1. TFTD The 48 Laws of Power Rule 3 and Rule 4

2. Information as a Mechanism of Power

3. Information is Power. What do you think of this statement now that you know how power works?

4. How would you define “information”?

5. Write down as many words as you can that could mean “Information”

6. data knowledge facts statistics details opinion truth evidence

7. What are the forms that information takes? Write down all you can think of?

8. Numbers words music symbols pictures

9. Stories fables Myths Legends movies songs paintings sculpture

10. How do you judge it?

11. truth lies teaching books opinion

12. How is it conveyed?

13. How do we receive information? How is information delivered to us?

14. Touch sight sound taste smell

15. What do we do with information? Thinking and Conclusions Opinions and Attitudes Actions and Choices Judgments

16. Opinions The law of opinion evidence

17. Assumptions Leading Questions

18. Beliefs Fault and No fault

19. Create

20. What is the role of information in your life? What do we use it for? How does it affect you?

21. How has information shaped you? How would you describe yourself? How would you describe your world? How would someone from Mars describe us? “They love balls and games with balls…”

22. Information as a mechanism depends on what you are trying to accomplish…

23. Power is about Choice

24. What you wear What you buy How you vote What you like What you hate Who you trust Who you work for

25. Four key aspects of information

26. True / False

27. Shared / Withheld

28. Information Matrix True False Shared Withheld

29. Intentional / Unintentional Intentional False Intentional Truth Unintentional False Unintentional Truth Intentional Share Unintentional Share Intentional Withheld Unintentionally Withheld

30. Instrumental / Incidental Instrumental False Incidental Truth Instrumental False Incidental Truth Instrumental Share Incidental Share Instrumental Withheld Incidental Withheld

31. Intentional Unintentional Shared True False True False Withheld True False True False Information Grid