The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

partner or spouse, choice of,
118
passive-aggressiveness, see
aggression, passive
Pasteur, Louis,
258
,
351
patience,
168
,
494
Pavese, Cesare,
130
Payne, Oliver H.,
477
–79,
488

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peaceful human, myth of,
501
peak experiences,
227
,
383
–84
Pearl Harbor attack,
163
–64
Pennsylvania Railroad,
481
,
487
people
expectations about,
190
viewing with expansive attitude,
228
–29
Perelle, Charles,
105
–6
Pericles,
14
–21,
27
,
36
–38,
41
,
457
Perkins, Frances,
429
–30
Persia,
465
persistence,
514
–15
persona,
101
personality,
101
Personalizer,
123
,
129
perspective
farsighted,
160
–62,
169
–71
see also
shortsightedness
persuasion, see
influence
Philip II of Spain, King,
168
–69,
442
,
444
–46,
451
–52
Picasso, Pablo,
463
,
469
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde),
201
Pixar,
298
Pleaser,
125
–26,
129
,
219
pleasure, pursuit of,
386
,
581
pleasure principle,
28
,
29
political correctness,
146
Pope, Alexander,
153
pornography,
141
possession, and desire,
147
potential, realizing,
10
–11
power,
101
,
128
,
494
character and,
117
pragmatism,
310
–11
praise
for effort vs. talent,
195
–96
envy and,
275
–77,
284
presence,
131

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balancing absence with,
99
–100,
467
–68
present circumstances,
150
,
157
–59,
169
–71
Price, Ray,
238
primal inclinations,
374
,
378
–79
prioritizing,
471
Prohibition,
163
projection
gender, see
gender projections
of Shadow,
246
promises,
468
–69,
507
Proust, Marcel,
333
,
345
psychiatry,
75
psychoanalysis,
538
psychosomatic maladies,
94
,
220
Punching Bag,
430
–31
purpose, sense of,
356
–90
absorbing purposeful energy,
382
creating a ladder of descending goals,
382
–83
discovering your calling in life,
378
–80
false purposes vs.,
385
in groups,
433
–34
losing yourself in the work,
383
–85
strategies for developing,
378
–85
using resistance and negative spurs,
380
–82
purposes, false,
377
,
385
–90
causes and cults,
386
–87
cynicism,
389
pursuit of attention,
388
–89
pursuit of money and success,
387
–88
pursuit of pleasure,
386
real purpose vs.,
385
Putin, Vladimir,
93
Quiet Pragmatist,
464
railroads,
478
–84
Pennsylvania Railroad,
481
,
487
Raphael,
283
rationality,
13
,
19
–21,
27
,
37
,
40
–41
defining,
26
–27

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Rigid Rationalist and,
252
–53
strategies toward,
37
–41
see also
irrationality
Raw Youth, A (Dostoyevsky),
21
reactive mode,
150
,
158
,
162
,
170
Reagan, Ronald,
426
realistic attitude,
310
–11,
316
–17
reality,
96
,
212
,
389
,
585
reality groups,
422
–23,
424
,
431
–37
Red Guards,
397
,
404
Red Rebels,
398
–402,
405
Reed, Luther,
103
Relentless Rebel,
122
–23,
129
religion,
115
,
186
,
252
,
306
,
373
,
385
grandiosity and,
306
repression,
231
–60
see also
Shadow
Republic Oil,
484
resentful attitude,
222
–24
resistance,
172
–201
in developing sense of purpose,
380
–82
of others, using,
196
–98
rewards and gifts,
192
Riario, Girolamo,
322
–24,
326
–27
Rice, George,
484
–85
Richelieu, Cardinal,
61
,
195
rider and horse metaphor,
40
rigidity, influence and,
198
Rigid Rationalist,
252
–53
RKO Pictures,
106
–7
Robespierre, Maximilien,
250
,
508
,
530
,
531
Robinson, Isabel,
267
–68
Rockefeller, John D.,
474
–89,
497
,
499
–500,
504
Benson and,
482
–84,
488
–89
childhood of,
486
–87
Clark and,
474
–77,
488
,
489
Fawcett and,
479
Payne and,
478
–79,
488

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Rice and,
484
–85
Scott and,
481
–82,
488
–89
Rockefeller, William,
486
,
487
role-playing,
72
–101
authenticity and,
97
–98
impression management,
82
,
97
–101
negative connotations of term,
97
–98
see also
nonverbal communication
Romans,
457
–58
Romanticism,
534
,
559
Ronche, Giacomo del,
325
–26
Roosevelt, Eleanor,
120
,
219
,
260
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
120
,
177
–79,
219
,
433
Perkins and,
429
–30
Roosevelt, Sara,
219
Roots (Haley),
51
Rubin, Robert,
285
–86
rules,
373
grandiosity and,
313
–14
in groups,
417
–18,
422
Russell, Richard,
174
–81
Sacre coronation carriage,
521
,
531
–32,
536
Saint,
250
saintliness,
100
,
194
,
220
,
241
Sakhalin Island,
208
–9
Saldivar, Yolanda,
281
–82
salons,
553
Sand, George,
338
sans-culottes,
527
Sarkozy, Nicolas,
93
–94
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
378
Saul, King,
273
Savior,
126
schadenfreude,
275
,
289
Schary, Dore,
106
Scipio Africanus,
457
Schopenhauer, Arthur,
1
,
79
–80,
149
,
230
,
275
,
582
Schorr, Daniel,
235

