On Human Nature

Arthur Schopenhauer makes a dangerous claim: the people smiling at you across the table are friends only until a promotion is at stake, and then they will sacrifice you. Puncturing the nineteenth century's faith in progress and romanticism, he traces every human act to a blind, insatiable will. Through the mask of courtesy, that counterfeit coin, and the principle of unchangeable character, On Human Nature arms its reader as the observer without expectations, a mind no betrayal can reach.

You'll learn:

- Why being surprised by betrayal is an intelligence failure

- The one guarantee of what someone will do next

- How expecting nothing hands you power in every room