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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
Written by Dacher Keltner
Narrated by Kaleo Griffith
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A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.
" It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is what all-too-often we forget, and what Dr. Keltner sets straight. This is the crux of the power paradox: by fundamentally misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We can't retain power because we've never understood it correctly, until now. Power isn't the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and itself a good a thing. "
" Dr. Keltner lays out exactly--in twenty original """"Power Principles""""-- how to retain power, why power can be a demonstrably good thing, and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness. "
" *Includes Bonus PDF with images, graphs, and exercises. "
"From the Compact Disc edition."""
" It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is what all-too-often we forget, and what Dr. Keltner sets straight. This is the crux of the power paradox: by fundamentally misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We can't retain power because we've never understood it correctly, until now. Power isn't the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and itself a good a thing. "
" Dr. Keltner lays out exactly--in twenty original """"Power Principles""""-- how to retain power, why power can be a demonstrably good thing, and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness. "
" *Includes Bonus PDF with images, graphs, and exercises. "
"From the Compact Disc edition."""
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5tons of filler (author constantly repeats these 40 principles that may be reasona ble enough but are sometimes rather obvious), audiobook was constantly skipping and had badly-trimmed ends, and book was light on science and assumed that all class-race differences are due to environmental effects. iq wasn't mentioned once. also, he CONSTANTLY assumes causation from correlation. not a comprehensive review on the origin of class structure at all. I did learn a few interesting things, but need to double-check his sources as he has little credibility. oveall I want my credit back
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