Voices in the Dark
198 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsPowerful conversations and interviews about real life psychology, philosophy, psychedelics, spirituality, social dynamics and much more.
Our mission is to entertain, provoke, inform, and make you question everything you think you know.
Have you ever been on the wrong end of “office politics”?
Or lost out to less talented people who are better at “playing the game”?
Join us as we our explore Robert Greene’s provocative and compelling study of the 48 Laws of Power, in which he lays bare the psychological principles that ultimately shape all human relations.
Often seen as a handbook for the ‘modern Machiavelli’, we take a closer look at how understanding and implementing these Laws can actually enrich your life personally, professionally and spiritually.
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Law 36 - Disdain Things You Cannot Have - Ignoring Them Is The Best Revenge | Exploring The 48 Laws of Power
February 13, 2017 01:16 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBWe've all tasted it now and then: the ability to shrug things off that might otherwise cause us distress and make us appear weak and needy is a fundamental and immense wellspring of power. The promotion you didn't get; the romantic advance turned down; or just the mix-up of times and dates that meant you missed something cool... If you reacted with petulance and frustration, you neither felt nor appeared dignified or in control. But oh, those times where you managed to find the inner strengt...
What Is Your Favourite Place In The World? – Minisode 002
February 09, 2017 19:28 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBInspired by our friends Nic Gregoriades and Thomas Faustin Huisking over at Digital Communion, this is the second of a series of short (20 mins) but deep conversations between Jon and Dre. Each episode begins with a question designed to make you (and us) reflect and to think about life and our experience of it. Today's episode poses the question: 'What's your favourite place in the world?' Some of the areas we get into: Jon increasingly aims at a feeling more than a place Finding flow...
Law 35 - Master The Art of Timing | Exploring The 48 Laws of Power
February 05, 2017 23:50 - 1 hour - 82 MBDo you have your shit together? Drowning under to-do lists? Time is the one resource you can never replenish, so mastering how to use it wisely is not only powerful, but essential. Law 35 gives us a bracing confrontation with the ways we let time use and abuse us, before showing how we can make it serve us instead... Not least, as a tool to influence other people. In this episode, we consider how to master the art of timing during revolutionary periods – how can you escape the guillotine o...
Law 34 - Be Royal In Your Own Fashion - Act Like A King To Be Treated Like One | Exploring The 48 Laws of Power
January 29, 2017 23:23 - 1 hour - 92 MBOne of Dre's favourite Laws, this one treads the fine line between performing, lying, and simply showing the side of yourself that you most want the world to see. Are you ready to escape the roles and limitations that other people foist upon you? Well, here's a newsflash: it all starts with you and how you present yourself. Kings can be unmade if they do not act like kings, and power can be gained if you act like it's yours already. Dre reads this Law through the prism of Superman (Jon's l...
Law 33 - Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew | Exploring The 48 Laws of Power
January 23, 2017 19:49 - 1 hour - 88.6 MBTime to crack out the torture devices! Well, actually Law 33 turns out to be much less about tightening those thumbscrews than releasing the pressure of them, making it a rather neat counterpart to Law 32's invocation to Play To People's Fantasies. Discovering someone's soft-spot may be the way to their hearts, but that doesn't mean you have to stab them in it. In fact, this Law proves to be a particularly acute lesson in the need to choose the right Law for the right situation and, beyond t...
Mindset with Muscle - Jamie Alderton Interview
January 21, 2017 01:00 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBWorld record holder; iTunes chart-topping podcaster; creator of the world’s first online gym; fitness model; former soldier; body transformation coach; husband; father… and now author of the Amazon bestseller Mindset With Muscle, Jamie Alderton is a man with more than a few strings to his bow. WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE As the title of his book suggests, Jamie likes to flex his mind as well as his biceps, and in this exclusive interview we dive into some powerful ideas about life, goals, self-p...
Law 32 - Play To People's Fantasies | Exploring The 48 Laws of Power
January 15, 2017 23:29 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBLAW 32: Play To People's Fantasies You're living a fantasy, whether you know it or not. We all tell stories about ourselves and the world around us, making us intensely vulnerable when someone comes along and bursts our bubble. Or, perhaps worse still, when they tease us with the possibility of making those fantasies real... Fantasies can be dangerous things, and Law 32 explains why. When we want a fantasy to exist badly enough, we're alarmingly good at ignoring any evidence that exposes...
