thing you can do for your boss, for your colleagues, for the people underneath you is, is to violate their ego, to make them feel insecure.

They will resent you, they will work against you.

If you play the game of power, right, you read the book, you understand it, you will be rewarded down the.

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