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Red Pill Theory[48 Days of Power] Full List For Sidebar (self.TheRedPill)

submitted by ∞ Mod | RP Vanguardbsutansalt

Here's a list of the continuing 48 Days of Power series by /u/pjewa. Once completed I'll be adding it to the sidebar.

Day 1 - Never Outshine The Master
Day 2 - Never Put Too Much Trust In Friends, learn how to use enemies.
Day 3 - Conceal Your Intentions
Day 4 - Always Say Less Than Necessary
Day 5 - So Much Depends On Reputation - Defend It With Your Life
Day 6 - Court Attention At All Costs
Day 7 - Get Others To Do The Work For You, But Always Take The Credit
Day 8 - Make Other People Come To You - Use Bait If Necessary
Day 9 - Win through your Actions, Never through Argument
Day 10 - Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
Day 11 - Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
Day 12 - Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
Day 13 - When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude
Day 14 - Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
Day 15 - Crush your Enemy Totally
Day 16 - Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
Day 17 - Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
Day 18 - Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself – Isolation is Dangerous
Day 19 - Know Who You’re Dealing with – Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
Day 20 - Do Not Commit to Anyone
Day 21 - Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker – Seem Dumber than your Mark
Day 22 - Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
Day 23 - Concentrate Your Forces
Day 24 - Play the Perfect Courtier
Day 25 - Re-Create Yourself
Day 26 - Keep Your Hands Clean
Day 27 - Play on People’s Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
Day 28 - Enter Action with Boldness
Day 29 - Plan All the Way to the End
Day 30 - Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
Day 31 - Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal
Day 32 - Play to People’s Fantasies
Day 33 - Discover Each Man’s Thumbscrew
Day 34 - Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one
Day 35 - Master the Art of Timing
Day 36 - Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge
Day 37 - Create Compelling Spectacles
Day 38 - Think as you like but Behave like others
Day 39 - Stir up Waters to Catch Fish
Day 40 - Despise the Free Lunch
Day 41 - Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes
Day 42 - Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter
Day 43 - Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
Day 44 - Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
Day 45 - Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once
Day 46 - Never appear too Perfect
Day 47 - Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop
Day 48 - Assume Formlessness

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[–]TRP VanguardHumanSockPuppet 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Nice. This compendium will make it easy for us to reference good member insights made during each of the days.

[–]∞ Mod | RP Vanguardbsutansalt[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's the idea. I guess you could look at the author's post history of submitted threads, but this makes it easier to sidebar the whole thing.

[–]TRP VanguardHumanSockPuppet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whenever I have an experience or insight related to one of the laws, I'll definitely come back and add it to the thread - keep the discussions alive and relevant.

[–]M_rafay 5 points6 points  (3 children)

We should hold something like this once every year.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I recently read The Art of Worldly Wisdom. It has a format and theme similar to the 48 Laws of Power. Written in the 1600s, but still very relevant.

It mostly contains practical, strategical advice. How to socialize and politic effectively. A bit of commentary on moral virtues thrown in, as it was written by a Catholic priest, but without excessive prudishness.

Highly recommended reading for the RP man.

[–]EmperorAurelius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have this book. It's great.

[–]charlesbukowksi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Gracian, Nietzsche and whoever wrote that Craft of Power book are the main seminal works of 48Laws. Gracian and Nietzsche are particularly amazing writers.

[–]tinderdinner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I just start reading this whenever I have a free moment in the day. I've read up to day 14 so far.

[–]pjewa 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The final post, "Assume Formlessness" is done! That will complete this. Thanks for putting this together.

[–]∞ Mod | RP Vanguardbsutansalt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks again for doing that. I just added my TOC thread to the sidebar and stickied it.

[–]losectrl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Props to you sir for sticking with the whole list. Thanks very much, I've been reading the book, but this has broken it down in a digestible format with side orders of TRP insight in the comments. Excellent.

[–]pjewa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, thanks so much for doing this. Somehow I've only just noticed this.

[–]seeing-red- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome stuff.

The first sentence is no longer applicable now that it's complete and on the sidebar:

Here's a list of the continuing 48 Days of Power series by /u/pjewa. Once completed I'll be adding it to the sidebar.

[–]2RedPillSafe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is most challenging about this list is that individually you know they are all true and if you focus your attention on any one of them you can execute it's meaning effectively in your life.

It's when you try to embody the entire list in your life at all times that it gets hard.

One could spend their entire life perfecting this and always have room to improve.

  • Law 46:

"Desire to actually be perfect, but just don't show it."

(Day 46 - Never appear too Perfect)