Make Sweet Beautiful Love To Your 2017
January 13, 2017 18:57 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBWhat happens when you try to record a live podcast in the lounge of a 5-star hotel without asking permission? It turns out you have a really powerful conversation, an excellent cocktail, you break down what 2016 meant and what 2017 is going to be… and no one interferes with you whatsoever. Not bad, eh? Recorded on the road during Dre’s trip to Jon’s home town of Edinburgh, we decided to cast an eye back over the last year and share some of our BIG plans for Voices in the Dark in 2017. Dre’...
031 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Control The Options: Get Others To Play With The Cards You Deal
January 10, 2017 00:45 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBControl The Options: Get Others To Play With The Cards You Deal How did I end up in this mess? All too often that's the question we ask ourselves when we look back and realise we've been led by the nose into a situation we'd never have chosen willingly. And yet it seemed like we were free to choose every step of the way. So what happened? Law 31 is what happened: when someone manages to control your options, you find yourself playing on their chessboard, never quite sure of the rules and y...
After Nepal: One Month Meditation Retreat
January 06, 2017 22:21 - 1 hour - 95.2 MBIt's been a whole month. A month of 2-3 hours of meditation every day, no internet or phone calls, 5am starts, amazing people from around the world, and no caffeine... So who is Jon after all that? Is he a Buddhist? Did he find what he was looking for? What's next for Voices in the Dark? Time to find out. Recorded the day after he arrived back from Kathmandu, Jon answers Dre's questions about what he's learnt and how he's adapting to life outside the walls of the monastery. This is Part II...
030 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
January 03, 2017 15:35 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBLAW 30: Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless Tim Ferriss breaks this Law all the time. So how does he get away with it, and to such great effect? The best magicians, artists and leaders all hide the intensity of their effort from the world's view, so that when they're on stage everything they do seems deeply impressive. And then there's Tim, who specialises in deconstructing the process behind everything he does... Jon and Dre take on the Ferriss Paradox and much more in Law 30, pon...
Before Nepal - One Month Meditation Retreat
December 26, 2016 17:43 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBJon's heading off to Buddhist monastery in Nepal for a whole month of meditation, reflection, and keeping silent most of the day. No internet. No phone. No caffeine. No 'sexual conduct'. Lots of Buddhism. This is the non-hallucinogenic sequel to Jon's experiences with Ayahuasca in the Amazon just over a year ago, so we decided to create a Before & After interview, with Dre asking the questions: Why's he going? What does he expect to gain from it? Who's he going to be on the other side? And...
029 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Plan All The Way To The End
December 26, 2016 17:03 - 1 hour - 96.4 MBLAW 29: Plan All The Way To The End Do you know where you’re going? Or are you just reacting in the moment, never planning beyond the next emerging crisis? Law 29 is all about overcoming this all-too-common tendency and taking a definitive step back to view the bigger picture of your life. To avoid overwhelm from events and getting trapped in constant improvisation, we need to get a clear sense of our destination, so Jon and Dre set about untangling how to find the delicate balance betwe...
028 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Enter Action With Boldness
December 19, 2016 00:51 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBLAW 28: Enter Action With Boldness Don't half-ass it. Don't be the timid one at the back making everyone else feel uncomfortable. Fortune may not always favour the bold, but other people certainly do – and Law 28 is all about why. To celebrate Jon's return from a month meditating in a Buddhist Monastery, your hosts enter the podcast with beer as well as boldness and get stuck into why boldness and timidity are choices, not personality traits; why you're only as powerful as your last intera...
027 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Play On People's Need To Believe To Create A Cultlike Following
December 12, 2016 23:00 - 1 hour - 93.8 MBLAW 27: Play On People's Need To Believe To Create A Cultlike Following Even more controversial than usual, Law 27 is a guide to building your own cult and actively duping people! But behind the shock factor, the reality is that people do this all the time, from pyramid schemes to spiritual gurus on- and offline, so, at the very least, we need to learn how to spot a con if we're going to avoid being a victim of one. Jon and Dre discuss cults old and new and how they continue to gain ...
