The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of THE ENERGY Paradox by Dacher Keltner, read by Kaleo Griffith.

A concise, paradigm-shifting accounts of the energy dynamics that shape everyday routine – in the board room to the dining room table, the playground to the bedroom

The Machiavellian view of power as a coercive force is among the deepest currents inside our culture, yet new psychological research reveals this vision to become dead wrong. Influence is gained instead through social intelligence and empathy – but ironically the seductions of power make us reduce the very qualities that made us powerful in the first place. By sketching on exciting case studies that debunk longstanding common myths, Dacher Keltner illuminates this ‘power paradox’, revealing how it designs not only boardrooms and elections but everyday associations, and affects if we will have an affair, break the law or find our purpose in lifestyle.