Laws Of Human Nature Paperback – January 1, 2018

Robert Greene does it once again,as far as discerning the psyche of the inhabitants of Earth,with a book that uses historical references to drive home a point made about the proclivities of people. Many points made in this book bear the ring of truth,when one simply thinks back and references their very own life-experiences. One observation in this excellent book ALONE made it worth the price of purchase!! "Remember ,people don't do something only ONCE;they will inevitably REPEAT their behavior." This was true with a purportedly honest,pious and innocent cousin of mine who pilfered an expensive merino wool winter cap which came as a set with matching merino wool sweater. I thought this nadir deed was simply a solitary lapse in her veracity,as she likely felt one of her sons would appreciate having such a quality hat,but that nadir act was followed by subsequent purloinings,by this mendacious madam,who receives the sympathy and"defense"of the family as a whole because both of her parents have"gone over to the majority"and she undertook the raising of her deceased sisters two daughters. Oh,boo,hoo,because the ONLY person to tread this vile,accursed planet to ever make me feel as though I MATTERED,is no more,yet I never used that tragic occurrence to attain sympathy from relatives,but just steeled and STILLED my mind and moved forward with my life armed WITH the advice on surviving in life,that was imparted to me prior to my sires demise. This nadir knaves latest nefarious deed was purloining a birthday card with sweet sentiments from a friend I hadn't heard from in a quarter of a CENTURY,which arrived at my domicile in a box containing TWO-DOZEN roses(one for EVERY year we'd been estranged)and a cute,tawny teddy bear!! Unaware that evil had usurped the person she formerly was(or pretended to be)after READING the sweet card IN my presence,she put on the "pitiful"face which has worked for her since little Amy Carter romped around the White House during the Jimmy Carter Administration,and stated:"I'm going to GO and read this back in your mothers room." Never even SUSPECTING this purportedly devout believer was PLANNING from the moment she read my special card,to take it WITH her to read at her leisure,since she often talks of liking love songs and romantic movies,but never being able to experience such in her tumultuous relationships!!! 8 minutes later emerging from my mothers bedroom,as I am engrossed in finishing chapter 7 of my third book:"On 7th Thought"she briskly skips straight out the front door without a WORD spoken to me!! My acute-intuition(which operates neither on reputation of another or logic)told me:STOP her Ant;she STILL has your card!!" But(as usual,and always to my regret)I allowed my conscious/"reasoning"mind to tell me that hopnest,innocent,naive"Harper"would never just TAKE a priceless birthday card from YOU!! After my acute Nonconscious mind won this debate,I arose from my PC to see this treacherous cousin backing out of the driveway,so,since she,in her hurry to get"in the wind"hadn't even rolled the window up on the drivers side,so I yelled:WHAT did you do with my CARD?!?" She leans her drawn and haggard face out the window and replies:"I don't KNOW!!" I immediately started down the porch stairs with:"What do you mean you DON'T know?!?"as she hits the accelerator,zooms back to the middle of the street,turns north and speeds into the distance!!! Avoiding my society for 2 MONTHS made me totally forget her bizarre conduct,and so I asked her what became of my card she insisted on reading in my mothers room,and she resorted to the"self-pity card"as usual,pretending to be"hurt"by my inquiry,nearly in tears saying I always blame HER when something of mine vanishes!! So,falling for this ruse,I said apologeticaly:"I didn't SAY you took it;I only want to know what became OF it when you exited my mothers room with it. Exploiting my ravaged memory after multiple brain surgeries that resulted in a quarter of my frontal temporal lobe being tossed into the garbage,she SMILED reassuringly,looked me dead in the eye with:"I gave it right BACK to you,outside of the kitchen remember?!? Remember? REMEMBER?!?" I fell,hook,line and sinker for her mendacity,until a week or two later I had a TOTAL recall,and remembered that she NEVER handed me my special card back TO me,as WOULD have been the case had Satan not entered into her at an unspecified date in 1998,but that she inexplicably exited the house with a:"Nice card.","Gotta go.","Be right back.","See you in a little while."or ANYthing,but straight to her car,JUST as she INTENDED to do all along!! Now,the extended family is trying to make it seem that I'M the one who sinned,by being UNpleased with the loss of a card that I would've added to my lifetime scrapbook of precious memories,as my uncle quips:"The Bible says forgive her." I replied:"I WILL ,when she returns my card,since God Himself doesn't forgive until you ASK forgiveness and REPENT(turn from evil)and a price is paid FOR you transgressions!! Your precious niece,has neither yet ADMITTED to her black deed against me,nor,as a result asked for my pardon,so I'll try to forgive,but I can NEVER ever truly TRUST her again!! It's like this uncle;if you take a clean,white,crisp,sharp-edged sheet of paper,with the"new paper"SMELL,and proceed to crumple/BALL-it-up,you can lay it flat on a table and attempt to smooth it over,by running your palm across it 78 THOUSAND times over the span of a YEAR,but it will NEVER beethe same as it was BEFORE you "betrayed"/crumpled-it-up;the"evidence"of the crumpling/"betrayal"will still be perceptible with the tiny,folds,wrinkles and irregularities which can NEVER be righted!! And of course you know the Bible states that if we WILLFULLY sin,after being spiritually washed,there remains NO room for forgiveness!! So since your backslidden bald-headed niece willfully took my card when she had a CHANCE to return it to me when I asked her what did she do with it,but elected to remain in her treachery,there remaineth NO room for forgiveness in "Anthon the Zappers"heart!!" This book addresses my aforementioned experience with human nature and MORE within it's prodigious pages!! This is an indespensible