Speaker 1: There's a reason people underestimate you, why they speak over you,
Speaker 1: why they test your patience, push your boundaries, question your value.
Speaker 1: It's not because you're weak, it's because you're harmless. You
Speaker 1: show your cards too early, you care too visibly. You
Speaker 1: try to be liked before being feared, and in a
Speaker 1: Machiavellian world, being liked without being feared is the same
Speaker 1: as being ignored. The world doesn't fear goodness, it fears mystery.
Speaker 1: You've been trained your whole life to be seen as
Speaker 1: a good person. Smile more, be open, be nice first,
Speaker 1: be easy to approach. But the problem is people don't
Speaker 1: respect good people. They use them because what's visible is predictable,
Speaker 1: and what's predictable can be controlled. Machiavelli knew this. He
Speaker 1: wrote not to comfort, but to warn. A prince who
Speaker 1: is not feared will always be vulnerable. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you should become violent. It means you must become unreadable,
Speaker 1: because in a room full of loud people, the one
Speaker 1: who says nothing is the one everyone watches. Not because
Speaker 1: they expect a joke, but because they expect something they
Speaker 1: can't name. That's the goal to be watched, not for attention.
Speaker 1: But for precaution. When you're not a threat, you're a tool.
Speaker 1: Look at your life. How many times were you ignored
Speaker 1: until you walked away? How many times did they come
Speaker 1: back only after you became silent? How many people only
Speaker 1: respected your boundaries after you enforced them with distance. That's
Speaker 1: because you were playing the good game and they were
Speaker 1: playing the power game. They knew you'd explain, you'd forgive,
Speaker 1: you'd stay, you'd apologize first, you'd never escalate, And once
Speaker 1: someone knows you won't escalate, they escalate first, and they win.
Speaker 1: Machiavelli saw it in politics. You see it in your relationships,
Speaker 1: your career, your own home. People don't test the dangerous ones.
Speaker 1: They test the emotionally accessible ones, because they know your
Speaker 1: empathy will stop you before your pride does. But once
Speaker 1: you become a threat, even quietly, they flinch before they speak,
Speaker 1: They second guess their tone, they prepare more carefully. They
Speaker 1: hesitate to disrespect. Why because now you might not bark,
Speaker 1: but you might bite the power of the unexpressed. They
Speaker 1: expect you to react. That's how they measure control. Can
Speaker 1: they make you flinch? Can they make you explain? Can
Speaker 1: they make you chase? Can They make you soften. Every
Speaker 1: time you do, they mark you safe. Every time you don't,
Speaker 1: they mark you dangerous. And dangerous doesn't mean unhinged, it
Speaker 1: means unreadable. Machiavelli understood that the moment and people can
Speaker 1: predict your emotions, they will shape your future around their needs,
Speaker 1: not yours. But when they can't, they wait, they watch,
Speaker 1: they obey. You've spent your whole life trying to be loved. First,
Speaker 1: Now try being feared quietly, not with threats, not with volume,
Speaker 1: with inconsistency, with silence, with the refusal to bleed on command.
Speaker 1: Because the man who walks in with a smile is forgettable,
Speaker 1: But the man who walks in with no need to speak,
Speaker 1: he becomes a presence, and presence lasts longer than voice.
Speaker 1: Macchiavelli never picked up a sword unless he had already
Speaker 1: won with perception, because in the real world, it's not
Speaker 1: about what you are, it's about what they think you're
Speaker 1: capable of. You don't need to be dangerous, You need
Speaker 1: to be perceived as dangerous. And how do you do
Speaker 1: that without saying a word? You control your visibility, you
Speaker 1: control your energy, You control the silence, because in every
Speaker 1: room one rule applies. They fear what they don't understand,
Speaker 1: and they respect what they fear. Step one, never show
Speaker 1: your entire hand. The loud ones they show everything, their ambition,
Speaker 1: their insecurities, their plans, their emotional triggers. They talk, they prove,
Speaker 1: they flex, and the more they show, the easier it
Speaker 1: is to calculate how to beat them. But Machiavelli didn't
Speaker 1: teach exposure. He taught opacity. He knew if they can
Speaker 1: read you, they can replace you. If they can't, they
Speaker 1: prepare for you. So you say less, you react slower.
