Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, once said, “focus on the things that don’t change.” I’ve come to notice over a long period of observation now that there is a pattern about human behaviour. They don’t always act the same way. But many times they are extremely predictable. And some pretend to be who they think they are, or want to be around other people and do not notice at all what they are really like.
They sometimes act in a strange way around other people to create this make-believe story, almost like a fiction about themselves so other people believe them to be who they pretend to be, deliberately creating illusions to the outside world looking in, seeing, and believing, a mirage.
The great trick is that other people are not aware when they are being fooled. And it is not easy to see when one is dealing with a con artist. The only way to win against one: is to also be one.
There is no greater skill to learn than the art of deception, mastering how to deceive the great deceivers. The art of indirection then is the ability to appear to be moving backwards all while actually moving forwards. It’s an anti-illusion creating confusion so no one really knows who’s going where.
Coming up in the following months you are going to learn how to attain this power of how to trick other people who are experts in the art of trickery, inverting the same game play and tactics they use on other people back on themselves, exposing their false self, true motives and mind games.
Many people’s greatest weakness is the failure to see how others might learn to work them out so well thereby being able to expose their true nature forcing them to come to terms with who they really are, something they have spent their whole lifetime running away from: themselves.
Never wanting to know who they really are means they have no idea of exactly what they are like. Or maybe they do but do not wish for other people to find out about this side of them. Many do not, simply because they cannot change. And that is who I’m going to focus on then: perennial people who cannot change.
In order to achieve this goal you need to become a master psychologist. And the direction in which you are heading will bring you closer to this level of advanced understanding of people and the ability to go inside their minds.
Once you have developed these psychological skills with precision and depth you can terrify people with your thoughts and words, cultivating the ability of saying things that will make people scatter and run away from you.
Recently I wrote about the error we make when we ask someone who they are, and they make the mistake of thinking we are asking their name, or vocation. But this is a question that goes much, much deeper to the soul.
Many people are unaware of their nature, their character, the way they truly think, believe and act inside the world. They have a repressed shadow side to them that they are either unaware of or never wish to confront, with a strong desire to keep the inside of their mind a secret from others.
So when asking who are you, we are, at an entry level, asking first: what is your psychological nature? What is your exact genetic makeup? What is your personality? What is your shadow? As it is all of these things that make us think, feel, act and behave in the world the way you do.
Your name and vocation is merely secondary to who you are. And sometimes even used as a means for hiding behind your true self. You can always change your name. And you can always change your vocation. But many human beings are incapable of changing who they are. So in other words: what is it that makes you, you?
And why are you the way you are?
These are not easy questions to answer precisely because many are uncomfortable with this level of introspection, or too terrified to know.
So this in part is about unlocking and infiltrating the minds of others, bringing about that darker side of their human nature, holding a mirror up to those who ever tried to impede on your progress, and reflecting back the very qualities they both lack and wish you or no one else knew about.
After making the decision to focus on the things that don’t change, which in this case particularly are: psychological types and human nature, as many are trapped with their psyche and so stuck with themselves unable to ever change. But we possess something else: the power to know what other people are really like. And this kind of intuition gives us incredible power. Because we hold a key to unlocking the human mind.
And once you possess that power and can see into the recesses of another person’s mind, you can show them exactly what they don’t want to see. This is deep psychology. And we are going to travel over time (and reveal) what goes on inside other people’s minds that they do not wish to share.
Some of the following contents at times may be deeply disturbing to read, but only from the person’s perspective who doesn’t like their human nature shone back at them.
It took Robert Greene a year just to write the proposal for what The 48 Laws of Power was going to be. And that was before he even started it. So anything you see like this from me over the next 12-months, assume it’s a sign I’m doing the same thing: trying to find the best thing to start before even starting to start anything. Because this isn’t even starting. This is trying to figure out what it’s going to be about before it’s about anything.
Learning how to unlock other people’s minds and see through their games and hidden nature is something else that fascinates and excites me now too: the dark art of dark psychology.
When we see a person working their way through The 48 Laws of Power, stand well back. There is a reason this book is banned in many federal prisons. They don’t want the inmates knowing how to outwit authority. But it was inevitable the day would come.
When people take advantage of empathy, it’s no surprise when an empath wakes to discover they can literally feel what’s going on inside others minds, then possess the power to invert and reverse the same tactics and strategies used on them into revealing others identities, which is exactly what they don’t want to know, due to a lack thereof a real one. There may be no skill more important in life to master: seeing people as they are.
The ability to study people’s failures. When they give themselves away without meaning to. Knowing when what one is really saying by what they are not saying or by the way they are saying it but mean something else.
These are all psychological skills. And once you identify them all you become a master at ‘seeing through people’. Because you know that words merely skim the surface. And only say a fraction compared with the meaning behind the rest of the non-verbal communication. You will begin to know things without knowing how or why you know them. And the ability to read people on the unconscious level.
This can therefore be a very dangerous skill to possess. And therefore exactly the reason why to possess it. So use it with care. And be very selective with who you use it on.
This level of introspection may make you uncomfortable. But that’s why we’re going there. Just whenever you thought you knew someone, you realise it was a stranger. To make matters more confusing, the you in this story is actually the you reading this.
And the stranger referred to is also: you.