Hey guys, just found a CRAZY video summarizing the 48 laws of power in 30 minutes, and the first few were SO good that I decided to restart the video, transcribe what I’m listening to, and make a text-version of it to publish when I’m done.
So here it goes, for all you PCC users, or anyone considering PCC!!! Here’s exactly what the 48 laws of power entail.
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.
In your desire to impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - you might inspire fear and insecurity.
Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
Be wary of friends, they will betray you more quickly, as they are easily aroused to envy.
They also become spoiled and tyrannical, but hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove.
In fact, you have more to fear from friends than enemies.
If you have no enemies, find a way to make one.
Keep people off balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpos behind your actions, if they have no clue what you are up to they cannot prepare a defense, guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelop them in enough slope, and by the time they realize your intentions, it’ll be too late.
When you are trying to impress people with words… the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you’re saying something ordinary, it’ll seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, sphynx-like.
Powerful people intimidate by saying less.
The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone, you can intimidate and win. Once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked from all sides.
Make your reputation unassailable, always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations, then, stand aside and let public opinion hang them.
Everything is judged by it’s appearance. What is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or, buried in oblivion.
Stand out, be conspicuous at all cost, make yourself a magnet of attention, by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious, than the bland and timid masses.
Use the wisdom, knowledge, and leg work of other people to further your own cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed.
In the end, your helpers will be forgotten, and you will be remembered.
Never do yourself what others can do for you.
When you force the other person to act, you are the one in control. It is always better to make your opponent come to you, abandoning his own plans in the process.
Lure him with fabulous games, then attack.
Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a phyrric victory… a victory won at too great a cost.
The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions without saying a word.
Demonstrate, do not explicate.
You can die from someone else’s misery. Emotional states are as infectious as diseases.
You may FEEL that you’re helping the drowning man, but you’re only preciptatiting your own disaster.
The unfortunate sometimes draw disaster on themselves, they will also draw it on you.
Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.
To maintain your independence, you must always be needed and wanted.
The more you are relied on, the more freedom you have. Make people depend on you for their happiness and prosperity and you have nothing to fear.
Never teach them enough so they can do without you.
One sincere and honest move will cover over dozens of dishonest ones.
Openhearted gestures of honesty and generosity bring down the guard of even the most suspicious people.
Once your selective honesty opens a hole in their armor, you can deceive and manipulate them at will.
A tiny gift, a trojan horse, will serve the same purpose.
If you need to turn to an ally for help, do not even bother to remind him of your past assistance and good deeds, he will find a way to ignore you.
Instead, uncover something in your request or in your alliance that will benefit him, and emphasize it out of all proportion.
He will respond enthusiastically when he sees something to be gained for himself.
Knowing about your rival is critical. Use spies to gather valuable information that will keep you a step ahead, better still, play the spy yourself.
In polite social encounters, learn to probe. Ask indirect questions to get people to reveal their weaknesses and intentions.
There is no occasion that is not an opportunity for artful spying.
All great leaders have known a feared enemy must be crushed completely.
Sometimes they have learned this the hard way. If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out.
More is lost through stopping half-way than is lost through total annihilation. The enemy will recover and seek revenge.
Crush them not only in body, but also in spirit.
Too much circulation makes the price go down. The more you are seen and heard from the more common you appear.
If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired.
You must learn when to leave, create value through scarcity.
Humans are creatures of habit, with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people’s actions.
Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables, be deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that seems to have to consistency or purpose will leave them off balance, and they will exhaust themselves trying to explain your moves.
Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize.
The world is dangerous and enemies are everywhere. Everyone has to protect themselves.
A fortress SEEMS the safest but isolation exposes you to more dangers than it protects you from. It cuts you from valuable information. It makes you conspicuous, and an easy target.
Better to circulate among people. Find allies and mingle.
You are shielded from your enemies by the crowd.
There are many different kinds of people in the world. And you can never assume that everyone will react to your strategies in the same way.
Deceive or outmaneuver some people, and they will spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge. They are wolves in lamb’s clothing.
Choose your victims and opponents carefully. Never defend or deceive the wrong person.
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides.
Do not commit to any side or cause other than yourself.