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scientists,
350
–51
Scott, Tom,
480
–82,
488
–89
Selena,
281
–82
self
childhood sense of,
348
higher and lower,
10
–11,
469
–70
social,
348
viewing with expansive attitude,
226
–27
self-absorption,
42
,
78
–79,
82
,
142
,
182
,
463
,
577
,
582
self-assessment and learning, masculine and feminine styles of,
353
–54
self-awareness,
113
–14,
247
grandiosity and,
310
groups and,
391
self-confidence,
92
,
94
,
113
–14,
354
,
422
,
437
,
458
Self-entitled Slacker,
279
–80
self-esteem,
43
–48,
389
,
422
aggression and,
496
–97
low,
354
self-image,
43
,
44
,
47
,
48
,
389
self-knowledge,
38
of limits,
310
and overcoming negative traits,
9
self-love,
42
,
47
,
48
,
50
narcissism and,
47
see also
narcissism, narcissists
self-objects,
45
self-opinion,
172
–201,
422
aggression and,
491
–92
autonomy in,
185
,
186
,
191
–92
goodness in,
185
,
186
,
194
–95
grandiose, see
grandiosity
intelligence in,
185
,
186
,
193
–94
low,
187
,
196
personalized,
185
–86
your own,
201
self-sabotage and self-destructive behavior,
116
,
161
,
229
,
240
see also
attitude, negative
Severus, Cassius,
116

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Sexualizer,
124
–25
Sforza, Caterina,
320
–32
Sforza, Galeazzo Maria,
320
–22,
324
,
327
,
328
,
330
Shackleton, Ernest Henry,
67
–71,
355
Shadow,
4
,
6
,
231
–60,
472
“accidental” behavior and,
245
contradictory behavior and,
241
–42,
244
,
248
–54
creation of,
242
–43
denial and,
244
–45
dreams and,
256
–57
embracing,
257
–58
emotional outbursts and,
244
exploring,
258
–59
Extreme Entrepreneur and,
253
–54
Fanatic and,
251
–52
generations and,
549
integration of,
254
–60
Jung on,
242
leaders and,
247
niceness and,
259
,
260
overidealization and,
245
–46
Passive-Aggressive Charmer and,
250
–51
projection and,
246
Rigid Rationalist and,
252
–53
Saint and,
250
seeing,
255
–57
showing,
259
–60
Snob and,
252
–53
Tough Guy and,
249
–50
Shadow Enabler,
427
–29
Shakespeare, William,
81
,
85
,
144
shamans,
349
,
355
Sharp-Hughes Tool Company,
102
,
103
,
104
,
107
,
109
–10
Shelley, Harriet,
262
,
264
Shelley, Mary,
261
–71,
284
Jane Williams and,
262
–71,
274
–76,
286
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
261
–70
Shelley, Percy Florence,
261
,
264
–67,
270

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Sherman, William Tecumseh,
167
shortsightedness,
150
–71
lost in trivia,
168
–69
signs of, and strategies to overcome,
162
–69
tactical hell,
165
ticker tape fever,
166
–68
unintended consequences,
162
–65
Shuttlesworth, Fred,
363
,
364
silence,
468
Sixtus IV, Pope,
322
,
323
Sixtus V, Pope,
446
smiles,
90
Snob,
252
–53
social animals,
24
,
25
,
30
,
42
,
188
,
189
,
280
,
410
–11,
414
,
491
social force,
408
–11,
422
social media,
6
,
26
,
49
,
146
,
194
,
247
,
389
,
410
,
413
,
423
,
462
,
468
,
551
aggression and,
491
envy and,
286
grandiosity and,
307
social personality,
391
sociology,
538
Socrates,
162
,
199
–200,
465
solitary confinement,
409
Sontag, Susan,
355
Sophocles,
498
soul,
229
–30
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
362
–63,
365
Southern Improvement Company (SIC),
478
–80,
488
South Sea Company,
150
–58,
415
Soviet Union,
234
Spain,
168
–69,
444
–46,
452
Sparta,
13
–14,
16
–18
spouse, choice of,
118
Spruce Goose,
106
Stalin, Joseph,
37
,
54
–59
Standard Oil,
478
–85,
487
–88,
502
standards of excellence,
471
status

