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Daily Law: Mastery is a process and discovering your calling is the starting point.
Daily Law: You were obsessed with it as a child for a reason. Reconnect with it.
Daily Law: Do something today that you used to love doing as a kid. Try to reconnect with your impulse voices.
Daily Law: Ask someone who recalls your childhood what they remember about your interests. Get reacquainted with those early passions.
Daily Law: What’s something you’ve always felt a pull toward? Dive deep into it today.
Daily Law: Adapt your inclinations. Avoid having rigid goals and dreams. Change is the law.
The Laws of Human Nature, 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose—The Law of Aimlessness
Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.
Daily Law: Are there people whose work affects you in a powerful way? Analyze this and use them as models.
Daily Law: Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
Daily Law: Do something that makes you feel at the peak of your being today.
Daily Law: Confront one of your limitations—one of the obstructions in your path—today. Break beyond it, climb over it, think your way around it. Don’t run from it. It was created for you.
Daily Law: When in doubt, focus on the things you know you do well. Expand outward from the center.
Daily Law: If you’re on the false path, get off. Find energy in rebellion.
Daily Law: Think back on the moments when you felt deeply and personally connected to an activity. Think about the pleasure it brought you. In such activities are signs of your true purpose.
Daily Law: No calling is superior to another. What matters is that it be tied to a personal need and inclination, and that your energy moves you toward improvement and continuous learning from experience.
Daily Law: Work at what connects to you emotionally and ideas will come to you.
Daily Law: Keep in mind that power lies in asserting your uniqueness, even if that offends some people along the way. Study your Shadow side today. The Laws of Human Nature, 9: Confront Your Dark Side—The Law of Repression
July 1 Look at the World through the Eyes of a Seducer
Daily Law: Seduction is a kind of theater in real life, the meeting of illusion and reality.
Daily Law: The essence of the Coquette lies not in the tease and temptation but in the subsequent step back, the emotional withdrawal. That is the key to enslaving desire.
Daily Law: When you meet someone your first move is to get inside that person’s skin, to see the world through their eyes.
Daily Law: Let go of your tendency to make snap judgments. Open your mind to seeing people in a new light. Do not assume that you are similar or that they share your values.
Daily Law: Take them further than they imagined—the shared feeling of guilt and complicity will create a powerful bond. The Art of Seduction: Stir Up the Transgressive and Taboo
Daily Law: Never seem to be selling something—that will look manipulative and suspicious. Instead, let entertainment value and good feelings take center stage, sneaking the sale through the side door. The Art of Seduction: Soft Seduction—How to Sell Anything to the Masses
Daily Law: Build a reputation that precedes you: if many have succumbed to your charms, there must be a reason. The Art of Seduction: Appear to Be an Object of Desire—Create Triangles
Daily Law: Rid yourself of any anti-seductive tendencies by getting outside yourself and your insecurities and into their spirit. The Art of Seduction: The Anti-Seducer
Daily Law: Wild independence has a provocative effect on us: it appeals to us, while also presenting us with a challenge—we want to be the one to tame it, to make the spirited person dependent on us.
Daily Law: Seem to be in the vanguard of a trend or lifestyle and the public will lap you up for fear of being left behind.
Daily Law: Cultivate a relatively neutral relationship, moving gradually from friend to lover.
Daily Law: Keep some dark corners in your character, flout expectations, use absences to fragment the clinging, possessive pull that allows familiarity to creep in.
Daily Law: Make use of contrasts—either develop and display those attractive attributes (humor, vivacity, and so on) that are the scarcest in your own social group, or choose a group in which your natural qualities are rare, and will shine.
Daily Law: There are all kinds of calculated surprises you can spring on your victims—sending a message out of the blue, showing up unexpectedly, taking them to a place they have never been. But best of all are surprises that reveal something new about your character.
Daily Law: Cut out “I believe,” “Perhaps,” “In my opinion.” Head straight for the heart. The Art of Seduction: Use the Demonic Power of Words to Sow Confusion
Daily Law: Take problems one by one.
