Invest In Yourself, Read The Book THE LAWS OF HUMAN NATURE

Humans will always act like humans, in their apprentices in human nature, if only they understand the law of nature, the author has said​

Read this book and thank me later, the author ''Robert Greene, who also authored the famous book ''The 48 Laws Of Power'' and many other best-selling books to his name, made its know that is important that you alsways invest in yourself, by investing more into learning, plan to get the book, you will love it

In his book, he writes about the city-state of Venice, which was one powerful and prosperous for so long that its citizens felt their small republic had a destiny that will last forever on its side. So a time came, in the Middle Ages and High Renaissance, its virtual monopoly on trade to the east made it the wealthiest city in Europe.

Under a beneficent republican government, Venetians enjoyed liberties that few other Italians had ever known. Yet in the early 16th century, their fortunes suddenly changed, the author Robert Greene, says in his must-read but controversial book, The 48 Laws of Power.

The Power Transferred​

Then came a time when the opening of the New World transferred power to the Atlantic side of Europe, to the Spanish and Portuguese, and later to the Dutch and English where the Queen of England reigns for years.

Then Venice could not compete economically again as power has transferred from them to ex whereas, in Europe, the United States was also rising and fully came into power after the second world war

While the city of Venice and its empire gradually dwindled even to date. The final blow was the devastating loss of a prized Mediterranean possession, the island of Cyprus, captured from Venice by the Turks in 1570.


The book takes us to how life and the world hundred to thousands of years, that if compared to today, one can say there is relative peace among towns, cities, states, and nations

When the city of Venice was unable to rise again, noble families went broke in Venice, and banks began to fold. A kind of gloom and desperation settled over the citizens. They had known a glittering past, and had either lived through it or heard stories about it from their elders. The closeness of the glory years was humiliating.


The Venetians half believed that the goddess Fortune was only playing a joke on them and that the old days would soon return, so they prayed, hoped, and waited for the glorious days to return

For the time being, though, what could they do? it's still in 1589, rumors began to swirl around Venice of the arrival, not far away, of a mysterious man called Il Bragadino, a master of alchemy, a man who had won incredible wealth through his ability

It was said, to multiply gold through the use of a secret substance. The rumors spread quickly because a few years earlier, a Venetian nobleman passing through Poland prophesied that Venice would recover her past glory and power if she could find a man who understood the alchemic art of manufacturing gold.


And so, as word reached Venice of the gold this Bragadino possessed, he clinked gold coins continuously in his hands, and golden objects filled his palace. Some began to dream through him, their city would prosper again. Live and every other amazing glorious day will soon return, they hoped

Members of Venice's most important noble families accordingly went together to Brescia looking for ''Bragadino'' they boldly came down to where he lived.
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They toured his palace and watched in awe as he demonstrated his gold-making abilities, taking a pinch of seemingly worthless minerals and transforming it into several ounces of gold dust.

The Venetian senate prepared to debate the idea of extending an official invitation to Bragadino to stay in Venice at the city's expense when words suddenly reached them that they were competing with the Duke of Mantua for his services.


They heard of a magnificent party in Bragadino's palace for the duke, featuring garments with golden buttons, gold watches, gold plates, and on and on. Worried, they might lose Bragadino to Mantua, the Senate voted almost unanimously to invite him to Venice, promising him a mountain of money he would need to continue living in his luxurious style, but only if he came right away.


Late that year, the mysterious Bragadino arrived in Venice. With his piercing dark eyes, under thick brows, and the two enormous black mastiffs that accompanied him everywhere, he was forbidden and impressive.

Though he took up residence in a sumptuous palace on the island of Judaica. With the Republic funding his banquets, his expensive clothes, and all his other whims, a kind of alchemy fever spread through Venice.


Then on the street corners, hawkers would sell coal, distilling apparatus, and bellows how-to books on the subject. Everyone began to practice alchemy, everyone except Bragadino!

The alchemist seemed to be in no hurry to begin manufacturing the gold that would save Venice from ruin. Strangely enough, this only increased his popularity, and following people thronged from all over Europe, even Asia, to meet this remarkable man. Then months went by with gifts pouring into Bragadino from all sides. Still, he gave no sign of the miracle that the Venetians confidently expected him to produce.

Eventually, the citizens began to grow impatient, wondering if he would wait forever. At first, the senators warned them not to hurry him.

