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9: Use absence to increase strength and honor
The more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear.
You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.
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8: Infection: Avoid the unhappy or the unlucky
When you suspect you are in the presence of an infector, don’t argue, don’t try to help, don’t pass the person on to your friends, or you will become enmeshed.
Flee the infector’s presence or suffer the consequences.
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1: Never outshine the master
Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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3: Conceal Your Intentions
Hide your intentions not by closing up but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals— just not your real ones.
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4: Always say less than necessary
Power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words.
Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control.
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5: So much depends on reputation, guard it with your life
Learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations.
Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.
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6: Court attention at all costs
Surround your name with the sensational and the scandalous.
Better to be slandered and attacked than ignored.
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7: Make other people come to you, use bait if necessary
For negotiations or meetings, it is always wise to lure others into your territory, or the territory of your choice. You have your bearings,
While they see nothing familiar and are subtly placed on the defensive.
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10: Do not commit to anyone, but be courted by all.
Remember: You have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the affairs of others subtracts from your strength.
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2: Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
The key to power is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations.
Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
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- While spying gives you a third eye, disinformation puts out one of your enemy’s eyes.
- Create value through scarcity.
- Law of scarcity in the science of economics: By withdrawing something from the market, you create instant value.
- Make yourself less accessible and you ...
Day 29:
Everything in the world depends on absence and presence. A strong presence will draw power and attention to you—you shine more brightly than those around you. But a point is inevitably reached where too much presence creates the opposite effect: The more you are seen and heard from, the more your...
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