By Robert Green

This link is the book summarized in 8 minutes by Robert Greene.

Reflections and Random Thoughts

Housekeeping

Mar 25, 2025

It looks like I purchased and started reading this book in July of 2021. It’s a 586-page book, and I read up to page 236 – now I’m deciding whether to start where I left off or start over.

March 26, 2025

I started over. I want to see if I recognize any changes I made as a result of what I’ve already read. Any new beliefs or behaviors?

April 9, 2025

I’ve re-read the first 100 pages or so and can safely say I remember practically nothing from my first read of this book.

Key Take-Aways

Chapter One

Chapter 1 is a discussion of our emotions and mostly irrational behavior –

Something Actionable

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What Everyone Else Thinks

Laws of Human Nature has over 16,000 ratings on Amazon and 131 reviews, 87% of which are five stars. Here is a link to the top 1-star and top 5-star reviews. The top 1-star review was well written, and the author is a Robert Greene fan, so there is that.

As usual, several of the critical reviews were complaints about the book’s physical condition when it arrived.

On Good Reads there are almost 26 thousand ratings and over 2000 reviews. The score is 4.36 and as of this writing there are over 17,000 people currently reading this book.

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