48 Laws of Power (by Robert Greene): Part 2 (Laws 5 to 8)

Blog Series on Book Summary of 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Hi all,

Welcome back to part 2 of the blog series on book summary of 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. 

This blog feature covers laws 5 to 8. I am taking only 4 laws in each blog feature at a time to keep the content crisp and easily digestible. The content will include one liner summaries of each law and a few important excerpts from the book related to the particular topic.

The previous blog feature on laws 1 to 4 can be read here: Book Summary: 48 Laws of Power (by Robert Greene): Laws 1 to 4 (booksummarybysubin.blogspot.com)

Now, to the book summary: part 2 covering laws 5 to 8. Will publish remaining laws in upcoming blogs.

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Law 5: So much depends on reputation. Guard it with your life.

A lot depends on your reputation. If the reputation is built based on a good will and good work, there’s no need to guard it. False attacks will be quickly brought into the light and destroyed.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation itself you can intimidate and win, and once it slips, however, you are vulnerable and will be attacked on all sides. Make reputation unassailable. 

Law 6: Court attention at all cost.

Attract the right kind of attention by providing value in any situation.

Everything is judged by its appearance. Out of sight is out of mind. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd. Stand out!

Law 7: Let others do the work for you, but always take credit.

Empower people to do work that helps both of you, and you will never need to take the credit.

Learn the art of effective delegation. This increases your effectiveness, productivity, and frees up your precious time to engage in higher priority tasks. 

Law 8: Make other people come to you. Use bait if necessary.

Make other people come to you by always offering solutions to their problems. Then, delegate the work.

Be a problem solver and offer solutions to others' problems rather than solving their problems yourself. Again, delegate work through effective solutioning.

Thanks everyone. Today being a weekday, that's all I could collate and publish. Hope you find this content (byte-sized, if you may) useful. 

I did not want to paraphrase text from the book and so I am including one-lines for each law and also including highlighted important excerpts directly from the book.

Hope this works.

Please let me know in the comments your thoughts on any other way of presenting this book summary.

Here's Subin Khullar signing off for today.