Will to Power

rpquest · 2015-04-10T11:06:43+00:00

Your will to power isn't weak; you're just obsessively meticulous. I understand where you're coming from. One way to mitigate that is by understanding that everything costs you something. Redoing the dishes will cost you something, i.e., time and energy which are both so precious, with one being so irreplaceable that you could've done so much better with that. Finally, after understanding that every act you do costs you something, you should now test every action that you will do: Will this act be worth more than what I could've done? E.g. Is redoing the dishes worth more than studying tonight's lesson?

Of course, you don't have to ask that question everytime, but considering you already notice how much is too much, I'm leaving that up to you.

AFPJ · 2015-04-10T23:14:47+00:00

understand, quite frankly, my superior thought processes

Yet another soul trapped in heights of naivete and idealism that rivals their intelligence. People don't do a good job not because they are incapable but because you fail to motivate them properly. The dishes example, did you make it clear that there's pieces of food left over & that that's not okay in an amicable fashion? No? Then you're the communication failure. You can't expect others to meet your expectations if you don't make them clear or if they don't respect you.

Always search for fault within yourself before you look for it in others.

DickHeadSummationGuy · 2015-04-10T14:40:51+00:00

Well, in all honesty. I've been quite successful in doing things on my own. You can become a renaissance man, but understand that takes time, effort and lots of lost sleep. Example: You want to start a web design company? You would have to know business, finance, web design, graphic design, networking and many other things. It's very possible, but so time consuming that many people just become contractors in those types of scenarios. But it would be the ultimate alpha if you started a successful company that is completely run by you and only you. I say go for it and anything like it.

MirrorObserver2 · 2015-04-12T07:26:38+00:00

And I know why. It's because I don't trust anyone other than myself to do a good job.

Dark triad people don't trust anyone either. Ever. Your motive is not correlated to the Will to Power.

Finding better people should be done at the root of the process. You analyze them and then you should be able to instantly see if they are good for the job. (This is a cost/benefit analysis).

Once you know they can do the job you must find the way to make them want to do the job. Very basically: incentives for doing it or punishment for not doing it.

The root of all the process is that you have to make them think that if they do the job you want them to do then they will gain something for doing it. Everybody only thinks for what is good for themselves. But you can manipulate their thinking quite easily, making them think that what they think was thought by them, when it was actually induced by you, verbally and/or behaviorally; you need to adapt to the person in front of you for better efficacy.

The Will to Power is very basic: you want to take all the power that is possible to take from a person, giving the less possible power you can give; it is a maximizing process. When you take all the power from a person, you have destroyed that person.

If you don't think in these terms naturally, that is the motive for this:

I lack that 'will to power' that the truly dark triad person possesses.

Title	Will to Power
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Upvotes	3
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Date	April 10, 2015 10:19 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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