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The Art of Becoming Someone Who Can't Be Broken! | Robert Greene

Channel: Bold Fella
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnj_cOxiL4

A montage of Robert Greene interview clips (with Lewis Howes) on resilience, attitude, learning from failure, and image. (Bold Fella re-titles compiled Greene footage; his framework, not cited research.)

Key points

  • Amor fati / alchemy: transmute any negative event into something productive. In 200 years no one will remember you, so make the most of your time and build a legacy through your work.
  • Attitude is a lens; no two people see an event the same way, and your attitude determines what you get. A defensive attitude crystallizes and creates the very negative reactions you blame on others (you set the tone an "astute" person picks up).
  • Defeat and failure are the greatest things that can happen to you - success teaches nothing and breeds grandiosity and conservatism. Napoleon: 10 years of triumph (1796-1806) then collapse once it went to his head and he lost touch with what worked.
  • Three questions after a loss: Could it have been worse? (you can recover from almost anything; people have short memories). What is the lesson? Be future-oriented rather than obsessed with the past ("next man up").
  • It is okay to be depressed and beat yourself up briefly after a blow, then pick yourself up; it is a process, so be patient.
  • Concentrate on a high sense of purpose rather than chasing money, attention, or Instagram followers; trying too hard (in writing or seduction) gives off off-putting vibrations - learn to let go.
  • "Negative capability": start without certainty, entertain options D, E, F beyond your habitual A, B, C.
  • Treat your image as a work of art you consciously craft and periodically reinvent (David Bowie, Picasso) rather than letting others' fixed opinion of you constrain you.