He will drop you as soon as he doesn’t need you anymore or someone cheaper comes along. You spend years working for other, you listen to experts and lose your unique ideas to embrace the majority.Īnd I really loved this part: don’t think your boss cares about you. We come into this world with the only real possessions that matter: I couldn’t agree more, and it’s funny a few weeks before reading The 50th Law I had actually written my own post exactly on this topic. And then structure your life going backward. The author says you don’t need to risk your life to become fearless, but you can reflect and meditate on it. When their turn of dying will come, they’ll have no regrets and will have lived a happy life. People who had a brush up with death get a sense of urgency that leads them to work hard, accomplish more and enjoy life. Greene says that to learn to live well and fearlessly you need to appreciate your mortality. Reality is my drug, the more I get, the higher I go To Live Fully: Embrace Your Mortality The real inventors and innovators are realists. Dreamers waste time and do the biggest mistakes. Sharpen your curiosity and openness, never turn your back to reality. I found somewhat to what Ray Dalio embraces in his seminal book Principles: Life and Work.Ĭontrary to much self-help myths of “constructing your own reality”, Greene says you must learn to look at reality as it is, and stay as close as possible to it. He says the many examples of celebrities and successes coming from the ghettos have been schooled in fearlessness. The author says there are people though who have been forced to continuously face their fears. But if we have the chance, we go back to our safe shells. Greene says that when we’re forced to face our fears we often find out we’re stronger than we thought we were. Greene says there are two ways of dealing with fear: He also wrote The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, Mastery and The Laws of Human Nature. To acquire power you must have a thirst for self reliance (and hate depending on others)Ībout The Authors: Robert Greene has a background in classical studies and is a best-selling author of books on power and life strategy.Understand and Be OK With This: You Are Alone.