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How Machiavelli’s Wisdom Unveils the Power of Strategic Goodness
The Harsh Truth Why Kindness Alone Isn’t Enough to Succeed
Good heartedness by itself does not ensure success no matter what. For successful thriving people must couple their kindness with both intelligence and strategic thinking.
The Illusion of Pure Kindness
Few people actually accept that good deeds will automatically produce success although it is an appealing false perception. Your experiences have likely featured both situations where you received no recognition and times when you became a victim even though you behaved ethically. Society promotes good behavior along with integrity as a way of receiving recognition yet reality produces contrasting experiences. Reality demonstrates that despite appearances virtue does not yield rewards because skilled card-playing brings the real benefits.
The works of Niccolò Machiavelli gain their relevance when applied to this situation. Machiavelli unveils to us how people possess multiple secret characteristics excluding pure goodness as these traits operate randomly with total selfishness and brutality toward others. According to Machiavelli in The Prince he…
