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How to Resist Manipulation

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https://twitter.com/ThePowerhold/status/1577211660393394176

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The modern man is not a beast of burden. Rather a creature of comfort. So habitualized, babified asf with their things they want exactly as it should be at exactly the same time on the minute of the hour every day. Zero adaptability. Stifled. Thus done for. Ok thanks bye.

Your view has to be on the pattern, not on the individual nodes.

You have to see and plan for the grand campaign rather than present battles.

Your mastery in nonchalance to current events will make you unpredictable to those around you.

Masters of strategy know how to use the efforts of others to further one's own goals.

The aim here is to expend minimum energy possible.

Every agreement you make with the enemy, every deals you close with your competitor should give you an upper hand.

Do this when you feel overwhelmed.

Do this before a job interview.

Do this after you wake-up.

Do what?

The 'Victory' pose or the 'V' pose.

Raise both your hands briskly to make a 'V';

Stretched and firm but not out of comfort.

Fists clenched. Eyes forward/upward.

'V' pose is instinctively used by primates to increase their size and to assert dominance.

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Here is a thread on a Manipulation Technique called Love Bombing

https://twitter.com/ThePowerhold/status/1579904296828534784

There is a saying in Malayalam.

"Ranga bodham illatha komali'

Means, a clown who has no sense of his stage.

He has a role in every drama.

He has a scene with everyone in it.

Yet he is never expected.

Often he enters the wrong scene.

And without permission.

Sometimes he's a saviour.

Sometimes an abomination.

His name is Death.

I recently met an old friend from college.

He seemed to be matrimonially comfortable.

Nice car.
Well-dressed.
Nice watch.

I met him at a bureau de change, where I was going to turn my dirhams into dollars for my family trip this summer.

We reminisced about the good memories:
The nights out, the girls, the alcohol... the girls.

We would call this friend Ali.

I had some time, and I always take the time to check in with my old friends to see how they have evolved in life.

It's a very interesting exercise to see how different life choices make them change and the results of that.

So we sat down at a table in a cozy French café.

The kind of café with an authentic 1920's atmosphere, with jazz in the background, the smell of coffee mixed with tobacco. The kind of café where it's good to read a newspaper and smoke a cigar.

As our conversation progressed, Ali's melancholy became apparent.

Ali had taken over his father's business, a paper mill that was doing well without him.

He had long-term contracts with the government, so he didn't have to chase customers all day.

He told me that he was married, but that he still went out as much as he used to.

He often came home late.

He missed the carefree days of his college days.

As the conversation continued, Ali's eyes filled with tears.

Alcohol and drugs were ruining his life. Nothing tasted good anymore, everything was a boring vicious circle.

He and his wife were about to get a divorce, he told me.

I left that conversation with a feeling of pity and liberation: I don't like people who complain.

But I was able to learn a few lessons for my young audience.

You don't want everything handed to you on a golden platter.

You want to fight and earn your victories and your glories.

That's what gives your life meaning as a human being.

Ali had a childlike view of life, where women and partying are the
central point.

Unable to see beyond that, he considered everything that came after as inferior.

He didn't want the party to end, because he lived for the party.

If Ali had any passion, ambition or vision other than "having fun", he would be more excited about your future than mourning the past.

Ali's legacy was a poisoned gift.

A curse rather than a blessing.

Ali was deprived of adventure.

This made me rethink my notion of legacy.

Rather than giving your children an easy life of money and luxury, you should give them the tools to face life.

If I give a soldier a machine gun and don't tell him how to use it, I condemn him to suicide.

Finally here is the definitive lesson of this post:

Don't take the easy way out, it's a trap.

A promise of everlasting pleasure is a greater incentive than the fear of eternal torture.

Judaism and Christianity failed to extend such a promise.