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Chanel did the opposite. She welcomed all sorts of people into her shows and allowed them to take photographs. She knew this would only encourage the many people who made a living out of creating cheap versions of her clothes, but she wanted this. She even invited wealthy women to bring along their seamstresses, who would make sketches of the designs and then create replicas of them. More than making money, what she wanted most of all was to spread her fashions everywhere, to feel herself and her work to be objects of desire by women of all classes and nations. It would be the ultimate revenge for the girl who had grown up ignored, unloved, and shunned. She would clothe millions of women; her look, her imprint would be seen everywhere—as indeed it was a few years after her comeback.

The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

“You have to believe in your own magic. This is what makes a magician great. He believes the story he is telling to the audience, he believes in himself. It’s not about the illusions, or the applause, or any sleight of hand. It’s about the magician’s ability to believe in himself and his ability to have the audience believe in him. A trick is never done at the expense of the audience. Magic isn’t a hustle or a con. A real magician transports the audience to a world where anything is possible, everything is real, and the unbelievable becomes believable.”

Into the Magic Shop

James R. Doty, MD

Books Summary: The modern use of the word cult is, we have this very micro-deficient cult. It's like a fake new religion as compared to the all presumably real older. In the language of the ancient city, these are all cults. Transcript: Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. In the language of the ancient city, these are all cults. These are all cults. The modern use of the word cult is, we have this very micro-deficient cult, which is like, whatever, basically what it's called meaning, kind of, modern parlance. It's like a fake new religion. As compared to the all presumably real older. Speaker 2 Let me ask you a spicy question. If Mark had reason for starting a cult, what would that cult have to do and believe in? Don't you, I mean, you already have the answer. Speaker 1 You're in it. Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah. Mark, I just thought you were going to say, my religion will require a sacrifice. Speaker 1 Of course it requires a price. All religious requires a sacrifice. Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah. Someday our daughter has to be taken away from us, like, without city. Wow. Speaker 1 No, no, no. We have the diluted form. My version, my call is a very diluted form of what my predecessor 4000 years ago would have had. Speaker 2 Yeah, she only has listened to Mark's podcast. Speaker 1 But appropriately so. There we go. OK. Booktube. Speaker 2 Booktube. The Machiavellian's by a burner. Yeah. Speaker 1 So actually, there's two books by Burnham. I referenced the Machiavellian's is actually stronger on, it's very good on politics, political theory, political structure, political power. And I'm happy to talk about that. The other book, the managerial revolution, is actually even more relevant, I think, to the kind of world that we live in. And maybe I could touch on that one if that's OK. Yeah. Yeah.

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