By maintaining your independence you become the master of others, playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
No one likes feeling stupider than the next person.
The trick, then, is to make your victims feel smart.
And not just smart, but smarter than you are.
Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.
When you are weaker, never fight for honor’s sake. Choose surrender instead, surrender gives you time to recover, time to torment and irritate your conquerer, time to wait for his power to wane.
Do not give him the satisfaction of fighting and defeating you, surrender first. By turning the other cheek, you infuriate and unsettle him. Make surrender a tool of power.
Conserve your forces and energies by keeping them concentrated at their strongest point.
You gain more by finding a rich mine and mining it deeper than by fleeting from one shallow mine to another. Intensity beats extensity every time.
When looking for sources of power to elevate you, find the one key patron, the fat cow, who will give you milk for a long time to come.
The perfect courtier thrives in a world where everything revolves around power and political dexterity. He has mastered the art of indirection. He flatters, yields to superiors, and asserts power over others in the most oblique and graceful manner.
Learn and apply the laws of courtiership and there will be no limit to how far you can rise in the court.
Do not accept the roles that society thrusts on you, recreate yourself by forging a new identity, one that demands attention and never bores the audience.
Be the master of your own image rather than let others define it for you.
Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions, your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
You must seem a paragon of civility and efficiency.
Your hands are never soiled by mistakes and nasty deeds.
Maintain such a spotless appearance by using others as unwitting pawns and screens to disguise your involvement.
People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something, become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow.
Keep your words vague, but full of promise. Emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking.
Give your new disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf.
In the absence of religions, your new belief system will bring you untold power.
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it.
Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous. Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with MORE audacity.
Everyone admires the bold, noone honors the timid.
Gonna finish this soon. The custom with PCC I got just came in last night
@Jouissance I’d love to get hear about any personal experience with Law 2 - learning to use enemies.
cool summary! I saw the video before multiple times although now that I got my hands on the full audiobook Im starting to realize how much deeper is all the information sinking in.
As much as the overview videos are pleasant to listen to, I still encourage anyone to listen or read the full book at least once or twice.
You will be able to milk it more.
Same brotha. I have a new Khan-PCC custom.
Wow, patiently waiting for your report.
The ending is everything.
Plan all the way to it, taking into account all the possible obstacles, consequences, and twists of fortune that might reverse your hard work and give the glory to others.
By planning to the end you will not be victim of circumstances and you will know when to stop. Gently guide fortune and help determine the future by thinking far ahead.
Your actions must seem natural and executed with ease. All the toil and practice and the clever tricks must be concealed.
When you act, act effortlessly, as if you could do much more.Avoid the temptation of revealing of how hard you work, it only raises questions.
Teach no one your tricks or they will be used against you.
The best deceptions are the ones where your victims feel like they have a choice. They feel they are in control but are actually your puppets. Give people options that come out in your favor no matter what they choose - force them to make choices between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your interest.
The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth unless you’re prepared for the anger that comes from disenchantment.
Life is so distressing that people who can conjure up romance and fantasy are like Oases in the desert, everyone flocks to them. There is great power in tapping of tapping into the fantasies of the masses.
Everyone has a weakness, a gap in the castle wall. It’s usually an insecurity, uncontrollable emotion, or need. It can also be a small secret pleasure.
Once found, it is a thumbscrew you can turn to your advantage.
The way you carry yourself will often determine the way you are treated, in the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same in others.
By acting regally and acting confident in your powers, you make yourself seem destined to wear a crown.
Never seem to be in a hurry, hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time.
Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment, sniff out the spirit of the times and trends that will carry you to power.
Learn to stand back when the time is not yet right, and to strike fiercely when it’s reached fruition.
By acknowledging petty problems, you give it existence and credibility. The more attention you pay an enemy the stronger you make him. The small mistake is made worse when you try to fix it.
It’s sometimes best to leave things alone.
If there’s something you want but can’t have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem.
Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power - everyone responds to them. Stage spectacles for those around you, then, full of arresting visuals and radiant symbols that heighten your presence. Dazzled by appearances, noone will notice what you are really doing.
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting against the times, and going in orthodox ways, people will think you only want attention, and that you look down on them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior.
It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch, share your originality only with tolerant friends, and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.
