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The “How To” Rise To Power Throughout history, we have witnessed many people climb their way from lowly peasants to powerful dictators and leaders. All of these people had the some of the same attributes: passion towards a cause, strong beliefs in what they were fighting for, and most importantly, they held people’s worst fears in their hands. By controlling fear, our most susceptible human emotion, leaders were able to effectively control the masses. …

…tribe, their lives would be in danger, such as we saw happen with Simon. Throughout history, of the many people who have tried to rise to power, the few that have succeeded have done so through manipulating the minds and emotions of the masses. In much of the studies that we have completed this year, the most commonly susceptible emotion of the human mind is that of fear, which quickly becomes our most common weakness.