Additionally:You can look at the evidence:

-Men go to war.
-Men invented fighting sports and are the predominant consumers and participants.
-Being sedentary for too long can lower your T levels as a man.
-The most common outlets of high testosterone is activity and the most extreme of activities are violent activities.
-More men are willing to get into physical confrontations than women. Most street fights are men.

When you look at it from a 'good' or 'bad' perspective, it becomes easy to be bias. But nature doesn't lie and the evidence is everywhere.

Women are more emotionally reactive than men.

Being emotionally reactive is part of female nature. Men, who have higher testosterone levels than women, are less emotionally reactive.

Example: Emotionally reactive people are often the ones who commit mass shootings. The kid who was constantly bullied in school until he "had enough." It is easy to assume these kids have a violent nature, but that's not true.

Shooting up the school is NOT a logical conclusion. It is an emotional reaction.

Women are NOT more violent than men. Men go to war, not women. There are more men who are criminals than women. Not all men who are criminals have 'physical strength.' You don't need exceptional physical strength to be a drug dealer; you need high testosterone levels.

The same reason men are more able to control their emotions is why they are more violent that women; TESTOSTERONE.

This is why men with low T levels often behave emotionally. They act like women. They are often the ones who commit the aforementioned atrocities.

It is never the outgoing, social, sports playing student that commits the school shootings. It is always little kid who was bullied nonstop.

It is quite easy to conflate 'emotional reactivity' and a 'violent nature,' but they are not the same thing.

When an emotionally reactive woman gets into a position of power, it is easy for her to become tyrannical and lash out very often. This is because her emotions, regardless of how intelligent she is, will often be in the driving seat.

She will get upset more easily than a man, punish more often, and sometimes will be outright petty in some of her decisions. It is feminine nature. This doesn't mean she is more violent.

Women enjoy peace more than they enjoy violence. Men enjoy conflict more than they enjoy peace.

Women are caregivers, violence is inconducive for a nurturing environment. Men are protectors, violence is how you ensure a nurturing environment is not threatened.

Thus the two different traits and tendencies.

**Machiavellian Maxims

PART 3: MUTUAL INTEREST**
A lot of people put themselves in situations where they either come off as desperate or as miserable beggars simply by asking for favors without offering anything in return.

For most people who consider themselves worth less than the average person, or not worth much, doing random favors for strangers isn't that big of a deal.

And although this isn't to say you shouldn't do favors for people, you need to consider the opportunity cost and possible mental restructuring this might have on you.

Don't let yourself get to a point where you feel entitled to receiving favors from anyone, whomsoever.

When you approach a person, for whatever reason, you need to ask yourself what it is you bring to the table. If you offer 0, don't stress yourself about it.

At best, they help you but consider you a leech and that mental image is hard to get off someone's mind once it's there.
At worst, they ignore you and image you as someone who has no regard for their time.

But when you approach a person with a proposal with mutual interest, you make yourself more respectable.

Even if that person declines your proposal, the mental image they'll have of you would be far better, and the chances of you two doing something in the future increases.

This applies to everything.

You want to befriend this guy? How would his life get better because of him knowing you?
You want to date this person? How would their life be better because of you?

If you have no definitive answer to both, then you shouldn't fuss when people have no interest in associating with you.
You want to do business with someone? Cool, but why should they want to do business with you?

These are all questions you should ask yourself often.

And no, being a good person doesn't necessitate others to be good to you.

"Because you helped A doesn't mean B should help you." — ER

This delusion is a very strong one in a lot of people's minds. That's why you hear things like "bad things happen to good people."

No, bad things happen to everyone. You just hate that it happened to you too, because you're entitled and deluded.

In summary, never go seeking something without having something to offer it. It's like going to the market to buy foodstuff without currency.

Always consider mutual interest rather than self-interest

Law 13: Appeal To People's Self Interest, Never To Their Mercy

gonna have back to back spaces on Thursday with Andre, Brett then Evil Saint

LFG

**Machiavellian Maxims

PART 2: DISCRETION**
If knowledge is power, then the more knowledge a person has about you, the more potential power they have over you.

Likewise, the less a person knows about you, the less they can maneuver.

They would have to fill in knowledge gaps with guesses and extrapolations which are prone to inaccuracies and thus errors in judgment.

The question now is: why should you willingly offer knowledge that can be used against you and thus make the work of potential attackers easier for them?! — YOU SHOULDN'T!

Some people like to think they don't have enemies, but the fact remains that if you are ever to move up the hierarchy and reach a position of significance, you will make enemies whether you want to or not.

It's important to learn discretion early on.

