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November 5, 2004
Establishing Personal Power
Interview
with Robert Greene, author of the book, The
48 Laws Of Power
Mike
Carruthers:
People you look up to, people with power follow certain rules
of behavior, which give them that power whether they do it knowingly or not. For
instance…
Robert
Greene:
People always tend to talk too much and one of the important
laws in this book is called always say less than necessary.
Robert
Greene, author of the book, The
48 Laws Of Power… A
powerful person always, usually always says less than necessary, is much more
quiet and silent and it gives people the impression that you don't need to talk
and to gab about things because you know things so well. Another
law of power is to make people come to you even if you have to use bait.
Lets say you have a meeting with someone. You want to make them, first of all,
call you and approach you, you don't want to be the one that's always calling
the other person or going after them. And then you also want to make them, if
you can, come to your tertian, you want to bring them to your office or to a place
where you are comfortable with and where they're necessarily not comfortable with. And
Robert says you'll notice that people with power seldom argue because they know
that… Your
words rarely convince people of something because everybody has their prejudges,
everybody believes that they know what the truth is. So you never ever really
have anything to gain by arguing with people because even if they'd say they agree
with you eventually they'll take action against you. At
somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know. | 
