The 50th Law by Robert Greene and 50 Cent Chapter Summary - See Things for What They Are - Intense Realism

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See Things for What They Are--Intense Realism

• Intro
• Reality can be rather harsh. Your days are numbered. It takes constant effort to carve a place for yourself in the ruthlessly competitive world and hold on to it. People can be treacherous. They bring endless battles into your life. Your task is to resist the temptation to wish it were all different; instead you must fearlessly accept these circumstances, even embrace them. By focusing your attention on what is going on around you, you will gain a sharp appreciation for what makes some people advance and others fall behind. By seeing through people's manipulations, you can turn them around. The firmer your grasp on reality, the more power you will have to alter it for your purposes.
• Keys to Fearlessness
• Rediscover Curiosity--Openness
• Basic ignorance was what you had as a child. You had a need and hunger for knowledge, to overcome this ignorance, so you observed the world as closely as possible, absorbing large amounts of information. Everything was a source of wonder. With time our minds tend to close off. At some point, we feel like we know what we need to know; our opinions are certain and firm. We do this out of fear. We don't want our assumptions about life challenged. If we go too far in this direction, we can become extremely defensive and cover up our fears by acting with supreme confidence and certainty.
• What you need to do in life is return to that mind you possessed as a child, opening up to experience instead of closing it off. Just imagine for a day that you do not know anything, that what you believe could be completely false. Let go of your preconceptions and even your most cherished beliefs. Experiment. Force yourself to hold the opposite opinion or see the world through your enemy's eyes. Listen to the people around you with more attentiveness. See everything as a source for education--even the most banal encounters. Imagine that the world is still full of mystery.
• When you operate this way, you will notice that something strange often happens. Opportunities will begin to fall into your lap because you are suddenly more receptive to them. Sometimes luck or serendipity is more a function of the openness of your mind.
• Know the Complete Terrain--Expansion
• War is fought over specific terrain. But there is more involved than just that. There is also the morale of the enemy soldiers, the political leaders who set them in motion, the minds of the opposing generals who make the key decisions, and the money and resources that stand behind it all. A mediocre general will confine his knowledge to the physical terrain. A better general will try to expand his knowledge by reading reports about the other factors that influence an army. And the superior general will try to intensify this knowledge by observing as much as he can with his own eyes or consulting firsthand sources. Napoleon Bonaparte is the greatest general who ever lived, and what elevated him above all others was the mass of information he absorbed about all of the details of battle, with as few filters as possible. This gave him a superior grasp on reality.
• Your goal is to follow the path of Napoleon. You want to take in as much as possible with your own eyes. You communicate with people up an down the chain of command within your organization. You do not draw any barriers to your social interactions. You want to expand your access to different ideas. Force yourself to go to events and places that are beyond your usual circle. If you cannot observe something firsthand, try to get reports that are more direct and less filtered, or vary the sources so that you can see things from several sides. Get a fingertip feel for everything going on in your environment--the complete terrain.
• Dig to the Roots--Depth
• When you do not get to the root of a problem, you cannot solve it in any meaningful manner. People like to look at the surfaces, get all emotional and react, doing things that make them feel better in the short term but do nothing for them in the long term.
• This must be the power and the direction of your mind whenever you encounter some problem--to bore deeper and deeper until you get at something basic and at the root. Never be satisfied with what presents itself to your eyes. See what underlies it all, absorb it, and then dig deeper. Always question why this particular event has happened, what the motives of the various actors are, who really is in control, who benefits by this action. Often, it will revolve around money and power--that is what people are usually fighting over, despite the surface gloss they give to it. You may never get to the actual root, but the process of digging will bring you closer. And operating this way will help develop your mind into a powerful analytical instrument.
