Contents
Step One: Recognize the Biases
Step Two: Beware the Inflaming Factors
Step Three: Strategies Toward Bringing Out the Rational Self
2 Transform Self-love into Empathy
Examples of Narcissistic Types
The Art of Impression Management
4 Determine the Strength of People’s Character
The Law of Compulsive Behavior
5 Become an Elusive Object of Desire
Strategies for Stimulating Desire
Four Signs of Shortsightedness and Strategies to Overcome Them
7 Soften People’s Resistance by Confirming Their Self-opinion
Five Strategies for Becoming a Master Persuader
The Flexible Mind—Self-strategies
8 Change Your Circumstances by Changing Your Attitude
The Constricted (Negative) Attitude
The Expansive (Positive) Attitude
Deciphering the Shadow: Contradictory Behavior
12 Reconnect to the Masculine or Feminine Within You
13 Advance with a Sense of Purpose
Strategies for Developing a High Sense of Purpose
14 Resist the Downward Pull of the Group
15 Make Them Want to Follow You
Strategies for Establishing Authority
16 See the Hostility Behind the Friendly Façade
The Source of Human Aggression
Passive Aggression—Its Strategies and How to Counter Them
17 Seize the Historical Moment
The Law of Generational Myopia
Strategies for Exploiting the Spirit of the Times
The Human Beyond Time and Death
18 Meditate on Our Common Mortality