What are the 48 Laws

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.

Robert Greene as mentor to Ryan Holiday

Ryan (of Daily Stoic, Obstacle is the way, etc.) was mentored by Robert Green. Ryan mentioned in a video how Robert Green taught him to categorize and sort notes he takes from reading.

Prison and the 48 Laws

The 48 Laws Of Power, as well as Greene’s follow-up, The Art of Seduction, are both banned books. The Utah prison system feels that both books have the ability to teach inmates how to manipulate others.

50 Cent and 50’s Law

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. 

Favorite laws

Law 1 Never outshine the master

Law 3 Conceal your intentions

Lw 4 Always say less than necessary

Law 5 so much depends on reputation guard it with your life

Law 9 win through your actions, never through an argument

Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch

Law 46 Never appear too perfect

Law 47 Do not go past the mark you aimed for: in victory, learn when to stop

Unliked laws

Law 7 Get others to do work for you, but always take credit

Law 14 Pose as a friend, work as a spy

Law 17 Keep others in suspended terror: Cultivate an air of unpredictability

Law 30 Make your accomplishments seem effortless

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Controversy

In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), passed by the Parliament of Canada to introduce “gender identity and expression” as prohibited grounds for discrimination.

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

1. “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.”
2. “Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.”
3. “Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.”
4. “Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”
5. “Do not do what you hate.”
6. “Abandon ideology.”
7. “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”
8. “Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.”
9. “If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.”
10. “Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.”
11. “Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.”
12. “Be grateful in spite of your suffering.”

Meaningwave

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“Don’t practice things you don’t want to be good at.”

Controversy

In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), passed by the Parliament of Canada to introduce “gender identity and expression” as prohibited grounds for discrimination.

12 Rules for Life

1. “Stand up straight with your shoulders back.”
2. “Treat yourself like you are someone you are responsible for helping.”
3. “Make friends with people who want the best for you.”
4. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
5. “Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.”
6. “Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”
7. “Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).”
8. “Tell the truth – or, at least, don’t lie.”
9. “Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.”
10. “Be precise in your speech.”
11. “Do not bother children when they are skate-boarding.”
12. “Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.”

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

1. “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.”
2. “Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.”
3. “Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.”
4. “Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”
5. “Do not do what you hate.”
6. “Abandon ideology.”
7. “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”
8. “Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.”
9. “If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.”
10. “Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.”
11. “Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.”
12. “Be grateful in spite of your suffering.”

Meaningwave

Akira the Don

Self-authoring suite

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Media

• The Matrix Trilogy
• Altered Carbon
• Dune
• Ducktales
• Fight Club
• The Edge

The Matrix Trilogy

• Choice. The problem is choice
• You have to let it all go, Neo – fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind!
• Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path”
• …you have been done there. You know that road. You know exactly where it ends. And i know that’s not where you want to be.

Altered Carbon

• Get to the next screen
• The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice
• Reality is so flexible these days, it’s hard to tell who’s disconnected from it and who isn’t. You might even say it’s a pointless distinction.”

Dune

• Fear is the mind killer
• It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
• The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

Ducktales

• Work smarter not harder

Fight Club

• This is your life and its ending one minute at a time
• It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything

The Edge

• What one man can do another man can do
• I’m gonna kill the bear

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Book

• As a man thinketh by James Allen

“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”

Your actions are outgrowths of your thoughts.

Thoughts become your actions, actions become your habits. Your thinking becomes your habits.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit

You shape the world just as much as it shapes you.

Extreme ownership. Everything is your fault.

Good

Shifting your perspective can make all the difference

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Eugene and Joel Recap what they have covered since the beginning of the podcast

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