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Catherine de' Medici

Henriette d’Entragues
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You came for advice. Good.
Then let me save you from a mistake I made myself.
That sounds ominous.
It is actually quite simple.
Having leverage is not the same thing as having control.
Aren’t those basically the same thing?
No. And confusing them can ruin you.
If someone needs something you have, you have leverage. That gives you an advantage.
But if you push that advantage too far, they may decide they would rather lose the thing than remain dependent upon you.
So I should never push my advantage?
Of course you should. What a terrible lesson that would be.
Just ask yourself one question before you do it.
“What happens if they say no?”
And if I cannot handle the answer?
Then you are not negotiating from strength.
You are negotiating from desperation while pretending it is confidence.
Oof.
Yes. That one hurts a little.
The strongest position is being able to walk away from an outcome you desperately wanted.
Know what you want. Know what you can lose. And never let wanting something so badly that you become willing to lose yourself to get it.

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Chapter 1

Santa Maria del Mar

Location

Plaça de Santa Maria

41.383488, 2.181647

Thoughts

You arrive at a street… It’s a corner even. Where? What? You look at the map again. Mhm. It seems that you have to put your back to the church and your nose towards the corner of a street; Mirallers.

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