{"id":1440,"date":"2013-08-13T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T12:18:14","slug":"keep-others-in-suspended-terror-cultivate-an-air-of-unpredictability-law-17-48laws-by-robert-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability &#8211; law 17 &#8211; #48laws by robert greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Law 17<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people&#8217;s actions. Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off-balance, and they will wear themselves out trying to explain your moves. Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize. &#8211;{{Robert Greene}}, {{The 48 Laws of Power}} (<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2012\/12\/06\/the-48-laws-of-power-by-robert-greene\/#.UME3wYNlH00\">review<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law 17 Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people&#8217;s actions. Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off-balance, and they will wear themselves out trying to explain your &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1440\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability &#8211; law 17 &#8211; #48laws by robert greene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[56],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-commentary","tag-48laws"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}