He was a capricious devil who needed to be cajoled. Finally, though, the nobility began to wonder too, and the Senate came under pressure to show a return on the city's ballooning investment.

Bragadino had only scorn for the doubters, but he responded to them. He said, already deposited in the city's net the mysterious substance with which he multiplied gold.


He could use this substance up all at once and produce double the gold. But the more slowly the process took place, the more it would yield. If left alone for seven years, sealed in a casket, the substance would multiply the gold in the mint 30 times over.

Most of the senators agreed to wait to reap the goldmine, Bragadino promised. Others, however, were angry, seven more years of this man living royally at the public trough, and many of the common citizens of Venice echoed these sentiments.


Finally, the alchemist's enemies demanded he produced proof of his skills, a substantial amount of gold, and soon lofty, apparently devoted to his art, Bragadino responded that Venice, in its impatience, had betrayed him and would therefore lose his services.

So he left town,

So after he left the town, going first to nearby Padua. Then, in 1590, like the entire city of Venice, had known great wealth but had fallen into bankruptcy through his profligacy and hoped to regain his fortune through the famous alchemist's services.

 

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And so Bragadino resumed the comfortable arrangement he had known in Venice. The same pattern repeated itself, again and again​

Interpretation: The young Cypriot Mamunia had lived in Venice for several years before reincarnating himself as the alchemist Bragadino.


He saw how gloom had settled on the city, how everyone was hoping for redemption from some indefinite source. At first, Mamunia did not use vulgar demonstrations to convince people of his alchemic skill.

His sumptuous palace, his opulent garments, and the clink of gold in his hands all provided a superior argument to anything rational, and these established this cycle that kept him going.


His obvious wealth confirmed his reputation as an alchemist so that patrons like the Duke of Mantua gave him money, which allowed him to live in wealth, which reinforced his reputation as an alchemist, and so on.


Only once this reputation was established and dukes and senators were fighting over him did he resort to the trifling necessity of a demonstration.

By then, however, people were easy to deceive. They wanted to believe. The Venetian senators who watched him multiply gold wanted to believe so badly that they failed to notice the glass pipe up his sleeve from which he slipped gold dust into his pinches of minerals.

Brilliant and capricious, he was the alchemist of their fantasies, and once he had created an aura like this, no one noticed his simple deceptions.

People rarely believe that their problems arise from their misdeeds and stupidity. Someone or something out there is to blame, the other, the world, the gods, and this blame game continues among most of us

And so salvation comes from the outside as well, helps comes from the outside as well, Had Bragadino arrived in Venice armed with a detailed analysis of the reasons behind the city's economic decline and of the hard no steps that it could take to turn things around, he would have been scorned?

The reality was too ugly and the solution too painful. Mostly the kind of hard work that the citizen's ancestors had mustered to create an empire.

Fantasy, on the other hand, in this case, the romance of alchemy was easy to understand and infinitely more palatable. To gain power, you must be a source of pleasure for those around you, and pleasure comes from playing to people's fantasies, Greene says.

Never promise a gradual improvement through hard work. Rather, promise the moon, the great and sudden transformation, a pot of Gold.
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Keys to Power: Fantasy can never operate alone. It requires the backdrop of the humdrum and the mundane. It is the oppressiveness of reality that allows fantasy to take root and bloom.

In 16th-century Venice, the reality was one of decline and loss of prestige. The corresponding fantasy described a sudden recovery of past glories through the miracle of alchemy.

While the reality only got worse, the Venetians inhabited a happy dream world in which their city restored its fabulous wealth and power overnight, turning dust into gold.


The person who can spin a fantasy out of an oppressive reality has access to untold power, that is the reality. As you search for the fantasy that will take hold of the masses then, keep your eye on the banal truths that weigh heavily on us all.

Never be distracted by people's glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives. Search and dig for what imprisons them, what occupied them, what fantasy them


Once you find that you have the magical key that will put great power in your hands, remember the key to fantasy is distance and in most cases ignores. The distance as a lure and promise seems simple and problem-free, ignore to buy more and more time

What are you offering then? Should be unspoiled. Never let it become oppressively familiar. It is the mirage in the distance, withdrawing as the sucker approaches.


Never be too direct in describing the fantasy. Keep it vague as a forger of fantasies, let your victim come close enough to see and be tempted, but keep him far away enough that he stays dreaming and desiring, Greene concludes!!

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