Invest Like The Best
Episode 379 Optimizing Your Reality
Invest Like The Best

Episode 379: Optimizing Your Reality

Invest Like The Best

Episode 379

Optimizing Your Reality

Robert Greene is the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power. We cover the most prominent historical and modern examples of power, how to find life's purpose through mastery, and why socializing is critical to understanding the human experience.

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(00:00:00) Welcome to Invest Like the Best

(00:03:17) First Question - Exploring Reality and Human Behavior

(00:07:41) The Concept of Masks and Social Roles

(00:10:47) The Sublime and Social Conventions

(00:13:48) Writing 'The 48 Laws of Power'

(00:16:38) Defining and Understanding Power

(00:18:01) Historical Figures and Adaptation

(00:23:59) Modern Applications of Power Laws

(00:31:57) The Boldness of Deception

(00:32:54) Exploring Good and Evil

(00:35:56) The Art of Seduction and AI

(00:38:31) Defining Mastery

(00:42:44) Discovering Your Life's Task

(00:51:53) The Power of Observation

(00:59:56) The Kindest Thing Anyone Has Ever Done for Robert

 

Optimizing Your Reality

Introduction

Patrick
My guest today is Robert Greene, author of many books, but perhaps most famous for his books, The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery. He has spent his life studying why people behave like they do and why some build great things. I love his idea of finding your life's purpose, which we explore in detail. Please enjoy my conversation with Robert Greene.

Hidden Games and Hidden Masks

Patrick
So Robert, in preparation for our conversation today, I went back and reviewed all your books and the notes I had made in them over the many years, and was trying to identify a common question that might have been behind all of them, and the only thing I could come up with was something about man and his dominion over his surroundings and his influence over his surroundings, both the earth and other people and other species. And I'm curious what your thought on this question is, is there a common thread that you've been pulling?

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