The Concise Laws of Power

KEEP OTHERS IN SUSPENSE CULTIVATE AN AIR OF UNPREDICTABILITY

Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people's actions your predictability give them a sense of control turn the tables be deliberately unpredictable behaviour that seems to have no consistency or couples will keep them off balance and they will wear themselves out trying to explain your moves taken to an extreme this strategy can intimidate and terrorize nothing is more terrifying than the sudden and unpredictable that is why we are so frightened by earthquakes and tornadoes with not know what they will strike after one has occurred in weight in tariff for the next 12 a lesser degree this is the effect that unpredictable human behaviour has on us animals behave in set patterns which is why we are able to hunt and kill them only man has the capacity consciously to alter his behaviour to improvise and overcome the weight of retainer Abbot yet most men do not realise these power they prefer The comforts of return of giving him to the other manager that has been repeating the same compulsive actions time and time again they do this because it requires no effort and because they mistakenly believe that if they do not unsettle orders we will be left alone understanding a person of our instills a kind of Fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initiative on the side you sometimes not to strike without warning to make others feel when they least expect it it is a device that the powerful are used for centuries philakone Maria the last of the discontinuous of mainland in 15th century Italy consciously did the opposite of what everyone expected of the four mysteries in mysore division a country and its attention and then once the man had come to expect him permission to allow office or suddenly start treating me with the utmost disdain confused the man might leave because when did you go suddenly recall him and start treating him well again don't be confused because I will wonder whether is assumption that you would be promoted as the company as an offensive to the Duke and will start to behave as if they no longer expected such honor did you go did you came for his lack of ambition and you send me a pic of dealing with field goal was simple do not presume to know what he wants don't know try to guess what Will please him never enjoyed your way just remember to use the wait to see what happens I know is the confusion and uncertainty created by the crude supreme one child and at peace people are always trying to read the motives behind the house for some to use your predictability against you throw in a completely inexplicable move and you put them on the defensive for a while Pablo Picasso worked with the art dealer Paul Rosenberg then one day for no apparent reason he told the man he will no longer give him any work to sell as Picasa explained Rosenberg will spend the next 48 hours trying to find figure out why was reserving some things for some other dealer and go on working and sleeping and Rosenberg to spend his time figuring until days in come back nerves jangled and she was staying after or your friend he wouldn't turn me down if I offered you this month name in a sustainable I have figure all those paintings rather than the price has been accustomed to paying you would you one predictability is not only a weapon of terror scrambling your patterns on a day-to-day basis will cause a steer around you and stimulate interest people will talk about you ascribe notice and explanation that have nothing to do with the truth but that keep you posted in their minds in the end the more capricious you are here the more respect the way Ghana only the terminally subordinate act in a predictable manner a wind that cannot be forcing sudden shifts in the barometer inexplicable changes in direction and velocity there is no defence a cyclone so sterile and confusion the enlightened ruler is so mysterious that it seems to go anywhere so inexplicable that no one can see him a deposit in an action above and his ministers tremble below him.