- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: MTV Books (28 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1416552421
- ISBN-13: 978-1416552420
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,838,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`I really needed to read The 50th Law, more than I knew. This is the new entrepreneur's bible!!' --DJ Krust
`Such a great book I love it! ... a wicked sequel to The 48 Laws of Power' --DJ Harry Love
`One of the tools needed to help plot your way through modern life in my opinion. Part of your life kit! --Tris Brown, Music Producer
`The 50th Law is helping man "embrace fear with a bear hug"' --Tris Brown, Music Producer
`The 50th Law is a great read! It will be ideal fodder for the young people I work with.'
--James Yarde, music producer & youth worker
`I love The 50th Law. A mixture of self help, historical analysis, boardroom tactics and life coaching, it's a MUST READ.'
--T.Magic, urban artist
`Invaluable business law...' --Ben Thompson Financial Times
`I'm loving the book and can't put it down... it provides a huge source of inspiration - a must read' --Ray Paul, Executive Producer - Weekend Programming, BBC Radio 1
`It's energised me...50 has a brilliant mind and never lets anything stop his onward business...The 50th Law is very inspiring' --Jasmine Dotiwala, Head of MTV BASE
'It's almost frightening to think of the amount of leonine stonewalling that'll be going on in boardrooms once this volume hits the shelves'
--Ben Thompson Financial Times
`It's stirring stuff' --Amber Cowan, London Lite
`An Art of War-style book of tough-guy maxims to live by'
--David Smyth, Evening Standard
`Book of the Month: An entertaining analysis of the mechanics of individualistic power... compelling reading' --BA Business Life
`If you have a penchant for the "don't mess" ethics of Napoleon, you'll probably love it.' --Rob Sharp, The Independent
'A compelling read' --Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor
`The hip hop entrepreneur book' --Matilda Egere-Cooper, The Independent
'50 Cent's story is remarkable'
--Jeremy Hazlehurst, City A.
There are some pretty powerful things in there... he manages to turn every situation into a huge positive.' --Lethal Bizzle
`Astonishing and sometimes poignant... Jackson helps to bring the visceral survival instinct of the New York ghetto to the boardroom.' --Michael Odell, The Times
`It's my favourite book' --Tinchy Stryder on The 50th Law
`It's my favourite book'
--Tinchy Stryder --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
`Such a great book I love it! ... a wicked sequel to The 48 Laws of Power' --DJ Harry Love
`One of the tools needed to help plot your way through modern life in my opinion. Part of your life kit! --Tris Brown, Music Producer
`The 50th Law is helping man "embrace fear with a bear hug"' --Tris Brown, Music Producer
`The 50th Law is a great read! It will be ideal fodder for the young people I work with.'
--James Yarde, music producer & youth worker
`I love The 50th Law. A mixture of self help, historical analysis, boardroom tactics and life coaching, it's a MUST READ.'
--T.Magic, urban artist
`Invaluable business law...' --Ben Thompson Financial Times
`I'm loving the book and can't put it down... it provides a huge source of inspiration - a must read' --Ray Paul, Executive Producer - Weekend Programming, BBC Radio 1
`It's energised me...50 has a brilliant mind and never lets anything stop his onward business...The 50th Law is very inspiring' --Jasmine Dotiwala, Head of MTV BASE
'It's almost frightening to think of the amount of leonine stonewalling that'll be going on in boardrooms once this volume hits the shelves'
--Ben Thompson Financial Times
`It's stirring stuff' --Amber Cowan, London Lite
`An Art of War-style book of tough-guy maxims to live by'
--David Smyth, Evening Standard
`Book of the Month: An entertaining analysis of the mechanics of individualistic power... compelling reading' --BA Business Life
`If you have a penchant for the "don't mess" ethics of Napoleon, you'll probably love it.' --Rob Sharp, The Independent
'A compelling read' --Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor
`The hip hop entrepreneur book' --Matilda Egere-Cooper, The Independent
'50 Cent's story is remarkable'
--Jeremy Hazlehurst, City A.
