The way you carry yourself will often determine how you are treated: In the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others. By acting regally and confident of your powers, you make yourself seem destined to wear a crown.

1. The 48 Laws of Power by
Robert Greene [Best
Seller in Political
Philosophy]
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3. ▪ Powerful people may be tempted to affect a
common-man aura, trying to create the
illusion that they and their subjects or
underlings are basically the same. But the
people whom this false gesture is intended to
impress will quickly see through it. They
understand that they are not being given
more power—that it only appears as if they
shared in the powerful person's fate.
▪ Leaders who try to dissolve that distance
through a false chumminess gradually lose
the ability to inspire loyalty, fear, or love.
Instead they elicit contempt, they are too
uninspiring even to be worth the guillotine—
the best they can do is simply vanish in the
night, as if they were never there.
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We set up
boundaries that
only get firmer
with time.
1
We come to
expect less from
the world.
2
We accept
limitations that
are really self-
imposed.
3
We bow and
scrape and
apologize for
even the simplest
of requests.
4

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Deliberately
force ourselves
in the opposite
direction.
1
Downplay the
failures and
ignore the
limitations.
2
Make yourself
demand and
expect as much
as a child.
3

6. THE STRATEGY OF
THE CROWN
1. Based on a simple chain of cause and
effect.
2. If we believe we are destined for great
things, our belief will radiate outward.
3. This outward radiance will infect the
people around you.
4. Your limits and boundaries disappear.
5. You will be surprised how often it
bears fruit.
6. Be overcome by your self-belief.
▪ Even while you know you are practicing
a kind of deception on yourself. Act like
a king or queen, you are likely to be
treated as one.
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The crown may separate you from other people.
It is up to you to make that separation real.
You have to act differently, demonstrating your
distance from those around you. One way to
emphasize your difference is to always act with
dignity, no matter the circumstance.
Do not confuse regal bearing with arrogance, it
betrays insecurity.

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ALWAYS MAKE A
BOLD DEMAND.
SETYOUR PRICE
HIGH.
DO NOT WAVER.

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In a dignified way, go after the
highest person in the
building.
By choosing a great
opponent, you create the
appearance of greatness.
This puts you on the same
plane as the chief executive
you are attacking.

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Give a gift of some sort to those
above you.
By giving your patron a gift, you
are saying that the two of you are
equal.
It is the old con game of giving so
that you can take.