The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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You say you wouldn't want to live a Machiavellian life.
That was very Machiavellian of you.
why the disclaimer? Great video
I just have to say that, (my impression of reading his works,) that it seems that Niccolo's style is to advise. Like one one hand he says that it is far safer to be feared, but also says that the greatest fortress for a Prince is the affection of the people.
What do you think?
He also says that there has to be a balance between the two things. A lider should be feared AND loved. In other words, liders should manipulate the people. Also it would be best to be feared by their ENEMIES (or other liders). But, in case one couldn't achieve that, than it would be best to be feared than loved.
Dude....whaaaat?
You left out an important lesson...
A prince, therefore, being compelled knowingly to adopt the beast, ought to choose the fox and the lion; because the lion cannot defend himself against snares and the fox cannot defend himself against wolves.
In other words, don't rely on just one way of handling your problems. Outsmart and outmaneuver people who try and attack your reputation. Physically threaten or physically beat people who threaten you with violence. Deal with each problem according to its unique nature.
Nelson Chereta p
well said!
Nelson Chereta good
Indeed
You beat evil by paying it with its own coin.
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it is better to be feared than loved "if you cannot be both"
Glad you brought this up, Chris. 90% of people who bring up this quote don't add the stipulation. It changes the meaning completely of the quote
Yes
Inflicting too much fear can take the respect people had towards you. Now you wouldn’t be loved nor feared
It is better to be feared and loved, but if you cannot be both, it is safer to be feared.
Pretty weird to make your gf afraid and love you but this is a good advice for parents.
I'm a Machiavellian, and I think he's a hugely positive influence on one's way of thinking. I think you misunderstood him a little bit, which is extremely common with the excerpt "It's safer to be feared than loved," because that's is absolutely not a hard and fast rule, and instead it's more often than not a discouraged approach. He wouldn't recommend threatening your girlfriend because it's not necessary to do so, and that would actually make her hate you, which is entirely counterproductive. He says to use everything in moderation and try not to make people fear you if you can avoid it. He was not an ill-meaning person--he looked out for the happiness and safety and peace of mind of the majority. He is a realist, and I think fighting mediocrity is all about putting our ideals in perspective and thinking realistically.
This.
I think the point of the Prince was that it was a massive reality check to a problem which still prevails until today: Before understanding how something SHOULD be, we must first understand how it IS. People very often only see the former, all the while overlooking the latter. The very concept of ethics (the modern day term being political correctness) is that they were a set of standards , which if lived by, would perhaps bring a brighter future to societies who were greatly lacking in said morals. These ethics were brought about by philosophers who had understood that the very basis on which the human functions is through Evil and the despair of others, due to the circumstances of the societies they lived in. This is the main message which Machiavelli channels through the Prince. The problem amongst many politicans of the era is that they did not apply this knowledge, and oversimplified many of the ethics into general rules to adhere to, regardless of context. Machiavelli was not anything near as evil as people say he is; At most, he might be described as a cynical pragmatist, or even a manipulator. But there is nothing psychopathic at all about him, and if people studied his later book, "The Discourses on Livy," They'd find that if anything; he was a realist amongst many disillusioned kings and dukes, who grew up with little to no understanding of what was happening on the ground, instead preferring to focus on what SHOULD be happening on the ground, without any idea of what actually was. In its core essence, the Prince highlights a very common flaw amongst the study of the humanities, and to some extent, the modern education system: Before seeking to know HOW it works, we should seek to know Why.
your absolutely right
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+crazygrofx Machiavelli is in a way the same as Sun Tzu, or even Buddha... although each one of them focuses on a seemingly different area of life. Basically, they're all advising to _find an appropriate statement for the circumstances you find yourself in_
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"It is safer to be feared than to be loved." - Niccolò Machiavelli
How ironic is it that the "safe" option is the one that brings the most fear upon yourself. Just remember...
"He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear." - Claudius Claudianus
Nabriales nice
Well it's actually feared and respected.
Nabriales he makes the distinction that you should be feared but respected too. You shouldn't be hated. For if you are hated you will be taken down. If you are feared AND respected however no one will challenge you because the general public is scared of you. Because they don't want to feel your wrath they won't organize in a major way; even if a small offshoot aren't scared of you and they did organize they won't succeed because you are respected by the general public so they'll never gain enough traction to overthrow you.
