The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

Alone (Byrd),
409
Ambassadors, The (James),
84
,
190

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ambition,
513
–14
ambivalent-enmeshed attachment pattern,
112
,
113
amor fati,
583
–84
Andrews, Samuel,
475
,
476
anger,
3
,
4
,
25
,
467
aggression and,
491
,
498
,
516
–17
envy and,
25
,
272
,
273
toxic,
516
using in work,
517
anima and animus,
335
–39,
341
,
355
animus voices,
354
Anne, Queen of England,
152
Antony, Mark,
83
–84,
100
anxiety,
240
,
372
–73,
375
–76,
414
,
556
,
586
aggression and,
496
groups and social force and,
407
,
408
anxious attitude,
218
–19
appearance, and conformity,
412
appearance bias,
30
armies,
376
art
anger in,
517
authority in,
461
–62
Aśoka,
37
,
457
atheists,
252
Athena,
15
,
19
–21,
27
,
38
,
41
Athens,
13
–21,
26
,
27
,
199
–200,
374
Attacher,
281
–82
attachment patterns between mothers and children,
112
–13,
118
,
128
attention
need for,
42
–43
pursuit of,
388
–89
seeking status through,
6
sudden,
34
attention span,
161
,
166
attitude,
202
–30
authority and,
464
–65
cool,
227

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Jung’s definition of,
213
soul and,
229
–30
attitude, negative (constricted),
202
,
215
–24
anxious,
218
–19
avoidant,
219
–21
depressive,
221
–22
hostile,
217
–18
resentful,
222
–24
attitude, positive (expansive),
202
,
215
–16,
224
–30
adversity and,
225
–26
energy and health and,
228
other people and,
228
–29
viewing the world with,
225
viewing yourself with,
226
–27
attribution bias,
50
audience, adapting to,
99
Augustus (Octavius),
84
,
100
–101,
116
,
162
,
223
aura,
467
–68
authenticity,
97
–98,
254
authority and,
463
–64
humility and,
100
authority,
438
–72
adaptability and,
469
in the arts,
461
–62
attitude and,
464
–65
aura and,
467
–68
authenticity and,
463
–64
disdain for,
461
–62
false forms of,
462
group,
462
inner,
469
–72
overpromising and,
468
–69
parents as figures of,
461
,
462
strategies for establishing,
460
,
463
–69
taking and giving and,
468
–69
tone and,
466
–67
vision and,
465
–66
see also
leaders, leadership

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autonomous/free attachment pattern,
112
autonomy, in self-opinion,
185
,
186
,
191
–92
avoidant attitude,
219
–21
baby boomers,
542
,
543
,
545
,
546
,
548
–50
Babylonians,
541
backbiting,
276
Baker, Josephine,
255
,
260
,
549
,
552
Balsan, Etienne,
132
–34,
137
banality,
253
baseline expression and mood,
83
–84
Bassui,
201
bats,
585
Battlefield News,
397
,
401
battles, tactical hell and,
165
Bay of Pigs,
284
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de,
139
,
193
–94
Behrs, Sonya,
63
–66
Benson, Byron,
482
–84,
488
–89
Bergman, Ingmar,
259
Bergman, Ingrid,
379
,
384
–85
Bevel, James,
364
biases,
28
–32
appearance,
30
attribution,
50
blame,
31
confirmation,
29
conviction,
29
–30,
95
group,
30
–31,
35
in interpreting nonverbal cues,
85
negative,
141
superiority,
31
–32
Big Talker,
124
–25
Birmingham, Ala.,
363
–65,
368
Black Death,
484
blame bias,
31
Blame-Shifter Strategy,
508
–10
Blunt, Charles,
156
Blunt, John,
150
–58

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Bly, Robert,
255
–56
Boccaccio, Giovanni,
321
body language,
83
,
84
see also
nonverbal communication
Boleyn, Anne,
439
,
440
,
450
boredom,
372
,
375
Borgia, Cesare,
328
–29,
331
Born Red (Gao),
402
,
403
Botticelli, Sandro,
323
Bouvier, Jack,
341
–42
Bowie, David,
332
Bowlby, John,
112
brain,
3
,
24
,
25
,
390
,
538
character and,
112
,
113
,
127
imagination and,
141
induction and,
140
–41
malleability in early years,
112
mirror neurons in,
51
observational skills and,
83
parts of,
24
short-term thinking and,
160
–61
social interaction and,
49
sudden success and,
34
Brummell, Beau,
253
bubbles,
23
,
164
,
415
Bubble Act,
155
,
157
South Sea Company,
150
–58,
415
Buffett, Warren,
37
,
120
,
162
,
351
,
457
Bülow, Hans von,
221
–22
Byrd, Richard E.,
409
Byrd, Robert,
179
Byron, George Gordon, Lord,
262
–63,
265
,
266
,
269
Caesar, Julius,
35
,
84
,
162
,
163
,
164
,
227
Cain and Abel,
273
Capel, Arthur “Boy,”
134
,
382
career,
371
–72,
374
,
494
“Case of Identity, A” (Conan Doyle),
101
causes,
306
,
373
,
386
–87,
413

