The 48 Laws of Power

My guest today is Robert Green. Robert Green is an author who has written more than five best-selling books including the 48 laws of power,

I'm obsessed with this idea of power. I love Robert Greene's book on power. It's fantastic.

I referenced that Robert Green book the rules of power all the time and one of the things in his book is you really shouldn't talk a lot people with power don't really need to say a lot.

read the book Joe because he needs to shut up and stop talking.

I talk about this book a lot. That guy Robert Green's rules of power book. It's a fascinating book.

he talks about how these people get power and hiding your intentions from people is one of his main rules

Folks there's a book out there. I'm not big on recommended books but there's a book out there by Robert Green. You guys know it? The 48 rules of power.

Soon, we're going to talk about self-help books. Whether it's The Secret or The 48 Laws of Power or something else, these books are everywhere.

So I graduated to like 48 Laws of Power.

I get all my history from Robert Green books.

I remember you, but you've been reading the same book for two years now.

I read it over and over again.

You didn't read it once. You read the same book 10 different times. You didn't finish it once.

No, I did finish it three times.

You got to know the author, dude. You've read it. You're lying about reading it.

the first book is in my, I'd say like adult life, that I ever put like real intention into reading was 48 Laws of Power, and I read it in a moment.

I think like one of the key things in my personal story is that like I have gotten lucky at key specific moments of my life through a decision that I made, and I was sick with pneumonia, and I read Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power,

and there wouldn't have been another moment where I would have been again at home and had the ability to dive into something in such a deep level, but and I think the way he talks about power in like just in the past is people think of it as a negative thing,

but there's positive, there's definite positives if you use it to not only help yourself, but help others.

And so that was what my takeaway was, and it was again, this was years ago, but that was what my takeaway was.

And of course, the greatest one of all time in my opinion, the 48 Laws of Power.

That's what sort of inspired my first book, The 48 Laws of Power, because my sympathies are more on the side of the underdog.

So I wanted to like reveal to everyone what goes on behind closed doors, the real games of power that people play.

Have you seen, speaking of that, and you mentioned Robert Green earlier on, you're on the same mailing list for that. There's some of these that are super, super elaborate.

And I remember being like, oh, that was like, I don't know, like cool or whatever, but that Robert Green book, as soon as I saw that it did that, and I'm sending a fucking video of this to anyone that I can. This is like magic.

It's leather bound, gold embossed, 48 on the front.

And then as you look at the side, it's gold, like just like a gold boundary on the outside of the paper.

But as you splay the pages out in one direction, it's your face. As you splay the pages out in the other, it's that famous portrait of Machiavelli.

It's the sort of thing you can't not take a photo of.

The Sunday Times referred to his first book, The 48 Laws of Power as the Hollywood Backstabbers Bible and it can be difficult to find people who acknowledge its influence because of its controversial nature.

And so here's the one for June 7th and I think it's relatively representative of the book. June 7th never impune people's intelligence. Then there's a subtitle or an introductory idea, The best way to be well received by all is to close yourself in the skin of the dumbest of Brutes, Baltasar Grassian.

He only has book knowledge whereas I have real knowledge.

Her parents paid for her to get a good education. If my parents had had as much money if I had been as privileged, he's not as smart as he thinks.

She may know her narrow little field better than I do but beyond that, she's really not smart at all. Even Einstein was a boob outside physics.

Something I think about a lot is uh the 48 Laws of Power, it's a great book if people haven't have read it, one of my favorite ones is called create compelling spectacles.

Something I think about a lot is uh the 48 Laws of Power, it's a great book if people haven't have read it, one of my favorite ones is called create compelling spectacles.

But just like in the 48 Law of the Power, they say your enemies become your greatest allies.

You know about this? I was just going to say to you, do you know the book 48 Laws of Power? Of course. Because you would probably love it. I really tapped into him for the law of attraction though. A lot of that, well, he's got a billion laws of human nature and the mastery.

Think about like Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power, right? It can kind of be considered the same kind of thing.

One of your things was, and I think it was 48 Laws of Power, was to be kind of like, to kind of be flamboyant in a way, to stand out, right? That's one of your points.

Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power.

And Robert Greene, who I also interviewed on my show, he's the author of the Laws of Human Nature and the 50th Laws of Power, huge author.

I've read 48 Loves of Power, which also, you know, I probably would recommend.

Robert Greene said this in the 48 Laws of Power and on this podcast, do not speak unless you can improve upon the silence.

You know, this is why Robert Greene's books have done so well. You know, the 48 Laws of Power.

To your point about power, Bob Green, Robert Green wrote this book, The 48 Laws of Power. And one of the top ones is powerful people always say less than they need to.

Our swing thought of the day...is dangerous, better to enter with boldness from Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power.

This is where coercion has to come in, in the sense of what are the leverage and the pain points that you're going to get these people to change their mind or to step back and not veto stuff. That again, this is like Robert Greene's books are so important here. You have to understand how power works if you want to get it into action.

Now, the positive note comes from one of my favorite authors, Mr. Robert Green. Law 46 and the 48 laws of power never appear too perfect, okay? Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects and admit to harmless vices in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods in the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

You can read 40 Laws of Power and all of that stuff like that.

Probably the best thing that everybody here can do... is understanding human nature and studying books like, you know, Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power or I think even better is his Laws of Human Nature.

I've always kind of want to read the 40 laws of power 48 laws of power. Yeah Robert Green.

I just saw a TikTok once it was like it's banned in prisons or something because of like the manipulation aspect of it. But then I saw more of like his stuff where you know it's not really manipulation it's more of just understanding like how the people around you view you.