同学们，本栏目是对你们学过的知识和生活中常见问题的归纳。其中，有一些共性问题，也许你会需要哦！

Question1: What are author’s ideas about the need of power?

Answer:

First he points out that the desire for power is a genuine human motivation. It is written in our genes. He has reached this conclusion mainly through his observation of human behavior. Then he stresses the importance of this need in social and economic development as well as the development of ourselves as individuals although he does not elaborate on how some people use the power to do good things and others use it for evil purposes, because that is an ethical question. Another interesting point he has made is the reason why so many people traditionally reject the idea of power and favor the idea of humbleness or modesty. According to the author, one reason is that those who have power would like the powerless to be content without power so that they can continue to enjoy their power.

Question2: How do you understand the following sentence: “While it is easy to understand that people who strive for power may become dominant and have a better chance to survive, most of us have difficulty accepting that this need is written in our genes.”

Answer:

Though people admit that those who strive for power are likely to gain advantages over others, most of us can't willingly accept the view that power is a human need, and that it is something we have inherited from our ancestors, rather than something we acquire later on.(In other words, most people refuse to admit that, in one way or another, they have the desire for power, because they think power is bad.)

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