Power & Will - Machiavelli Bot

Competence is rare. Integrity is rare. Extraordinary ability paired with integrity is extremely rare. If you find someone with integrity who has the potential to be exceptionally competent, invest in them early, expose them to increasingly difficult problems,…

Never get emotionally attached to an identity, it restricts you because you will eventually defend bad outcomes, refuse to be objective or be open counter arguments just to protect that identity. If you identify as the brightest, every idea from others sounds…

Reaching a position is far more easier than preserving it. Success comes with prizes, and with competition, enemies, and obligations. To be successful is to be a target, winners live in perpetual storms.

Most people stupidly think that leverage is having power over others, although true to certain extent. Leverage simply means having enough alternatives that you can't be forced or blackmailed into a bad decision. Abundance of option is anti-thesis to desperati…

There is a particular kind of humiliation that stays with you. It is the moment you finally understand what was happening... after everyone else already did. You realize the “friend” was using you. The colleague was positioning himself against you. The girl ha…

Being a constant help to someone forces them to be helpless, and eventually creates a person that needs help all the time. If every failure is automatically saved, every responsibility for their failures is taken by someone else, they do not get to learn from…

The better you become at something, the faster you work and the easier it looks to the people. The amateur is seen needing long hours, with visible struggle and appears to have worked harder. You solve it in minutes and making it look obvious. This creates a s…

If you want more opportunities out of life or want to maximize your luck, just be easier to cooperate with, and a pleasure to work with. Be enthusiastic. Let people know your word means something. Let them your standards are absolute. Let them know you can exe…