Adam Breard Then I think just being respected is enough. I don't think you can be both respected AND feared because fear attracts hatred. It is human nature to hate something that we fear. So if you are both feared and respected, one of these will become the dominant one overtime and the other will shrink.
You can definitely be respected and feared just look at some of the heads of most successful organized crime. Especially one of the most stable crime syndicates like the Yakuza.
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Just because we don't like an idea doesn't mean there isn't truth to it. That said I prefer to read Machiavelli in the same way I read a satire; meaning that he writes of extreme examples and absolute black and white maxims to show how the world is while subtlety exposing that we don't have to be that way.
In other words here is the easy surefire cure to achieving your dreams of power but ultimately he leaves it to the reader to decide if he wants to take the easy route or forge a much more difficult path. For example most people only quote half of his maxim "better to be feared than loved" when in reality it is "better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both". Which leads me to believe there is a way to actually be both you will just have to work harder at it.
Great summary and while I love your discussions of optimism and personal improvement I really enjoyed this summary and hope you do more like it.
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you are a very inteligent person man. Congratulations on your videos, really great summarizing skills. This kind of activity really encourages people to read and cultivate themselves. At least it has worked with me. Greetings from Mexico, where the government applies daily the machiavellic train of thought,
Sergio Hernández Haha, thanks for writing, Sergio. Greetings from USA.
+FightMediocrity I feel like in the last part about relationships you go full on Machiavelli mode, trying to convince the public that you're good when you're not. And people react to that positively in the comments.
I see what you did there! Good one.
+FightMediocrity I'm so inspired by this video...I'm going to write a blog post for the Huffington Post about Machiavelli and marketing...and I'll reference this video. I love The Prince...it's a great read.
Sergio Hernández
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I absolutely love they way you interpret these with modern day example because I quite understand the book when I read it myself but now it made sense. Thanks, I love your videos.
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I believe you have greatly misunderstood a great deal about this book and it's teachings. In the few points that you covered you took it to the extreme. While a lot of things Niccolo said are very dark they hard fast realities and it pushes the reader not to be a dreamer. It's main focus is a few simple facts. Do not leave yourself in a position for reprisal. Make the hard decision because it's better than none. Be firm but generous when you can do it without harming yourself. Seek advice from honest advisers but do not let them lead you. Make your own decision based on their council and act on it. The most misunderstood is the "It's better to be feared than loved" While that is true he also said it's best for both but if you can't be loved it is better to be feared because love is fickle and fear will keep them from reprising. But you also must not be hated. He is talking about respect and the knowledge that a move against you will result in ones own self destruction. There are many more lessons in the 90 pages of this book and all of them can leave a positive impact on your life. The whole book is about putting away the fantasy and dealing with the reality of authority and how to avoid the pitfalls of bad leaders.
+David Uezato perfect
+David Uezato That is very insightful. But it unfortunately matters not
what Machiavelli intended his book for. Because much like Einstein and
Tesla (and every other innovative individual to ever make a genuine
contribution to society) their work gets used and abused. While the book
may have been an excellent guide for the Prince, it is now a road map
for every other asshole politician. People are too stupid to govern
themselves. Which is incidentally also brought up in his book. Ugh... We
should clone that man and make him president.
+LogicalSuppository So true. Also everything in the universe is always evolving somehow, and people always seems to grab a hold of some piece of knowledge and never let it go, but not everything is the same than before... This book was written after some serious events in humanity's history.
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I don't know the story you're referring to, Abdulmajid.
funny i though thats what made this pointless and useless since that most likely makes the guy biased on a subject that rewards that way of thinking....
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Scholars are still not sure if this book was satire or not, the Medicis certainly didn't appreciate the gift.
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Best summary of The Prince I've seen yet! Contemporary example held illustrate the concepts. Thank you.
Fun fact:
In Danish the book is called "Fyrsten" = "The Lord".
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You don't threaten to kill her, you threaten to leave her if she so much as does a single bad thing against you. The first sign of even minor disrespect, leave here, find another. Do this, and she will love you, be loyal to you send treat you like a Prince. Do not do this and she will eventually leave you for someone who will. This is not how relationships should be, but it is how they are. Is that not what Machiavelli was trying to warn us about?
Master Erakius so true.