People who aren't discrete often find themselves in auto mode where they offer information unprovoked. Sometimes they give away so much information there's practically nothing left to say. Some even enter a phase where they start to manufacture stories to keep it going.

This is a symptom of a much bigger problem and one that must be dealt with quickly and swiftly.

Types of personal information:

All information that concerns you and your activities/decisions is personal.
But even in personal information, there are those considered:

1. General knowledge
   & there's
2. Specific knowledge

Things that are General Knowledge are things that can be observed without your input.

With this kind of information, accurate conclusion can be reached by the average person without your intervention.

Being male or female is general knowledge.

Your size, the clothes you're wearing, the kind of haircut, whether you have a wristwatch on or not, are you tall and slender, short and chubby, etc.

Casual observation will lead to accurate conclusions in each of these cases.
You don't have a lot of control over this type of personal information.

Specific information however is not always readily available to an observer.

A person can't tell what restaurant you're going to have lunch at unless you tell them.
A person can't tell what you had for breakfast and whether or not you even had breakfast.
A person can't tell the exact amount in your bank account.

This type of personal information can only be obtained accurately with your intervention.

Discretion implores you to refrain from revealing specific information unnecessarily.

You don't need to tell the person you're with where you'll be in the next hour.
You don't need to tell the person you're talking to what you had for breakfast.

The less and less information you offer about yourself, the less the chances that such information may be used against you in the future.

You don’t have to be obsessively secretive, but you also shouldn’t be an open book.

Conversely, you want to obtain as much information as you can about people. So, if a person willingly offers information about themselves you should encourage them to keep doing so.

A popular example of how to be discrete in a specific situation would be to give out a pseudonym at locations you're not interested in building a personal relationship with.

If a person asks you about something you're not interested in letting them know, you can offer alternative information. This is a way of answering a question without providing the required information.

Question: "How is your relationship with Sarah"

Answer: "Oh Sarah, she's good. She just got admitted into law school. She's very well. Hey, you wanna grab a drink?"

You've not answered the question, but you've offered unnecessary information, which wasn't what was asked, and have immediately changed the topic.

A keen observer would catch you doing this, of course, but that shouldn’t be of concern to you. if the person has no business knowing, you are under no obligation to tell them.

Keep as much information to yourself as possible while getting people to share as much about them as possible.

**Machiavellian Maxims

PART 1: PUNISHING OFFENCES**Everybody has passed through a situation where a close one did something they shouldn't have, and out of your benevolent and tender heart, you decided to forgive them and let it go.

The problem is, you discover that after a while (depending on the gravity of the offense) they either lose regard for you completely or they start committing more similar offenses.

We all know the rest of the story; a falling out and permanent damage to the relationship.

So, you ask yourself what you did wrong in forgiving.

Forgiveness does not negate the need for punishment.Every offense must be punished, regardless of how minute it may be.

The punishment can range from temporary withdrawal of your attention to total severance of the relationship (depending on the magnitude of the offense).

When the damages a relationship incurs exceeds the benefits, severance is the only option.

Picture this:You walk up to your dad/friend/girlfriend and give them a very hard slap. But, instead of getting upset or retaliating, they simply say to you:

“I forgive you for this. Don’t do it again."

You won’t feel relief or joy at them forgiving you, but rather disgust at their lack of self-regard.

You will also become more likely to repeat that offense in the future. If you slapped your dad and he said that to you, you will lose all respect for him till your dying day.

Now, put yourself in the position of the person being slapped.

The way you’d lose respect/regard for the non-retaliatory victim is how people lose respect for you each time you fail to properly punish an offense.

The purpose of punishing offenses is not only for self-gratification but to serve as a deterrent against future offenses of a similar nature.

It may seem minute offenses can be ignored, but they really shouldn’t.

If the offense is of gravity X, then the punishment should be of magnitude 2X. If the offense is of gravity 2X, then the punishment should be of magnitude 4X. Double the punishment, so the gratification gotten from such an offense is never worth the punishment.

– If you speak to someone and they ignore you, punish them.
– If someone disregards your time, punish them.
–If someone openly disrespects you, openly humiliate them.
– If your girlfriend cheats on you, break up with her.
– If your friend insults you, withdraw your attention for a reasonable timeframe.

You need to make sure that it is clear messing with you will put people on your bad side. And you also need to ensure your bad side is not a conducive place to be.

You should also never threaten people as a deterrent. Wait for them to commit the abominable, and then PUNISH them for it.

"Remember, FORGIVENESS does not negate the need for PUNISHMENT."

Start with this:

Life is an endless game. You’ll play till you die.

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First set of posts will be The Machiavellian Maxims: REVISED.Startingtomorrow.