The 48 Laws Of Power Flashcards

Question

what are the keys to power for the second law?

Answer 1

it is natural to employ your friends the world is a harsh place and u want comfortable people around you the problem is that you never truly know your friends as they always laugh at your jokes and lie to you because friendships are not built on honesty but an enemy has something to prove so the key to power is the ability to judge people on what they can offer you and who is best to further your interest in all situations keep friends for friendship but work with the competent and skilled

Answer 2

when you make a friend out of him

Answer 3

he will keep you on your toes and sharpen your wits

Answer 4

1 - be certain that in the long run you will emerge victorious, never pick a fight with someone you are not sure you can defeat 2 - if you have no apparent enemy you must sometimes make one ,even turning a friend into an enemy 3 - you such enemies to define your cause to the public make it as good vs evil

Answer 5

no you are far better off with a declared opponent than not knowing where your real enemies lie, the man of power welcome conflict , using enemies to enhance his reputation

Answer 6

sometimes as a man of power you want some dirty work to be done and friends can do that the best as they have affection for you and when you are about to fall u can use your friends as a scapegoat as the public would never believe that you would sacrifice your friends

Answer 7

conceal your intentions

Answer 8

keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions, if they have no idea what you are up to , they cannot prepare a defense . guide them far enough the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions,it will be too late

Answer 9

use decoyed objects of desire and red herrings to throw people off the scent if at any point of the deception you practice people have the slightest suspicion as to your intentions all is lost . do not give them the chance to sense what you are up to: throw them off the scent by dragging red herrings across the path, use false sincerity, send ambiguous signals, set up misleading objects of desire. unable to distinguish the genuine from the false, they cannot pick out your real goal

Answer 10

ninon and the marquis where the marquis wanted to seduce the young countess he was young and dashing but inexperienced the first thing she told him is to approach indirectly and seem friendly and confide in her as this would throw her off balance and then make her jealous by attending the party with other young beautiful women with him and seem distant from her now she would see him as desired by others all of that was working until marquis told the countess that he loved her so she left him

Answer 11

men and women are different but they are the same when getting seduced deep down inside they want to be led along it's a pleasure to let go and in seduction u must never be too overt everything is a suggestion throw your targets off balance

Answer 12

otto von bismark and the prussian empire where otto von bismark was a big believer in war but he gave a speech in the parliment about peace where he opposed everything he believed in and the king made him a cabinet minister and in this role he led war against austria

Answer 13

bismarck knew that the army was not ready and if he supported war and lost all will be lost and if he blackmailed the king into being a prime minister he wouldn't have trusted him but he waited and threw people off the scent that made them wait to regain power and then he stricked

Answer 14

you should master the art of concealing your intentions and dangle an object of desire to the people in front of you that will throw them off most people are open books they want to say their plans and want to talk about how they feel because two things: 1 - it's natural for someone to talk about his feelings and plans , it takes effort to control your tongue and monitor what you reveal 2 - many people believe that by being honest they are winning people's heart but they are doing the opposite honesty is a cruel tool so what shouldn't do? don't reveal what you think because if you always say what is on your mind people have no reason to respect or fear you and power will not come to someone who can't inspire such feelings

Answer 15

setup a red herring, support an idea that you are actually against make people believe that u had a change of heart

Answer 16

not by closing up but by opening and talking about your goals just not your real ones

Answer 17

they use false sincerity, they publicize their honesty and they publicly believe in a noble goal, they do everything to cloak they roguish qualities , they cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in another, honesty is just another tool in their arsenal of weapons

Answer 18

Use smoke screens to disguise your actions Deception is always the best strategy, but the best deceptions require a screen of smoke to distract people's attention from the real purpose, the bland exterior like the unreadable poker face,is often the prefect smoke screen, hiding your intentions behind the comfortable and familiar. if you lead the sucker down a familiar path, he won't catch on when u lead him into a trap

Answer 19

yellow kid and geezle where he setup buying the lodge then he setup a fake fight where the fighter was knocked dead and geezle ran away from the place