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need for,
407
seeking through attention,
6
Status Fiend,
280
–81
Steinbrenner, George,
281
Stendhal,
88
Stevenson, Robert Louis,
248
Stewart, Martha,
287
Stirrer,
426
–27,
432
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
167
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (Stevenson),
248
stress,
372
–73,
375
–76
relationships in handling of,
112
–13
rising pressure,
34
–35
strongman,
462
Sublime,
319
,
584
–86
submission/dominance cues,
86
,
91
–95,
100
Subtle-Superiority Strategy,
504
–5
success
envy and,
283
–84
pursuit of,
387
–88
sudden,
34
,
283
Suetonius,
223
superiority
bias,
31
–32
Subtle-Superiority Strategy,
504
–5
Superior Man,
346
–47
Surin, Jean-Joseph,
60
–62
Swann’s Way (Proust),
345
Swift, Jonathan,
153
,
154
Sympathy Strategy,
505
–6
symptoms, psychosomatic,
94
,
220
Syracuse,
17
–18
taboos,
141
,
373
tactical hell,
165
Talman, William,
280
Teacher,
464
technology,
411
,
551
,
561
,
577
aggression and,
502

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grandiosity and,
307
internet,
49
,
502
see also
social media
terrorism,
161
Thalberg, Irving,
226
theatrical quality of social life,
81
,
82
see also
role-playing
thinking, masculine and feminine styles of,
350
–51
Tiberius,
223
–24
ticker tape fever,
166
–68
Tidewater Pipeline Company,
482
–84
time,
169
–71,
555
–61
awakening to the shortness of life,
580
–81
Time,
232
timidity,
515
Tolstaya, Sonya Behrs,
63
–66
Tolstoy, Leo,
63
–66
Tom Sawyer (Twain),
191
–92
tone, and authority,
466
–67
Tough Guy,
249
–50
toxic types,
8
,
47
,
121
–27
Big Talker,
124
–25
Drama Magnet,
123
–24
Easy Moralizer,
126
–27
Hyperperfectionist,
121
–22,
129
Pampered Prince/Princess,
125
Personalizer,
123
,
129
Pleaser,
125
–26,
129
,
219
Relentless Rebel,
122
–23,
129
Savior,
126
Sexualizer,
124
–25
tribalism,
6
,
423
–24,
463
trigger points from early childhood,
32
–33
trivia, being lost in,
168
–69
troubadours,
559
Truman, Harry,
175
truth,
138
,
142
Truth Seeker,
463
–64

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Tydings, Millard,
175
–76
Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of,
447
ubiquity, illusion of,
138
–39
unconscious,
258
uniqueness,
373
–74,
378
,
388
,
411
,
470
–71,
516
unintended consequences,
162
–65
Ursuline nuns,
59
–62
utopia,
140
,
306
Valentino, Rudolph,
549
validation,
184
,
186
nonverbal,
410
see also
self-opinion
Vidal, Gore,
272
Vietnam War,
107
,
234
,
235
,
365
,
366
,
369
,
417
,
425
,
548
vision, of leaders,
458
–59,
465
–66
Visionary Artist,
463
visual system,
140
Voltaire,
532
von Sternberg, Josef,
106
Voting Rights Act,
365
voyeurism,
146
Wagner, Richard,
221
–22,
246
warfare,
501
–3
Washington Post,
235
,
236
Watergate scandal,
96
,
236
–38,
425
,
548
Watson, Thomas,
433
Watzlawick, Paul,
197
Wayne, John,
106
,
107
Weakland, John H.,
197
Wells, Frank,
293
–97,
300
Whitman, Walt,
71
Wilde, Oscar,
201
Wilder, Billy,
192
Williams, Edward,
262
–67,
269
Williams, Jane,
262
–71,
274
–76,
286
Wilson, Woodrow,
233
Wise Blood (O’Connor),
565
,
568
,
59
Wollstonecraft, Mary,
262
,
560

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Woman to Worship Him,
347
–48
women
niceness and,
260
successful, envy of,
284
–85
see also
gender roles and masculine and feminine traits
Wonderful World of Disney, The,
294
Woods, Tiger,
378
work world,
371
–72,
494
,
548
world, viewing with expansive attitude,
225
World War II,
104
,
175
,
318
,
417
,
545
,
548
,
554
,
560
Chanel and,
135
–36
Pearl Harbor attack,
163
–64
Wren, Christopher,
279
–80
wu-wei,
352
Xenophon,
319
,
454
,
465
Yahoo!,
298
Yamamoto, Kajiro,
379
Yizhen Middle School (YMS),
391
–92,
394
,
396
,
398
–401,
403
–5
youth culture,
541
,
543
,
576
–77
zao fan,
394
zeitgeist,
518
,
543
,
547
,
550
,
551
,
554
,
558
Zeus,
19
Zhuge Liang,
162
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About the Author
Robert Greene, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 48
Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction, and
Mastery, is an internationally renowned expert on power strategies.
He lives in Los Angeles.

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