The Importance of Studying People

Power is a social game. To learn and master it, you must develop the ability to study and understand people. An understanding of people's hidden motives is the single greatest piece of knowledge you can have in acquiring power. It opens up endless possibilities of deception, seduction and manipulation. Never trust anyone completely and study everyone, including friends and loved ones. Disguise your cunning like a billiard ball that caroms several times before it hits its target,. Your moves must be planned and developed in the least obvious way. Finally, you must learn always to take the indirect route to power.