Angry Bob really likes his Laws, doesn’t he?
If you’re going to read only one tome in the Robert Greene bibliography, it should be The Laws of Human Nature. The culmination of decades of research, this title continues Greene’s work to distill human behavior into more and more succinct patterns. While Mastery will always be the most important of his books for me personally, and The 48 Laws of Power should at least be reviewed in summary, The Laws of Human Nature is the one of his books which I continually thought “where was this book when I was in my 20s?”.
While Human Nature is easily the most “readable” of Greene’s books, it can still be a dense read. I ended up buying the Kindle version and the Audible version and read it while having it read to me using Amazon’s Whispersync tech. However, if the nearly 29 hours of content isn’t your cup of tea, YouTube again comes to our rescue. These two videos are nearly two hours of content, but the production quality is spectacular and the distillation of the content is outstanding.
Many people don’t want to live in a world where humans behave the way that Greene outlines in his writing, and I’ve felt that way as well, but it’s naive thinking. We do live in a world like that, even if we try to close our personal worlds so narrowly that we don’t have to have unsavory types in our spheres. However, wild success will require opening your world widely which means you’re going to deal with “bad” actors. This book is the best roadmap I’ve ever seen to help you successfully navigate people.
Even if you’re not excited about reading this book, you need to know the information contained within it. Don’t skip this one.