0:02 The world is a graveyard of good
0:05 intentions. Look around you. The people
0:08 who play by the rules, the ones who wait
0:10 for [music] permission, who believe that
0:13 being good is enough to be rewarded.
0:14 They are the ones who get devoured. [music]
0:15 [music]
0:17 They are the ones who work the hardest
0:19 and receive the least. [music] They are
0:22 the ones who are betrayed, overlooked,
0:24 and left behind. You have been told a
0:27 lie, a beautiful, comforting lie. You
0:29 were told that if you [music] are
0:31 honest, the world will be honest with
0:34 you. That if you are kind, you will be
0:36 treated with kindness. But deep down [music]
0:36 [music]
0:38 in the part of your mind you don't talk
0:40 about at dinner parties, you know the
0:43 truth. You know that power doesn't care
0:45 about your morality. [music] It cares
0:47 about your leverage. There is a reason
0:50 why the nice guy finishes last. [music]
0:52 It's not because he is unlucky. It's
0:54 because he is playing a game he doesn't understand.
0:55 understand. >> [music]
0:55 >> [music]
0:57 >> He is playing checkers while the masters
0:59 of reality are playing a different game
1:02 [music] entirely. A game written 500
1:05 years ago by a man who saw the human
1:07 soul not for what it should [music] be
1:10 but for what it actually is. Nicolo
1:13 Machavelli. This video is not for the
1:15 faint of heart. It is not for those who
1:16 want to be comforted [music]
1:19 or told that everything will be okay if
1:21 they just think positive. This is
1:23 [music] a wakeup call. I am going to
1:24 show you how to dismantle the
1:27 programming that has kept you weak. I am
1:29 going to show you how to think [music]
1:31 like a prince. To think like a
1:34 Machavevelian is not to become evil.
1:36 That is a child's understanding of the
1:38 philosophy. [music] To think like a
1:41 prince is to become effective. It is to
1:44 look at the machinery of human nature.
1:46 The greed, [music] the fear, the envy,
1:48 the ambition, and instead of being
1:50 disgusted by [music] it, you learn to
1:53 operate it. You learn to move the
1:56 levers. By the end of this audio, you
1:57 will have a new operating [music]
2:00 system. You will understand why you have
2:02 been losing battles you didn't even know
2:03 you were fighting. [music]
2:05 You will learn how to build a reputation
2:08 that shields you, how to use silence as
2:10 a weapon, and how to neutralize threats
2:13 before [music] they ever surface. But be
2:15 warned, there is a price for this
2:17 [music] clarity. Once you see the
2:20 strings, you can never go back to the
2:21 puppet [music] show. Once you understand
2:24 the mechanics of power, you lose the
2:26 luxury [music] of being naive. You will
2:29 walk through the world seeing the hidden
2:31 agendas in every handshake, [music]
2:34 the calculation behind every smile. If
2:35 you are not ready for that solitude,
2:38 [music] stop this video now. Go back to
2:41 sleep. But if you are tired of being a
2:43 porn in someone else's [music] game,
2:47 stay. Let's begin the surgery. Lesson
2:50 one, the death of idealism. The first
2:52 [music] step to thinking like a prince
2:55 is the most painful. You must kill the
2:58 idealist in you. Most people live in a
3:00 hallucination. They live in the world of
3:02 should. People should be grateful.
3:05 [music] My boss should notice my hard
3:07 work. My partner should be loyal because
3:11 I was loyal to them. This word should is
3:13 the source of all your suffering. It is
3:16 a denial of reality. Machaveli wrote, "A
3:18 man who wishes to make a profession of
3:20 goodness [music] in everything must
3:22 necessarily come to grief among so many
3:24 who are not good." [music]
3:27 Read that again. If you insist on being
3:29 good in a world that is not, you will be
3:32 destroyed. This is not cynicism. [music]
3:34 This is physics. When a lamb walks into
3:37 a den of wolves, the lamb does not get
3:39 credit [music] for its purity. It gets
3:42 eaten. To think like a prince, you must
3:44 stop looking at the world through the
3:46 lens of your own virtues. You must strip
3:48 away the paint and [music] look at the
3:51 rotting wood underneath. Humans are
3:53 driven by self-interest. That is [music]
3:56 the baseline. When someone helps you,
3:58 they are helping themselves. When
4:00 someone loves you, they are [music]
4:03 loving how you make them feel. When
4:05 someone follows you, they are following
4:06 the security or profit [music] you
4:09 provide. Accepting this doesn't make you
4:11 bitter. It makes you free. [music]
4:13 When you stop expecting people to be
4:16 saints, you stop being disappointed when
4:18 they act like [music] sinners. You stop
4:20 being blindsided by betrayal because you
4:23 factor it into your calculations. You
4:25 realize that loyalty [music] is not a
4:28 character trait. It is a circumstantial
4:30 agreement. As long as your interests
4:33 align with theirs, they are loyal. >> [music]
4:33 >> [music]
4:35 >> The moment the wind changes, the
4:38 agreement expires. The prince does not
4:40 rely on the virtue of others. [music] He
4:44 relies on their necessity. He creates a
4:46 situation where it is in their best
4:48 interest [music] to be loyal to him.