There are some pretty powerful things in there... he manages to turn every situation into a huge positive.' --Lethal Bizzle
`Astonishing and sometimes poignant... Jackson helps to bring the visceral survival instinct of the New York ghetto to the boardroom.' --Michael Odell, The Times
`It's my favourite book' --Tinchy Stryder on The 50th Law
`It's my favourite book'
--Tinchy Stryder --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Bestselling author Robert Greene combines forces with 50 Cent to help you get ahead
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
IF you want to make it. Be your own person. Be self reliant. Then this book is for you. One of
the best enterprise books ever created. A MUST READ!
the best enterprise books ever created. A MUST READ!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Robert Greene's latest offering is a strange creature. Equal parts self-help guide, historical narrative, and fawning 50-cent biography, it's a new jack of all trades, master of none.
Ostensibly co-written by Curtis Jackson, who raps under the name 50 Cent, the foreword quickly reveals that the text is all Greene's - based on discussions and 'access' to the star. The reverential tone with which Greene refers to the rapper is struck early on and he continues in the same obsequious fashion throughout.
The 50th "law" referred to in the book's title is a derivative of the Alfred Korzybski's mantra "the map is not the territory":
"The one thing that we can control is the mind-set with which we respond to people around us"
The principle concept of the book centres on the negative effects that fear can have, in particular anxiety and paralysis of the will, and how reframing of our perception can allow us to react in more productive ways. This a recurring theme in self-help literature, and is the central concept in such pseudoscience as NLP, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a kernel of common-sense to it.
Each of the chapters focuses on a different concept of how to get ahead, and mixing historical anecdotes with fanciful tales from the 'hood, illustrates how adopting the principles of each chapter will lead to a life of riches and power. A critical eye, self-reliance, opportunism, momentum, aggression, authority, social connections, experience, self-belief and human mortality are all dealt with as part of the hip-hop masterplan for success.
Greene illuminates each chapter with anecdote after anecdote, as per his previous books.
While the anecdotes are occasionally interesting, they lack the same depth of treatment as in Greene's other works, and the reader is left with the impression that some have been shoehorned to fit the theme of each chapter. The "50 Cent" anecdotes are especially problematic, since hip-hop is not known for the veracity of its boasts and the author states early on that Jackson has a habit of inventing fictitious scenarios when it suits his interest. Not a great start to a pseudo-biography.
I can't help think that there's a thought-provoking book in here somewhere, which is blown off-course by the (presumably) commercially-driven and rather pointless involvement of the puffed-up and unsympathetic character of "50 Cent".
Stylistically, Greene's trademark use of the imperative "Understand:" - as a way to emphasise part of the text - made me cringe with every repetition (more so than previous books) and causes an unnecessary distraction from the flow of the text.
Greene's self-consciously tongue-in-cheek writing style was amusing in The Laws of Power and his other works, but the humour which offset the amoral guidance in those books is glaringly omitted here - and that leaves the reader without the plausible deniability which made the nefarious schemes in those books read more easily.
What we are left with is a bleak worldview which celebrates a 'me first' mentality to which few will relate.
An antidote to all of this is Robert Wright's splendid The Moral Animal - which shows why the selfish and bleak attitude espoused here is misguided.
Ostensibly co-written by Curtis Jackson, who raps under the name 50 Cent, the foreword quickly reveals that the text is all Greene's - based on discussions and 'access' to the star. The reverential tone with which Greene refers to the rapper is struck early on and he continues in the same obsequious fashion throughout.
The 50th "law" referred to in the book's title is a derivative of the Alfred Korzybski's mantra "the map is not the territory":
"The one thing that we can control is the mind-set with which we respond to people around us"
The principle concept of the book centres on the negative effects that fear can have, in particular anxiety and paralysis of the will, and how reframing of our perception can allow us to react in more productive ways. This a recurring theme in self-help literature, and is the central concept in such pseudoscience as NLP, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a kernel of common-sense to it.
Each of the chapters focuses on a different concept of how to get ahead, and mixing historical anecdotes with fanciful tales from the 'hood, illustrates how adopting the principles of each chapter will lead to a life of riches and power. A critical eye, self-reliance, opportunism, momentum, aggression, authority, social connections, experience, self-belief and human mortality are all dealt with as part of the hip-hop masterplan for success.
