These 48 laws of power keep on rotating in my mind all the time these days… Just had to post all the Laws here…. Have patience as its going to be a long post…. 
Law 1 : Never Outshine the Master
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power. Read more »
The 48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers… It reminds me very much of ‘The Art of War’ by Sun-Tzu…
The book basically distills down three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws… As attention–grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), the virtue of stealth (“Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions”), and many demand the total absence of mercy (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”), but like it or not, all have applications in real life… Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded–or been victimized by–power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. (Read more)
“Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious, than the bland and timid masses.”– Law 6: Court Attention at all Cost
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
-The Tiger, William Blake
Save the Tiger Campaign is a four lettered sentence but time has come when we need to understand the importance of the same… A speechless animal who cannot support or stand for its survival but yet is so important not because its a national animal but just beacause of one simple reason that its one of the worlds most beautiful speices on the verge of extinction…
Wavering at the brink of a dismal demise, the species is threatened by the impending doom… It’s an irony that the land which is home to second largest human pool has only 1411 tigers (From around 40,000 at the turn of the last century)… The national animal of India, has been a soft prey for poachers and in 2009 alone India lost 86 tigers….
The ever receding Tiger count make for a sorry figure… Let’s put in an effort to save the big cat for the generations to come… We can help them out not by physically roaming and locating them out but by spreading a word across to all the masses that not to hunt this beautiful creation or infiltrate its natural habitat just to show your chivalry…For if we fail, the stakes are too high, Tiger should not meet an inevitable fate like Dodo…
Lets stand and save our tigers because once they are gone there would be no use of crying over spilt milk…
Title: Up In The Air
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
My Rating : 7.5/10
Its actually rather difficult to put down into words exactly how much I enjoyed Up in the Air… I think the biggest reason I fell in love with this movie was because I went in there not expecting much… It just didn’t look very interesting… And George Clooney is on and off for me… I like him in movies like O Brother, Where Art Thou?, From Dusk Till Dawn and Michael Clayton, but than I’m not a big fan of him in movies like the Ocean’s trilogy and the Perfect Storm…
Up in the Air tells the story of a loner who flies daily to different companies in order to fire people whose bosses are too scared to… Ryan Bingham prides himself on independence and the many miles he’s acquired in the air… Than an unexpected thing happens, scratch that… Many expect things happen, but you’ll just have to find out what they are for yourself…
It’s a story that feels real and heartfelt… A movie that deserves to be experienced multiple times… Like life, Up in the Air doesn’t follow a certain formula, you don’t know what to expect…
This is one of the movies I did enjoy Clooney in… He really hasn’t been disappointing as of late… He gave a great performance here, not oscar worthy, but great… Everyone was on top of their game, especially behind the camera…
I have spent a couple of hours reading two posts titled “100 Things To Do Before You Die”…. Almost 90% of them were so silly and means nothing… Therefore, here I just wanted to write a list of things I must do before i die or at least try to reach some of them :
Do you think that it’s easy to write such post? believe it or not, you will spend more than 1 hour thinking of what you can write…. You may noticed while reading this list that 20% of them are absolutely possible dreams…. I believe in destiny and I also believe in what god has written for me but I think my goals are not hard or at least they are not much…
There are more than 100 things I would love to do or reach before I die but who knows when or where will I die? Only God and no one else… I’ll update this post if I found more things…
Title: The Street Lawyer
Author: John Grisham
My Rating : 7/10
The Street Lawyer is about The big bucks these lawyers make in the big firms… Who no longer care for the poor and unprotected as they did when they were in law school…
The story starts with a lawyer(Michael Brock) that is suffering as a hostage in the law firm that causes him to start to recollect himself about his life and career… During the critical situation, the lawyers were being questioned about their annual salary, taxes and the most important is the charity work… There were being held by a homeless man that concerned whether the lawyers had contributed any amount to the charity fund…
Since then, he started to dig the information of the homeless man and also the life of the homeless people… There was once, he participates in preparing peanut butter sandwiches and peeling potatoes when he works in the soup kitchen as the soup is to be distributed to the homeless people during the snowing time… He gained some satisfaction even just doing some kitchen work…
As the days passed by, he started to feel that his current job is not what he really wants… He quits his high salary job and rather works as a street lawyer… His clients are no longer rich people that willing to pay for luxurious dinner and first-class flight… Instead, his clients are homeless people that talks about their past stories, how they end up in a homeless situation, and how they really need a legal advice since they are too poor to hire one…
The lawyer found himself as a person when he works as a street lawyer… He started to think from the homeless persons’ point of view…
Overall I think that this is a great book that teaches us about the homeless and survival on the streets…
Happy Reading!!!
This is one of many posts that have been sitting unfinished in my Drafts folder for months but somehow i was able to finish it off today…
Have you ever failed at something??? Was it a small failure or a Huge Gigantic failure for all to see???
Failure can be an embarrassing and humiliating thing… It can cause humiliation and anxiety which can have detrimental effects on ones health… These effects fall under my categorization of bad things… There is another side to all this failure that falls under the category of good things… Read more »
Title: A Time to Kill
Author: John Grisham
My Rating : 8.9/10
If not for the success of John Grisham’s other legal bestsellers, it’s likely that his first novel, “A Time to Kill,” would have been forgotten…
Grisham’s first novel, is one of his best… Slow to take off with publishers, it has now been made into a full length motion picture, which I consider one of the best films I’ve ever seen…
Set in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, the story begins with the brutal rape and attempted murder of a 10-year old African-American girl, Tonya Hailey… Her father – Carl Lee – determined not to allow the men to go free, shoots the accused as they are escorted from their courtroom appearance… Sophomoric (yet talented) lawyer Jake Brigance is hired by Hailey to take on the most important case in the country in years… The odds are stacked against the defendent and the young lawyer, and if extremist groups have their way neither will live to see the end of the trial…
A racially charged, whirlwind of a novel, A Time to Kill, is an absolute must-read… You will find yourself on the other side of the bar, sitting in the jury box and weighing the facts… A life is on the line…guilty or not guilty???
Title: The Rainmaker
Author: John Grisham
My Rating : 8.5/10
I just finished The Rainmaker by John Grisham… I have seen the movie that stars Matt Damon and Danny Devito, and really liked it… So now after reading the book and watching the movie, I can say the book is even better… It is a little slow at the start, but once you get into it I just had to keep on reading page after page…
You follow Rudy Baylor a new lawyer that has just graduated from the University of Memphis law school… A case gets handed to him that will change his life… He is about to take on an insurance company and its huge legal team with their many years of expierence… It is a great story, that I feel is worth picking up and reading…
It is safe to say that The Rainmaker has made its way into to top John Grisham books….