4:50 Imagine you are in a burning building. A
4:52 [music] good person hopes the fire
4:55 department arrives. A Machavelian finds
4:57 [music] the exit. He doesn't hate the
4:59 fire. He doesn't argue with the fire.
5:02 [music] He respects the fire for what it
5:04 is. a destructive force and he maneuvers
5:06 around it. You [music] must become a
5:10 realist. Radical, brutal realism. When
5:11 you look at your life, stop [music]
5:13 telling yourself the story you want to
5:16 hear. Look at the data. If you are
5:18 broke, it's not because the system is
5:20 unfair. [music] Even if it is, it's
5:22 because you haven't learned how to
5:25 extract value. If you are lonely, it's
5:27 not because people are shallow. It's
5:28 because you haven't mastered the art of
5:31 attraction and value exchange. The
5:34 idealist begs for a lighter load. The
5:37 prince builds a stronger back. Drop the
5:40 should. Look at the is. This is the
5:42 foundation. Without this, you are
5:45 building a castle on a swamp. You cannot
5:48 navigate a terrain you refuse to see.
5:51 Lesson two, the masks we wear. Now that
5:53 you see reality, you [music] must decide
5:56 what reality you show to others.
5:58 Machaveli famously said, [music]
6:00 "Everyone sees what you appear to be."
6:03 Few experience what you really are. In
6:05 the modern world, authenticity is
6:08 marketed as a virtue. [music] Just be
6:11 yourself, they tell you. Be vulnerable.
6:14 This is dangerous advice. It is bait. [music]
6:14 [music]
6:16 If you show the world your weaknesses,
6:19 your insecurities, and your unfiltered
6:21 thoughts, you are handing them the knife
6:24 to cut you with. The prince understands
6:26 that he is not a person to the public.
6:29 He is a symbol. He is a projection. You
6:32 must curate your [music] avatar. This is
6:35 not about lying. It is about selective
6:38 [music] revelation. You must appear to
6:39 have the qualities that the world
6:42 respects. You must appear competent. You
6:44 must appear unshakable. [music] You must
6:47 appear to have moral fortitude even if
6:49 your private decisions are purely [music]
6:49 [music]
6:53 pragmatic. Why? Because humans judge
6:56 with their eyes, not their hands. They
6:58 believe the performance. Think of the
7:00 most powerful people you know. Not
7:03 necessarily the loudest, but the ones
7:05 who command the room. Do you know their
7:08 deepest fears? Do you know what they cry
7:11 about at 3:00 a.m.? No. [music] You see
7:13 the suit. You see the posture. You hear
7:16 the calm voice. You see the mask. And
7:18 because the mask is strong, you trust
7:21 them. You follow them. If a general
7:23 walks onto the battlefield and starts
7:26 weeping about how scared he is, the army
7:29 [music] collapses. His authenticity
7:31 destroys his utility. He must [music]
7:34 wear the mask of courage so that others
7:36 can borrow bravery from him. To think
7:38 like a prince, you must separate your
7:41 private self [music] from your public
7:43 persona. Your private self is for you
7:46 and perhaps one or two people who have
7:48 earned the right to see it. Your public
7:51 persona is a tool for influence. [music]
7:53 Craft it. What do you want people to
7:55 feel when you walk into a room? Fear. [music]
7:56 [music]
7:59 respect, love, comfort. If you want them
8:02 to feel [music] comfort, you wear the
8:04 mask of the listener. You nod. You make
8:07 eye contact. [music] You speak softly.
