Deck 3 Flashcards
King Louis’s Finance minister’s splendid party dedicated to Louis just made Louis feel inferior.
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Stable boy in Italy was Prince’s servant, and eventually became very powerful, due to the Prince being a friend Prince never suspected his treachery until it was too late.
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It’s more seductive, people find it more fun and interesting. Greene gives the example of a man pursuing a women perfectly after tuition seducing her, then suddenly declaring his love, he did not follow the rules and broke the spell and made himeslf seem disingenuous.
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Overtelling joke, or following a joke with another one was a past habit, now you trip the conversation onto the other person instead of seeming needy for attention or praise.
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Your reputation and presence makes people want to show you off as a friend, or as a business associate.
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Peacocking with clothes in the game, or an exceptionally smart suit acheives this, or casual to make an impact if your presence can carry it off in a meeting.
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Upwork used effectively would achieve this. Also, there are usually people free who are happy to help out for the sake of it.
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In the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others.
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Instead of discussing if you could do an Iron Man with no traiining you just did one.
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Like the lady in the book all of whom’s husbands end up dethroned, dead or in poverty.
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In the work place this will ensure you stay close to leadershi and in a downturn you would be the last to go.
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When selling to a customer for example telling them something bad about the product seems more honest meaning what follows after this point would be more trusted.
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When asking people to introduce you to investors appealed to either their care for the enviromental cause (Hayer,Pearly’s friend), solving transport issues (Devin), or just straight cash, giving Pearly a % of anything raised.
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Do this with Joost constantly, and Joost attempts to do this with you.
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Greene gives the example of an aggressive talented combat general in China vs a cunning weaker opponnent her corners 3 times and allows to escape whilst they discuss a surrender. Then, in one off chance when the weaker opponent has the upper hand, he takes his single shot and goes in for the kill straight away, no mercy. He will not let his opponent slip away as his former friend and now enemy had.
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You do this socially currently, you have much more to talk about when you rejoin the group, and people wonder what you’re up to, with minor facebook posts here and there.
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Stalin created this in Russia and this helped consolidate all the power with him.
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Greene gives the example of the Emperor who never met anyone and crept around the palace in hallways whilst his aids ran the country. He had no idea what was going on in the world, and was assassinated by his aids who were effectively in charge.
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” Greene gives the example of the man cheated by a ring of con artists out of $40,000, and he then spends the next 5 years tracking them all down one by one, not our of a sense of honour or duty, but one of insecurity and embarrassment at having been cheated.
- Watch out for highly insecure people, they hold grudges the longest.”
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In the mid 1500s Queen Elizabeth I ascended the throne of England. For many years the issue of who she would marry was debated in Parliament. In this era it was expected that a queen must marry as soon as possible so she could continue the succession, bare children and rule. After many years of debating the Queen had many noble bachelors come to her side all attempting to prove their worthiness as a potential husband. She never marries anyone and maintained her throne knowing any King would dilute and take her power.
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Play dumb to put people you’re socialising with or negotiating with off their game, so they lax and stop concentrating, and let certain parts of information slip.
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Don’t get emotional, bide your time wait for when they’re weaker or simply don’t fight at all, focus on your goals. When arguing with Ed get equally pissed off, or about similar things get just as angry.
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Focus, don’t spread out your resources in business or in war.
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Don’t be overly affectionate as this could have caused other people in the organization might to resent you. But once above these others you can under the protection of the King pander further, and this is playing the courtier game well also.
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As you have since rebirth April 2016, recreate personality, ambission, confidence. Your own identity is your own.
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” Like the people at Educo who don’t get it, barely do the recording but still want the results and were lulled into the belief element.
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” If you walk up a a girl timidly / half shy she will never give you anything, to start something timidly is messing if up, you need to get 100% sure then 100% go for it. Grow fast or die slow in start up lingo.
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Balboa a Spaniard did all the hard work and exploring in the Americas, but had no clear end game so an opponent had him charged with treason and took his place to excute his own precise plan to capitalise on the gains of his misdirected colleague.
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” The meeting you had with $300m value Kaz is all the more impressive as peopel don’t really understand how you access people like that with such ease. The same with Graham Weston a billionaire.
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” in keeping with keeping you hands clean, like giving someone bad news to deliver for you, people always associate bad news with the deliverer no matter who caused it.
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” Girls want to be dazzled, and people want to be entertained and seduced like guys for example being complimented by a girl. People want to make believe and be seduced so do this for them, play up to their imaginations.
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” You got rid of your need for appreciation or ego pandering, but many other have this, or an insecurity over being cool, or over girls, or over their reputation being impeccable. Exploit this weaknes, it was there in EC and TM.
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In the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others.
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You make your opponents hurry. Start off your dealings with them slowly, then suddenly apply pressure, making them feel that everything is happening at once. People who lack the time to think will make mistakes — so set their deadlines for them.
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” Craving is unhealthy for a women or for a thing, and give much control and energy over to that person or addiction, yours is girls and food. Ignorance is the best strategy conjuring up demand from people for your attention.
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” Gatsby does this very effectively with his massive parties, massively enhancing his presences and aura.
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” When you were 16 you liked to be a contrarien as Ed still does, this gets others to simply think you want attention.
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