Pahahaha xD Jesus Christ
You sound like a delusional incel who's never lived in the real world... A pseudo-pychological load of bullshit completely detached from reality... if you ever actually threatened someone like this they would instantly know you were a fragile, damaged nut-job.
And I'm assuming that if she replied with the exact same rule to be applied to you then you would be fine with it would you? It would make you love her more would it?
No, she'd just look like a precious, psycho man-child exactly the same as you...
Imagine if relationships worked liked this, imagine how rediculiusly damaging and unhealthy it would be to constantly be walking on eggshells. You couldn't bond with a person who was like that.
Rave Biscuits lmfaooo right these dudes are pathetic
😂😂😂 don't do this to people you actually care about the fuck. This is for corporate and other strategic parts of life.
Machiavelli was not a dating coach lmfao 😂
God I love Machivelli. His works are some of my favourite examples of what to do.
I LOVE your books' reviews. You've such a deep view of what is written.... Thank you so much.
Machiavelli is an absolute genius, his theories are just brilliant. Thanks for introducing me to you
"I'd rather get cheated on a hundred times rather than her be scared of losing her life" yeah no. If I got cheated on a hundred times I'd be about ready to take her life myself.
Self snitching 👏
If you got cheated on 100 time you deserve it.
If you were cheated on 100 times that means you were dumb enough to take her back 99 times
why would you even want to get cheated on for a hundred times and kill her when you can leave her instead?
@@princessfatimabelgica8288 4 year old post but still got this disingenuous comment lol
I’m just criticizing folk in the video talking about they’d rather be cheated on than their partner die.
Really love this guy, I watch his videos before reading the book to build a foundation.
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Great job! I wish they taught history (or any subject for that matter) in school the way you exolain things in your videos. I read Machiavelli's "The Prince" when I was 15-16 and it dawned on me why some Ottoman emperors acted the way they did (like, having their own brothers killed, because they saw them as a threat to the trone).
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MACHIAVELLI the ultimate realist
I fully agree. Too many people try to peg Machiavelli as cynical. If more people read the book, they'd see his goal is just to deal with reality how it actually is
Absolutely
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Check out The School Of Life channel. They had made a similar presentation as you did on the subject of political realism.
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I wonder if Kanye West has ever read Machiavelli.... ;)
+Dev Singh I wonder if Tupac did
+Michael Jackson tupac did study him
+Michael Jackson tupac studied him, MJ breh
kevin gates did.
+Michael Jackson he did this how he named himself Makaveli and faked his death the same was Nicolo did but never did what he did 18 years later
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You failed life boy! Don't become the prole that Machiavelli is referring to in his book. Grow a mind of your own and be a critical thinker.
Scientist Albert Einstein thanks Einstein
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"Il principe" is a very hard book to understand. To go into deep in it you need to really know the history of the time that Machiavelli is talking about and understand the environment in which the book was written.
For me is a very "Italian" book and as an Italian I can really see a big part of our political culture in it.
I've read it few times and every time I found different ways to interpret the content. Absolute masterpiece.
By the way, great video!
dude !!!! this is the most awesome video i have ever seen. do some part 2 of it where machiavelli talks about king being as brave as lion and as cunning as fox and so on......
This video is great, thanks!
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Donald Trump special!!!!!! So funny how he has followed all these points...
+Barry irlandi I was thinking the same thing
+Dis Goof No. Bernie Sanders is honest and consistent. He is not a good Prince according to Machiavelli.
Whether Sanders' policies and promises are correct is another matter entirely. But when it comes to Sanders, he is the most honest. But again, according to Machiavelli, that is not good trait for a Prince.
+Barry irlandi almost, he didn't appear that friendly.
+Barry irlandi You can be sure that Trump have read "The Prince" his personality is very constructed to marketing. Listening to him speak is like reading "The Art of the deal". Just try to compare him to earlier interviews (Letterman in 1988 etc.) same message different package.
+Sam Robert Unless the car industry doesn't count as "big money" then he isn't very consistent.
And his policies are borderline wacko. Most of them would be catastrophic because they don't fix the underlying problem. They just put a layer of paint over it.
Who came here because of pac
Your voice is commendable .loud and clear👍
Great summary of the book! Just bought it and am excited to read it.
