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10 Steps to Be A Good Machiavellian: Your Secret Playbook

After we learned the Machiavellian traits and advantages, it’s time to get practical.

Power University shows all the examples and how to internalize these skills.
But for a solid foundation, here are 10 steps.

1. Always Ask: What’s In It For Me?

People in your life either give, or take.

And different courses of action either make you better off, or worse off.

And the best way to grow better off is to ask yourself “what’s in it for me“?

This website believes that a “WIIFM” ap...

How to Be A Good Machiavellian

After we learned the Machiavellian traits and advantages, it’s time to get practical.

Power University shows all the examples and how to internalize these skills.
But for a solid foundation, here are 10 steps.

1. Always Ask: What’s In It For Me?

People in your life either give, or take.

And different courses of action either make you better off, or worse off.

And the best way to grow better off is to ask yourself “what’s in it for me“?

This website believes that a “WIIFM” ap...

Andrew Huberman: When Bro-Science Gets A Ph.D.

Andrew David Huberman is an American neuroscientist, podcaster, and popular “optimization guru“.

In this article, we review Huberman and one of his videos.

We’ll be looking for potential red-flag power moves.
And for techniques that may be used to acquire power, fame, and authority.

Andrew Huberman Power Moves

Huberman:
Welcome to The Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
I’m Andrew Huberman and I’m a professor of neurobiology...

The 10 Steps of Self-Empowerment Everyone Must Follow

We list here the foundations of self-empowerment.

The list goes from most foundational, to most advanced.

P.S.:
See this post for the basic strategies for social power.

1. Start With The Mind

The mind is the foundation

A healthy, confident mind includes:

1.2. Accept Yourself

You accept who you are, despite your natural flaws

It does NOT mean you make no effort to change.
Instead, you accept your flaws while you work at them.

1.2.2. Accept Your Shortcomings

It...

Red Flags: Book Summary & Review

Red Flags (2015) teaches readers how to recognize Frenemies, Underminers, and Toxic People with Wendy Patrick’s simple approach by looking at just four major signal clusters.

Exec SummaryLook at the 4 FLAGS. What they focus on, how they live, who they associate with, and what their goals areMorals and values are important to choosing great people in your lifeTakers come disguised as givers, so be careful. Especially about your needs and emotional needsFULL SUMMARY

About t...

Ceiling Effect: Why 99% of Self-Help Leads to Plateaus

The glass ceiling effect refers to habits, skills, and advice that got you at your current level, but prevent you from moving to the next level.

It’s “glass” because whatever it is that you’re missing, you don’t yet see it.

Luckily, this article is here to help.
You will learn what ceilings are, how to spot them, and how you grow past them.

INTRO

The definition of ceilings is:

The ceiling effect refers to advice, behavior, or mindsets that help some people up to a certain lev...

Neuroplasticity: How To Rewire Your Brain – Review

In Neuroplasticity: How To Rewire Your Brain, instructor Gregory Caremans explores the topic of neurology and seeks to explain how to rewire the brain for more life satisfaction and success.

Summary

This course is aimed at creating structural change in the brain.
Structural change leads to long-term improvements.

When new neural connections are being made, structural change happens. So, much of this course focuses on creating new neural connections (i.e. neural pathways).

Structural ...

Biohacking Porn: Quit OCD, Embrace Life

Optimization is great.

It allows you to be more efficient, doing more, with less.

As for everything though, you can go too far.
And today the old ineffective “hustle porn” has been replaced by “optimization porn”.

It’s just another “feel busy but go nowhere trap”.
We explain why:

Intro

We define both “optimization porn” and “biohacking porn” as:

To spend time and resources learning, acquiring, and implementing sub-Pareto (80-20) improvements (“hacks”) for small-ish, dubio...

Rollo Tomassi: Red Pill Guru, Or Misogynistic Bias?

Rollo Tomassi is a manosphere figure commenting on intersexual dynamics and male rights issues.

We critically examine Rollo Tomassi’s approach, his teachings, and his worthiness as a role model for men.

Poor Thinking Leads To Poor Analyses

Why Tomassi’s analyses are lacking, in one picture:

It’s the “crap-in, crap-out” model.

Tomassi falls short at all links of the epistemology chain:

Poor data, with poor selection and representativenessPoor analysis, with poor critica...

Why I Stopped Reading “Popular Books”

We have more free full-book reviews here than anyone else on the web.

After that much reading, I came to a few conclusions.

One of them is that I decided to stop reading mainstream books.

And here is why:

1. Mainstream books are to sell, not to inform & perform

And paradoxically:

The more a book sells, the more its priority is to sell.

Exceptions always apply, of course.
But in my experience, best-selling is a better indicator of:

Author popularityMarketing effor...