LAW 12: Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
People are afraid of the labor of thinking, so they are easily deceived by a magnanimous gestures.
If you are easily distracted by what others do or say, you’ll never own yourself or build anything of value.
People are afraid of the labor of thinking, so they are easily deceived by a magnanimous gestures.
If you are easily distracted by what others do or say, you’ll never own yourself or build anything of value.
1. Develop a maniacal fixation on your authentic mission.
Understand that when you know what you want, the way is to go after it regardless.
Understand that when you know what you want, the way is to go after it regardless.
Success and contentment are never given, they have to be earned. If you're looking for satisfaction in others, you're deceiving yourself.
When you want something, it doesn't matter what other people opine about it.
Learn to ignore positive opinions just as easily as negative ones - they are equally a blinding distraction.
Learn to ignore positive opinions just as easily as negative ones - they are equally a blinding distraction.
2. Give before you take.
Asking others to fill your needs makes you weak - and look weak. Learn to take care of yourself and create value before placing demands on other people.
Most people resent having to deny requests because it makes them feel defensive, weak and scarce.
Instead of asking for what you want, use indirection and make them want to give to you before it ever comes up.
Know the answer before broaching the question - or make them ask.
Instead of asking for what you want, use indirection and make them want to give to you before it ever comes up.
Know the answer before broaching the question - or make them ask.
Attracting customers instead of approaching one-time buyers is a time-tested sales strategy.
Master salespeople make the customer want the product and ask for it instead of asking the customer to buy.
Master salespeople make the customer want the product and ask for it instead of asking the customer to buy.
3. Letting oneself be distracted by fleeting thoughts and sensations is the mark of the child.
Growing up is about learning to despise the toys and trinkets that make you comfortable and distract you from your goals.
Growing up is about learning to despise the toys and trinkets that make you comfortable and distract you from your goals.
4. Your instincts are a seat of Power, but they too can be deceived. Always be vigilant - and towards yourself first.
Never rely on first impressions. Make people qualify themselves as long as you choose to keep them in your life.
Never rely on first impressions. Make people qualify themselves as long as you choose to keep them in your life.
5. People will tell you that they value honesty, but they'd rather cling to the false safety of their own delusions.
Lo-awarenes is insidious.
Understand that there is a price that comes with honesty and be prepared to pay it. Honesty will make you many enemies.
Lo-awarenes is insidious.
Understand that there is a price that comes with honesty and be prepared to pay it. Honesty will make you many enemies.
6. Accept that change alone is forever.
By judging people on their past actions alone you're shortchanging them and blinding yourself to futures' unfolding.
Learn to perceive people not in the rigid circumstance of a linear narrative but in the potentialities of their conditions and character.
Learn to perceive people not in the rigid circumstance of a linear narrative but in the potentialities of their conditions and character.
You can learn to overcome deception - including your own.
Take the road less traveled.
Leave the lo-awarenes mass far behind.
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Take the road less traveled.
Leave the lo-awarenes mass far behind.
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