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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We don't really, our idea of existence as an individual is kind of a myth, it's sort of an illusion.
We are social animals.
Everything we think is reflected through the eyes of other people, right?
And so if people are alone, if they're isolated, their kind of sense of being a human being can dissolve, can fall apart.
So we can't get validation or attention or love from ourselves.
We need it from other people.
So the sense of getting recognition, people validating you for your experience, for being who you are, is a deeply, deeply powerful motivating factor in human nature.
I mean, these are generalizations.
There are other things we can go into, but those I would say would be the two main things.
Well, I believe the desire, obviously, for validation and recognition and attention crosses all gender barriers.
do believe power is the same how men and women get power how they feel towards it is different of course that changes some men are more like women some women are more like men but women tend to have a more sort of social approach to power right which often can make them better leaders in some ways they're more sensitive to what other people are feeling what other people are thinking
which in some ways makes them a more powerful person in the power game the way it is in 2026.
But oftentimes, and once again we're generalizing, women aren't so comfortable with the hard game of power, with the manipulating part, with the deception part, which is an elemental part of it.
There's a hard part of power, there's the hard game, there's the soft game.
women are excellent at the soft game and sometimes they're a little bit intimidated by the hard game now as i said that can change from individual to individual but like my wife for instance she's a film director and it's a brutal brutal business it is perhaps one of the most machiavellian environments you can be in comparable to the music industry which is probably worse right
And she's a very sensitive person.
I'm a very sensitive person, but she's very sensitive.
And it's very difficult for her handling some of the games that people are playing with her, right?
So of my books, her favorite, because we've been together throughout all of my books, is the war book, oddly enough.
because that has helped her a lot in dealing with the film business and dealing with all of the kind of weird things that people, because directing a film is like being a general in an army.
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