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it seems to me if people are using these laws, its pretty hard to compete with them. since good people aren't willing to use these laws, we should still know about them. to guard against and recognize the people using them. ive bought the book, and am going to post these laws. I figure the path to true success is to do the exact opposite. this book wasn't written out of love and a desire to improve the lives of his fellow man. it was written to destroy.

it seems to me if people are using these laws, its pretty hard to compete with them. since good people aren't willing to use these laws, we should still know about them. to guard against and recognize the people using them. ive bought the book, and am going to post these laws. I figure the path to true success is to do the exact opposite. this book wasn't written out of love and a desire to improve the lives of his fellow man. it was written to destroy.

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anyone have a tl;dr? link or personal opinion?

Edit; sorry I was lazy, it was the first search query result

Edit x2: Good googily moogily, i just had a cursory skim of the above article and it looks like it was written by a sociopath.

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Thank you. What is your opinion, definitely worth a full read/listen? or is it a "take it or leave it" sort of recommendation?

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I would say "take it or leave it" on that one. Instead, look for anything on human biases from people writing about prospect theory (humans are totally fickle creatures). The same author wrote Mastery, and it is very good.

If you really want the full "Machiavellian treatment" consider something like .

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Kill or be killed.
There isn't another way. I promise you.

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I'm sure Sun Tzu was also a sociopath, right?
You know, since that's what the book is based on.