Power with Robert Greene

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How do people become powerful? Can understanding power protect us from those who wield it too strongly? When Robert Greene first set out to write about power, he didn’t have much of it. He worked odd jobs and was largely at the mercy of other people’s power. Now, his book “The 48 Laws of Power” has given him the power he wrote about. He sat down with me to share what he’s learned on both sides of that spectrum. This… is a Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	How much power do you have?
0:08.2	And have you ever felt powerless?
0:10.9	Well, that's what happened to Robert Green.
0:14.2	He felt completely powerless for so many years that he actually ended up writing about what
0:21.1	it felt like to be subjected to the whims of others who were trying to exert their power
0:26.4	over him.
0:28.3	He wrote the 48 laws of power which has become a standard for understanding power, both
0:34.9	how to wield it and also how to guard against it.
0:39.1	So we talked about power, and seduction, and mastery, and even human stupidity.
0:46.8	And I found the impact absolutely well-powerful.
0:52.4	This is a bit of optimism.
0:58.0	Robert, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.
1:00.7	I've been really looking forward to meeting you.
1:02.9	We've never met, but I know your work and I've been so excited to talk to you to dig
1:07.5	into some of your work.
1:08.5	Thank you.
1:09.5	Thank you very much.
1:10.7	Your book, The 48 Laws of Power, is, I mean, it's been around a bunch of years, and it's
1:15.5	still dare I say a powerhouse of a book.
1:20.0	Before we get into it, because I have so many questions, I just wanted to ask you about
1:24.4	the background first.
1:26.3	What is your story, how you got to the point that you wrote a book about power?
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