It’s more toxic to teens than to grownups. Had I read it as an impressionable teen, I would have been all about playing games and treating guys, well not genuinely

It’s BS advice, anything that tells you to play games and apply psych tricks is not a great guide. Like the idolised Robert Greene books. Tue 48 laws of power was a cringefest, and my brain sort of pushed it out, as I don’t even remember what utter machiavellian bs I have read