"Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people’s actions. Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off-balance, and they will wear themselves out trying to explain yourmoves. Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize." ~ Robert Greene The above in an excerpt from Green'sThe 48 Laws of Power (1998), a best sellerthat examines:- one's ability to influence others, called "Personal Power", and- those specific behaviors that lead to the accrual or the loss of personal power.