Why Being Available Set Your Price at Zero | Machiavelli

Why Being Available Set Your Price at Zero | Machiavelli Opening structure this video: the coined term defined in one sentence. The last four uploads used a scene fragment, an anchor date, a coined term and a question, so this returns to the top of the rotation. A free tier is the set of things anybody in your orbit can have from you without asking, without paying, and without any decision on your part. You have one. You did not design a single line of it. This is the first episode of What You Cost. Six mechanisms, in order, and the argument underneath all of them is that a price is not set by value, it is set by the last transaction — which means your rate was set years ago by your worst-defended moment rather than by anything you have done since. Anchored by the Roman salutatio, the pre-dawn reception where men in formal dress queued in the street outside another man's door, in an order everybody could count. Look it up. Details vary by period, and the general shape is well documented and worth an evening. TAGS: at least five specific to this video and anchor machiavelli, the prince, power psychology, cold power, self discipline for men, salutatio, roman patron client, being taken for granted, availability, workplace power dynamics, deep work interruptions, what you cost, protecting your attention, saying no at work HASHTAGS: #Machiavelli #ColdPower #WhatYouCost #Attention