The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene - book summary

Chapter 1: Never outshine the master

- always make your superior feel comfortable. Never try to show smartness in front of them.

- If you want to please them, then do it but not too much e.g — show that you need his help, ask good questions that should not harm your performance, give suggestions, which echoes the masters' opinion.

- Don’t take your above ones for GRANTED.

Chapter 2: Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies

 - No-one can think a friend can betray.
 - Always be fearful of your friends but not from enemies as friends know your weakness and all.
 - The person most of the time gets blind in Friendship and Love.
 - Try to say “NO” to your best friend, most of the time it is not easy to face them with No, but you should say that the word “NO”.
 - Sometimes friends keep their qualities hide, That you think you know your friend very well.

Chapter 3: Conceal your intentions

 - Hide your intentions and envelope others in very different smoke(things), so they will not know what you actually want to do or accomplish.
 - Talk less — often we speak a lot / continuously, with this kind of behavior make us more predictable.
 - keep them off balance and in dark by never revealing your actual plan. If they don’t have a clue, they can not prepare for a defense.

Chapter 4: Always sell less than necessary

- TALK LESS — with this one, wouldn’t get caught into revealing any secrets. 
 - The more you say, the less impressive and in-control you seem to be, and the higher the chance that you’d say something foolish.
 - Powerful people tend to say little.

Chapter 5: So much depends on reputation — guard it with your life.

- As all of you know, Reputation can make or break one’s image so defend it at the early stage.
 - If you have just started building your Reputation, with the same weapon, one can damage others’ reputation, As you have nothing to lose and they have a lot much.

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