work,if you wish to prepare yourself against the baseness of Mans innate proclivities. My sagacious sire paraphrased about half of this book,over the decades while preparing me for life in a high-population DENSITY metropolis like Le' Strait,as its called in French. He accurately informed me:"Don't waste a SECOND worrying about what people SAY about you when you aren't present,because people have ALREADY made-UP their mind HOW they WANT to perceive you AT first SIGHT,no matter what the truth of the matter is!! People are going to THINK what they WANT to think about you!! So you would be a pathetic FOOL,for losing a night of sleep,or a MOMENT of peace over what another may think OR say about you!!" Chapter 1:Mastering Your Emotional Self is a lesson my sire continually impressed upon me. Working on an arduous job,shoulder-to-shoulder 12 hours a day,7 days a week with the man whose very PRESENCE caused me to BLOAT with pride and self-assurance,caused a lot of the men working with us to lose their cool and EXPLODE in anger at a foreman or co-worker,so my sire taught me to keep my composure and poise,at all times,but especially when it would feel good TO"unload"pent-up passion on another. Right when he perceived,I was at my"breaking-point"he would smile and cackle:"Don't make an ass of yourself;don't make an ass of yourself!!" I also learned that the first thing TO do when you are angry is to REALIZE you ARE so. Chapter 3:See Through Peoples Masks is an endeavor I've been successfully embarking on since the 3rd grade at Clara S. Barton Elementary in west-central Detroit,as people are NEVER satisfied with what they truly ARE,so they enlist upon the task of erecting a FACADE which they feel will impress those they have discourse with. People would rather cultivate the society of total strangers before they will DARE to abide with their OWN vacuous,deranged personality,which is like unto deliberately entering into a horrid,ghastly NIGHTMARE!! It is this very aversion which makes the club-scene,concerts and other crowded venues SO popular!! On the whole people ABHOR who they really are,and will do ANYthing to avoid an encounter with Themselves!! I was also versed on chapter7:Soften Peoples Resistance by Confirming Their Self-opinion with:"These off-balanced broads out here get manipulated and"ran-through" by these jack-legged jokers out here,because they simply TELL these dim broads everything they WANT to hear!!" chapter10:Beware The Fragile Ego is a dialogue on the most insidious aspect of human nature:ENVY,which the Bible asserts as potent with:"Wrath is cruel.anger is OUT rageous;but WHO is ABLE to stand before ENVY?!?" Chapter 10 even lists the"leakage"of envy that is perceptible in the face of one who inwardly harbors a SAVAGE hatred of your qualities with the shocking:"Signs of Envy"where the look of ones eyes who detests you because of your innate character is like that of a child who feels cheated. Something I experienced in 1982 at my churchs' Vacation Bible School lent credence to an assertion under"Signs of Envy"was:"People who are envious cannot HELP feeling GLEE when they hear of the bad luck/misfortune(or a loss suffered by)of those they envy. As the awards were being announced for each age-group of children,I stood(legitimately,not pridefully by ANY stretch of the imagination)confident that I'd doubtless secured the award for"Best Student",by a LONG-shot,but the awards emcee announced:"And the winner for"Best Student Ages 10-12 is...…………….Mark Jones!!!" I stood in utter SHOCK,as even the teacher of my class shook HER head slowly in disbelief at this gross injustice,but someone who inwardly resented my cognition,eyed me from across the width of the entire sanctuary,as he slowly made his way toward me,smile widening as he drew closer,until a few feet from me,he jogged right up TO me,pointed his finger right in-between my welling eyes,threw his head BACK as he loudly,LAUGHED with UNholy GLEE,at the sight of me psychologically devastated by a criminally-wrong slight for an honor I NO doubt fully deserved,but unaware that the awards were being given NOT by MERIT,but by attendance,and my mother being a working single parent with four progeny,was called-in to work one evening,so I missed a day,but the PASTOR(who is expected to be present perpetually) and his brood,were in attendance EVERYday,and so his kids SWEPT the award for"Best Student"in every age group. Chapter 4:Determine the Strength of Peoples Character,becomes an easy-enough task,when one who touted their piety will LASH-out at another with a TYPHOON of profanity,at the merest suspicion of a contrary opinion on the part of another!! I also perceive that when one speaks extremely harshly yo another it was NOT something that came out in the"heat-of-the-moment,but rather something they had LONG felt about the victim of their verbal venom,and ire caused them to throw caution,decorum and restraint to the jet-stream. chapter 4 asserts:"Others can SEE patterns in the psychological addict,but the adsdic them self doesn't because NO one wants to believe THEY are operating UNDER a compulsion,totally BEYOND their control. It is TOO disturbing a thought."Guilty as charged,because of exposure to salacious material at NINE years-old,I had a life-long pitched battle with my libido,until my beloved sire,with the last words he uttered on this vile Earth charged me to:"NEVER let"something"get SUCH an hold over on you,that you'll KEEP doing it,even thought you KNOW it's doing nothing BUT dragging you down DEEPER into its web." I vowed to him I wouldn't but unknown to me,I already WAS,so all I could do from that point was to REVERSE the effects of this thralldom by sheer strength of MIND!! And this I DID for the most part,being the 1ST-magnitude cognitionist I became at birth because of the impartation of cognition my sire bequeathed me with!! This is a profound,practical and preter-prudent book!! I learned a lot about Howard Hughes I wasn't previously aware of!! I am SO glad I didn't heed the many reviews that stated it not being on par with the prior books by Mr. Greene,but listened to my acute-intuition,and purchased it!! I forsee MANY days of loading my mind/"lethal weapon" with the psychological"ammunition"this book wields.'

