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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0041G68Z0
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Kindle Edition ‏ : ‎ 830 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1861972784
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1861972781

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As described

Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 on 1 May 2020

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Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 on 25 February 2020

Perfect example of how this kind of culture supports the sick and selfish lifestyle just to be more powerful and stronger, thinking that they will be surviving without the other people they have eliminated. Here, you may find all the tricks to become a powerful(?!$&) living organism after reading this peace of paper. Good luck humanity

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 March 2019

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I just bought this book and in the opening pages your told to basically obey your master” referring to work bosses in a modern term. I disagree completely in the context it’s written, you want to dumb down your shine so your master can outshine you. Is one lesson this book includes, if you really are submitting to someone else’s opinion, you lose fullstop, in doing so you give up the one thing you own in this world, that’s yourself. Staying authentic and shining should be the key to life and your “master” should want to see you shine more than them.

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Janaka Goonasekera

These rules of power that will get you alone, broke and turn you in to a loser/wanna-be abuser

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 14 October 2018

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All ethics, decency, courtesy and fairness falls out of the Golden Rule - "Treat others as you would like to be treated". So the question is what happens when we are all those things, for the best of our ability, but we get treated poorly by a narcissist that abuses our kindness. Do we the embrace the psychology of our abuser and accept that is how the world is and that it was OUR fault for being naive?

These rules are the revenge fantasy of a wounded child archetype. They are highly dysfunctional in any healthy community, relationship, friendships of family. If you practice them, you will end up losing the most valuable of friendships and other relationships that would have helped you out the most in life, and keep you in that hell.

If you want to be able to recognize psychopathic indicators in others, read up some books on modern psychology that addresses that directly. It is not very hard to recognize such people.

I heard this is the most popular book ordered in US prisons. That should tell you something.

2,293 people found this helpful

J.S. Bach

DANGER: read at your own risk

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 15 November 2017

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there seems to be a lot of love and hate surrounding this book, so if you are curious but unsure, this review should help you decide whether or not to buy the book, and how it will impact you

First, to understand the 48 laws of power, you must know two key ideas
1. you CAN NOT escape the power game. thinking you can "not participate" is as foolish as thinking that you could somehow escape gravity or make the sun stand still. Robert Greene explains why in the intro with some excellent examples
2. the 48 laws of power are neither good nor evil; they are just LAWS. If someone pushed a man off a cliff would you blame gravity for for his demise? This is the mindset you must adopt in order to learn a lot from this book.

Things I Liked
- NEW PARADIGM
after reading the 48 laws, you will never see the world the same way again. once you understand some of these laws you will see many underlying currents and motives you did not see before.
- INCREASES POWER
one of the main reasons to buy the book. you wil become exponentially more powerfull by knowing and understanding these laws
-CRYSTAL CLEAR
every law is clearly outlined with "transgression" of the law, "observance" of the law, keys to power, and a "reversal"
-GREAT STORIES
the 48 laws are packed with mindblowing and sometimes humorous stories of people in history practicing these laws. this is helpful as some of the concepts are quite abstract.

What I didn't like

-RISKY
an old proverb says " A man who plays with snakes will eventually be bitten". If you begin to use the 48 Laws improperly, you could get yourself in some dangerous situations, lose friends, piss off a lot a people, and destroy relationships
- REQUIRES DISCERNMENT
if you you are looking for a highly concrete book that the says "do xyz and you will accomplish vyx" look elsewhere. the Laws require good judgement and and and prospecting nature to practice and apply
-NOT FOR EVERYONE
If you are aghast at the idea of manipulation and deceit then read with caution.

OVERALL: If you want to have more power or a better understanding of why different situations turn out the the way they do, you should definitely read the 48 laws of power by Robert Greene. If you want to be naive, easily manipulated, weak, you should ignore this book and go watch some netfilx.
Thanks for reading

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Gazza

The 48 Laws of Power

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 April 2020

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This is a fine book that I thought, at first, I wouldn’t enjoy but did. It is full of wonderful quotations from history and the text is written beautifully by Greene. It is not stuffy and academic, which I thought it might have been. Nor is it one of those briefer, ‘snappy-type’ books, always ending in a joke with little elaboration.

Here the 48 Laws are thoroughly discussed, with lots of interesting stories making the book a real page turner.

Of course, it is not difficult to find criticisms of each Law; I found and disagreed with some myself. But I think Greene, on the whole, recognises this and even puts in a ‘Reversal’ section for each of the 48 Laws to show that this can be the case. Besides, you don’t have to take each Law seriously. I certainly didn’t. I thought they were just fun to read, though they did make me think about how self-interested the human race actually is.

Even so, I haven’t read a book as good as this since reading Benjamin Hoff’s The Tao of Pooh & the Te of Piglet some years ago, and I shall certainly be looking out for more works by Robert Greene in the future.

I hope you find my review helpful.

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Alex

Not applicable to a modern environment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 June 2022

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My issues with this book are not ethical but logical. I’ve seen some of the five-star reviewers refer to Greene’s suggestions as equatable to the laws of physics. They are not. Even if you come at problems with an entirely dispassionate view, tactics for goal-acquisition change according to the environment you’re working in, and the goal you wish to achieve. Many of the stories in this book are from antiquity, a time when noble families ruled with absolute authority, justified by conquest or self-proclaimed divine right. Which individual in the modern western-world holds this level of authority? Citizens of western countries now wield so much individual power, through access to technology, education, legal-action, travel and communication, that neither leaders nor private citizens can get away with the type of sustained immoral behaviour described in this book for very long (relative, at least, to previous centuries). Employees of bad managers can leave the company, partners of abusive spouses are free to leave and receive legal protection from the abuser, citizens of bad politicians can vote them out, or as an extreme measure can revolt or emigrate. Individuals can communicate directly with members of the military via social media, sharing evidence counter to the leader’s propaganda. The press has a much wider reach, and although there are plenty of problems with today’s modern media, citizens can still become much better informed about their leader’s actions than they ever could during the times Greene’s anecdotes occurred. All these actions can be recorded, compiled, and used against an immoral actor for the rest of their life, wherever they go. This greatly increases the long-term risk of using cruelty, deception and other behaviours considered to be immoral.

An additional flaw in Greene’s particular style of argument is that he offers little-to-no specifics in his examples, liberally cherry-picking from complex historical events and making large assumptive leaps about the motivations and reasoning of the figures involved to get them to posthumously support his narrative.

One positive point is that, as the mindset encouraged by this book is sadly widespread, it is good to educate yourself on in it in order to avoid those who practise it. In my experience thse unfortunate cynics tend to be unhappy in themselves and frustrating to work with. Far from the “powerful” figures they strive to emulate.

There are far more useful books that will give you actual power in the modern environment that I recommend above this one. If you want to motivate yourself and others in a positive way, look into "Self-Determination Theory" by Ryan and Deci. If you want to gain people’s admiration and become indispensable, rather than trying to cultivate an air of superiority as Greene’s rules suggest, try applying the latest skill-learning psychology described in books like “Peak” by Ericsson and Pool to your own efforts. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you can acquire valuable, marketable skills. Beyond that, a basic education in physics, nutrition, accounting, positive-psychology and home-economics, will provide vastly greater gains to the majority of modern individuals than a Machiavellian mindset.

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