8:10 You make them feel heard. If you want
8:12 them to feel respect, you wear the mask
8:14 of the architect. You [music] speak
8:16 less. You take up space. You delay your
8:19 reactions. You make them wait. This is
8:21 not fake. It is functional. [music]
8:24 It is social camouflage. Machaveli
8:26 advised that a ruler should appear
8:26 merciful, [music]
8:29 faithful, humane, religious, and
8:31 upright. But his mind should be flexible
8:33 enough to be the opposite if [music] the
8:36 situation demands it. Consider the
8:38 workplace. The person who gets promoted
8:41 is rarely the one who works the hardest.
8:43 It is the one who looks like a leader.
8:45 It is the one who manages their
8:46 reputation. [music] The one who
8:49 complains about the workload looks weak.
8:51 The one who silently [music] delegates
8:53 and presents the finished project looks
8:56 capable. Control the narrative. If you
8:58 don't write your own story, [music] your
9:01 enemies will write it for you. And they
9:03 will not write you as the hero. They
9:05 [music] will write you as the villain or
9:08 worse, the fool. Never let your guard
9:10 down [music] in public. Never bleed in
9:13 sharkinfested waters. If you are hurt,
9:15 you smile. [music] If you are failing,
9:18 you project stability. You fix the leak
9:20 below the waterline in [music] the dark
9:23 where no one can see. On the surface,
9:26 the ship sails smoothly. This is the
9:28 discipline [music] of the prince. The
9:31 mask is heavy, yes, but it is better to
9:33 wear a heavy mask than to have your face
9:36 ripped [music] off. Lesson three, the
9:38 lion and the fox. There are two [music]
9:41 ways to fight. One is with laws, the
9:44 other is with force. The first is for
9:47 men, the second [music] is for beasts.
9:49 But because laws are often insufficient,
9:52 one must have recourse to the beast.
9:54 Machaveli uses the metaphor of the
9:57 [music] lion and the fox. The lion is
9:59 strong. It can crush the wolf. It
10:01 terrifies through sheer presence and
10:02 power. [music]
10:05 The fox is cunning. It can spot the
10:07 traps that the lion would step in.
10:10 [music] It maneuvers. It uses strategy.
10:12 You cannot just be the lion. If you only
10:14 use aggression, [music] dominance, and
10:17 brute force, you will eventually walk
10:19 into a trap you didn't see, you will be
10:22 outsmarted by someone physically weaker,
10:24 but mentally sharper. You cannot [music]
10:28 just be the fox. If you only use tricks,
10:30 lies, and evasion. Eventually, you will
10:32 be cornered by a wolf who doesn't care
10:35 about your riddles and will simply tear
10:36 your throat out. [music] You must be
10:39 both. Thinking like a prince means
10:41 knowing which tool to use. Most people
10:43 have a default [music] setting. Some
10:45 people are naturally aggressive. They
10:48 yell. They intimidate. Others are
10:50 naturally passive [music] aggressive.
10:53 They plot. They gossip. The master has
10:56 no default. The master assesses the
10:58 threat. [music] Is the problem a trap?
11:00 Is someone trying to deceive you? Trying
11:03 to sign you into a bad contract? [music]
11:05 Trying to ruin your reputation with
11:07 rumors? Be the fox. [music]
11:09 Don't fight them with anger. Fight them
11:12 with confusion. Feed them false
11:15 information. Smile while you dismantle
11:17 their plan. Let them think they are
11:19 winning until the moment the trap
11:21 [music] snaps shut on their own leg. Is
11:24 the problem a wolf? Is someone openly
11:25 challenging your authority? Are [music]
11:28 they stealing from you right in front of
11:30 your face? Be the lion. This [music] is
11:33 not the time for subtle games. This is
11:35 the time for a display [music] of
11:38 absolute power. You strike. You strike
11:42 hard. You make an example. Machaveli
11:43 wrote a line that chills the [music]
11:46 blood of the modern moralist. People
11:48 should either be caressed or crushed. If
11:51 you do the minor damage, they will get
11:52 their revenge. But if you [music]
11:54 them, there is nothing they can
11:57 do. If you need to injure someone, do it
11:59 in such a way that you do not have to
12:01 fear their [music] vengeance. This is
12:04 the dark core of strategy. Most people
12:07 do minor damage. [music] They insult
12:09 someone. They make a petty comment. They
12:12 leave a passive aggressive note. All
12:14 this does is create an enemy who [music]
12:16 will wait for the chance to hurt you
12:18 back. You have created resentment
12:21 [music] without removing the threat. The
12:23 prince does not engage in petty
12:25 conflicts. He ignores the minor [music]
12:28 slights. The fox. But if a conflict is
12:30 inevitable, if the war must be fought,
12:33 [music] he ends it. He destroys the
12:35 enemy's ability to retaliate. In a
12:37 corporate setting, [music] this doesn't
12:39 mean violence. It means you don't just
12:42 argue with a toxic coworker. You
12:44 document their incompetence for 6 months
12:46 and have them fired. You remove them
12:49 from the board completely. Caress or
12:52 crush. Be the friend they love or the
12:54 enemy they fear. Never be the annoyance
12:56 they despise. [music] Look at your own
12:59 life. Where are you being a lion when
13:01 you should be a fox? Screaming at
13:03 traffic. Arguing with strangers on the
13:06 internet. wasted energy. Where are you
13:09 being a fox when you should be a lion?