Greene illuminates each chapter with anecdote after anecdote, as per his previous books.
While the anecdotes are occasionally interesting, they lack the same depth of treatment as in Greene's other works, and the reader is left with the impression that some have been shoehorned to fit the theme of each chapter. The "50 Cent" anecdotes are especially problematic, since hip-hop is not known for the veracity of its boasts and the author states early on that Jackson has a habit of inventing fictitious scenarios when it suits his interest. Not a great start to a pseudo-biography.
I can't help think that there's a thought-provoking book in here somewhere, which is blown off-course by the (presumably) commercially-driven and rather pointless involvement of the puffed-up and unsympathetic character of "50 Cent".
Stylistically, Greene's trademark use of the imperative "Understand:" - as a way to emphasise part of the text - made me cringe with every repetition (more so than previous books) and causes an unnecessary distraction from the flow of the text.
Greene's self-consciously tongue-in-cheek writing style was amusing in The Laws of Power and his other works, but the humour which offset the amoral guidance in those books is glaringly omitted here - and that leaves the reader without the plausible deniability which made the nefarious schemes in those books read more easily.
What we are left with is a bleak worldview which celebrates a 'me first' mentality to which few will relate.
An antidote to all of this is Robert Wright's splendid The Moral Animal - which shows why the selfish and bleak attitude espoused here is misguided.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thoroughly recommend this book.
As a self help book - it's an enjoyable read. The books central theme is about a particular philosophy of life i.e the conquest of fear.
The author Robert Greene, imparts some uncomfortable truths to a self deluding world.
Curtis Jackson (aka 50 cent) is referred throughout the book in the third person. His story from child orphan, to drug dealer, to famous rapper adds real life to the books theme of overcoming adversity and conquering fear.
Greene himself shows an in-depth knowledge of human nature.
For a deeper understanding of the human mind and to improve your own life - read this book.
As a self help book - it's an enjoyable read. The books central theme is about a particular philosophy of life i.e the conquest of fear.
The author Robert Greene, imparts some uncomfortable truths to a self deluding world.
Curtis Jackson (aka 50 cent) is referred throughout the book in the third person. His story from child orphan, to drug dealer, to famous rapper adds real life to the books theme of overcoming adversity and conquering fear.
Greene himself shows an in-depth knowledge of human nature.
For a deeper understanding of the human mind and to improve your own life - read this book.
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interesting concepts
Definately an interesting read, whilst offering good advice in parts big parts felt useless to me, the chapter on self reliance was my favourite, although in terms of self help... Read more
Published 20 days ago by zdratcliffe1
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Very good book, it will turn yoou into 50 cent... !!! for sure :D after reading this book in a single day i woke up next day and when i looked in the mirrior i had turned in to 50... Read more
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Firstly. I am not delusional. So my review is from a perspective of what I would consider an intelligent frame of mind. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Nathan Hewitt
You Become What You Think About
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Published 11 months ago by Muhammad Rahim
Not That Great
I love 50 and find him very inspiring, but this book was not a very interesting read. However, i did read it just because i really like 50...
Published 15 months ago by Michael Hudson
Mostly rubbish, only parts were good. its the same ol thing..
I used to like RG's work.. but he is a bit repetitive. He talks continuously about ''the dangerous world.. how people will stab you in the backconstantly'' .. Read more
Published 21 months ago by V Sinha
Is FEAR Holding You back?
If like me, you are already a fan of Robert Greene and his work then you'll know what you are in for... Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2009 by John G
THOUGHT PROVOKING
I must admit, when I noticed `the 50th law staring back at me in the book shop, I was pleasantly surprised to see it had been co-written by Robert Greene and 50 Cent. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2009 by B. Roberts
Repetitive
I'm a fan of the 48 Laws and loved the historical examples but this new book is far too repetitive and flimsy. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by David Atkinson
Excellent conceptual read.
I had previous read the 49 laws of power by Robert Greene and was impressed with his work & referencing throughout history. Read more
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