Law 46: Never Appear Too Perfect I Robert Greene

i have a law in the 48 laws of power

called never appear to perfect and the

danger in the world today is the number

one danger is envy we live in a time of

social media etc where it's massive envy

where we know what everybody else is

doing in life and we don't like to admit

that we're envious so we attack people

passive aggressively we subvert them we

try and throw obstacles in their way we

criticize them when in fact we envy them

and the strategy there is to learn how

to deflect envy so if you're jeff bezos

or elon musk you have to have some humor

you have to have some self-deprecating

humor you have to take the criticism

that comes and kind of laugh at it and

go along with it so that you don't

appear all stiff and rigid and defensive