One of the best-selling "Personal Power" books in recent times is The 48 Laws of Power. This book provides the laws or blueprints for people to gain ultimate power, control that power, and prevent them from being victims of others.

The 48 laws of power is by no means your typical self improvement book, with laws that can only be adjudged as cunning and deceiving in today's contemporary moral society. The 1st Law in the book states that one should 'never outshine the master' which implies that one should always be wary of their leader or mentor if they intend to gain power.

The best-selling book is considered to be controversial with its apprehension into the traits of powerful people like Henry Kissinger and Al Capone. All the lessons in the book are narrated from mankind's 4,000 years of history.

After reading the 48 Laws of Power, I couldn't help but feel like we are living in a world that is purely based on power struggle and that everyone else is just another ego feeling threatened by each other's presence. The message that 48 Laws of power is trying to convey is to trust no one and that for the sake of survival, we must have power over others. What about all the good things like respect, humility, and honor? Those are hardly mentioned in the 48 Laws of power. I would definitely not put this book under my "Self Improvement" tag because of its controversial laws and extreme principles.

Nevertheless, the author, Robert Greene, does have many loyal believers in his laws and the book proved to be popular that it garnered a number of sequels by other authors, most notably hip-hop rapper 50 cents being one of co-authors.

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