#robert greene
Books You Should Read
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavell
The Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto
Podcasts You Should Listen To
Revolution Ramblings by Amber Khan
Highest Self Podcast by Sahara Rose
Mile Higher Podcast by Kendall Rae and Josh Thomas
Getting Curious by Johnathan Van Ness
I saw a post on someone criticizing the book “the art of seduction” by Robert Greene calling it manipulative and narcissistic.
Its all on how you interpret the book. Yes it can be interpreted that way because one of its teaching is that seduction is manipulation that can get you ahead in a subtle way but i think it actually says more useful stuff than that.
Examples are
- Dont speak too much - basically control yourself have a conversation without boring people and not letting them share their points and thoughts
- Dont be rigid - it is one thing to be someone serious and someone who makes you think “they must be fun at parties”
- Dont rush - exactly that dont rush getting to know someone. Dont force and rush relationships of any kind
- Enjoy the game - enjoy the journey of getting to know someone without having the outcome in your mind.
And the most important in my opinion: don’t be selfish. It says that seduction its not for you its for the other person. Its to make the other person feel seen, wanted, chased, and desired. You don’t pursue someone thinking on what are you going to get (that being sex money power or a relationship) you pursue someone initially because you want to know them.
With that in mind sure the book says questionable stuff at times but thats when you have to think on how you employ the information you are reading.
Samela BY ROBERT GREENE
LIKE to Diana in her summer weed,
Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye,
Goes fair Samela.
Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed
When wash’d by Arethusa faint they lie, 5
Is fair Samela.
As fair Aurora in her morning grey,
Deck’d with the ruddy glister of her love
Is fair Samela;
Like lovely Thetis on a calmèd day 10
Whenas her brightness Neptune’s fancy move,
Shines fair Samela.
Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams,
Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory
Of fair Samela; 15
Her cheeks like rose and lily yield forth gleams;
Her brows bright arches framed of ebony.
Thus fair Samela
Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue,
And Juno in the show of majesty 20
(For she ’s Samela!),
Pallas in wit,—all three, if you well view,
For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity,
Yield to Samela.
Observe, observe, observe.
—Milton Erickson
The greatest discovery of my generation is the fact that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
—William James
The years teach much what the days never know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
People of real strength are as rare as gold, and if you find them, you should respond as if you had discovered a treasure.
—Robert Greene