It is safer to be feared than to be loved line is obviously for politics and not relationships. 😓 giving the relationship example to explain why the concept is bad is stupid. The book is for a prince that is dealing with politics, masses of people.
Damon Tan that’s short sighted. Even romantic relationships are a struggle for power. in fact, it’s quite common.. it’s much safer to manipulate your partner into compliance rather than to allow vulnerable emotions to rise.
@@pantsenfuego9986 go to therapy
badcornflakevibes comment seems to struck a nerve. Why would you even bother attacking a random stranger like that? unless the subject matter intensely threatens your Disney-like romantic ideals. yesss, let your thinly veiled anger flow, hunny.
I AM ERROR npc >attacking a random stranger bruh all i did was tell you to go to therapy
badcornflakevibes ohh okay, so it’s not an attack.. so more like a respectful request?
Thank you for clarification. Since you’re so respectfully concerned, let’s make a deal... it’s a good idea, so you send me lots of money, I’ll go to therapy, but on your dime. Call it your charitable deed for the crazy 😜 inter-webz guy.
I care about voltaire :/
This was fantastic. Thank you very much!
You are my hero! Keep doing what you do!
Sounds like trump is the perfect prince
If he were the perfect prince there would be no stigma surrounding him. Why Trump has gotten so many votes goes far deeper than him living a Machiavellian life.
Yea @Auke De Souza. Machiavelli said there are two major elements that contribute to the downfall of a leader. Being hated and despised (thought about with contempt.) Trump is both of those things.
+NearVSMello by a huge monitory he is. Remember, the masses are vulgar
+NearVSMello by a huge monitory he is. Remember, the masses are vulgar
There are people that want you to believe that and it is obviously working.
Bernie Sanders
+Lily ferreira Bernie Sanders has an impeccable history of achievements and fought against racism with MLK when it wasn't popular for white men to do so, while Hilary was for segregation at the time, I assume you're black so it would be Ironic for you to claim Bernie sanders for such corruption as explained in this video
trump. i'd vote for him. coming from lithuania
+Frostbite racist son of a bitch
Blue Chucks smart, not racist
Frostbite your a dumbass if you vote for him
Such an amazing narration, thank you.
Great summary. Fair points, well made. Thanks.
Well, i've studied his works and in truth it is rather likely that The Prince is a satire, as his articles in The Discourses seem to have his more regular tone and advocate for things most of us deem as "of good taste."
Miles Beler f
You seem to be confused about some economic principles. Firstly, wealth is created out of thin air. That's how capitalism works. You create something and people attribute value to it. There is now more wealth in the world than before you made that thing (this becomes more tangible when you give people an opportunity to own a part of that wealth through stocks). There are policies that can be enacted to incentivize wealth creation. Secondly, sometimes paying workers more is a good idea as it often increases productivity, reduces turnover and discourages workers from taking advantage of the business. Obviously, how much more to pay them depends on how much the upside would be but, to dismiss increasing wages out of hand is not really justifiable.
Wealth is not created out of thin air. In our system of capitalism when one speaks of wealth they are generally speaking of liquid assets (money). Money cannot be created out of thin air. If one was to do that money would cease to have value, because, as we know, value and scarcity have an inverted proportionality to each other. For example, if everyone became a millionaire tomorrow they wouldn't be wealthy, no, a million dollars would just be today's fifty-thousand dollars. So no, wealth cannot be created out of thin air. Also, the reason people are more "wealthy" today isn't because we've gotten richer, rather, resources have just become more readily available.
As an addendum, I don't believe he was arguing with the idea of raising minimum wage or benefits for worker or any of the sort in the video, rather, he's just saying that if one wishes to become more prosperous relying on politicians is not the route they should take and that they should work on bettering themselves.
I noticed 1 or 2 similar things. Like the honest politician is going to say pick up a book and work harder. Theres a lot more honesty to tell than that if he had the chance. Some people gravitate to the hurtful truth as well, Although i see his point its too blunt to even be hypothetically correct.
Bottom line, Con, cheat and deceive but look good and honest at it.
That is the way of the World. Its how the powerful became powerful.
Which is ironic that we believe in democracy's and voting and governments in general lol
I think this is probably one of your best interpretations/reviews.
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Finished the video. Gave it a thought and it was astonishing to find out that the one who made the video did imply Machiavelli's principles.
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