http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyi5tdBThF0
Street smarts & Positive thinking, most people dont have or know the difference between that and common sense also some dont have access to knowing of such a skill that can greatly benifit you, Ive met plenty of people whom are very intelligent but when it comes to certain aspects they just cant figure out simple reasoning.
Street smarts is essentially the same as the 48 laws of power
Ex) 1) Dont outshine the master
2) Understanding selective genorosity
3) Realizing when to except a smaller lost for a bigger gain.
All these things are everyday things people know and use but if they actually took time and careful effort to use this skill it could help you in your everyday life situations greatly.
Can't get the Youtube to play. Would you care to correct the link? I am curious as to what you have in mind here. I really can't make it out.
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DeleteLOL I am still so confused about your group's presentation, it's taken me three tries to reply to this post. I'm sorry, but I'm completely clueless as to what your video or the presentation is about. Instead, I see a random project trying to be made out of three phrases: street smarts, positive thinking, and Brian Green.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe I'm just one of those people that "when it comes to certain aspects they just cant figure out simple reasoning."
The presentation on “street smarts” was unintelligible to me, so I looked up the Laws of Power on Wiki, and what I found is a very cynical recipe for becoming a true sociopath.
ReplyDeleteI pity the person who feels this hold any key to living well. It might be an approach to mere survival, if you are in an extremely hostile prison environment. Even then, such thinking can only breed a schism between oneself and his fellowman. Indeed, a disturbed mind, a split psyche would seems a natural conclusion to a life thus lived.
Read the below, and tell me if you agree this “streetsmart” young man really stays COOL.
48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene. Greene takes elements from writers such as Niccolò Machiavelli and Sun Tzu to come up with his 48 laws of power.
The Laws
1. Never outshine the master ...
2. Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies.
3. Conceal your intentions.
4. Always say less than necessary.
5. So much depends on reputation. Guard it with your life.
6. Court attention at all costs.
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit.
8. Make other people come to you; use bait if necessary.
9. Win through your actions, never through argument.
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky.
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you.
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
13. When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy.
15. Crush your enemy totally.
16. Use absence to increase respect and honor.
17. Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability.
18. Do not build fortresses to protect yourself. Isolation is dangerous.
19. Know who you're dealing with; do not offend the wrong person.
20. Do not commit to anyone.
21. Play a sucker to catch a sucker: play dumber than your mark.
22. Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power.
23. Concentrate your forces.
24. Play the perfect courtier.
25. Re-create yourself.
26. Keep your hands clean.
27. Play on people's need to believe to create a cult-like following.
28. Enter action with boldness.
29. Plan all the way to the end.
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless.
31. Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal.
32. Play to people's fantasies.
33. Discover each man's thumbscrew.
34. Be royal in your fashion: act like a king to be treated like one.
35. Master the art of timing.
36. Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best revenge.
37. Create compelling spectacles.
38. Think as you like but behave like others.
39. Stir up waters to catch fish.
40. Despise the free lunch.
41. Avoid stepping into a great man's shoes.
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
43. Work on the hearts and minds of others.
44. Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect.
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once.
46. Never appear perfect.
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop.
48. Assume formlessness.