Answer 20

the familiar, inconspicuous front is the perfect smoke screen. approach ur mark with an idea that seems ordinary enough, a business deal, financial intrigue. the sucker's mind is distracted, his suspicions allayed. that is when you gently guide him onto the second path, the slippery slope which he slides you helplessly into your trap

Answer 21

selsassie and balcha in ethipia where selassie charmed everyone but balcha so he invited him into a party where balcha took 600 of his best soldiers with him as a body guard which allowed selassie to buy his army and like a chess player he trapped him and he had to surrender

Answer 22

selsassie created a thick smoke screen by making balcha think that he was going to do something to him at the party but in reality he was planning 3 miles away he made him feel like he was in control, remember:the paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow . a helpful or apparently honest gesture , or one that implies the other person's superiority these are perfect diversionary devices

Answer 23

if you believe that deceivers are colorful folk who mislead with elaborate lies and tall tales,you are greatly mistaken. the best deceivers utilize a bland and an inconspicuous front that calls no attention at themselves . they know that extravagant words and gestures immediately raise suspicion instead they envelope their mark in the familiar , the bland.

Answer 24

they will not notice the deception being perpetrated behind their backs

Answer 25

because they can only focus on one thing at a time

Answer 26

the smoke screen lulls it's victims into the familiar , but red herrings u distract them with other objects

Answer 27

the smoke screen

Answer 28

facial expressions

Answer 29

1 - the noble gesture: people want to believe apparently noble gestures are genuine for the belief is genuine 2 - the pattern: the establishment of a series of actions that seduce the victims into believe u will continue behaving in the same way 3 - mistaking appearances for reality: the feeling if someone seems like he belongs to your group their belonging must be real this habit makes the seamless bland very effective

Answer 30

none of this will work if you already have a reputation of being deceitful , if get caught own up to it and seem like you repented u will be admired for this action

Answer 31

always say less the necessary

Answer 32

when you try to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less, the more you say , the more likely you will say something foolish

Answer 33

corlianus when every time he spoke in rome he insulted the people and made insults towards them after he was their legendary hero they voted for his execution

Answer 34

had he said less he would have never insulted the people but when he spoke he appeared like a common soldier. the human tongue is a beast that few can master.it strains constantly to break out of it's cage and if it's not tamed it will run wild and cause you grief . power cannot accrue to those who can't squander their treasure of words

Answer 35

in the court of louis the XIV everyone would squabble and fight and argue in some matter and when they have come to a decision they would choose two of them to present the matter to louis and then they would argue some more about how to present the issue, when and how and then they would talk to him and he would listen in silence and node his head and they would later see the result he would never talk about that matter ever again

Answer 36

louis was not like that when he was younger but as he grew old he learned to never speak because then people couldn't deceive him as they never knew what he wanted to hear ,everything was valuable about him , his glances , his words

Answer 37

power in many ways is a game of appearances , and when you say less than necessary , you inevitably appear more greater and more powerful than you are. your silence will make other people uncomfortable . humans always want to know what you are thinking and when you carefully control what you reveal , they cannot pierce your intentions as your short answers will put them on the defensive and they will jump in trying to fill the silence with all kinds of comments revealing things about themselves

Answer 38

silence can make you up for interpretation for your superiors that you haven't bargained for and it's sometimes better to play the jest of the court as by talking more you appear less intelligent and unsophisticated and then you can practice deception with more ease

Answer 39

so much depends on reputation guard it with your life

Answer 40

Reputation is the corner stone of power, through reputation alone you can intimidate and win, once it slips, however you are vulnerable, and be attacked on all sides. make your reputation unassailable.always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. meanwhile , learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. then step aside and let public opinion hang them

Answer 41

during china's was of the three kingdoms the great general chuko liang was in a small town when he heard that sima yi caught up to him and will arrive soon at the city gates ,without hesitation he ordered his troops to hide and went on the wall and chanted and played his lute , when sima yi saw him he ordered the troops to immediate and speedy retreat