026 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Keep Your Hands Clean
December 05, 2016 11:23 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBLAW 26: Keep Your Hands Clean Have you ever scapegoated someone? Law 26 is about keeping your hands clean, a law which makes Jon uncomfortable. Together with Dre he explores why a scapegoat doesn’t always have to be a negative thing. Once again the need for subtlety and an understanding of the emotional needs of others is a key subject, with Dre and Jon discussing their views on being wronged and apologies and why being an unsung hero feels meaningless to them. Jon shares his opinions...
025 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Re-Create Yourself
November 29, 2016 09:52 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBLAW 25: Re-Create Yourself As Law 25 explores identity and the benefits of recreating yourself, Dre and Jon give you a peek into their personal lives as they discuss the different nicknames they’ve been given over the years. Find out who is known as Dr Muscles and who aspires to be King of the Humans. Law 25 is a playful, relatable law for the pair and they both enjoy discussing it, sharing personal experiences and musings on their own identity and reinventions. They discuss becoming...
Jeet-Kune-Do Of Power, a MidBook Recap | Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power
November 21, 2016 14:01 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBWe’re pursuing knowledge and philosophising over the morality and practicality of Robert Greene’s book The 48 Laws of Power. In episode 24 ½ we’re halfway to being excessively powerful. This episode will explore some of the key themes from the book, the main realisations we’ve had, how we’ve managed to integrate the Laws of Power into our lives and we’ll discuss our favourite laws so far. The 48 Laws of Power is often read in prisons and by people with potentially nefarious intentions ...
024 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Play the Perfect Courtier
November 16, 2016 00:14 - 1 hour - 131 MBLAW 24: Play the Perfect Courtier Law 24 seems to be a combination of previous laws, and about taking stock and measuring your success so far, which makes it the perfect law to hit our midway point with. Jon and Dre focus on the laws within the law, and ponder their roles as courtiers What do high school students have in common with apes? Potentially more than you might realise. Jon and Dre dig into the art of flawless courtiership, and how that fits in with modern hierarchies. They disc...
023 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Concentrate Your Forces
November 08, 2016 23:52 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBLAW 23: Concentrate Your Forces We’re almost at the halfway point, so we’re aiming to do a review at the halfway mark, considering what we’ve done and reviewed so far. We hope to integrate some stories from our listeners and have a look forward to what’s coming up next. If you like what we’re doing please remember to click the like button on Facebook, and share your favourite post. The more people who join, the more we can learn together. FULL NOTES:http://voicesinthedark.world/2016/...
Talking the Walk 03: Kate Armstrong – Telling Stories of Life and Depression
November 03, 2016 11:11 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBKate Armstrong's debut novel, The Storyteller, is a compelling, innovative and at times disturbing tale of depression, recovery, and the fragility of the stories we tell ourselves. A young woman wakes up, paralysed by depression, in a psychiatric hospital; we follow her faltering, dreamlike steps back into life, but there's a twist. Her story is being told by another patient who has her own ideas about what makes a good narrative... I sat down with Kate in St James's Park in central London...
022 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Use The Surrender Tactic - Transform Weakness Into Power
November 01, 2016 16:15 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBLAW 22: Use The Surrender Tactic - Transform Weakness Into Power Law 22 is all about knowing when to surrender and lose a battle so that you may live to fight another day. There is no benefit to being obliterated to prove a point. How does one reconcile a personal code with the act of giving up? Jon and Dre ponder on the confirmation bias and fetishisation of Hero/Martyr success stories and the difference between upholding what is right and letting it survive so that it may actually...
021 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Play A Sucker To Catch A Sucker – Seem Dumber Than Your Mark
October 24, 2016 14:41 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBLAW 21: Play A Sucker To Catch A Sucker – Seem Dumber Than Your Mark Are you a sucker? Or are you a show-off? Either way, you're not going to be powerful. In Law 21 we explore the delicate art of not alienating people with your smarts, and how potent it can be to make others feel a good deal smarter than you. We discuss the different kinds of trust and how to identify them (or face the consequences); when, why and how to push other people's buttons; and we ponder the #accidentalpower of ig...
