The Keys to MASTERING Power In Your Life | Robert Greene EP 328

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1:12How do we stop that pattern? If we recognize it within ourselves, my character's been off, I've been doing something, for years a certain way that I don't want to do anymore. How do we do it so we can strengthen our character? But also, you know what? I believe this other person can have a stronger character through breaking a pattern. Or is it just not possible? Of course it's possible. At the end of every chapter, I show you how you can turn this potentially negative quality into a positive quality. When it comes to you and your own patterns, you have to first realize that you have these patterns before you can even begin to break them.

1:51If you don't admit that you have these patterns, then you can't possibly break them. I know in writing books, I have terrible, terrible patterns. Like what? Well, stressing so much over things that aren't that important. Obsessing, stressing, yeah. Obsessing. I take note cards for everything that I read, all my research, and I take way too much information. I have like thousands of them I'm writing. I have to stop and I say stop being so such a perfectionist. It's it's like you're wasting your time I'm very aware of it. I'm very aware of breaking that pattern But you have to see it and be honest with yourself in order to break it So that's the first step is is seeing the pattern and then not struggling against it Not trying to be somebody who you're not But find a way to use that pattern to use that problem to your advantage.

2:43I have an example in the book of an actress, Joan Crawford, from the Hollywood classical period. And she had a very troubled childhood. Didn't know her father, her mother beat her, men abused her, etc. And it was creating terrible patterns in her life. And she found a way to turn that around, to use all of those disadvantages and make herself a much stronger and very powerful performer by bringing all of the pain in her childhood into her acting. Because she had been abused, she was very sensitive to other people. She used that sensitivity to focus on the director and other actors to be in tune with them.

3:23And she was very aware of her own weaknesses and her own fragility, and she was able to use that as a strength. So with other people, it's never hopeless. I mean, some people are toxic. I talk a lot of them about toxic characters. Those are the kinds of people who can't really change their patterns or too ingrained. and we've all met people like that. We've all had to deal with the narcissist who's so deeply self-absorbed. There's nothing that's ever going to save them or pull them out of that self-absorption. Unless they have like a near-death experience or they have someone close to them. That's true.

3:58You know, something where it's like a big awakening. That's true. Or they get sick or whatever, right? You're right. That happens. That does happen. Sometimes. Sometimes it does. You have to not be naive and recognize these toxic types. and often it's best not to try and change them because trying to change them entangles you in a lot of their drama. They have to be motivated. You can help illuminate some of their patterns and their problems, but it has to come from within.

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5:44Thank you.