theDuke

big boy

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

One of the fastest trust-building tools that exists: Letting someone teach you something you already know. Learning from someone validates their importance and lowers their guard simultaneously. And let them know later on, their advice helped.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Luck is a mathematical equation.

You increase your odds by putting yourself in places where rare opportunities can find you, by repeating high-upside actions long enough for variance to work in your favour, by building skills that make you useful when the door opens, by staying healthy enough to keep playing, and by taking enough intelligent risks that one of them eventually compounds.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are.

If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

[Joe Lampton @joelampton_]

You can sit and do “looksmaxxing” for 10 years

Then someone that looks like Rick Ross or DJ Khaled still fucks better bitches than you

You can read 1000 books and be very smart

But people will still listen and worship what someone like Meek Mill says just because he’s famous

As a man it’s important to be high status in order to matter in society and wield power over your surroundings. The other things come second.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Your biggest issue is that you're trying to make better decisions when you should instead be making better responses. It sounds awkward, but it's rather simple: according to game theory, practically everything is a game. In these games, you don't make decisions at all. They're called responses instead. That's because everything is dynamic. When you're making a decision, you're asking, "What is the next step right now?" which is shortsighted. When you're responding, you're thinking, "How does this impact my position, and could it come back to bite me?" This is a seemingly irrelevant shift that thoroughly changes how you think. Responding beats deciding every time.

[Devon Canup @devoncnp]

Being an entrepreneur is discovering how f***ing stupid you were 6 months ago, every 6 months.

[48 Laws Of Power Bot @48_quotes]

As a person of power, you must research and practice endlessly before appearing in public, onstage or anywhere else.

[Skill of Life @skill_of_life]

The peak of intelligence is being able to take any public insult, laugh as if it were a joke, and tell them to repeat it as much as they want.

When you transform negativity into your energy, everyone around you will see your aura, bigger, sparkling, shining brightly. That is a whole different level of handling situations that many people are afraid of.

And the interesting part is that the one who insults you becomes smaller; they shrink, they feel powerless, they feel guilty for their childish behavior.

Don't be afraid of public insult. Let them, and use it to spark your aura, to become more powerful.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The fastest way to detect manipulation is to watch for people who push urgency without giving you time to think, so build a rule where you never agree to important decisions in the same moment they are presented, because time pressure is often used to bypass your judgment.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The average man is too honest in places where he should be strategic, and too dishonest in places where he should be accountable. He reveals his plans to strangers, but lies to himself about his habits. Power begins when you reverse this. Be private with the world. Be mercilessly honest with yourself.

[Joe Lampton @joelampton_]

Think bigger son

People at the top be having kids, wives, mistresses, controversies, employees, crazy ex's, court cases, enemies lurking, exaggerated levels of stress, fun, lots of friends

And you're stressed for a lil argument, or for some small agument at your job 😂

[TheManMaker @TheManMakerx]

The most attractive thing a man can develop is emotional independence.

She replies → you’re fine.
She doesn’t → you’re fine.

She stays → you’re fine.
She leaves → you’re fine.

Your emotional stability should depend on you.

Only you.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Never spend so much time on your studies that you neglect your social skills.

[Distractosphere @Distractosphere]

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

[Melanin Queen👑🌹 @onlyone_success]

Women do not operate with a code of honor. They do not feel obligated to repay your sacrifices with loyalty. When you spend on her, provide for her, and go out of your way for her, she does not see it as something she must repay. She sees it as your role, your responsibility.

She will take everything you give and still leave when she finds someone who offers more. She will not remember the sacrifices you made, she will only remember that you are not giving enough now.

So do not expect her to be loyal because you gave. Protect yourself.

[theDuke @duke4568]

@___arthurk @incentivising Teach me more. Sounds great!

[theDuke @duke4568]

@m_rivera_trades @incentivising Please tell me more. This is awesome.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory pretty much proves that the long game is not a strategy most people can execute at all. That's because it tends to require a negative short-term position in exchange for a real advantage later. Most people cannot commit to this because their threat-detection system reads current loss as an existential failure. And that's vicious short-sightedness. It leads them to optimize for visible progress and sacrifice their real position. The people who constantly win rarely have better information. Instead, they accept that losing now will pay off later. Never quit a game before it starts.

[Shudufhadzo @ShudufhadzoRSA]

Just Build It.

Especially in South Africa. The whole country is stuck chasing cheques and pretending to be working that no one is willing to sit down and solve the hard stuff.

Solve the hard problems.

Also BUILD IN PUBLIC and be comfortable FAILING IN PUBLIC.

It's how you get better

[Sam Odio @sodio]

@petergyang negs or encourgement?

I recently interviewed Jesse Vincent for @aiworthusing and was surprised to hear that encouragement outperformed criticism… which also reminds me of the recent anthropic’s recent proof.