13:11 Letting someone disrespect your
13:13 boundaries repeatedly, hoping they will
13:16 get the [music] hint. That is weakness.
13:18 Calibrate your beast. Switch modes
13:21 instantly. This unpredictability makes
13:22 you terrifying. [music]
13:24 If people don't know if they are going
13:26 to get the charming diplomat or the
13:27 ruthless warlord, they will [music]
13:30 tread very carefully around you. Lesson
13:33 four, emotional alchemy. [music] We
13:36 touched on this, but we must go deeper.
13:38 The greatest enemy of the prince is not
13:40 the user, not the assassin, not the
13:43 rival kingdom. The greatest enemy is his
13:45 own emotion. [music] Emotions are
13:48 biological algorithms designed for
13:50 survival on the savannah, not for
13:52 dominance in the boardroom. Anger makes
13:55 you impulsive. [music] Fear makes you
13:58 hesitate. Love makes you blind. Envy
14:00 makes you reckless. If you can trigger
14:03 my emotion, you can control my action.
14:06 If I can make you angry, I can make you
14:07 make a mistake. [music] If I can make
14:10 you afraid, I can make you retreat. To
14:12 think like a Machavevelian is [music] to
14:15 view your own emotions as external
14:17 weather patterns. You feel the rain, but
14:19 you are not the rain. [music] You do not
14:22 get wet. This is the state of the cold
14:24 observer. When [music] chaos erupts,
14:27 when the crisis hits, the average person
14:29 panics, their pulse rises, their
14:32 preffrontal cortex shuts down, and they
14:35 revert to animal instinct. The prince
14:37 trains himself to do the opposite. When
14:39 the pressure rises, he becomes colder.
14:42 He becomes slower. Silence becomes his
14:45 refuge. Imagine a negotiation. The other
14:47 side is shouting, demanding,
14:49 threatening. They are red in the [music]
14:52 face. You sit there perfectly still. You
14:55 look them in the eye. You say nothing.
14:57 In that moment, you have won. Their
15:00 noise is crashing against your silence
15:02 like waves against a [music] cliff. They
15:04 are exhausting themselves. You are
15:06 gathering data. You are watching their
15:08 pupils dilate. [music] You are hearing
15:10 the crack in their voice. You are not
15:13 reacting. You are analyzing. Why is he
15:16 shouting? [music] He is afraid. What is
15:18 he afraid of? Losing the deal.
15:21 Therefore, I have the leverage. This
15:24 detachment allows you to use emotions as
15:24 tools [music]
15:27 rather than being used by them. You can
15:29 perform anger if it serves a strategic
15:31 purpose. [music] You can slam your fist
15:33 on the table to make a point, but your
15:36 heart rate hasn't [music] changed. That
15:38 is the difference between a tantrum and
15:41 a tactic. Machaveli suggests that it is
15:43 better to be feared [music] than loved
15:46 if you cannot be both. Why? Because love
15:48 is volatile. >> [music]
15:48 >> [music]
15:51 >> People fall in and out of love based on
15:54 their own whims. Love is a bond of
15:56 obligation which [music] men being
15:58 wretched creatures break whenever it
16:01 suits them. But fear, fear is maintained
16:03 by a dread [music] of punishment which
16:07 never fails. This sounds harsh, but look
16:08 at reality. [music]
16:10 The boss who tries to be everyone's best
16:14 friend gets walked all over. He is loved
16:16 maybe, but he is not respected. [music]
16:19 When the layoffs come, he is ignored.
