The Laws of Human Nature

Or perhaps we fall in love with a person who is precisely the wrong type for us and we know it, but we cannot help ourselves.

You must learn how to exploit this. If you can somehow create the impression that others desire you or your work, you will pull people into your current without having to say a word or impose yourself. They will come to you. You must strive to surround yourself with this social aura, or at least create the illusion.

In general, people will want to see more of you, want to see less of you, or be rather indifferent. They may fluctuate among the three states, but they will tend to veer toward one. They will reveal this in how quickly they respond to your emails or texts, their body language on first seeing you, and the overall tone they take in your presence.

Time is the greatest teacher of them all, the revealer of reality

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
—Sir Isaac Newton

When people lose the connection between their actions and their consequences, they lose their hold on realit

spend our time getting to know our own tastes and desires better, so that we can distinguish what is something we truly need or want from that which has been manufactured by advertisers or viral effects

You must be a master not only at setting off these chain reactions but at renewing them or creating new ones

You are trafficking in the future, in trends