020 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Do Not Commit To Anyone
October 18, 2016 09:49 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBLAW 20 Do Not Commit To Anyone We all like to hear that someone – in love or in business – is committed to us, but talk is cheap and value grows from scarcity. So when it comes to making our own moves, Law 20 teaches us to hold back, weigh our options, keep an air of mystery about ourselves... and only commit to people or to ideas at the last possible moment. We cover a lot of ground for Law 20, from the way things (and identities) become true just by saying they are, why you should ...
019 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Know Who You're Dealing With – Do Not Offend The Wrong Person
October 10, 2016 22:50 - 1 hour - 130 MBLaw 19 Know Who You're Dealing With – Do Not Offend The Wrong Person 'Don't you know who I am?!' screamed the insecure person... But maybe you really should know who they are before you offend them: insecure or otherwise, offending the wrong person can have disastrous long-term consequences. Law 19 is all about not making enemies needlessly; although there's plenty of toxic personalities under discussion here, things are a bit different this week: after all, this law is all about being...
018 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Do Not Build Fortresses To Protect Yourself – Isolation Is Dangerous
October 03, 2016 10:48 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBLaw 18 Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself – Isolation Is Dangerous Think you're safe hidden away behind those walls, excuses, or personal assistants? Think again: isolation and being hidden from view will be your undoing. This week we guide you through Law 18 and discuss how to bring the public to you; how introverts can still practise this Law effectively; what lessons we can learn from history's great (and not so great) leaders... and why this Law doesn't actually contradict...
017 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Keep Others In Suspended Terror: Cultivate An Air Of Unpredictability
September 26, 2016 20:52 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBKeep Others In Suspended Terror - Cultivate An Air Of Unpredictability You'd have enormous power if you could predict the future. Learning to predict other people is the next best thing to a crystal ball... but, of course, your own behaviour must remain nebulous, fluid and unpredictable if you want to keep that advantage. This week, we talk about the international chess wars between the USA and the USSR; the costs of using Law 17 on the wrong person; how and uncover more examples of #accid...
Peter Sage - LOVE & FEAR
September 23, 2016 10:36 - 1 hour - 93.8 MBThere is a reason why a sizeable majority of London Real fans when asked "what is your favourite interview" reply Peter Sage without missing a beat. Get 25% Off this year's Sage Business School Peter has led an incredibly interesting life, beginning quite early to pursue serial Entrepreneurship; at first out of a desire for money and success, but increasingly as life threw challenge after challenge at him he has transformed into something more. In his trademark hierarchy of enlightenmen...
016 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Use Absence To Increase Respect And Honor
September 19, 2016 16:17 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBLaw 16: Use Absence To Increase Respect And Honor In Law 16 it's time to make yourself a limited edition and never outstay your welcome. The more you're available, the less value you'll have in the eyes of others; time to cultivate that air of mystery and distance if you want to be desired rather than taken for granted. As we dig into this one, we ask how Law 16 impacts relationships and love, and is this, like so many Laws of Power, really more about about controlling your own emotions an...
015 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Crush Your Enemy Totally
September 13, 2016 08:38 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBLaw 15 Crush Your Enemy Totally: Perhaps the most controversial Law of all – Crush Your Enemy Totally! As ever, we are you guides to when a Law like this can be applied in a world beyond the battlefield. What does it mean to crush an enemy in the modern world? When does it become necessary to wipe out an enemy, and can you pull it off with a clear conscience? And what do we even mean by 'enemy'? Historical examples are joined by tales of when Jon's enemy came back to haunt him and Dre ...
014 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power- Pose As A Friend, Work As A Spy
September 05, 2016 10:30 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBLAW 14: Pose As A Friend, Work As A Spy Who are you working for?? Well, yourself... or you should be. Law 14 isn't about insincerity or screwing your friends over, but it's a sharp lesson in social intelligence and self-awareness. We explain how to learn about the people you're dealing with – especially those who're more powerful than you – and how to charm and disarm them into revealing more about themselves and their buttons than they intend. To use Law 14 effectively, you must calibrate...
Talking the Walk 02: Neo – Homeless Singer, Social Activist
September 04, 2016 13:37 - 2 hours - 164 MBMeet Neo: homeless by choice, musician by chance, and social activist by conviction. He's been a silver-service waiter to royalty, trained with the British karate team, travelled – homeless – around the world, and recorded a remarkable album just 10 months after he first picked up a guitar. He's packed about a dozen ordinary lifetimes into his 45 years, but this, he tells us from behind his rockstar dark glasses, is just the beginning. I met Neo on the streets of Oxford when his voice and ...
