The Daily Laws
366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature
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4.3 • 183 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the world’s foremost expert on power and strategy comes a daily devotional designed to help you seize your destiny.
Robert Greene, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, has been the consigliere to millions for more than two decades. Now, with entries that are drawn from his five books, plus never-before-published works, The Daily Laws offers a page of refined and concise wisdom for each day of the year, in an easy-to-digest lesson that will only take a few minutes to absorb. Each day features a Daily Law as well—a prescription that readers cannot afford to ignore in the battle of life. Each month centers around a major theme: power, seduction, persuasion, strategy, human nature, toxic people, self-control, mastery, psychology, leadership, adversity, or creativity.
Who doesn’t want to be more powerful? More in control? The best at what they do? The secret: Read this book every day.
“Daily study,” Leo Tolstoy wrote in 1884, is “necessary for all people.” More than just an introduction for new fans, this book is a Rosetta stone for internalizing the many lessons that fill Greene’s books and will reward a lifetime of reading and rereading.
Customer Reviews
One of those books you always read
It's like a reference manual, except it captivates your attention.
Hate-Love Kind of Year
Each year I choose 2-3 books with daily readings and meditations, and I give 3 stars because I really struggled with this one and, at times, flat out hated it. But it ended on such a high note I’m torn to recommend or not.
Greene is a good and thoughtful writer, and while his philosophy has some roots in truth I couldn’t get on board with his perspective in many cases. Each month addresses a different theme, and many focus on topic such as obtaining power and a sort of how-to book on seducing and manipulating others. To me, it read like a surrender to “this is how the world works so you might as well learn to play the game”, a perspective that I personally found to be cowardly.
The last 3 months, however, were daring and thought provoking; a sharp twist from hating to loving the content for me. The book ends with a poignant encouragement to grow awareness of one’s full emotional self, unpacking aspects of ourselves that we may not want to look at for the sake of becoming a higher and better version of ourselves. And in December, the last chapter, Greene aptly and bluntly challenges us to consider death - the mystery and our culture and, mostly, understanding our fear of our own death as a means to live a fuller and more awakened life today. It was my favorite chapter, I found so much wisdom in it.
I think I would recommend reading this book with the caveat that I disagreed with much of it. But it’s good to listen to (and stick with learning) other perspectives that make us uncomfortable. It’s how we grow. And, ironically, I think it’s how we avoid surrender into trying to gain power and manipulate people - simply by choosing to understand and respect each other regardless of our differences.
This book?
Listen, reverse psychology is real. You should buy this book. 10/10