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rendition switcher   Question: Does megalomania tend to weaken
leaders?  Robert Greene: Well you know you could say Napoleon
was a bit like that. I happen to admire Napoleon a lot because
he was such a brilliant strategist. I call him the Mozart of
warfare. He was like a child prodigy with war and strategy, but
you can divide Napoleon’s career into two halves. For ten years
from 1796 to 1806 he was an absolute genius. From 1806 to 1816
at Waterloo and everything he lost it all and it went to his
head. His success went to his head and instead of being enjoying
the process I tell people if you want to be powerful in life you
have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of
making the thing that you’re making. It can be politics. There
has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is
simply gaining power,