013 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - When Asking For Help, Appeal To People's Self-Interest - Never To Their Mercy or Gratitude
August 30, 2016 10:35 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBWhen Asking For Help, Appeal To People's Self-Interest - Never To Their Mercy or Gratitude Does this make you squeamish? Or maybe this is the Law you're already most comfortable with... FULL NOTES: http://voicesinthedark.world/2016/08/30/when-asking-for-…power-episode-13/ As ever, we're your guides on how and when to apply this law and this week we dive into the need to remember other people's interests and the serious dangers of guilt-tripping them into doing things for you. Reminding...
012 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Use Selective Honesty And Generosity To Disarm Your Victim
August 22, 2016 20:30 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBLaw 12 - Use Selective Honesty And Generosity To Disarm Your Victim When is honesty not truly honest? And when is generosity less than generous? Ethical issues unravel as we venture into the seeming contradictions of Law 12. In this episode we explain how to master the skill of the indirect approach and what it means to give before you take, all the while fighting our cultural conditioning which assumes anything but constant and total honesty is somehow a bad thing... We explain why this i...
What Is Your Greatest Fear ? Minisode 001
August 19, 2016 12:09 - 21 minutes - 24.5 MBInspired by our friends over at Digital Communion, this is the first of a series of short (20 mins) but deep conversations between Jon and Dre. Each episode begins with a question designed to make you (and us) reflect and to think about life and our experience of it. Today’s episode poses the question: ‘What are you most afraid of?’ Dre’s desire to live forever… which Jon finds very difficult to grasp Why be scared of death? The positives and negatives of having boundless ambition T...
011 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Learn To Keep People Dependent On You
August 15, 2016 20:55 - 1 hour - 101 MBLearn To Keep People Dependent On You An uncomfortable Law that makes us consider just who we are important to – and how precarious that can be as we struggle to become the power behind the throne. This is about the need to become indispensable... or at least to appear to be, making it the complementary piece to Law 1: here we learn how to be and remain The Master, but also how to remain essential to a Master without coming to outshine them. Along the way we hear how Dre managed to keep ah...
010 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Infection, Avoid The Unhappy And Unlucky
August 08, 2016 12:34 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBInfection: Avoid The Unhappy And Unlucky Ever find yourself dragged down or enmeshed by the negativity of the people around you? Does misfortune rain on their heads with implausible regularity? In this episode we deconstruct who these people are and how you can avoid their corrosive influence in your personal and professional life. This Law is the more intelligent and effective way to 'upgrade your peergroup', but Jon and Dre also set about redesigning society from the ground up; discussin...
Episode 0: Meet Jon & Dre - What's It All About
August 04, 2016 14:49 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBVoices in the Dark, what's it all about... Recorded during a massive thunderstorm over London (in mid-summer, of course), Jon and Dre dive into what Voices in the Dark is all about; why we're exploring the 48 Laws of Power; what our other shows are going to be... and who the hell are we, anyway? In a nutshell, we're 'just' exploring the human condition: what it is to be a human beings and the problems we face both as individuals and as a society. In the process we talk about Dre's jour...
009 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Win Through Your Actions - Never Through Argument
July 18, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBLaw 9: Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument A Law that many smart people fail to observe... not least the big-mouthed hosts of this podcast! In this episode we dissect the crucial differences between being smart and being effective, and dig into how to score results rather than points. Dre vents about his experiences with freelancers, while Jon has an existential crisis about how any of his academic work can observe the Law... And we both tell some excruciatingly embarrassing s...
Talking the Walk 01: Seeking a High Existence with Martijn Schirp
July 15, 2016 08:01 - 1 hour - 103 MBMartijn Schirp is the co-founder of HighExistence.com, a website dedicated to exploring spirituality, self-development, philosophy, cultural critiques, futuristic angles, and interpersonal dynamics – all aimed at improving the quality of life. In between attending a major conference on psychedelics research in Amsterdam, Martijn and I took a walk to a nearby park and recorded a raw, honest and wide-ranging conversation. This is the first episode of 'Talking the Walk', the show that bri...
