The Art of Niccolo Machiavelli

You have been playing the wrong game. Someone taught you a set of rules that never matched the actual game being played, and it is time you saw the truth!
That is the sharp gift of Niccolò Machiavelli, the Florentine diplomat who was tortured, exiled, and stripped of everything he had built, then sat down at a small farmhouse desk outside Florence and wrote the most misunderstood book in Western history about how a serious adult actually survives in a world that is not fair.

While his contemporaries preached that virtue alone would carry you through, he watched idealists lead their people to ruin. While the Church demanded he see the world as it should be, he insisted on describing it as it is. When the Medici accused him of conspiracy and hung him six times from the strappado, he refused to confess to a crime he never committed…

His warm, unflinching, radically realistic philosophy went on to shape Frederick the Great in Prussia, Napoleon in France, Antonio Gramsci in prison, Robert Greene in his 48 Laws of Power, and every serious modern student of leadership and strategy.

The Art of Niccolò Machiavelli is a practical, empathetic guide that brings his ancient wisdom into the overloaded life you are actually living.

Inside this book, you will discover:

+ Radical realism, and how updating your expectations of humans releases most of your daily exhaustion
+ The four dams every modern life needs, built during the calm years for the floods that always come
+ The lion and the fox, and how developing both keeps you safe in a world of traps and wolves
+ The clean cut, and why doing hard things fast and good things slowly changes every relationship
+ The courage to rule the empire of your own peace, health, career, money, and relationships!
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You will not be asked to become cruel, dishonest, or manipulative. Only to walk into your Wednesday morning with the sharper, clearer, more strategic frame of mind that finally matches the world you are actually living in!

Stop believing the rules that were designed to keep you naive. Start ruling the empire you did not know you had!