#10 Master Your Dark Side - Robert Greene – Impact Theory
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We become human by overcoming some of these deep-rooted animal forces within us
Law number one – we're basically irrational creatures. We think that we're rational but really our emotions govern us. We feel something before we ever have an idea or think it
We are built to constantly compare ourselves to other people, we're always thinking of what the other person has and how we are in relation to them
People are so immersed in their smartphones and their technology that they don't understand people they're not observing people
A lot of people, increasingly in the world, are really bad at observing just basic elements in human psychology
I want you every single day to be examining yourself and to look at yourself why do I have that idea
By accepting I widen my scope of activity
Our fear of death is probably the greatest influence on our behavior throughout history
The worst feeling in the world is to be facing death and to think damn it I’ve wasted my life
Understanding people – that's the primary skill that you need in life
Question yourself stop assuming that everything you do is so brilliant and smart and right and imagine that maybe your ideas don't come from yourself
We tend to think of ourselves as autonomous human beings, that we're independent, that I feel affection or anger or frustration on my own. We don't realize how deeply we are affected by the emotions of the people in a group. There was an evolutionary reason for that. Before the invention of language, we – humans – had to be able to communicate to one another through just picking up the moods of other people, and if there was a threat to our group or our tribe, the ability to feel fear and anger together bonded us and helped us survive.
Levels of self-absorption and narcissism have been growing steadily since the 1970s
The biggest part of human nature is that we deny that there is human nature
You're a mystery to yourself. You have patterns of behavior and you're not even understanding that
People aren’t being honest about how manipulative they can be
You want to think that you're completely independent and autonomous but maybe you're not as independent as you think
As people talk and they use words to conceal what they're thinking, their bodies reveal what they're actually thinking behind the words
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