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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene ISBN 9781665182751
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Robert Greene ISBN 9781665182751
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This book by Robert Greene has come up 6 times across 3 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Diary of a CEO, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman, Robert Greene, Ryan Holiday, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-04-09 and the most recent from 2025-02-27. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers.
“I was wondering why your book power is still selling unbelievably well I mean most books when they come out they have their moment and then they're done”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Robert Greene: Author of bestselling books on power and human psychology, including The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature. One of the most influential modern writers on strategy and manipulation. Robert Greene unpacks power, envy, loneliness and the crisis facing modern men, while reflecting on the stroke that changed his life.
“it was actually in the law of power book about um I think it was law 36 when we feel like we've been wronged”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Robert Greene: Author of bestselling books on power and human psychology, including The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature. One of the most influential modern writers on strategy and manipulation. Robert Greene unpacks power, envy, loneliness and the crisis facing modern men, while reflecting on the stroke that changed his life.
“it reminds me of law 48 in the 48 Laws of Power which is to assume formlessness”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Robert Greene: Author of bestselling books on power and human psychology, including The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature. One of the most influential modern writers on strategy and manipulation. Robert Greene unpacks power, envy, loneliness and the crisis facing modern men, while reflecting on the stroke that changed his life.
“Robert Green is an author who has written more than five bestselling books including the 48 Laws of Power the laws of human nature and Mastery”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Robert Greene: Bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, The Art of Seduction, and Mastery. Trained at UC Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; writes about psychology, strategy, and human nature rooted in history. Robert Greene gives Andrew Huberman a process for finding your unique purpose, on power, seduction, love, and surviving a near-fatal stroke.
“up until the point when you wrote the first of your many books called The 48 Laws of Power back in 1998”— Robert Greene
The guest here is Robert Greene: Best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, Mastery and The Laws of Human Nature; renowned expert on power strategies and human nature. Robert Greene on power as self-control, the language of seduction, building real confidence, mastery through repetition, and recovering from his stroke.
“Then The 48 Laws of Power do a great job of explaining that... Those are three fantastic uh books for the for the quiver.”— Ryan Holiday
The guest here is Ryan Holiday: Author of bestselling books on Stoicism including The Obstacle Is the Way and the Daily Stoic. A former marketing director at American Apparel turned writer who popularizes ancient Stoic philosophy for modern audiences. Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss apply Stoic philosophy to the COVID-19 crisis, choosing alive time over dead time.
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