Book: 20201005 to 20201124, "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene
To pursue power is like playing card games. We try to 1. Figure out what cards the rivals have 2. Get better cards 3. Confuse the opponents 4. Understand their personalities 5. Get allies 6. Utilize some rivals to fight other rivals Etc. In the end, it's about improving the possibilities to win, and minimizing the risk and the loss of each game. Nothing can guarantee winning. But if we study hard and work hard, we will have pretty good cards, and normally can get pretty good results. ========= 20201005 - Preface These laws are part of natural evolution. Competition is competition, there is no moral or evil, just effectiveness. It's good to learn all of them, so we will have more options to choose, and easier to defense ourselves. But these laws may also cause critical damage. Zedong Mao is the master of these laws, but when he used them with ignorance of other scientific knowledge, he brought disaster to hundreds of millions of people. The single most point I learned from