16:21 The boss who is fair but strict, who
16:23 sets boundaries, who people know will
16:25 fire them if [music] they steal or slack
16:28 off, he is respected. He is perhaps a
16:31 little feared. And because of that,
16:33 [music] the ship stays afloat. You don't
16:36 need to be a tyrant. You just need to be
16:38 capable of consequences. If people know
16:40 you have teeth, [music] you rarely have
16:43 to bite. The threat is enough. But if
16:45 you are toothless, if you are purely
16:48 emotional, soft, [music] and reactive,
16:50 you will be chewed up. Practice the
16:52 pause. When something happens that
16:55 [music] triggers you, insert a 5-second
16:58 gap before you respond. [music] In that
17:01 gap, the prince awakes. In that gap, you
17:03 choose [music] the response that
17:05 benefits your long-term goal, not the
17:08 response that satisfies your immediate
17:10 urge. [music] Conquer yourself, and you
17:13 can conquer the world. Lesson five, the
17:16 utility of morality. We need to discuss
17:18 [music] morality. We are raised to
17:21 believe that morality is absolute. Good
17:24 is good, bad is bad. Machaveli
17:27 introduces a terrifying [music] concept.
17:30 Morality is relative to the outcome. He
17:32 judges a leader not by his intentions
17:35 but [music] by his results. If a ruler
17:38 is good and kind and refuses to go to
17:40 war, but his hesitation allows
17:42 barbarians to invade and slaughter his
17:45 entire population, [music] was he truly
17:49 good? His virtue led to a genocide. If a
17:51 ruler is cruel [music] and executes a
17:54 few traitors, but that act secures peace
17:56 and stability for millions for a
17:58 generation, was he bad? [music] His
18:01 cruelty created life. This is the burden
18:04 of command. You must be willing to do
18:06 the necessary evil to secure the greater
18:08 [music] good. This is where people
18:11 struggle. They want to keep their hands
18:13 clean. The prince knows his hands will
18:16 never be clean. In your life, this
18:18 translates to making the hard decisions
18:21 that nice people avoid. [music]
18:23 It means cutting off a toxic family
18:25 member to save your own mental health.
18:28 The nice thing to do is to [music] keep
18:30 suffering. The Machavelian thing to do
18:33 is to amputate the gangrinous limb to
18:35 [music] save the body. It means firing
18:38 the employee who has a family but is
18:40 destroying the company culture. It means
18:42 breaking up with someone you [music]
18:44 care about because their path does not
18:47 lead where you are going. These actions
18:50 feel mean. They feel cold, but they are
18:53 necessary. [music] Hesitation is the
18:55 thief of destiny. When you know what
18:58 must be done, do it immediately. Do not
19:01 agonize. Do not wallow in guilt. [music]
19:04 Guilt is a mechanism of social control.
19:06 It is society's voice in your head
19:08 telling you to conform. The prince
19:11 listens to a higher law, effectiveness,
19:14 survival, growth. Does this mean you go
19:16 around hurting people for fun? [music]
19:20 No. That is sadism. And sadism is
19:23 inefficient. It creates unnecessary
19:25 enemies. Machaveli warns against [music]
19:28 being hated. Being feared is good. Being
19:31 hated is dangerous. You avoid being
19:33 hated by keeping your hands off people's
19:35 [music] property and their women. You
19:37 don't take what isn't yours without
19:39 cause. You don't act capriciously. Your
19:42 cruelty must always have a reason. It
19:44 must be [music] logical. If you punish
19:47 someone, explain why. You violated the
19:48 code. [music]
19:50 This is the consequence. People can
19:54 accept harsh justice. They cannot accept
19:56 random violence. Be [music] predictable
19:59 in your standards, but unpredictable in
20:02 your strategy. View morality not as a
20:04 set of chains, [music] but as a compass.
20:07 Sometimes the compass points north,
20:09 sometimes south. You go where the
20:12 survival of your kingdom demands. If you
20:14 cling to a rigid code of being a nice
20:16 person, [music] you are bringing a rule
20:18 book to a knife fight. The other guy
20:21 doesn't care about your rules. He cares
20:23 about winning and history is written by
20:27 the winners. Lesson six, the power of
20:30 absence. Value is driven by scarcity.
