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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If you have no leverage over somebody, then you have no power.
So in all negotiations and things like that, you have to make this kind of calculation of, this is where I do have actual real power, it's not bullshit, and these are things that I can leverage.
So one thing that's very important in that kind of situation
is to be willing to walk away, to say that there's a limit, I'm only gonna go this far, and I'm gonna blow the whole thing up.
And if I walk away, fine, I don't care.
That gives you power, that gives you leverage.
So leverage can be something that's very psychological.
But I don't know if I'm answering your question.
You always have some kind of leverage.
There's always something you can do.
You can always take a little bit of the power that you have and you can use it in some way.
And we're talking in abstractions.
But when people come to me with problems in a situation like this where they don't feel like they have power, I always try and step back and analyze.
You do have power.
There is something you can do.
You have leverage.
It's small, but you can use it.
Can you give us an example of that?
Well, so they have, you know, the company or the people that are above you, they control it.
They own what you're doing.
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