The Daily Laws 366 Meditationrobert Greene File

He lost a major client in November. A year ago, this would have broken him. Now, he sat with the morning's passage: "Mistakes are often the best teachers." He spent the day analyzing the failure without emotion, extracting the "gold" from the "dirt." The Final Entry

Greene argues that we have a "toxic narcissism" where we think we can read people’s minds (wrongly) but never see our own tics. The meditation asks you to listen to a recording of your voice or watch a video of yourself talking. The prompt: "Are you aware of how you come across?" I did this. I hated it. I realized I interrupt people constantly. That wasn't "passion"; that was dominance. the daily laws 366 meditationrobert greene

Greene’s critics often argue his work promotes Machiavellian ruthlessness. In reality, Greene is a historian of human folly. His point is not that you should manipulate people, but that you will be manipulated if you do not understand the laws . He lost a major client in November