This is from the Book - LAWS OF HUMAN NATURE
Robert Greene
✨The Complete Control Narcissist ✨ When most people first met ᒍᝪᔑᗴᑭᕼ ᔑᎢᗩしᏆᑎ
(1879–1953) in the early part of his reign as premier of the
Soviet Union, they found him surprisingly charming. Although older
than most of his lieutenants, he encouraged them all to address him
with the familiar “you” form in Russian. He made himself completely
accessible even to junior officials. When he listened to you, it was with
such intensity and interest, his eyes boring into you. He seemed to pick
up your deepest thoughts and doubts. But his greatest trait was to
make you feel important and part of the inner circle of revolutionaries.
He would put his arm around you as he accompanied you out of his
office, always ending the meeting on an intimate note. As one young
man later wrote, people who saw him were “ᴀɴxɪᴏus ᴛᴏ sᴇᴇ ʜɪᴍ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ,”
because “he created a sense that there was now a bond that linked
them forever.” Sometimes he would turn slightly aloof, and it would
drive his courtiers crazy. Then the mood would...