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I must admit, I've always found the title off-putting as it sounds very much like it is a manual written by Machiavelli. OTOH, both my kids are on the high-fun
by anotherevan 10y ago
I must admit, I've always found the title off-putting as it sounds very much like it is a manual written by Machiavelli.
OTOH, both my kids are on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and there are several auties that recommend it as really useful in helping them with inter-personal interaction. So there you go.
- Nomentatus 10y agoSome of it - John D. Rockefeller throwing dimes to kids for the good PR, for example, is Machiavellian in the bad sense. But much of it is trying to persuade people that even if they were purely selfish, they'd still benefit from being less utterly self-absorbed, and demonstrating that.