Suggestion: Leadership module
Hello Lucio,
as you already know I am enjoying a lot your material, from the website, course and forum. I'm very enthusiastic about your attitude and also how you are presenting all this stuff. I noticed that you read a lot and mix this with your personal experience.
So, my suggestion would be to add a module in your Power University course about leadership.
I am following your suggestions and book recommendations. This means that my self-development and reading list plan goes like that:
- Social skills
- Dating
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Body language
- Career
- Leadership
So this means that I won't be able to focus on leadership later on. If there could be a module that I could study, that would be helpful for me and I'm sure for other people as well.
What do you think about this?
Hey John,
Yeah, I think it's one of those suggestions that it's at the same time logically simple as it makes total sense, and yet genius because sometimes you just don't think about it.
I might change the structure in the course indeed and make more room for leadership, coalescing material that's already present somewhere else, plus creating new one.
After all, it's the natural progression step.
Once a driven man (or woman) gets good at the basics, leadership is the natural next step.
Cool, I'm glad you're considering it as I'm sure you have tons of golden nuggets to share on this topic.
Also, I'm taking the opportunity to thank you for your advice on how to structure one's self-development. Before encountering your site, I was prioritizing leadership and I was (am still) lacking basic skills. So it's your website that helped me to structure my self-development in a more logical way.
Yeah, great structure there.
So important to go in order.
I saw many guys getting into power dynamics with The 48 Laws of Power first and applying the "laws" in the most random situations and in the most stupid fashion possible.
Then wondering why people weren't responding well.
First, it's basic social skills with emotional/social intelligence. Then, on that foundation, you keep building.
On that topic, when would you focus on (defending from) manipulation? Based on my plan above and your experience.
Thanks!
Quote from John Freeman on July 22, 2020, 6:49 pmOn that topic, when would you focus on (defending from) manipulation? Based on my plan above and your experience.
Thanks!
John, I personally see manipulation as a natural extension of social skills, which in turn to me are -or better should be- the same as power dynamics (power dynamics are the advanced version of social skills, albeit no social skill teachers deal with them much).
Once you learn to see social and power dynamics, you also naturally see manipulation, so it comes as a consequence.
So I wouldn't make a separate category for it.
At most, a sub-category.
But if you want to delve into as a separate entity, then probably I'd go for it at the negotiation stage, since that's where interests are most likely to conflict, and manipulation is most rampant when interests are most likely to be in conflict.
So I wouldn't make a separate category for it.
At most, a sub-category.
But if you want to delve into as a separate entity, then probably I'd go for it at the negotiation stage, since that's where interests are most likely to conflict, and manipulation is most rampant when interests are most likely to be in conflict.
Thank you once more for your advice, this is helpful to plan my self-development.
Cheers!