Speaker 1: You keep your intentions wrapped in fog, not to confuse,
Speaker 1: but to control how you're interpreted. Because in a world
Speaker 1: where everyone's trying to be seen, the one they can't
Speaker 1: define is the one they obsess over. Step two, don't defend,
Speaker 1: don't explain. Nothing shatters the illusion of strength faster than defensiveness.
Speaker 1: If someone criticizes you and you explain yourself, you confirm
Speaker 1: the wound. If they call you distant and you defend
Speaker 1: your silence, you reveal you care more than they thought.
Speaker 1: Every time you explain your behavior, you say one thing.
Speaker 1: You still have emotional access to me. But Marchiavelli would
Speaker 1: stare blankly, he'd nod, he'd smile, and he'd say noted.
Speaker 1: That's how you become a threat. You hear everything and
Speaker 1: give back nothing. Step three send mixed signals on purpose.
Speaker 1: A threat doesn't need to be aggressive. It needs to
Speaker 1: be unpredictable. People don't fear what they understand. They fear
Speaker 1: what contradicts itself. Machiavelli would praise an ally today, oh
Speaker 1: and replace him tomorrow, smile during conversation, and silence you
Speaker 1: by next week, offer kindness, and disappear without explanation. Why.
Speaker 1: Because nothing creates emotional instability like inconsistency, and emotional instability
Speaker 1: leads to psychological submission. You don't have to be cruel.
Speaker 1: You just have to be confusing enough that people stay
Speaker 1: respectful because they don't want to test the version of
Speaker 1: you they haven't met yet. This is what modern people
Speaker 1: call mystery, what Machiavelli called a necessary illusion. Step four
Speaker 1: appear composed when others lose control, the greatest form of intimidation,
Speaker 1: self control in the presence of chaos. When people gossip,
Speaker 1: stay silent when they yell, blink slowly when they panic,
Speaker 1: speak calmly when they insult, Smile slightly. That's how you
Speaker 1: show one thing. You can't shake me, And if you
Speaker 1: can't shake me, you can't move me. And if you
Speaker 1: can't move me, you should be afraid of what I
Speaker 1: might choose to move next. That stillness, that refusal to escalate,
Speaker 1: that's when you stop being a participant and become a presence.
Speaker 1: They orbit. Machiavelli would rather say one phrase at the
Speaker 1: end of a conflict than deliver one hundred defenses during it,
Speaker 1: because the fewer words you need, the stronger each one becomes.
Speaker 1: And if people can't predict your words, they start adjusting
Speaker 1: their behavior before you speak. That's not communication, that's command.
Speaker 1: When people hear threat, they think violence. When they hear dominance,
Speaker 1: they think control. But Machiavelli knew better. He wasn't obsessed
Speaker 1: with power through force. He was obsessed with power through presence.
Speaker 1: Because the most feared people in any room are the
Speaker 1: ones who do the least and are still noticed the most.
Speaker 1: It is much safer to be feared than loved if
Speaker 1: you cannot be both, not because fear makes you cruel,
Speaker 1: but because fear makes others respect your silence. You don't
Speaker 1: need to strike. You only need to make people believe
Speaker 1: you might, and that belief is stronger than any argument
Speaker 1: you could ever deliver. The unthreatening are invited to be disrespected.
Speaker 1: Let's talk psychology. When someone doesn't fear losing you, they
Speaker 1: take your time, talk over you, demand more than they give,
Speaker 1: expect explanations, ask for favors without reciprocation. Because your presence
Speaker 1: has no perceived weight. You're safe, predictable, kind, accommodating, and
Speaker 1: in a Machiavellian world, those are not virtues. They are
Speaker 1: weaknesses begging to be tested. So what does a threat
Speaker 1: look like? Not a weapon, not shouting, not revenge. A
Speaker 1: threat is saying nothing after being disrespected, remaining calm in
Speaker 1: the face of gossip, being unpredictable without ever being emotional,
Speaker 1: disappearing from a room and making people feel it. That's fear,
Speaker 1: and fear is your leverage. You're not just a person,
Speaker 1: You're a consequence. Once people experience your detachment, your withdrawal,
Speaker 1: your refusal to chase, they start associating your silence with
Speaker 1: a shift in their world. When you stop replying, they
Speaker 1: reflect when you say less, they overthink when you don't
Speaker 1: show up. They notice now your absence becomes a mirror,
Speaker 1: not because you punished them, but because they suddenly realize
Speaker 1: without his validation, I don't know how to measure myself anymore.
Speaker 1: That is psychological warfare. Machiavelli didn't need armies to create fear.
