LAW 23: CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCES
Chapter summary from The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene.
Power compounds where attention stays. Spread yourself across too many targets and you become busy, visible, and weak.
Choose the richest source: one patron, one market, one skill, one position. Deepen it until it yields leverage. Repeated wins in one arena build reputation, resources, and fear, and those spill into other arenas later.
Most distractions arrive disguised as opportunity. Guard focus like territory. Say no quickly so your yes carries weight. Concentration also sharpens learning: you see patterns faster, improve faster, and become harder to replace.
People confuse motion with progress. Concentration is progress. When all your forces hit the same point again and again, resistance cracks, not because you are louder, but because you are consistent. The scattered person looks active and remains small. The concentrated person looks calm and becomes dangerous.
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