• See Further Ahead--Proportion
• By our nature as rational, conscious creatures, we cannot help but think of the future. But most people, out of fear, limit their view of the future to a narrow range--thoughts of tomorrow, a few weeks ahead, perhaps a vague plan for the months to come. We are generally dealing with so many immediate battles, it is hard for us to lift our gaze above the moment. It is a law of power, however, that the further and deeper we contemplate the future, the greater our capacity to shape it according to our desires.
• If you have a long-term goal for yourself, one that you have imagined in detail, then you are better able to make the proper decisions in the present. You know which battles or positions to avoid because they don't advance you towards your goal. With your gaze lifted to the future, you can focus on the dangers looming on the horizon and take proactive measures to avert them. You have a sense of proportion--sometimes the things we fuss over in the present don't matter in the long run. All of this gives you an increased power to reach your objectives.
• As part of this process, look at the smaller problems that are plaguing you or your enterprise in the present, and draw arrows to the future, imagining what they could possibly lead to if they grow larger. Think of the biggest mistakes or those of others. How could they have been foreseen? Generally there are signs that seem so obvious afterwards. Now imagine those very same signs that you are probably ignoring in the present.
• Look at People's Deeds, Not Words--Sharpness
• In war or any competitive game, you don't pay attention to people's good or bad intentions. They don't matter. It should be the same in the game of life. Everyone is playing to win, and some people will use moral justifications to advance their side. All you look at are people's maneuvers--their actions in the past and what you might expect in the future. In this area, you are fiercely realistic. You understand that everyone is after power, and that to get it we all occasionally manipulate and even deceive. That is human nature and there is no shame in it. You don't take people's maneuvers personally; you merely try to defend or advance yourself.
• As part of this approach, you must become a better observer of people. This cannot be done on the Internet. It must be honed in personal interactions. You are trying to read people, see through them as best you can. You come to understand, for instance, that a person who is too obviously friendly after too short a time is often up to no good. If they flatter you, it is generally out of envy. Behavior that stands out and seems excessive is a sign. Don't get caught up in people's grand gestures, in the public face they put on. Pay more attention to the details, to the little things they reveal in their day-to-day lives. Their decisions reveal a lot, and you can often discern a pattern if you look at them closely.
• In general, looking at people through the lens of your emotions will cloud what you see and make you misunderstand everything. What you want is a sharp eye towards your fellow humans--one that is piercing, objective, and nonjudgmental.
• Reassess Yourself--Detachment
• Your increasing powers of observation must occasionally be aimed at yourself. Think of this as a ritual you will engage in every few weeks--a rigorous reassessment of who you are and where you are headed. Look at your most recent actions as if they were the maneuvers of another person. Imagine how you could have done it all better--avoided unnecessary battles or confronted people who stood in your way, instead of running away from them. The goal here is not to beat up on yourself but to have the capacity to adapt and change your behavior by moving closer to the reality.
• The endgame of such an exercise is to cultivate the proper sense of detachment from yourself and from life. It is not that you want to feel this detachment at every moment. There are times that require you to act with heart and boldness, without doubts or self-distance. On many occasions, however, you need to be able to assess what is happening, without your ego or emotions coloring your perceptions. Moving to a calm, detached inner position to observe events will become a habit and something you can rely on amid any crisis. At those moments in life when others lose their balance, you will find yours with relative ease. As a person who cannot be easily ruffled by events, you will attract attention and power.