Speaker 1: He needed silence, distance, uncertainty, because when people can't read
Speaker 1: your next move, they either retreat or try to win
Speaker 1: your favor again, and both outcomes serve you. Build the wolf,
Speaker 1: Kill the Dog. There's a reason videos like kill the
Speaker 1: Dog in You machiavelli Demands the Wolf are going viral
Speaker 1: because everyone feels the pain of being the emotional dog,
Speaker 1: loyal even when betrayed, friendly even when mocked, obedient, even
Speaker 1: when ignored, and everyone wants to become the wolf. But
Speaker 1: what they don't realize is this. The wolf doesn't bark.
Speaker 1: He simply watches, and when he moves, no one is ready.
Speaker 1: That's who you must become. You don't bark, You don't explain,
Speaker 1: you don't beg You calculate, you withhold. You let others
Speaker 1: feel the chill of your presence without ever raising your tone.
Speaker 1: The unforget edible are often quiet. Here's the irony loud,
Speaker 1: people are remembered in the moment. Still people are remembered
Speaker 1: in the memory because after you leave a room, people
Speaker 1: replay what they can't define. Why didn't he say anything?
Speaker 1: Was he testing us? What did that silence mean? They
Speaker 1: can't move on because you never gave them closure. And
Speaker 1: when people can't close the file, they reread it forever.
Speaker 1: That's how threats are born, not from action, but from potential.
Speaker 1: You don't have to say a word to dominate a room,
Speaker 1: because most power isn't spoken. It's signaled through posture, through presence,
Speaker 1: through what you don't do when everyone else is trying
Speaker 1: to be seen. Machiavelli would not bark commands. He would observe.
Speaker 1: He would let others reveal themselves, and then, without raising
Speaker 1: his voice, he'd make them fear the space between his words.
Speaker 1: You want to be a threat, start with daily habits
Speaker 1: that make people question your reach. Habit one, never be
Speaker 1: the first to react when someone says something offensive, baiting
Speaker 1: or triggering. Wait. Everyone else rushes to respond, to defend,
Speaker 1: to get the last word, but not you. You blink,
Speaker 1: you pause, You let their energy bounce off your stillness.
Speaker 1: Why because every person who reacts first is always seen
Speaker 1: as the weaker one. But the one who waits, that's
Speaker 1: the one who's move Everyone anticipates. Machiavelli would rather let
Speaker 1: someone believe he didn't hear them than respond before they
Speaker 1: finish talking, because the pause is not hesitation, it's calculation,
Speaker 1: and people fear being calculated more than being confronted. Habit
Speaker 1: two Speak slower, say less, leave earlier. This sounds simple,
Speaker 1: but it rewires perception. Speaking slower eats was control. Saying
Speaker 1: less etual's value. Leaving early ule's mystery. Most people speak
Speaker 1: to be understood, but power doesn't seek understanding. It seeks interpretation.
Speaker 1: You want people to ask, what did he mean by that?
Speaker 1: Was he agreeing or warning me? Why did he leave
Speaker 1: when the energy shifted? Macchiavelli made people nervous without raising
Speaker 1: his volume because he never stayed long enough to be
Speaker 1: fully known. And what they can't define, they start to fear.
Speaker 1: Habit three withdraw to reinforce presence. The most dominant people
Speaker 1: aren't always present, but when they are, everyone feels it.
Speaker 1: Why because they don't overappear. You need to leave social spaces, chats, arguments,
Speaker 1: even meetings before your presence becomes normalized. The dog is
Speaker 1: always there. The wolf appears, then vanishes, and when the
Speaker 1: wolf vanishes, everyone asks where he went. This is how
Speaker 1: Machiavelli trained power through scarcity. Be the one they notice
Speaker 1: is gone, not the one they expect to stay. Habit
Speaker 1: for never over explain your moves. Explaining makes sense to you.
Speaker 1: You want to be clear, honest, understood. But Machiavelli knew
Speaker 1: every explanation is a subtraction from power. You said no,
Speaker 1: say no, you changed your mind, let it be changed.
Speaker 1: You walked away, stay gone. No reasoning, no emotional rapping,
Speaker 1: no justifying your boundaries, because once you start explaining, you
Speaker 1: start defending, and once you start defending, you're no longer commanding.
