I started to read this a while ago. I stopped because it was so depressing. 

I tried again a few days ago and stopped at law #15 because anyone who follows this advice must be miserable. 

Deceit, lying, misdirection, dishonesty, cheating, duplicity and fakery…the traits needed for power? You go right ahead and keep looking over your shoulder for the person who is gonna stab you in the back to knock you off your position of “power.”

It’s just an awful way to live. It’s not for me.

If figures that this book is popular with prisoners. They have been reduced to being the most powerless people on the planet because they are incarcerated. They seem to have been deceived by the contents in this book. 

My power comes from within.