"Envy is unhappy admiration.""La envidia es una admiración infeliz."

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.   Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

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Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

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The 48 Laws of Power

Don't try to fix things that are not broken, if you are not ready for them to get worse.Sometimes, we see the oportunity to improve something that seems easy and not very time-consuming. It can happen for some reason, when trying to improve it, that things get worse and more time is required in order to get it back to the previous state.

Unnecessary Focus

Sometimes, problems get solved by themselves.When no immediate and critical action is required, time can show that the problem was not in need of an action from our side to be solved.

Unnecessary Action

You can solve the problem: You can do it, no reason to be stressed.You can't solve the problem: Nothing you can do, so don't get stressed.

Unnecessary Stress

Solving problems needs more than knowledge and experience. Needs a clear and calm mind.

The 48 Laws of Power

Patience and Solutions

Rodolfo J. Cohn