Speaker 1: You're negotiating, and a threat never negotiates. Habit you maintain
Speaker 1: emotional neutrality. In social games, you'll notice how people constantly
Speaker 1: test your emotional center. They'll say provocative things to see
Speaker 1: if you'll correct them, joke about your silence to get
Speaker 1: you to talk, flirt, poke, or guilt trip just to
Speaker 1: break your neutrality. Why Because they can feel it, that
Speaker 1: unreadable energy, and they're afraid of it. They try to
Speaker 1: crack it because if they can't they'll have to assume
Speaker 1: you're stronger than they are. Let them assume, smile, observe, withdraw,
Speaker 1: because the more they try to read you, the more
Speaker 1: power you gain. Machiavelli didn't just act powerful. He trained
Speaker 1: rituals of restraint, movements of control, a daily posture that
Speaker 1: whispered you don't know what I'm capable of, and you
Speaker 1: never will. But if you cross me, you might find out.
Speaker 1: There's a fine line between being a mystery and being ignored,
Speaker 1: between silence that command's presence, and silence that fades into irrelevance.
Speaker 1: Machiavelli's genius wasn't in true using fear instead of respect.
Speaker 1: It was knowing how to balance both so that when
Speaker 1: you said nothing, they still heard your name echoing in
Speaker 1: the room. Fear without respect breeds resistance. If people only
Speaker 1: fear you, they will pretend to obey, but plot behind
Speaker 1: your back. Comply publicly, but sabotage privately. Submit on the surface,
Speaker 1: but build resentment underground. This is short term power. It
Speaker 1: keeps people in line for a moment, but it makes
Speaker 1: them dream of your downfall. Marchiavelli knew this. That's why
Speaker 1: he didn't just command silence. He earned respect through unpredictability.
Speaker 1: Fear must be layered with controlled admiration. Not love, not likability,
Speaker 1: but reverence, the kind that says he could destroy me
Speaker 1: but hasn't yet. Respect without fear breeds entitlement. If people
Speaker 1: only respect you, they will praise you openly, like your leadership,
Speaker 1: trust your competence. But eventually they'll ask for more than
Speaker 1: they give. They'll talk over you, they'll expect kindness as
Speaker 1: a guarantee. You become liked, not watched, And when people
Speaker 1: stop watching you carefully, they start underestimating your reach. The
Speaker 1: solution tension. The most powerful people walk with tension behind them,
Speaker 1: not drama, tension, that subtle sense that you're kind but
Speaker 1: not to be tested. You're calm but not to be
Speaker 1: played with. You're silent but not sleeping. This tension keeps
Speaker 1: people emotionally on edge around you in the right way,
Speaker 1: because they don't know how much of what you show
Speaker 1: is real. And the moment people start calculating your depth,
Speaker 1: they stop trying to control you. How to build that tension,
Speaker 1: Machiavelli would do it like this. Be consistent in control,
Speaker 1: inconsistent in emotion. You're always composed but not always warm.
Speaker 1: Sometimes observant, sometimes unreadable, sometimes slightly amused, never angry, never passive,
Speaker 1: just collected, but not entirely available. That unpredictability keeps them
Speaker 1: off balance. Give one moment of precision, then disappear. You
Speaker 1: don't speak often, but when you do, it's surgical. You
Speaker 1: end in argument with one line. You dissolve tension with
Speaker 1: one sentence. You correct a mistake once and leave it
Speaker 1: at that. Then you're gone. You vanish from the room.
Speaker 1: You leave the message open ended. You don't repeat your point,
Speaker 1: and that one moment sticks longer than a thousand speeches.
Speaker 1: That's lasting tension. Make people feel the weight of losing
Speaker 1: you without threatening to leave. Machiavelli would never beg for attention.
Speaker 1: He'd never threatened departure, but he'd train people to feel
Speaker 1: the drop when he withdraws. You stop replying, you stop nodding,
Speaker 1: You become professionally cold. You leave the room early, without
Speaker 1: a word, no explanation, no closure, just distance, and they
Speaker 1: will feel it because your presence had value they didn't
Speaker 1: account for. Now they do, and next time they step lighter.
Speaker 1: Let praise exist without confirmation. When people compliment you, you
Speaker 1: don't melt. You don't deflect, you don't mirror it back.
Speaker 1: You nod, you hold eye contact, maybe a brief smirk.
Speaker 1: But you don't need to validate their compliment with submission.
Speaker 1: Why because accepting praise without emotional dependence tells people something terrifying.
Speaker 1: You already know you're worthy, and their words were a courtesy,
Speaker 1: not in this necessity. This is how you walk the line.
