Caleb Stewart

The 48 Laws of Power would be useful to a dictator, or a king, or really anyone who lived in an era where power was necessary for survival. However in today’s modern word, to the average person, it holds little or no merit at all. These laws are outdated and frankly just ridiculous. Sure, you may learn to win a few phycological power struggles with other immature people constantly playing the power game and you might even be able to convince your starbucks cashier that he’s an inferior being, poor guy. But the reality is the kind of thinking this book suggest, in our day of age, is redundant. Take this book for what it’s worth and learn some badass things people have done for power in human history. Take it for anything more than that and live an unsatisfying life wasting every encounter trying to outsmart the next guy when the truth is most people couldn’t care less.