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Choice and the Power to Create - a Poem by Broderick Boyd

What to do? What to create?
I can create anything that I choose, It's just a question of what
My mind searches, my heart yearns for constructive effort
Moving in a new direction, moving in a great direction
How does this world change me? the ways that I let it.
Only that is what determines who I become
My choice, my life, my destiny
Life can't stop something like that from actually happening
My life growing the way I want it to, entering the domains that I choose
And there lies the key... the power of choice.
Will I continue this journey, or will I turn back?
Will I take the leap, or will I go back to where it's warm?
What choice have you taken today?
A reversal of that choice, what would that be like?
Don't look back, don't second guess, when you choose, you move, when you choose you live.
Anything less than that is simply death or the coming of death.




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Earth Journey - a Poem by Broderick Boyd

Taking the world one step at a time. 

Making my impact

Going my own way

Living for the sake of living

Growing for the sake of growing

Existing in a changing battlefield

Taking my time, going the way that needs to be gone

brushes across my soul, screams beyond my shoulders

The earth shifts, my mind drifts

I take it back, I regain the control

My life changes as necessity demands

Love will never challenge me more than this

Destiny brings me to the edge of bliss

tough love on a mothers son

the journey of a thousand miles has just begun.

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"If" by Rudyard Kipling

One of my favorite poems of all time: "If" by Rudyard Kipling, the author of "The Jungle Book." Enjoy.

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

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Chapter Summary - Desire - From the Book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill

Law 1 – Cultivate a Burning Desire to Succeed

• A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield.  He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe whose men outnumbered his own.  He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them.  Addressing his men before the first battle, he said “You see the boats going up in smoke.  That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win!  We now have no choice–we win-or we perish! They won.
• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.  Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.
• Every human being who reaches the age off understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it.  Wishing will not bring riches.  But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring success. 
• The method by which desire for success can be transmuted into it’s physical equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps:
1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire.  It is not sufficient to say "I want plenty of money."  Be definite as to the amount.  (There is a psychological reason for definiteness which will be described in a subsequent chapter).
2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing”)
3. Establish a definite date when you intend to posses the money you desire.
4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
5. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for it’s achievement, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to achieve it.
6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning.  AS YOU READ-SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.
• You may complain that it is impossible for you to "see yourself in possession of money" before you actually have it.  Here is where a BURNING DESIRE will come to your aid.  If you truly DESIRE money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it.  The object is to want to money, and to become so determined to have it that you CONVINCE yourself you will have it.
• Only those who become “money conscious” ever accumulate great riches.  “Money consciousness” means that your mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it.
• All who have accumulated great fortunes, first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, DESIRING, and PLANNING before they acquired money.
• You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money, and actually BELIEVE you will possess it.
• You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
• If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
• There is one quality which one must posses to win, and that is DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.
• The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be the pattern makers of civilization.
• We who desire to accumulate riches, should remember the real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intangible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity, and have converted those forces, (or impulses of thought), into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles, and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.
• Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today.  Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start. 
• In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer.  To win the big stakes, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit which serves as the life-blood of our own country-your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
• Let us not forget, Columbus dreamed of an unknown world, staked his life on the existence of such a world, and discovered it!
• "SUCCESS REQUIRES NO APOLOGIES, FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS."
• If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!  Put your dreams across and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they,” perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.
• "The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream."
• “The oak sleeps in the acorn.  The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a walking angel stirs.  DREAMS ARE THE SEEDLINGS OF REALITY.”
• The world is filled with an abundance of OPPORTUNITY which the dreamers of the past never knew.
• A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.  Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
• Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive."  The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves."
• Before passing to the next chapter, kindle anew in your mind the fire of hope, faith, courage, and a working knowledge of the principles described, all else that you need will come to you, when you are READY for it.  
• There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it.  No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it.  The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.  Open-mindedness is essential for belief.  Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
• Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.  A great poet has correctly stated this universal truth through these lines:
• “I bargained with life for a penny, and Life would pay no more, however I begged at evening when I counted my scanty store.  For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask, but once you have set the wages,         why you must bear the task.  I worked for a menial’s hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.”
• Through some strange and powerful principle of "mental chemistry" which she has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of STRONG DESIRE "that something" which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure

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The Power of Looking Beyond Your Own Pain

     There is an old Chinese tale about a woman whose only son died. In her grief, she went to a holy man and asked, "What magical incantations do you have to bring my son back to life?" Instead of sending her away or reasoning with her, he said to her, "Fetch me a mustard seed from a home that has never known sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life." The woman set off at once in search of that magical mustard seed. She came first to a splendid mansion, knocked at the door, and said, "I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a place? It is very important to me." They told her, "You've certainly come to the wrong place," and began to describe all the tragic things that had recently befallen them. The woman said to herself, "Who is better able to help these poor unfortunate people than I, who have had misfortune of my own?" She stayed to comfort them, then went on in search for a home that had never known sorrow. But wherever she turned, in hovels and palaces, she found one report after another of sadness and misfortune. Ultimately, the woman became so involved in ministering to other people's grief that she forgot about her quest for the magical mustard see, never realizing it had in fact driven the sorrow out of her life.

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