This week's installment of Power Corrupts is slightly different.

You're about to hear an audiobook excerpt read by yours truly from my new book Corruptible

who gets power and how it changes us.

The book answers a series of questions.

Do worse people tend to get power?

Does power tend to make people worse?

Why are we drawn to giving power to bad people for bad reasons?

And how can we fix it so that power draws in the best people and purifies rather than

corrupts?

These are the books opening lines.

Does power corrupt or are corrupt people drawn to power?

Are entrepreneurs who embezzle and cops who kill the outgrowth of bad systems?

Or are they just bad people?

Are tyrants made or born?

If you were thrust into a position of power, would new temptations to line your pockets

or torture your enemies not away at you until you gave in?

It's food for thought, by the way.

If you were suddenly made the dictator of Turkmenistan, how would you behave?

What you're about to hear picks up part of the way through the first chapter of the book.

And if you'd like to pick up a copy of Corruptible or the audiobook version, you can pre-order

it now, and anyone who pre-orders the book or the audiobook gets exclusive access to

an additional full episode of Power Corrupts.

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