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  • The 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene

  • number three conceal your intentions keep people off balance and in the dark by

  • never revealing the purpose behind your actions. if they have no clue what you are up

  • to

  • they cannot prepare a defense Guide them down the wrong path envelope them in

  • enough smoke and by the time they realized your intentions it will be to late

  • most people just say how they fell always putting their two cents into everything they indiscriminately tell

  • others what their future plans are and never care to control their tongues they

  • think life is just so much better when you're an open book but sometimes honesty is not the best

  • policy in reality honesty is actually a blunt instrament which bloodies more than it cuts that's because being too honest has

  • negative side effects

  • one you may offend the wrong person

  • the great Michael Jordan his royal airness understood he had to control his tongue

  • when once asked why he refused to endorse a black Democratic candidate during the prime of his career he

  • responded

  • "republicans buy shoes too" he was too smart to needlessly alienate and offend

  • half the population and now he's the first NBA player to ever become a billionaire

  • two when you're an open book you become too predictable everyone knows what to expect from you

  • and you lose your ability to become respected

  • remember the classic cool kid in high school you know the guy that was so aloof nonchalant

  • every one always wanted to know what he was up to

  • concealing your intentions makes you hard to read and creates an air of mystery

  • three it brings undue stress and pressure if you announce to the world you are going to

  • become an engineer your friends your family even acquaintances are now

  • expecting you to become an engineer you then find out engineering just isn't for you and decide to quit and that's

  • ok if you don't like something or find it unsuitable for you

  • the smart thing to do is forget about

  • but since you decided to reveal to everyone your intentions people are going

  • to ask what happened what went wrong and eventually it gets to you four not everyone wants you to succeed there may be

  • individuals your group who are secretly rooting for you to fail or even worse getting

  • in your way so

  • if you can't tell people what your true motives are

  • what do you tell them

  • whatever they want to hear pretend to support an idea or cause that is contrary to your

  • own if it helps you win others over

  • or allows you to maneuver more freely under the radar just do it

  • its what politicians have been doing for centuries is what Otto Von Birmarck did

  • a Prussian deputy during a time when Germany was divided he wanted so badly to go to

  • war with Austria there was just two problems the King of Prussia did not want to go to

  • war and Bismarck knew the Prussian army would likely lose anyways so he decided to proclaim

  • a hatred for war and convince many members of parliament to vote against it the king upon seeing such

  • support from Bismarck on the matter made him cabinet minister and eventually Prussian Premiere

  • giving him complete control over the military from there on

  • bismarck secretly training the Prussian army and when he finally had more authority than the king himself he sent troops into

  • battle

  • crushed the Austrian army and united Germany under one rule use false sincerity

  • reveal something to others that builds sympathy for you

  • ask yourself this the next time you see a political ad what does this

  • politicians father being an immigrant steel factory worker or their mother

  • being a former nurse during vietnam have to do with their ability to govern why

  • did they tell us these humanizing stories instead of their policy

  • positions its because we value honesty above all that's why they look directly

  • into the screen squint their eyes pause as if they're choking up a bit and tell us a sad

  • story about a poor family they spoke to in Kansas

  • perception is reality the 1960 debate between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon

  • was first presidential debate ever televised and something strange happened the people who tuned

  • in to their radio thought nixon had won in a landslide while the television viewers

  • JFK had won in a landslide the reason for this discrepancy nixon had awkward limp due to an

  • injured knee he just finished making appearances in all 50 states refused to

  • have makeup applied and didn;t even shave nixon lookedlike a complete mess especially in

  • contrast to a calm cool and collected kennedy at the time of the debate

  • 88 percent of American households had televisions

  • it is now common knowledge that the first nineteen sixties debate was a

  • turning point in leading to JFK's presidency

  • noble gestures

  • why do companies sometimes give away free stuff why do businesses donate to charities there can only be two explanations either these amoral

  • abstract constructs called corporations that we created with the sole purpose of

  • generating as much revenue as possible are just giving away free stuff due to purely altruistic reasons

  • or Apple donated 6.5 million dollars so we can feel better about how our

  • phones are being made from slave wages and child labor

  • the whole point behind concealing your intentions is to gain the upper hand to be able

  • to move about freely without the prying eyes or peircing judgement of others to win the victory before you

  • declare war that's it for this video guys please be sure to comment subscribe

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The 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene

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