12. Law of Gender Stiffness: Reconnect with your masculinity/femininity. Every human being has genes and hormones of both male and female qualities. Learn to recognize 6 types of gender projections and release your suppressed qualities/energy to become more flexible, balanced and efficient. No human being exists in a vacuum – we are shaped by our relationships. Greene argues that by learning about human nature, we learn not only to progress socially for personal gain, but also to develop emotional intelligence that helps everyone. Ultimately, he believes, if we can see people more clearly, we can also accept them for who they are and become more skilled in the relationship, making interactions less painful for everyone. “We are social animals, with remarkable abilities to take the point of view of others,” he explains. The development of social intelligence in general should make you a much better person, a better leader, a more tolerant member of the group. This does not exclude that you are aware of your uniqueness and vocation in life. We will now introduce the 18 laws of human nature and take a closer look at 2 of them. For the full mojo on the remaining laws, you can get a copy of our full 23-page summary here.
[Note: Some laws have been slightly paraphrased] In fact, the author emphasizes that each of us must get in touch with his masculine and feminine sides. We are burdened by the expectation of conforming to certain standards that do not quite suit us and that prevent us from flourishing as complete human beings. And while Greene`s book is full of ideas about our less admirable aspects—our desire for power (whether suppressed or expressed), our sense of superiority (and its twin evil, the fear that we might be inferior), our tendencies to adopt a group`s point of view (rather than thinking independently)—it also offers specific advice on how to improve. We can transform these negative creative trends to improve ourselves, our relationships and the world. Greene makes the ancient Greeks and queens of yesteryear assignable, transforms revered writers like Anton Chekhov and Flannery O`Connor into people who study their psychology, and reminds us that business giants like John D. Rockefeller were not just market geniuses, but wounded people, driven by relentless aggression sustained by childhood pain. This shows that heroes like Martin Luther King Jr. had to find their greatness and struggle with parental expectations, that our nervousness can be our strength, as in the case of Malcolm X. But do not despair. There is a way to recognize your own mistakes and what makes others monstrous to learn through observation and turn everything upside down so that you are neither terrible nor unhappy – and neither a pawn in other people`s plans nor subject to their weaknesses.
With this judgment, argues bestselling author Robert Greene — best known for his somewhat Machiavellian 2000 book The 48 Laws of Power (pdf) — you can become wiser, find your calling, and put your energy into making dreams come true while improving your relationships. We are no more warlike than in the past, neither softer nor worse. And each of us is the beneficiary of the advances that great people have imagined and historically executed, because they have channeled their nature into creativity, whether scientific, artistic, political or otherwise. If this sounds like a big task, that`s it. That`s why Greene`s new book is big. In The Laws of Human Nature, published October 23, Greene offers 588 pages on 48 aspects of humanity through the lens of history, philosophy, psychology and wisdom to explain how humans behave. He argues that as social animals, understanding our own motivations and those of our employees is essential to functioning more effectively. And it tells the stories of cultural heroes and demons over time to show how their tendencies have been used positively or negatively, or both. In our full version of the Summary of the Laws of Human Nature, we explain the remaining 16 laws of human nature (click here for the full summary of the book).
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