The Totally Enlightened Guide to Status, Sex, Money and Power

There is an awakening when you realize how much of human behavior is driven by unacknowledged motivations. Polite social fictions are peeled back to reveal our basest drives. There is a churning Darwinian world of desire behind the civilized façade of cordiality. However, this insight does not usually translate into any kind of success or rise in the world. The replacement fiction – “I am a clear-eyed realist in dog-eat-dog world” – is just as wrong.