Robert Greene

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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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their men, the beautiful women they're dating, all the fabulous things going on in their lives because people curate their social media.

They don't let you know of all terrible, boring, banal things in their life.

Envy, I feel envy.

Social media is this machine for creating vast amounts of envy, right?

Also for creating irrationality.

So the laws of power of human nature

don't change.

It's just that the tools that they're giving us make it easier for us to manipulate, to deceive, to create impressions and images.

One of the laws of power is court attention at all costs, right?

Yeah.

You just have much more power to be able to do that.

But I can't think of anything of a new law that I would write based on social media.

If you could tell me one, I'd be happy to consider it.

Yeah, well, power is mostly about appearances, right?

It's managing your appearances so you seem powerful.

Now, you can feel powerful, but it's more important to appear powerful.

This is a very Machiavellian concept, okay?

So always say less than necessary, law number four, right?

A powerful person, if they talk a lot, they appear kind of weak.

You don't look like you're in control of yourself, right?

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