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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

      Power is never discussed openly. The new head PM for example will only openly discuss his or her love of hard problems, teamwork, and respect for creators and engineers. Not his or her network of people and favors and ability to reach out and connect.

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

      Power literacy means to understand the implicit game without having to have it spelled out to you. To the power literate, the power illiterate are like people who don't get jokes and want each joke explained.

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

      This is why flirting and making friends is different. In flirting, there's an undercurrent of power games. There's a lot of subtlety involved. Awkwardness is a form of power illiteracy with regards to male/female identities.

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

      A common misunderstanding among the power illiterate is believing that power is equivalent to force. They are actually opposites. Power mean the ability to have effects WITHOUT having to use force.

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

      A better word for power then (since power has connotations of force) is 'leadership' (though that has different interpretations as well) But essentially, it is the 'power' to have people willingly listen to you and follow you.

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

          Anyone can burn a city to the ground with enough people and fire. Few can take it over with culture and wealth intact. Anyone can coerce with force/money/etc... Few can lead with their follower's will intact.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

          "Invisible power games" aren't necessarily shadowy and political. A 'leader' by definition stands between followers on one side, and the unknown on the other. The leader figure interprets a messy reality, the precise reality that the follower do *not* want to face.

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

          Leadership is far less roaring at the top of pride rock like a lion and more like holding a torch at the head of group wading into darkness.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

          A sort of 'pseudo-leadership' is like an emissary taking you on a tour of a Grand Glorious Country. Teaching you who to know, who to avoid, how to dress, talk, bow, etc... It's not exploring the 'true' unknown because the invisible rules are made by man, not nature.

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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

          Summary: The path to leadership over your life(power) first involves accepting the silence that will come from the world. Power requires being comfortable with the silence of the void.

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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

          (In this way, meditation can be 'fake'). It's a pseudo-silence that is often used more as yet-another-escape from true silence. You still have the hustle and bustle background noise of monastic music and the rustle of monk robes.

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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Aug 2020

          "Peace and Quiet" is the OPPOSITE of "Silence of the Existential Void"

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