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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9dac0bd9-5162-4b52-b5df-c1dace2bb811/AA790D76-A6D5-4F5C-8623-A0F1FF5A25BF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ponderabout.com/archives/2118/be_deliberately_unpredictable.aspx" href="http://ponderabout.com/archives/2118/be_deliberately_unpredictable.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">ponderabout.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ponderabout.com/archives/2118/be_deliberately_unpredictable.aspx">"Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable <BR /><DIV>need to see familiarity in other people’s actions.  </DIV><BR />Your predictability gives them a sense of control.  <BR /><DIV>Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable.  </DIV><BR />Behavior that seems to have no consistency or <BR />purpose will keep them off-balance, and they <BR />will wear themselves out trying to explain your<BR /><DIV>moves.  </DIV><BR />Taken to an extreme, this strategy can <BR />intimidate and terrorize."  <BR /><DIV>~ <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Greene_%28author%29">Robert Greene</A> </DIV><BR /><BR /><BR />The above in an excerpt from Green's<BR /><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140280197?ie=UTF8&tag=ponder-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140280197">The 48 Laws of Power</A> (1998), a best seller<BR /><DIV>that examines:</DIV><BR />- one's ability to influence others, <BR /><DIV>  called "Personal Power", and</DIV><BR />- those specific behaviors that lead to<BR /><DIV>  the accrual or the loss of personal power.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AA790D76-A6D5-4F5C-8623-A0F1FF5A25BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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