Anger and emotion are strategically counterproductive. You must always stay calm and objective, but if you can make your enemies angry while staying calm yourself, you gain a decisive advantage.
Put your enemies off balance, find the chink in their vanity through which you can rattle them and you hold the strings.
What is offered for free is dangerous, it usually involves a trick or hidden obligation, what has worth is worth paying for.
By paying your own way you stay clear of gratidude, guiilt, and deceit. It is also often wise to pay the full price, there is no cutting corners with excellence.
Be lavish with your money and keep it circulating, for generosity is a sign and a magnet for power.
What happens first always appears better and more original. If you succeed a great man, or have a famous parent, you have to accomplish double their achievements to outshine them. Do not get stuck in their shadow, or stuck in the past not of your own making.
Establish your own name and identity by changing course. Slay the overbearing father, disparage his legacy, and gain power by shining in your own way.
Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual. The stitter. The poisoner of good will. If you allow such peopleroom to operate, others will succumb to their influence.
Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them, they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike the source and the sheep will scatter.
Coercion creates a reaction that will eventually work against you.
You must seduce others into wanting to move in your direction.
A person you have seduced becomes your loyal pawn. And the way to seduce others is to operate their individual psychologies and interests.
Soften them by playing on their emotions and what they hold dear, and what they fear.
Choose to ignore the hearts and minds of others, and they will grow to hate you.
The mirror reflects reality but it is also the perfect tool for deception. When you mirror your enemies, doing exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your strategy.
The mirror effect mocks and humiliates them, and makes them overreact. By holding up a mirror to their psyches, you hold up a mirror to their psyche, you seduce them with the illusion that you share their values, by holding up a mirror to their actions, you teach them a lesson.
Few can resist the power of the mirror effect.
Everyone understands the need for change in the abstract, but on the day to day level, people are creatures of habit. Too much innovation is traumatic and will lead to revolt.
If you are new to a position of power or an outsider trying to build a power base, make a show of respecting the old ways of doing things.
If change is necessary, make it feel like a gentle improvement on the past.
Appearing better than others is always dangerous but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults. Envy creates silent enemies, it is smart to occassionally display defects and to admit to harmless devices in order to appear more human and approachable.
Only gods and the dead can seem perfect without consequence.
The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. In the heat of victory, arrogance can push you past the goal you aimed for, and by going too far, you make more enemies than you defeat.
Do not allow success to go to your head, there is no substitute for strategy and careful planning. Set a goal, and when you reach it, stop.
By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack.
Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed.
The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water. Never bet on stability and lasting order. Everything changes.
Law 46, a really good one, particularly in the corporate world.
@Plutus @Azriel since PCC’s only listed objectives are “utilize the 48 laws of power” for XYZ, check this out as what the overall objectives are
This is better 
but to be honest true sell is PCC + more without the avoid manipulation part fyi
@Azriel back me on this
What I mean by this is True Sell makes you appear as humble. In that, when you speak to people you know you are not perfect and you mention it and that you are not the smarter person in the room and theirs smarter people than you and you want to learn from them to become better.
Humbleness I’d say is a big thing in the corp world which PCC lacks and True Sell wins in since True Sell is about an honest humbleness and PCC is about a image humbleness if that makes sense at least in my experience
This is gold. I assume the newer versions of PCC have the free will scripting so that the laws can be internalised without conflicting with your internal ethical framework?
(I can already see a few areas where I’ve gone against these due to who I am at my core)
Have you been running PCC and gone against ethical considerations to implement PCC laws instead?
Or do you mean you’re breaking laws?
In my experience I am as ethical as ever on PCC! It is helping me UNDERSTAND the power game - my own moral compass guides me to act from there, just like how Oppenheimer’s knowledge of science could’ve just as easily been utilized towards nuclear energy instead of the nuclear bomb.
You definitely won’t become “manipulative”
I’m not running PCC at the moment, haven’t bought it yet, but can see the value as I have been used consistently by employers and other people in the past. What I was meaning is I’m seeing how I don’t uphold many of those laws in my current life and I’m wondering how they work for someone of high integrity who doesn’t like to manipulate other people.
It sounds like your experience has shown the free will scripting guides its manifestation. Was there a lot of recon when you started out on this one?