Today we’ll have a book review of the newest from KISS rock band frontman Gene Simmons: On Power: My Journey through the Corridors of Power and How You can Get More Power. In a few days I’ll put together a List of 10 Best Books of All Times for the Killer Underling, which people have been asking me to do for a very long time. It’s time to get this ball moving and win big this year. You and I are firing our bosses this year.
For those that don’t know (shame on you !) KISS stands for Keep It Simple Stupid, one of the best acronyms I’ve seen.
Gene tells us his idea of writing this book came from reading Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. “Machiavelli’s worldview is referred to as consequentialism”. Gene treads on a few classics including Machiavelli, Napoleon, Churchill, and contemporaries such as Oprah and Musk.
“When your enemy is executing a false movement, never interrupt them” -Napoleon.
“it behooves you to befriend your enemy as a strategy.” Is that why dogs smell each others privates ?
“Self-actualization is so often looked at as something in opposition to the baser needs of Maslow’s pyramid.” Yes, right, What a joke.
“Before the boxer steps into the ring, he has to motivate himself. Gene tells you to become your greatest fan, to say out it loud to yourself, every day.
“Stand up, arch your back, and proclaim to yourself and to the world that you deserve power and everything that comes along with it”.
“We are all born bald, toothless, and vulnerable.” Probably going to die that way, too. What’s going on in between is up to you.
“Unfairness, hardship, asymmetry: these are sources of pressure, and pressure turns coals into diamonds.” -Gene Simmons. This, folks is the recipe to power and greatness. The philosopher’s stone. The magic.
Nobody curses on Wall Street except the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s Jan 13-14th edition has Emma Byrne touting the benefits on cursing: “The Many Benefits of the Occasional Swear Word”
“Strong language (like swearing) apparently makes us stronger. Cursing can help ease pain.
Through researchers don’t know the exact mecghanism by which swearing eases pain, it would seem to work through our emotions, heightening confidence, increasing aggression and making us more resilient.
“Using curse words can serve not just to inure us to pain but also, apparently to improve our capability at physically demanding activities”
Swearing also acts as a pain reliever for social pain (feelings of being rejected) on par with legal and illegal drugs: acetaminophen and weed.
Dr. Byrne is the author of “Swearing is Good for You” to be published on Jan 23, 2018 by W.W. Norton.
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