Become a Man Who Fears Nothing & Needs No One | Machiavelli’s Rules of Power — Transcript

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1. 0:00There comes a [music] moment in every
2. 0:01man's life when he must make a decision.
3. 0:04Will he continue living as a prisoner of
4. 0:06his fears, his desires, and the opinions
5. 0:09of others, or will he become the kind of
6. 0:11man the world cannot bend, buy, or
7. 0:13break? Understand something. The most
8. 0:16dangerous man is not the one who
9. 0:18threatens everyone around him. It is the
10. 0:20one who has conquered the chaos within
11. 0:22himself. He does not need applause to
12. 0:24feel powerful. [music] He does not need
13. 0:26affection to feel complete. He does not
14. 0:29need revenge victorious, [music]
15. 0:31and he does not need the world to
16. 0:32cooperate with him before he can find
17. 0:34peace. His power comes from something
18. 0:37[music] far deeper.
19. 0:39Self-command.
20. 0:41Machiavelli understood that a man who
21. 0:42depends on the goodwill of others places
22. 0:45his destiny in hands he cannot control.
23. 0:47>> [music]
24. 0:47>> But there is an even greater weakness. A
25. 0:50man who cannot govern his own emotions
26. 0:52will eventually become a servant to
27. 0:54anyone who learns how to provoke them.
28. 0:56Make him angry and he becomes [music]
29. 0:58predictable. Make him afraid and he
30. 1:00becomes obedient. Offer him validation
31. 1:03and he becomes [music] dependent.
32. 1:05Threaten his comfort and he begins
33. 1:07negotiating away his [music] principles.
34. 1:10This is how men surrender their power
35. 1:12without ever realizing a battle has
36. 1:14taken [music] place.
37. 1:16But you are going to learn a different
38. 1:17way of living.
39. 1:19You will learn to face fear [music]
40. 1:20without surrendering to it, to desire
41. 1:23things without becoming enslaved by
42. 1:25them,
43. 1:26to love [music] without losing yourself,
44. 1:29to walk away without needing the final
45. 1:31word,
46. 1:32and above all, [music] to control what
47. 1:34happens within you, even when everything
48. 1:37around you becomes uncertain.
49. 1:40Because the [music] ultimate form of
50. 1:41power is not controlling other people.
51. 1:44It is becoming so disciplined, so
52. 1:46emotionally independent, and so
53. 1:48internally governed that [music] nobody
54. 1:50can easily use your own mind against
55. 1:53you.