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Law #16 – Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
Law #16: Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor Law #16 means controlling access with enough discipline that your presence retains weight and your attention continues to signal consequence. What remains permanently available is quickly treated as ordinary, whereas a deliberate interval allows memory, anticipation and comparison to raise perceived value. Absence is not disappearance…
Read MoreLaw #15: Crush Your Enemy Totally
Law #15: Crush Your Enemy Totally Law #15 means ending a rival’s capacity and incentive to resume the contest, rather than congratulating yourself for winning one visible exchange. A partial victory often produces the most dangerous combination in politics: humiliation without obedience. The defeated party retains its people, grievances, relationships and route back to power,…
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