Greene deliberately designed The 48 Laws of Power to be timeless by mining all cultures and periods of history to uncover something genuinely real about power, making it less tied to contemporary trends so it would remain relevant across generations.
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“I designed the book to be timeless...I looked at a lot of history...I kind of mined all cultures and all periods of history”
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Robert Greene on Reading, The Laws of Power, and Detecting Lies | Knowledge Project Podcast Archive— The Knowledge Project PodcastCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:29:23 PM
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