The Need For Control Runs Deep | Robert Greene

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]We're animals that need [music] that sense of I can influence my environment.

[00:00:05]I can influence the people around me.

[00:00:07]And the sense [music] of helplessness is a very, very primal feeling. I can't control my teenage son. He's into drugs.

[00:00:14]My [music] husband or my wife isn't listening to me. Ugh.

[00:00:18]My boss is doing, you know, you want the ability to be able to at least defend yourself or to have some influence or power over them. [music] It's a small margin because there's much you can't control, but to the degree that you can have some [music] of that power and