A lot of the official liberal arts college education goes into understanding the perspectives of others, with a bias to people in power and their power structures. While not an explicit thing they are teaching you, college is teaching you how to understand power structures and the people within them.
If you have a better understanding of power structures, it becomes easier to push said structures to achieve your own goals since you can speak to power structures in their language instead of your own in order to get what you want.
Also, a lot of the clubs and other extra-curricular activities are designed to create small power bases to practice these techniques on.
It is a lot easier to get what you want when you can speak on other people’s terms.
Where can I learn more about this? Recommend any books or any techniques? I’d love to learn more about power structures, and people in power.
In workplaces, I’ve seen people put themselves into positions of power, get roles their not qualified for, and influence managers to dislike people. Office politics.
There are a lot of historical books on various topics; i feel like a good spot is to pick an era and dive in.
Also, everything is politics, especially office work. Part of the purpose of college wasn’t just to get people to gain knowledge, but to work up Bloom’s Taxonomy by applying knowledge learned and analyzing it. Reading books might get you knowledge and maybe comprehension, but the value is in those higher levels.
Why is it easier to manipulate people in power? What makes them more vulnerable to manipulation?
A lot of the official liberal arts college education goes into understanding the perspectives of others, with a bias to people in power and their power structures. While not an explicit thing they are teaching you, college is teaching you how to understand power structures and the people within them.
If you have a better understanding of power structures, it becomes easier to push said structures to achieve your own goals since you can speak to power structures in their language instead of your own in order to get what you want.
Also, a lot of the clubs and other extra-curricular activities are designed to create small power bases to practice these techniques on.
It is a lot easier to get what you want when you can speak on other people’s terms.
Where can I learn more about this? Recommend any books or any techniques? I’d love to learn more about power structures, and people in power.
In workplaces, I’ve seen people put themselves into positions of power, get roles their not qualified for, and influence managers to dislike people. Office politics.
There are a lot of historical books on various topics; i feel like a good spot is to pick an era and dive in.
Also, everything is politics, especially office work. Part of the purpose of college wasn’t just to get people to gain knowledge, but to work up Bloom’s Taxonomy by applying knowledge learned and analyzing it. Reading books might get you knowledge and maybe comprehension, but the value is in those higher levels.