The Law of the Sublime - Robert Greene

[Ulax]

1 minute ago, BlessedLion said:

I'd agree, i tried the Laws of Power book and found it way too negative and ultimately untrue. 

There seem to be a camp of people who believe everything humans do boils down to power and sex, which is a large factor, but it's not everything and honestly not that important, well sex is important, power dynamics, meh.

Power dynamics are very important. but most people's understanding of what counts as power is very warped.

 

[Ulax]

5 hours ago, Ajay0 said:

 I read some of Robert Greene's books, but found them machiavellian and indulging in politics related to psychology and marketing.

It may be good for superficial short-term tactics while engaging in the material world, but does not provide the strategic substratum for long-term development leading to peace and happiness.

If you are living solely by such machiavellian tactics, life is bound to be superficial, conflict-prone and hollow, imho.

A key issue is that reading Greene, someone is just going to become a theory junkie very easily.

Its like watching a tonne of pickup videos and then thinking you're a stud. Nah you gotta take the theory and practice reps, until you hone the theory until its second nature, and understand where you go wrong in applying it.

At least with pickup they bang you over the head with the need to actually go out and practice that shi like an animal.

Edited 19 hours ago by Ulax

[BlessedLion]

19 hours ago, Ulax said:

When people write outside of their skillset, they will produce bs

Unless they have a direct realization of something True, like Eckhart Tolle, he had an awakening and wrote a powerful book about it with little to no skillset in that field. He just geniunely understood it because he experienced it.

[BlessedLion]

18 hours ago, Ulax said:

Power dynamics are very important. but most people's understanding of what counts as power is very warped.

 

Depends on how we are defining power. I see power more as an internal thing rather than "power over" others 

[Ulax]

33 minutes ago, BlessedLion said:

Unless they have a direct realization of something True, like Eckhart Tolle, he had an awakening and wrote a powerful book about it with little to no skillset in that field. He just geniunely understood it because he experienced it.

true

[Ulax]

32 minutes ago, BlessedLion said:

Depends on how we are defining power. I see power more as an internal thing rather than "power over" others 

I use power more as a value dynamics thing. Powerful people being those who can seem high relative value compared to others