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armies and,
376
Cecil, William,
440
–44
Chaerephon,
199
–200
chameleon effect,
52
Chanel, Gabrielle “Coco,”
131
–38,
145
,
146
,
260
,
285
,
382
,
469
,
554
Chanel No. 5,
135
Change (Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch),
197
Chaplin, Charlie,
255
character,
7
–8,
111
–12
awareness and covering up of flaws in,
113
,
114
brain and,
112
,
113
,
127
childhood attachment pattern and,
112
–13
conflicting traits,
114
etymology of word,
111
examining and shaping your own,
114
,
128
,
129
–30
genetic component of,
112
habits and,
102
,
113
,
114
,
127
indicators of,
115
–21
positive traits,
113
power and,
117
strength of,
102
–30
superior,
127
–30
toxic types of, see
toxic types
Charles II, Archduke of Austria,
442
Charles IX, King,
442
Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal),
88
Chekhov, Alexander,
204
–7
Chekhov, Anton,
11
,
37
,
39
–40,
144
,
202
–11,
214
,
227
,
228
,
378
,
419
–20
Sakhalin Island and,
208
–9
Chekhov, Mikhail,
205
–7
Chekhov, Nikolai,
204
,
206
Chekhov, Pavel Yegorovich,
202
–7,
209
,
210
,
214
,
228
Chekhov, Yegor Mikhailovich,
205
–6
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Lord,
195
Chicago Bulls,
433
childhood,
539
–40,
547
and ambivalence of emotions,
455
attachment patterns in,
112
–13,
118
,
128

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character traits of,
254
,
256
,
258
envy and,
277
–78
fearlessness in,
515
gender roles in,
332
,
335
–37
grandiosity and,
305
–6,
318
mortality awareness in,
577
parental power in,
424
primal inclinations in,
374
,
378
–79
remembering,
140
,
455
sense of self in,
348
spirit of,
553
trigger points from,
32
–33
see also
parents
China,
352
,
374
China, communist,
306
,
391
–405
Cultural Revolution in,
37
,
315
,
392
–405,
411
Chopin, Frédéric,
338
Christian religion,
186
,
559
chummy leader,
462
Churchill, Winston,
241
,
255
,
318
Cicero,
46
,
520
,
552
Cimino, Michael,
313
–14
Civil Rights Act,
365
civil rights movement,
360
–66,
573
Civil War,
166
–67,
257
,
475
,
477
,
481
Clark, James,
475
Clark, Maurice B.,
473
–77,
488
,
489
Clinton, Bill,
35
,
99
,
285
clothing styles,
537
–38,
554
Coltrane, John,
463
Columbo,
97
cobra effects,
164
cobras, in India,
163
–64
Colson, Charles,
233
,
235
,
428
comparisons,
6
,
11
,
287
–88,
289
downward,
288
–89
emulation,
289
–90
see also
envy

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competitive instincts, appeal to,
192
complacency,
141
,
147
,
585
compulsive behavior,
102
–30
see also
character
Conan Doyle, Arthur,
101
con artists,
96
confidence,
92
,
94
,
113
–14,
354
,
422
,
437
,
458
confirmation bias,
29
conformity,
30
,
201
,
391
–437
see also
groups
Connally, Tom,
172
–74,
180
Connor, Bull,
363
,
364
–65
contradictory behavior,
241
–42,
244
,
248
–54
contrasts,
140
–41
conversation,
50
deep listening in,
188
–89
conviction bias,
29
–30,
95
Corneille, Pierre,
195
court and courtiers,
418
–19,
424
–32
Court Jester,
429
covetousness, see
desire
crashes, financial,
23
of 1929,
166
of 2008,
22
–23,
158
,
388
,
548
Crawford, Joan,
128
–29,
226
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky),
302
criticism,
516
aggression and,
496
,
497
,
499
–500
in push and pull,
276
–77
sense of purpose and,
381
–82
cults,
37
,
386
–87,
423
cultural ecosystem,
374
Cultural Revolution,
37
,
315
,
392
–405,
411
culture,
461
change in,
535
–36,
537
–38
contribution to,
377
,
470
youth culture and,
541
,
543
culture, group,
416
–17,
422

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Curie, Marie,
378
,
514
cyberwar,
502
cynicism,
389
d’Allegre, Yves,
329
Danton, Gabrielle,
522
,
530
,
534
Danton, Georges-Jacques,
35
,
508
,
520
–23,
526
–31,
533
–36,
542
,
552
Darius,
465
dark side, see
Shadow
Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord,
443
Darwin, Charles,
37
,
162
,
560
David, King,
35
,
273
deadlines,
381
,
580
Dean, John,
233
,
236
,
237
death,
170
,
385
,
493
,
555
–61,
562
–86
and awakening to the shortness of life,
580
–81
and belief in afterlife,
576
childhood awareness of,
577
denial of,
577
and embracing pain and adversity,
583
–84
in entertainment,
576
envisioning our own,
579
–80
invisibility of, in modern world,
576
life contrasted with,
577
love and,
583
of loved one,
575
paradoxical death effect,
575
–78
philosophy of life through,
578
–86
seeing the mortality in everyone,
581
–83
Sublime and,
319
,
584
–86
as taboo subject,
577
visceral awareness of,
578
–80
deception
cues to,
86
,
95
–97
scale of,
97
decision making,
411
–12,
421
,
423
,
461
hypercertainty and,
415
–16
Decourcelle, Pierre,
132
Defense Department,
104
,
105
,
417

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defensiveness,
172
–201
Defoe, Daniel,
581
–82
de Gaulle, Charles,
233
,
238
Deliverer,
463
democracy,
461
,
462
Deng Zeng,
396
,
397
denial,
244
–45
Dependency Strategy,
506
–7
depression,
240
,
373
,
376
,
498
,
556
depressive attitude,
221
–22
Depression, Great,
545
,
548
desire,
131
–49
contagious,
414
grass-is-always-greener syndrome,
139
–42,
147
illicit,
146
induction and,
140
–41,
146
–47
and knowing how and when to withdraw,
143
–44
possession and,
147
rivalries of,
144
–46
strategies for stimulating,
143
–47
supreme,
147
–49
d’Este, Isabella,
313
details, being lost in,
168
–69
Devilish Romantic,
341
–42