20:32 The more there is of something, the less
20:35 it is worth. This applies to gold. This
20:37 applies to diamonds. And it applies to
20:39 you. [music] The mistake most people
20:42 make is they are too available. They are
20:44 always there. They answer the phone on
20:46 the first ring. [music] They say yes to
20:49 every invitation. They pour their energy
20:51 out like water from a broken pipe.
20:52 [music] And because they are always
20:55 available, they are taken for granted.
20:59 Familiarity breeds contempt. This is a
21:02 law of human nature. If you want to be
21:04 treated like a prince, [music] you must
21:06 learn the art of withdrawal. You must
21:08 learn to starve the world of your
21:11 presence. When you are always in the
21:13 room, people stop looking at you. You
21:15 become furniture. [music] But when you
21:18 leave, the dynamic changes. Where did he
21:22 go? What is he doing? Is he angry? Is he
21:25 busy? Your absence creates space for
21:28 their imagination. And their imagination
21:30 will paint [music] a picture of you that
21:33 is far more impressive than the reality.
21:35 They will project power onto your
21:37 silence. [music] Use this consciously.
21:40 In a negotiation, be ready to walk away.
21:42 [music] The person who is willing to
21:45 walk away holds all the power. The
21:47 person who needs the deal has already
21:50 lost. In a relationship, maintain your
21:53 own life, your own hobbies, your own
21:56 world. Do not merge completely. Keep a
21:58 part of yourself hidden, a garden that
22:02 is walled off. This mystery keeps desire
22:04 alive. In conversation, stop
22:07 overexlaining. Weak people talk to fill
22:10 the silence because silence makes them
22:13 anxious. They feel they need to justify
22:14 their existence. The prince [music]
22:17 speaks only when necessary. He answers
22:19 the question with a few words and
22:22 [music] then he stops. He waits. He lets
22:25 the silence hang in the air. He lets the
22:26 other person feel the weight of it.
22:28 [music] Usually the other person will
22:30 start babbling, revealing their
22:33 insecurities, their true intentions,
22:35 their cards. You [music] collect this
22:38 information, you say nothing. This
22:39 economy of words projects [music]
22:42 immense confidence. It says, "I do not
22:45 need your validation. I [music] am
22:48 comfortable in the void. Be a rare coin.
22:50 Do not be the penny found on the
22:52 sidewalk. [music] Make people work for
22:54 your attention. Make them earn your
22:57 time. When you give it, it is a reward.
22:58 When [music] you withdraw it, it is a
23:01 punishment. You become the sun. When you
23:03 shine, they feel warm. When you go
23:05 behind a cloud, they feel [music] the
23:08 chill. They will chase the warmth. They
23:10 will addict themselves to your approval.
23:12 But you can only have this power if you
23:14 are willing to step back. [music]
23:16 If you are willing to be alone. Most
23:18 people cannot handle the solitude. [music]
23:19 [music]
23:21 They need the constant feedback loop of
23:23 the crowd. The prince is comfortable in
23:27 the dark. Lesson seven, the architect.
23:29 We arrive at the final lesson. [music]
23:31 Why? Why go through all this trouble?
23:34 Why wear the mask? Why calculate? Why
23:37 detach? [music] Is it just for money,
23:39 for fame, for control? Those are side
23:41 effects. [music] The true goal of the
23:44 Machavevelian is autonomy. Total
23:47 absolute freedom. [music] If you do not
23:50 rule your own mind, society will rule it
23:52 for you. If you do [music] not create
23:55 your own values, you will be enslaved by
23:57 the values of the herd. If you do not
23:59 design your own life, [music] you will
24:01 be assigned a role in someone else's
24:04 script and the role they assign you will
24:06 be [music] background character number
24:09 43. You will be the worker, be the
24:11 consumer, the voter, [music] the cog.
