| tell me what you guys think of these three articles? Defines self? or absolutely wrong?
http://www.generationsatwork.com/articles/millenials.htm
http://humanresources.about.com/od/managementtips/a/millenials.htm
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28956.html
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| Law # 3 Conceal your intentions This one sounds so much like poker, but I definitely agree. In a world where you may not know WHO you enemies are, and how they will act it is important to conceal your intentions. Not just with the achievement of power, but in achieving any objective. If there is no positive benefit that can come from revealing your intentions, then conceal them. Often times revealing them to soon let’s others have a chance to prevent you from achieving your goals. It’s a lot like poker, your posture, your attitude, your playing style, your topics of conversation all generate an image for other players to determine how you play. In the end the people who make/win the most money are the ones who are able to ‘trick” others into thinking that they are playing differently then they really are. I think, you always conceal your intentions unless there’s concrete benefits. Read the chapter, which is pretty good, they have good examples too… Bismark (what a famous name) and this con artist guy. There’s a good part about the smoke screen, and how people need to be comfortable in order to fall into your trap. Just be careful, when you feel comfortable, or things are too good to be true, u may be walking into a trap! |
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| Law #2
Never put too much trust in friends, Learn how to use enemies
disagree with the first part, agree with the second. friends you need to rise to power and you need to cultivate trust among people to rise to power. not trusting your friends will cause you to be paranoid. those working FOR you may be antagonized. and if you friend betrays you that will be their downfall too. Using enemies on the other hand is fantastic. let them hang themselves, use them to make your friends trust you more. It often takes a power struggle to gain more power. The friends you trust must recognize you as as the leader and a force, the friends you need must know this already. They must be the role player, often it takes a team to win power... look at basketball for instance.. role players such as horace grant, bruce bowen, robert horry, ben wallace last years antoine walker, gary payton, mourning. All role players needed to succeed but they all knew their role. football is a great example, the qb is the leader but the role players MUST do their job to win.
u know the article didnt convince me... it talked about people betraying people and how like forgiving ur enemy makes them a loyal servant which is all a sack of crap. I'm disappointed.
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Recently i bought this book called "48 laws of power" which i saw them talk about in the tv show studio 60...
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I'm also down to discuss the laws, and share in all ur insights into power, henceforth i will read the law (type it too), then put down how i feel about it, then read whatever this author has to say about it... (looks like it's examples) then if anything of my perception changes i'll let u know.
Law #1
Never Outshine the Master
pre reading
Word. definitly think this one is a smart one, simply for the fact that the master has in his power to destroy you. (or at least keep you down or keep power from reaching u.) It sucks, especially if you have a not so good master where u may not benefit anything from except for having them be your master... but never outshining them goes hand in hand with always giving them the illusion of power over you. The strength in this is that you will gain all the benefits of learning and they'll never see a threat. Often analyzing where others fault to can strengthen u when you are in power... you may not need to pass the observations on to unworthy masters.
post reading
the examples make sense, about people out shining their masters then getting torn down... or using the master's own ego to help curry more favor for yourself... it did make a very strong important point that there will always be masters out there who have insecurities and well definitly need not be outshined... it is important to judge the strength of your master or teacher or boss and their temperment for change and being challanged and outshined...
one thing i do believe is that through time and loyalty that you can expand someone's tolerance for being outshined and stuff... not to lull them into a trap but more to let urself shine... of course u could always run into the greatest of all masters who wants to see you outshine him... but one of those it'd take years and years to outshine anyways...
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| i cant fall asleep at night, and it's so hard to wake up in the morning... for some reason i get an energy boost at like 9pm or something that lasts till like 3... not a good thing... i'm getting these dark circles around my eyes...
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