How Showing Off Makes You a Target - Machiavelli
The moment you show off, you put a target on your back. Machiavelli understood this centuries ago, and his warning still holds today, because in power games attention is not always an asset; often it's bait for destruction. Here's the brutal truth: the louder you are, the easier you are to hit, the more you flash your wins, the more you fuel resentment, the more you display your strength, the more others plot to test it, and in the world Machiavelli knew, just as in ours, power isn't always about being the biggest lion in the open field, it's about being the shadow no one dares to provoke…
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