The Tenth Rule - Avoid the Unhappy and the Unlucky

Hello everyone. I hope you are all well? Today, I would be sharing my thought on the tenth law of power from one of my favorite books, The 48 Laws of Power. This tenth law is primarily about avoiding individuals who are unhappy and unfortunate at all times. I believe this rule is pragmatic and can help people have better mental health and hastened growth in life.

Eluding miserable and unfortunate people does not necessarily mean that you should isolate yourself from anyone who is not happy or afflicted in life. Life has its own ways of making everyone unhappy. Sometimes too we seem to run out of luck on a certain course of action. However, some individuals are habitually sad and found in the worst-case scenarios possible in virtually every endeavor of life- these are the ones the book was alluding to.

For such people, every entity (whether living or non-living) - but themselves- are responsible for how their lives have turned out. They often blame governments, spirits, relatives, friends, and so many elements for how badly their lives have turned out. Taking accountability for their actions is lost in their world. Hence, they are always in a bad emotional state. They feel always feel like victims and assume successful people acquired their achievements with comfort.

Negative emotions are very powerful. That is why bad companionship ruins good manners, as the Good Book says. Hence, any positive-minded and ambitious person should put in efforts to circumvent the company of people with negative aurora. A strong bond with victim-minded people will gradually destroy one’s ambitious mindset and render one in a similar emotional state. Before you realize it, you would be acting, speaking, and thinking like such people.

One could become cognizant of the development of the negative attitude in one's life and thwart it, but very few people can do so as a strong social awareness of one’s self is required to know this. Utter avoidance is not what is being recommended here. It can be difficult to completely avoid such persons when they happen to be co-workers, relatives, friends, etc. What the book rather proposes is that limit your interactions with them to the barest minimum.

Doing this will not only improve your mental health but also help you to surround yourself with the actual people who will help you succeed and become a better person in life.