008 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Make Other People Come To You, Use Bait If Necessary
July 12, 2016 10:33 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBLaw 8: Make Other People Come To You, Use Bait If Necessary Just who's in control here? Grab your insecurities and self-worth and join us as we invite you to step into our office or call on us at your earliest convenience... This law is all about controlling the terms of engagement and making sure to tip the balance of power in your favour, whatever the circumstances. Can you remain the ruler of your domain, or will you be forced onto the defensive by a more skilful player in the game of p...
007 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Get Others To Do The Work For You, But Always Take the Credit
July 07, 2016 11:56 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBLaw 7: Get Others To Do The Work For You, But Always Take the Credit One of the most controversial Laws in the book, this one makes people very squeamish, evoking the same kind of moralising outrage that so often faces Machiavelli’s The Prince. But all is not quite as it seems, as Jon and Dre reveal: this Law is ultimately about self-worth, escaping The Matrix, teamwork, knowing when to give as well as to take the praise, depending how far along the road to power you are… Are you ready? ...
006 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Court Attention At All Costs
June 29, 2016 17:42 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBLaw 6: Court Attention At All Costs They say all publicity is good publicity, but how do we deal with that in real life? How can we cope emotionally with others thinking ill of us? And doesn’t this clash with Law 5’s incitement to guard your reputation with your life? This Law presents us with an array of bizarre stories and emotional sticking-points, ranging from exotic dancers of dubious backgrounds, hiring terrible musicians to build your business, to Jon's inability to keep a consisten...
005 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - So Much Depends On Reputation - Guard It With Your Life
June 21, 2016 11:08 - 1 hour - 96.8 MBLaw 5: So Much Depends On Reputation - Guard It With Your Life Reputation can make or break you, but how can you keep control of it when it's ultimately all about the opinion of other people? In this episode we set our crosshairs on the cult of 'authenticity' and explore where the line lies between creating an image and losing touch with yourself. We puzzle over the cult of social media, the importance of cat videos to our moral lives, and what pro wrestling has to teach us about being gen...
004 - Exploring The 48 Laws Of Power - Always Say Less Than Necessary
June 14, 2016 19:35 - 1 hour - 73 MBLaw 4: Always Say Less Than Necessary Don't be fooled: this is a very dangerous Law in the wrong hands. What sounds like simple good manners can quickly become weaponised. Why is it powerful to say less than you need to? And why is withholding the truth good for friendships? Climb aboard as we wantonly transgress the Law by having good long chat about ‘saying less than necessary’, the times we should've kept our big mouths shut, and admit how frequently we forget to ask after your kids. ...
003 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Conceal Your Intentions
June 09, 2016 12:30 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBLaw 3: Conceal Your Intentions Sex and seduction, politics and warfare… This episode has all of that and more! Disagreements emerge as Jon and Dre discuss the Third Law of Power and what it means to put up a smokescreen and keep honesty in lockdown, including: Sex and deception… Can you have one without the other? How honesty can ruin relationships Creating a smokescreen to hide your true desires Why exposing your emotions is like exposing your body Control your face or lose you...
002 - Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Never Put Too Much Trust In Friends Learn How To Use Enemies
June 09, 2016 12:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBLaw 2: Never Put Too Much Trust In Friends Learn How To Use Enemies In this episode we take a look at the first of many Laws which on the surface seem to completely contradict social norms and ideas of decent behaviour: ‘Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends; Learn How to Use Enemies’: Is this just a sociopathic approach designed to get ahead in business at the expense of friendship? Are friends actually trustworthy, or do we always hurt the ones we love? Why should we separate the pers...
001 Exploring The 48 Laws of Power - Never Outshine The Master
June 09, 2016 11:58 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBLaw 1: Never Outshine The Master Join us as we begin our exploration of Robert Greene’s provocative and compelling study of the 48 Laws of Power in which he lays bare the history, practice, psychology, and philosophies of power that ultimately shape all human relations. Often seen as a handbook for the ‘modern Machiavelli’, we take a closer look, beyond the hyperbole, and discuss how understanding and implementing these Laws can actually enrich your life personally, professionally and spir...