Robert Greene
Author and Speaker. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Robert Greene is an author and speaker known for his work on power dynamics, human psychology, and strategy. He draws on classical history and biographical case studies to explore influence, emotional control, and human behavior.
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52said about them ↓ Everything Robert Greene said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Greene: Indirect approaches create decisive psychological advantages over direct frontal confrontation.
“When you approach people indirectly it has tremendous psychological advantage power. So when you hit people from the side with an attack there's no punch that's more powerful than boxing than the one that comes from the side and is unexpected. It has relevance…”
Greene: Constant distraction deprives the brain of space for unconscious idea processing.
“The way the human brain works is your best ideas come to you when you're not thinking about them. You know if you're sitting there always doing other things and chatting with people and texting them, The brain won't have the mental space to unconsciously proce…”
Greene: A person's favorite conversational subject is always themselves
“People love to talk about themselves. I mean, that's, Law number one of human psychology. People, the favorite subject for anybody, myself included, is myself.”
Greene was fired from a television research job for outshining his superiors.
“Law number one of the book is never outshine the master, and I probably violated that law maybe three or four times prior to writing the book where I'd be the researcher on a television show and I was so good at it that everybody hated me. I was like, you know…”
Greene: Speaking Less Forces Others to Reveal Weaknesses and Desires
“The less you say, the more other people talk. The more other people talk, the more you learn about their weaknesses, and you learn about their
Hidden desires, and what makes them tick, and the less they know about you, and the less they know about you, the bet…”
Greene: True power requires assuming formlessness and willingly discarding prescribed rules.
“Law 48 is assume formlessness, and that means all 47 laws are, can be kind of nonsense, and you should just ignore them, and you should just be in the moment and not go into situations thinking of, oh, I better do law 41
You be, you must be alive to the circum…”
Greene: Approaching unfulfilling work with a learning mindset transforms "dead time."
“When you're working for someone else and you're flipping burgers at Burger King, it's dead time. They own you. And, but if you're working at Burger King, And you've just read Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and you're thinking about it, or you're working at …”
Robert Greene handwrites drafts after a stroke left him unable to type
“I've always handwritten my first drafts. Now I can only handwrite because I can't type. I used to be a very fast typist. Now I can't because of my stroke.”
Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power" is approaching two million copies sold.
“To be honest with you, I mean, we've sold, it's actually inching up more towards two million these days.”
Greene: Coco Chanel's Nazi sympathies remain a major historical black mark.
“Coco Chanel ended up being kind of a Nazi sympathizer. It's the main black mark on her story, a very large black mark.”
Greene taught his famous physical notecard research system to Ryan Holiday.
“And I know Ryan was a friend of yours who I taught this system to essentially He does the same thing. He writes them out.”
Greene caps his daily writing at three hours to avoid mental burnout.
“And then, you know, I just do three hours every day of the writing because it's about all I can stomach.”
Greene: Zen meditation creates spectator-like distance, reducing your immediate emotional reactivity.
“The meditation has helped me an awful lot in controlling my emotional responses. 90% of the meditating, I do a practice, a form of Zen meditation, and what you're doing is, it's hard to concept to relate, but the idea is, You're thinking of your thinking as if…”
The other half of the tape: Robert Greene's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 50 times in 8 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 21Shane Parrish 18Ryan Holiday 9Dara Ladjevardian 2
Statements about Robert Greene, by other people (2)
Robert Greene spends 80 percent of his working time on research
“I would say probably 80% of his work is in the research, and 20% is in the writing.”
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 23 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2016 24 mentions in 1 episode
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| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Author and Speaker | 1 | 23 | 75% 3/4 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | Author and Speaker | 1 | 15 | — | full record on BigDeal → |