"everybody has narcissistic Tendencies and we're all self-absorbed but nobody wants to admit it it's always somebody else it's always Donald Trump it's always Elon Musk but everyone has a manipulative ..."

"Robert at this moment in time what do you believe your followers your fans the people that love your books what do you believe that they're struggling with the most and I'm asking this question becaus..."

"young people or really anybody that feels lost or aimless in their life should and is able to deploy to find their purpose to find the direction the the thing they should be aiming at well you know yo..."

"find your sense of purpose and what you're deeply connected to as you get older yeah I I think so your your mind gets a little bit more rigid you think you know all of the ansers right but what happen..."

"listening to that now and they'll be thinking I have a plan I have an idea or at least a kernel of an idea but I've spent the last 3 months 6 months 12 months 18 months two years thinking thinking thi..."

"planning and procrastination that comes with the prolonged planning so tempting for people like why do we love to plan plan plan plan plan because you're afraid of failure quite honestly um I mean Fre..."

"I was reading I think it was the book the courage to be disliked and it was talking in one of the sections about how some people would like they prefer to live in the like Realm of possibility and the..."

"chapter of your professional life is there anything from all of the work that you've done the writing that you've done that a young person should be trying to acquire and I say that should they be aim..."

"people in that first season of Life realize how long life is so you know we we try and take shortcuts we try and get to the money as fast as we can but you're telling me to take a longer road which is..."

"sides a lot and when I say my dark side I mean the the insecurity the shame the um the the wanting to fit in all of those kinds of things that acted as a driving force and a lot of people have a do an..."

"that I think many many a person struggle with which is in part this idea of focusing on the thing in front of you versus getting too distracted with other opportunities and I wanted to talk to you abo..."

"compounding returns in life they always say that it's slow than it's fast and even this podcast if you look at the graph of this podcast for the first three years of me recording in my cupboard on Sun..."

"referen before Howard Gardner's frames of of Mind theory of multiple intelligences book and in that book it says that there are five types of intelligences logical intelligence linguistical intelligen..."

"we lose focus as I've seen in my own friendship group in my own family is because of Envy yeah how important is it to get control of one's Envy I've heard you describe it as the ugliest emotion well i..."

"moment can you use it productively that Envy yes most definitely and I I talk in laws of human nature about strategies for doing that one of them is there's somebody that you Envy in the world well in..."

"book power is still selling unbelievably well I mean most books when they come out they have their moment and then they're done but for some reason what you write in this book is as compelling temptin..."

"according to many of the stats and when you look at the impact that's having on people it's equal to smoking 15 cigarettes a day According to some reports um they're more likely to live alone they're ..."

"law I think it's was law 18 I'm just having a look that isolation yeah do not build fortresses to protect yourself isolation is dangerous yeah Solitude is not a defense because it cuts you off from va..."

"points here about purposelessness about loneliness about the struggles and plights of young men in the world that they face and and young women is the conversation around pornography if you go on many..."

"pounds into this company Perfect Ted and they're also a sponsor of this podcast I switched over to using matcher as my dominant energy source and that's where perfect Ted comes in they have the matcha..."

"Amazon the other thing that a couple of psychologists on my podcast before have alluded to on this subject is that they told me about a study with rats where they messed with the part of the rat's bra..."

"human nature that we just don't want to admit well um first of all we don't want to admit um where we came from our our primitive roots that we are animals you know that before we invented language yo..."

"make the point that everybody's self-absorbed you know when you're reading book and you see your birthday happens to be there just a fact you're like whoa that's my birthday because it's you your astr..."

"what if I'm dealing with a narcissist well who isn't in this world today you're always dealing with a narcissist what do I do about that do I because I was thinking about some of the laws in your book..."

"in life to get ahead do we have to be actors in your view well this is where I start getting a little bit cranky Stephen because everybody's an actor right nobody admits it though when you're 3 years ..."

"root of this is there's something ugly about being manipulation lying acting so no one would want to volunteer that they are doing that but from what I'm inferring from what you said is that in order ..."

"years of business running businesses and stuff I came up with this idea which I've shared with a few people called your contribution score and much like we have a credit score where if we you know we'..."

"interesting really interesting he he's a master of the 4 the other law that I was thinking a lot about if we're jumping back to the the laws of power is let others do the work but take the credit you ..."

"an overarching thing here which which can be discovered in your other book the laws of human nature about mastering your emotional self yeah because none of these things are going to be possible if yo..."

"blame and once we leap to blame we often leap to Revenge yeah we want to take revenge we want to write the wrong that's happened to us we want to correct the Injustice and you talk about this as part ..."

"of people they they prey on those who seem weakest right predat say love prey yeah but if you do the option number two and you show that you don't really that they didn't affect you and you kind of ac..."

"what's going on in the world um a lot has changed a lot has changed one of the things that's changed is our society as I think I've heard you say is less United by some of these great myths of religio..."

"and they gave one group of um people testosterone I think it was a group of men testosterone they both had to do this test and the ones who had the higher testosterone levels had been given like the a..."

"this one of the laws of human nature fitting into our tribes and because I think being in the being in the sort of political middle or wherever I am you get attacked from both sides because sometimes ..."

"you think we're in a similar time now where we're getting caught up in Mania yes we're getting caught up in in easy solutions and and things that um aren't really thought out I mean what is human stup..."

"at my company flight Studio which is part of my bigger company flight group we're constantly looking for ways to build deeper connections with our audiences whether that's a new show a product or a pr..."

"below one one of the things I I was thinking about over the Christmas period was um I identity and the pitfalls of having an identity yeah in life and it reminds me of law 48 in the 48 Laws of Power w..."

"referring to that you're currently writing and you're getting to the end of thankfully um is it called the law of sublime law the sublime yeah you've progressed with that book since we last spoke so I..."

"nice and simple yeah one of the um the clips that I saw the other day that's your one of the most viewed clips from you was about the primary law of human psychology is that people judge based on appe..."

"here and one of them had the appearance of power and one of them didn't what would the person who had the appearance of power be doing how would they be carrying themselves how would they be speaking ..."

"so you can fake it till you make it you can to a degree but at some point it'll catch up to you if you can't deliver results so if it's all just make believe if it's all just hype if it's all just app..."

"confidence to to be relaxed in your chair to hold eye contact with somebody where does that come from when we think about confidence and power well it can come from one of two things it can kind of co..."

"those that don't they just don't have that belief can you lie to yourself can you tell yourself I am strong and I am powerful well everybody has some good qualities right everybody I think almost ever..."

"Bolder when I was um starting my entrepreneurial career I wish someone had said to me whatever your dream is Steve when you describe it to people times it by 10 whatever number you're trying to raise ..."