Guide Machiavelli’s Rules

[Sovereign]

Machiavelli’s Rules

Machiavelli’s ideas about power and governing can be boiled down to a handful of rules, somewhat paraphrased below and not in any particular order of importance:

1. Winning matters.
2. If you win, people will judge the methods you used to win as appropriate. If you lose, they will despise both you and your means.
3. If you can’t be both loved and feared, choose fear. Affection is fickle, but the fear of punishment is constant.
4. Crush your opponents.
5. Use your power harshly only for a short time, to achieve a greater stability for the municipality.
6. Learn the rules of the game so you can use them to your advantage.
7. Consultants and lobbyists are working for their own interests, not yours. Where possible use your own people and staff, instead of outsiders.
8. You need both cunning and strength to survive in the political wilderness. Strength alone isn’t enough.
9. Only keep your promises when it is beneficial to do so. It’s okay to break them when times change, or the need to keep them has gone.
10. Appear inflexible, decisive and resolute, but act as the situation and the political climate demand.
11. Pick sides. The middle ground offers the worst of both sides, not the best.
12. Avoid flatterers and sycophants.
13. Learn how not to be good: be bad when necessity demands it.
14. Knock a few heads together when you have to show the rest who’s boss.
15. Be stingy, not generous.
16. Place your own stamp on the municipality: erase anything that remains of the former mayor and council.
17. Change with the times.
18. It is better to be adventurous than cautious.
19. Make sure all your advisors, your friends and staff know their benefits and their positions depend on your success.
20. Guard your reputation: it is your most precious asset.
21. You owe your allegiance to the people, not to the civil servants, special interest groups, lobbyists or your friends.
22. Study the greats, study history, study politics, strategy and most of all, study war.
23. Hire smart people.

Machiavelli’s Rules

Machiavelli’s ideas about power and governing can be boiled down to a handful of rules, somewhat paraphrased below and not in any particular order of importance: Winning matters. If you win, people…

ianchadwick.com

 

[autistic_tendencies]

Have you read the 48 laws of power , some of the information is contradictory

 

[OgreLTN]

Have you read the 48 laws of power , some of the information is contradictory

Red pill normie retarded book

 

[autistic_tendencies]

Red pill normie retarded book

Some useful things in it

 

[OgreLTN]

Some useful things in it

Like what?

 

[Two-jay]

Machiavelli’s Rules

Machiavelli’s ideas about power and governing can be boiled down to a handful of rules, somewhat paraphrased below and not in any particular order of importance:

1. Winning matters.
2. If you win, people will judge the methods you used to win as appropriate. If you lose, they will despise both you and your means.
3. If you can’t be both loved and feared, choose fear. Affection is fickle, but the fear of punishment is constant.
4. Crush your opponents.
5. Use your power harshly only for a short time, to achieve a greater stability for the municipality.
6. Learn the rules of the game so you can use them to your advantage.
7. Consultants and lobbyists are working for their own interests, not yours. Where possible use your own people and staff, instead of outsiders.
8. You need both cunning and strength to survive in the political wilderness. Strength alone isn’t enough.
9. Only keep your promises when it is beneficial to do so. It’s okay to break them when times change, or the need to keep them has gone.
10. Appear inflexible, decisive and resolute, but act as the situation and the political climate demand.
11. Pick sides. The middle ground offers the worst of both sides, not the best.
12. Avoid flatterers and sycophants.
13. Learn how not to be good: be bad when necessity demands it.
14. Knock a few heads together when you have to show the rest who’s boss.
15. Be stingy, not generous.
16. Place your own stamp on the municipality: erase anything that remains of the former mayor and council.
17. Change with the times.
18. It is better to be adventurous than cautious.
19. Make sure all your advisors, your friends and staff know their benefits and their positions depend on your success.
20. Guard your reputation: it is your most precious asset.
21. You owe your allegiance to the people, not to the civil servants, special interest groups, lobbyists or your friends.
22. Study the greats, study history, study politics, strategy and most of all, study war.
23. Hire smart people.

Machiavelli’s Rules

Machiavelli’s ideas about power and governing can be boiled down to a handful of rules, somewhat paraphrased below and not in any particular order of importance: Winning matters. If you win, people…

ianchadwick.com

Honestly

 

[autistic_tendencies]

Like what?

Well to say less than necessary. The more you speak the more chance you have of saying something foolish, you can’t take back words.

 

[Two-jay]

Well to say less than necessary. The more you speak the more chance you have of saying something foolish, you can’t take back words.

This is funny because it presupposes some "I", which is in full control, and this is never the case. The unconscious mind is the one in charge of doing almost everything, so it is most beneficial to integrate those unconscious aspects of yourself that might claim desperately for that extra validation in conversation with other people, which in turns leads you to leak information about your life just for external approval.

I mean, I think that it is not a surprise people with an anxious attachment style tend to talk more. At the end of the day, it is not them, it is the trauma doing the talking.

I guess the illusion of absolute free will has really done a lot of damage to people, but once you taste these non-dual experiences, you see that unless you go face to face with the unconscious, it will sabotage your life no matter how much books you read.

 

[autistic_tendencies]

This is funny because it presupposes some "I", which is in full control, and this is never the case. The unconscious mind is the one in charge of doing almost everything, so it is most beneficial to integrate those unconscious aspects of yourself that might claim desperately for that extra validation in conversation with other people, which in turns leads you to leak information about your life just for external approval.

I mean, I think that it is not a surprise people with an anxious attachment style tend to talk more. At the end of the day, it is not them, it is the trauma doing the talking.

I guess the illusion of absolute free will has really done a lot of damage to people, but once you taste these non-dual experiences, you see that unless you go face to face with the unconscious, it will sabotage your life no matter how much books you read.

I see what you’re saying but at end of the day you do have some accountability and responsibility what comes out of mouth, simple self control and self discipline

You can’t choose what happens to you but you can choose your reaction and response

 

[Two-jay]

I see what you’re saying but at end of the day you do have some accountability and responsibility what comes out of mouth, simple self control and self discipline

You can’t choose what happens to you but you can choose your reaction and response

I honestly don't agree anymore with these things. I'm starting to think that it is more important to actively evaluate yourself and your beliefs in order that future interactions with other people do not cause suffering to you and them.

Discipline I think is a matter of conditioning. If you create good conditions in the present moment, it will all end up falling in place. Additionally, it is equally important to understand past trauma, and it is also no surprise these kind of things produce procrastination tendencies hehe.