24:14 Machaveli wrote for princes. He wrote
24:17 for the men who refuse to be cogs. He
24:19 wrote for the architects. [music] You
24:21 are building a kingdom. It might be a
24:24 business. It might be a body of work. It
24:26 [music] might be a family. It might just
24:29 be the kingdom of your own mind, but it
24:32 is yours. And [music] to protect it, you
24:35 need walls. You need weapons. You need
24:37 strategy. Thinking like a prince is not
24:39 about oppressing others. It [music] is
24:42 about preventing others from oppressing
24:45 you. It is about creating a fortress so
24:47 strong that you can live by your own
24:49 rules. Look [music] at the people who
24:51 claim to be free, but are slaves to
24:53 their impulses, slaves [music] to debt,
24:56 slaves to the opinions of strangers on
24:58 social media. They are not free. They
25:00 are driftwood [music] floating in the
25:03 ocean. The prince is the ship. He has an
25:05 engine. He has a rudder. He cuts through
25:08 the waves. This path requires you to
25:11 accept full responsibility. You can no
25:13 longer blame your parents. You can no
25:15 longer blame the economy. [music] You
25:17 can no longer blame your nature.
25:20 Machaveli says that fortune, luck,
25:22 controls half our actions, [music] but
25:24 she leaves the other half to be governed
25:28 by us. A flood may destroy a village.
25:30 [music] That is fortune. But the prince
25:33 builds dams and dikes before the flood
25:36 comes. [music] That is virtue. That is
25:38 strategy. Stop complaining about the
25:41 [music] rain. Build the dam. This is the
25:43 ultimate empowerment. It is the
25:46 realization that you are not a victim of
25:48 reality. You are [music] a co-creator of
25:51 it. You can bend the world. It is heavy.
25:54 Yes, [music] it resists. Yes. But with
25:56 the right lever, with the right pressure
25:59 applied at the right point, it moves,
26:01 but you [music] must be patient. The
26:03 prince plays the long game. The fool
26:06 wants the reward today. The prince
26:08 plants the tree that will bear fruit in
26:10 10 years. [music] He endures the
26:13 boredom. He endures the silence. He
26:15 endures the misunderstanding of the
26:18 crowd because he sees the summit. And he
26:20 knows that the view from the top is
26:22 worth [music] the climb through the mud.
26:25 So you have the keys. You know now that
26:27 the [music] mask is necessary. You know
26:30 that emotions are data, not directives.
26:33 You know that morality is a tool, not a
26:35 chain. [music] You know that silence is
26:37 louder than noise. You know that you
26:39 must be both the lion and [music] the
26:42 fox. The veil has been lifted. You can
26:44 look at the news, look at [music] your
26:46 boss, look at your relationships, and
26:49 see the machinery working underneath. It
26:52 is a profound power, but it is also a
26:55 burden. The crown [music] is heavy. The
26:58 air at the top is thin. Most people
27:00 climb a little way up, feel the chill,
27:02 and run back down to [music] the warmth
27:05 of the herd. They choose the blue pill.
27:07 They choose the illusion. They [music]
27:09 choose to be happy sheep rather than
27:12 lonely wolves. And that is fine. The
27:13 world needs sheep. [music]
27:15 But I don't think that is you. I think
27:18 you are still here listening to this
27:20 voice because [music] you feel something
27:23 else. You feel the hunger. You feel the
27:25 potential for something greater. You are
27:27 willing to carry the [music] weight. Now
27:30 you must ask yourself, what will you
27:32 build with this power? [music]
27:34 Will you become a tyrant consumed by
27:37 your own paranoia? Or will you become a
27:40 true prince, a creator of order, a
27:42 protector [music] of your own, a master
27:45 of your fate? The tools are in your
27:48 hands. [music] The rest is will. If this
27:51 opened your eyes, understand this is
27:53 only what I can show publicly. [music]
27:55 There are videos I cannot upload for
27:57 everyone. There are aspects of dark
27:59 psychology that I simply [music] cannot
28:02 discuss on YouTube without being
28:04 censored, demonetized, or buried.
28:06 [music] The algorithm suppresses the
28:09 most powerful information. It protects
28:11 the herd from the wolves. But you are
28:15 not the herd. Those advanced strategies
28:18 exist behind the join button. If you are
28:20 still here listening to the very end,
28:22 you are not like the [music] others. You
28:25 have the attention span of a predator.
28:27 Subscribe if you haven't. But if you
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28:38 into the deepest parts of manipulation,
28:41 [music] power dynamics, and shadow work.
28:43 Most won't. They will leave a comment
28:45 and move on to a cat video. [music]
28:48 That's the point. Power is for the few.
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