Answer 42

chuko liang AKA the sleeping dragon had cultivated an air of deception and intelligence around himself which made sima yi afraid as he senesed that chuko liang was actually taunting him to enter the gates, such as the power of reputation as it can hold off an entire army and put them on the defensive

Answer 43

P.T barnum and paele where barnum was going to make a museum but the business men decided to go for paelae , then barnum noticed that he had no reputation and for that he decided to attack paelae's reputation by calling him a business man and not knowing how to entertain people and when paelae tried to recover by making a hypnotism show barnum made the show a laugh by mocking it

Answer 44

there are two tactics he use 1 - he sowed doubts , once u let out of the bag your opponents are in an incredible dilemma they either fight the rumors which make it stronger because why are they defending it so hard or they will ignore the doubts will be unrefuted , and if done correctly it will infuriate your opponents and they will make mistakes , this is the perfect weapon for someone without a reputation 2 - once u have a reputation make a mockery out of your opponent, when you have a solid base of respect ridiculing your opponents will put them on the defensive and will gain you more respect as someone who is harmless and can have a laugh now and then

Answer 45

u never know people so u judge them on their clothes or their speech or their actions and any slip from the reputation can prove disastrous , so it is most important to make a reputation of your own creation. the reputation will protect you from probing eyes and make a shield around you 1 - you must work to establish a reputation that is outstanding and sets you apart and make people talk about you 2 - make it known to as many people as you can 3 - take it slow and subtle 4 - make it simple , seductiveness or efficiency and as they say your reputation will always preceed you but maybe you already have stained your own reputation, then you must associate yourself to someone who counteracts your own stain and using their good name to elevate your own and after you make a reputation you must protect and never let yourself get angry or defensive if someone attacks your reputation take the high road and don't get defensive this will show confidence in your own reputation attacking the reputation of someone who is more powerful than you is always best as he has a small target and u have a bigger one but you must be careful not to appear vengeful or it might hurt your own so never go the direct way always use ridicule and and satire as the lion will play with the mouse but when he takes it seriously no one will fear him anymore

Answer 46

there are no possible reversals, maybe not caring but even then it will give you the reputation of insolence and arrogance but it can be valuable as well so be the master of your own fate

Answer 47

court attention at all cost

Answer 48

everything is judged by it's appearances , what is unseen counts for nothing, never let yourself get lost in the crowd or buried in oblivion , stand out , be conspicuous at all cost, at all cost make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful , more mysterious than the bland and timid masses

Answer 49

surround yourself with the sensational and the scandalous: draw attention to yourself by creating an unforgettable ,even controversial image,court scandal. do anything to seem larger than life and shine more brightly than those around you. make no distinction between kinds of attention. notoriety of any sort will bring you power. better to be slandered and attacked than ignored

Answer 50

pt barnum when he hired a band that was so bad that made people standing outside his museum to buy tickets to enter his museum , and when he hired a man to just put bricks on the side of the road to make people curious to enter his museum cuz he would make a lap and enter the museum then exit from the back

Answer 51

barnum knew that once one person was attracted to you then pother people would come and then he would never let them veer their eyes off him,so in the beginning spend all your energy at attracting attention , most important the quality doesn't matter , negative or positive it's all the same,the worst fate in the world for a man who yearns fame, glory and power is to be ignored

Answer 52

burning more brightly than those around you is a skill no one is born with, at first you must attach yourself to an image or something that sets you apart from other people around you like a characteristic trait. it is a mistake to think that you should differentiate between the kinds of attention that you get because in the end all will work. society craves larger than life figures, people who stand above the general mediocrity so never be afraid of the qualities that set you apart and draw attention to you. if you find yourself in a position of having little to now opportunity for attention then attack the most powerful,famous person you have. once you are in the limelight you must constantly renew it by adapting and varying your methods to draw attention so that the public don't leave you and forget about you, understand this people feel superior to the person whose actions they can predict , if you show them who is in control by playing against their expectations, you both gain their respect and tighten your hold on their fleeting attention

The 48 Laws Of Power Flashcards

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