Thursday, March 10, 2011

48 Laws of Power...Law 17

LAW 17

Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate and Air of Unpredictability


Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people’s actions.  Your predictability gives them a sense of control.  Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable.  Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off-balance, and they will wear themselves out trying to explain your moves.  Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize.

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