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Robert Greene could have used TPM (powerful people tested and one-upped him)
An interesting snippet:
Talking about the meetings he had with powerful people after "The 48 Laws of Power" became a success:
Greene: I was this like kid who wrote this book and now suddenly I was thrust into that world and I realized I had to project what I wrote about in the book. People were going to disrespect me a little bit
Seems like the powerful people he met were testing him.
TPM and Greene's topics obviously overlap heavily as they're both about power / strategy.
Greene tends to stay more at the higher level though, while TPM goes more on the technical, day-to-day interactions, including exactly what to say, reply, or do.
I'd be really curious to know how they tested him and how he handled it.
I think the source of the testing and power moves might also be a question of respect (or non-respect).
It's possible that Greene can come across as a bit bookish.
That's OK if he can back it up with a confident demeanor. But if in the beginning he was a bit too on the submissive side, then the people meeting him thought to themselves "I should learn power from this guy"?
And they disrespected him to make sure that the meeting was not one of equals, but one between a bookish writer with great intuition but low-ish social power, and the "real" power player (ie.: them).
