Robert Greene
speaker
1,078 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 May
Robert Greene’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The sense that you don't have any power in your life is deeply, deeply miserable for the human animal.
Where one person doesn't feel like they have the power, but they don't feel strong enough to directly attack or deal with the person, they become indirect.
They become passive aggressive.
If you don't have power, you're going to find it somehow, some way, in some manner.
You're going to do whatever you can to change that dynamic.
I know that he has a very powerful character flaw, and the character flaw is going to constantly get in his way.
Well, it's complicated, obviously.
But...
People obviously want power.
That's why I wrote my first book.
I mentioned I speculate or believe that the sense that you don't have any power in your life, any control over any influence,
over your spouse, over your children, over your friends, over your colleagues, over your boss, is deeply, deeply miserable for the human animal.
So we want to be able to have a sense, a feeling, that we have some power over our environment, over the people around us.
Now you can get power in various ways.
You can use manipulation, you can play a softer, more seductive game.
But it is my opinion that a great majority of people's behavior and actions are motivated by this desire to feel like there's a degree of control over their environment, okay?
And if you deny that need, if you can't seem to get it, if you don't have that power in your life, if you feel powerless, you can turn to some very negative forms of behavior.
So I try to say that to be able to understand the game of power, to be able to feel like you can
control people you can influence them you can move them in your direction will save you a lot of energy in life save you a lot of drama save you a lot of self-loathing and all kinds of bad patterns that you can fall into the other motivating factor is every human being needs a degree of validation they want
We're a social animal.
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