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The Laws of Human Nature: You’re Not Reading Them. You’re Reading Yourself.
The Laws of Human Nature is often read as a guide to understanding other people: how to recognize hidden motives, anticipate manipulation, detect envy, and avoid being blindsided by the people around us. Robert Greene’s deeper argument is more uncomfortable. The person whose motives are hardest to see clearly may be the person doing the observing.Across historical case studies and recurring patterns of behavior, Greene examines narcissism, envy, self-sabotage, status, aggression, conformity and the gap between the stories people tell about themselves and the impulses actually driving them…
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