Speaker 1: You let people respect your stillness, but fear the mystery
Speaker 1: beneath it, that tension. That's how Machiavelli would have ruled
Speaker 1: to day. The loud ones get noticed, the quiet ones
Speaker 1: get remembered. Machiavelli didn't just want to command people in
Speaker 1: the moment. He wanted to live in their heads long
Speaker 1: after he left the room. Because true power isn't about dominance.
Speaker 1: It's about presence that stays after your absence, and the
Speaker 1: most dangerous kind of presence the one that never explained itself.
Speaker 1: Men are quicker to forget the death of a father
Speaker 1: than the loss of their inheritance. Now ask yourself, what
Speaker 1: kind of man must you become to feel like an
Speaker 1: inheritance when you disappear. Let's build that version of you,
Speaker 1: step by step. Obsession isn't created by availability, It's created
Speaker 1: by distance. People don't obsess over what they fully understand.
Speaker 1: They obsess over what felt close but never fully belong
Speaker 1: to them. And that's how you become unforgettable. By being
Speaker 1: present enough to feel real, but distant enough to feel unreachable,
Speaker 1: you give them a moment of eye contact, a word
Speaker 1: that cuts deeper than it should, a calmness that unsettles
Speaker 1: the emotionally unstable, and then you vanish that absence becomes
Speaker 1: a psychological loop they can't close. Strategy one, don't give
Speaker 1: them what they expect. Most people reveal themselves entirely within minutes.
Speaker 1: They're overly kind, overly expressive, overly available. You you smile less,
Speaker 1: speak slowly, offer nothing more than necessary. You create a
Speaker 1: contrast so sharp it forces people to slow down around you.
Speaker 1: They recalibrate their tone, their behavior, even their breathing, not
Speaker 1: because you demanded it, but because your energy shifted the dynamic.
Speaker 1: Now you've left a mark. Strategy two, let them project.
Speaker 1: Then withhold, people will try to label you He's intense,
Speaker 1: she's mysterious. They're hard to read. Let them because once
Speaker 1: they start projecting, they start obsessing. They'll replay your silence,
Speaker 1: dissect your expressions, invent stories to explain the parts of
Speaker 1: you they can't access. Don't correct them. Their imagination is
Speaker 1: now your pr team, and the more confused they are,
Speaker 1: the more they return. Strategy three. Leave them mid sentence,
Speaker 1: metaphorically or literally. Emotional closure is what most people live for.
Speaker 1: They want full explanations, clean exits, a bow at the end.
Speaker 1: You You end conversations slightly before they feel finished. You
Speaker 1: disappear slightly before they feel ready. You give silence slightly
Speaker 1: after they expected a response why, Because that, incompleteness, becomes
Speaker 1: a hook. They'll go back over the moment again and again,
Speaker 1: trying to finish what you started. That's how presence becomes obsession.
Speaker 1: Strategy for protect your inner world like kingdom. They ask
Speaker 1: what drives you. You say, I'm focused. They ask if
Speaker 1: you're okay. You say always adjusting. They ask what you want?
Speaker 1: You say that depends on the day. You give them hints,
Speaker 1: never headlines, because the moment someone fully knows your why,
Speaker 1: they start plotting your how. But when your inner world
Speaker 1: feels like a fortress, they stop knocking and start watching
Speaker 1: and wondering and thinking of you. Long after you've stopped
Speaker 1: thinking of them. Machiavelli's genius was not in being remembered
Speaker 1: as a great man. It was being remembered as a
Speaker 1: man who could have done anything and chose when, how
Speaker 1: and if. That if is the hook. That's what they
Speaker 1: can't forget. You've made it to the final phase, where
Speaker 1: silence is no longer a tactic, it's your default setting,
Speaker 1: where you don't hide what you feel. You simply decide when, where,
Speaker 1: and if it's worth showing. Macchiavelli's final form wasn't loud,
Speaker 1: it wasn't brutal. It was disciplined. Because true power isn't
Speaker 1: when they obey you out of fear. It's when they
Speaker 1: start moving differently. Just in case you're watching, the unreadable
Speaker 1: man cannot be cornered. Once they understand you, they start
Speaker 1: managing you. But once they realize they'll never fully get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of you, they give up on control
Speaker 1: and instead they give you space because you are now unpredictable,
Speaker 1: and what's unpredictable becomes untouchable.