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What Made You Join PU?
Thank you very much Serena!
And yes, that's exactly the goal of the course: a practical version of Machiavelli and Robert Greene (and plenty more as well, but I'm biased :) ).
Hello, Lucio
I don't know if this thread is still relevant to you 2 years later, but to me it was:
- First the reviews. The first one was about Cal Newport's Deep Work, a book that had blown my mind back in 2017 or 2018. Looking for reviews of the book after I had read it, I found yours, and enjoyed your more sceptical style which I had found to be similar to my own way of thinking. Then I made it a habit of checking your website when I wanted to read something new, as I thought it was very reliable
- I then came accross an article of yours on handling power moves from bosses. That was something I had trouble with - I tended to either escalate or obey and do nothing. I found you had really thought provoking articles on several areas of life - work, relationships, social life - and visited them from time to time. It resonated with me because of the vocabulary you used in your website: by that time I had familiarized myself with Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault and Patrick Charaudeau (in Brazilian universities we study a lot of French people) and the extensive use of concepts like "social capital" and "power". Also, your methodology of analysing the power moves was very reminiscent to the way I had learned to analyse speech acts. I had never seen self-help written in such a well-grounded way, and it blew my mind
- Then I started working in a job where I encountered power moves everyday. Remembering that article on bosses, and visiting your website again after a long period, I saw you had an in-depth course, Power University. That's when I thought "well, let's take a look"
- Then I bought it and BOOM... The very first lesson made me stay!
Super relevant and useful, thank you so much Kavalier!
The thing that caused me to join TPM personally, is the immense value the free stuff provided me when it came down to understanding my own interpersonal relationships. The knowledge on the website has given me a framework to understand all the nuances of my own interpersonal relationships.
The thing that really blew my mind was the information itself caused me to sort and identify the particular games people were playing or at least the tactics they used. It also helped me catch out my own games weirdly enough. like instances when I was a teenager or the passive aggressive remarks that would completely fly over my head everything started to feel sorta like a chess board. Like my entire life I was walking blind, and the information gave me the ability to see the good, the bad the ugly, but also admire and interact without walking into a wall full sprint.
the information provided in the course, in particular cases such as the gaslighting unit, and the part on social exchange theory alongside the part of the course that involves dealing with unhealthy workplace environments have been extremely helpful to me for bettering my own life. But in the same vein just having a massive framework of information that can seemly describe the whole of interpersonal relationships. The thing that caused me to get the course is the value the free stuff provided me was amazing, and the thing that makes the purchase something I am very glad I made is the quality of the course itself is amazing too.
Alongside that, TPM is a resource that gave me hope in life, hope to have good quality relationships, to be a better person, and to be my best self
Thank you so much for sharing, sillygoose9845!
Very helpful.