My son’s teacher asked him to read this book.He read it to the cover. He said it’s a good book and he enjoyed reading it, which means it’s really a good book because my son doesn’t like to read and doesn’t finish reading books unless they are well written

Recommended to me for a summer read by my professor.

I have eyed this book for a long time but was hesistant to buy it because I had not yet done with the author's another book (48 laws of power, I listened to its audio book version). I was a little skeptical about this book because it might have much overlap with the contents in 48 laws of power. But after carefully reading reviews, I decided to give it a try. Fortunately, the human nature book tells mostly different stories (sometime a little overlap in tone or episodes with the author's previous books) from the author's previous books and is enjoyable and insightful. Another nice book from Mr. Greene.

Great book a lot of takeaways about human behavior, what shapes human behavior, and how to pay attention to other people’s behavior

I am satisfied with my purchase

Even if you don't believe in the laws or that they should be used or not used, the stories in each chapter are very interesting reads.

This book me stuff I already knew. It just amplified my knowledge on human nature and I reccomend this for anyone who has struggles and obstacles in the reality of life.

I read it to bolster my vocabulary: I noticed language while reading, which means that I pay attention to collocations, phrasal verbs, and idioms. What is more, I analyse advanced grammatical structures. I do that because I am not only a lifelong learner but also an English teacher.

So helpful to understand human

Very complete book regarding the subject. Some times I could felt a bit repetitive, but it is understandable because of the so deep informations. As I work as a leader in a corporation, it was really helpful.

Another great work by Robert Greene. It evolved the way I understand myself and the way I interact socially.