The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

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		The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
		The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.

Power is ubiquitous—but totally misunderstood. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Dr. Dacher Keltner presents the very idea of power in a whole new light, demonstrating not just how it is a force for good in the world, but how—via compassion and selflessness—it is attainable for each and every one of us.

It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is what we all too often forget, and it is the crux of the power paradox: by misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We abuse and lose our power, at work, in our family life, with our friends, because we've never understood it correctly—until now. Power isn't the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and in and of itself a good thing.

Dr. Keltner lays out exactly—in twenty original "Power Principles"—how to retain power; why power can be a demonstrably good thing; when we are likely to abuse power; and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness.

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I read the book cover to cover while flying on a plane from Hartford to Chicago. It's a wonderfully hopeful and optimistic account of how good people can and do attain power. There is a lot to digest in the book, which is beautifully written and vivid in its imagery and examples. Read this book for the writing and be surprised about what you learn about using power to improve society and the lives of others.

I became interested in reading this book after listening to a Dacher Keltner interview on the Marketplace radio show. While Keltner's hypothesis is interesting, the book turned out to be fairly disappointing. In particular, Keltner's writing style and lack of organization make the book hard to follow and seemingly very redundant - it is almost like he started writing it at 5:30pm on Friday and completed the manuscript at 5:30pm on Sunday. The book is really short and feels like it is just full of fluff. What I found to be the most irritating is the lack of citations within the text itself. While there are several pages of end notes, none of them is actually mapped to the corresponding citation in the text. This makes it hard to independently research or verify the hundreds of little experiments that Keltner relies on throughout the book to prove his theory. He literally rattles off these experiments which he presumably conducted throughout his years as a professor and devotes a couple sentences to each. We should all be skeptical of these flimsy psych department experiments that involve college students and pizza. Unfortunately for Keltner, he seems to build his whole thesis on these sorts of experiments. This fact, coupled with flat writing, makes this book a real disappointment.

Fascinating, easy-to-read and useful book on an important topic in society, especially in our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. We all need to realize that we give power to others and get it from them too. Furthermore, we also need to understand that the source of enduring power is from practicing empathy and giving.

It's too easy for adults to shake their heads about young people not being as empathetic as they used to be, as research shows. But it's easy for us adults -- especially those in powerful positions -- also to lose empathy, as the neuroscientist can now demonstrate.

The author Dacher Keltner does everyone a great service by explaining four social practices that make sure we use our power for good: empathizing (even when it's hard), giving, expressing gratitude and telling stories.

Besides helping us understand how power works and sharing these four practices that focus on others, the author makes another major contribution -- explaining the price the powerless pay for their lack of influence. We need to be much more empathetic about this, and start to change the imbalance of power.

This is an excellent, thought-provoking read that provides a rich and unique take on power while backing many major counterintuitive claims with interesting and creative scientific research. This is novel and groundbreaking work. Highly recommend.

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