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While covering up an item with intensity or contrast may work well for an audience that’s not expecting a vanish, it is absolutely terrible to use when the audience sees a vanish coming. As such, from an offensive position you must only use last chapter’s cover ups before your opponents know that you’re making a move, and must fortify your defenses by knowing when you least expect a vanish in life (the time when any technique can be used against you successfully, whether by fate or by man). The following techniques in this section however, will be usable in all circumstances, whether the target is ignorant of the vanisher’s intent or not. We’ll start with the subject of Camouflage.

Funny enough, camouflage happens to us everyday. In fact, that’s what makes it camouflage. The patterns of everyday life lulls you to sleep by highlighting the similarities while ignoring the subtle differences; the different outfits you wear from day to day, the random conversations you have, the people you occasionally walk by on the street, it all passes you by without any recognition. Yet, if the same person passed you by, day after day, you’d eventually notice them and may even make them into a friendly acquaintance. Our brains love patterns, and magicians know how to exploit that love for their own purposes.

To put it simply, there are 2 main types of camouflage: Patterns and Chaos. Like with cover ups, it's the increase in intensity that makes this technique so deadly. The trick here, however, is that we are not just increasing the intensity of the pieces around your vanished item. Now, with this technique, we are heightening the characteristics and traits of both the decoys, and the item itself. It creates the illusion of a pattern (though manufactured) that draws your brain away from the differences between the hidden item and the now hyper similar background. This creates a psychological camouflage. By increasing the potency of these similar traits, magicians make them seem more important than others, drawing your eyes to these traits alone, and disguising the differences between the decoys and the desired piece. In short, we create patterns in your mind that make it difficult to separate reality from your brain's obsessive hallucinations. Suddenly, the parts become indistinguishable from the whole. The single piece becomes lost in the much bigger picture or pattern, and it blends (it “vanishes”) into the other similar props. It becomes a needle in a haystack. It may be different from the others in the pile, but it’s not different enough to be instantly noticeable or reachable by the observers. That, is why it vanishes.

The truth is, my readers, that the more mundane and boring something appears, the more you must force yourself to look for its hidden values. The subtle differences that often go unnoticed by you may uncover secret opportunities that would have blended in with the daily noise. Never mistake a golden second of opportunity as being the same as the rest of the seconds in a day. There are key differences between the parts and the whole of any situation or item. This applies to all Whats, as we’ve seen with the tea cup metaphor in Book 1, and only losers look for unnecessarily complex items when they can use the smaller, and simpler pieces as needed. (Review the tea cup metaphor from Book 1 if necessary)

If you cannot heighten the correct characteristics in both your vanished item and its surroundings, then your vanishing act will not last for long. Extraordinary ends often come from the most ordinary of means. You cannot create a big reveal without a beginning that seems mundane, or predictable, and that sits within a set of predetermined patterns in the observer’s minds. Remember, putting a coin in your hand is normal. Opening your hand and having the coin suddenly disappear, and not be there, is where the magic comes into play. Patterns are required in order to vanish your actual techniques in life. You already have a history of how you act that others know about. Changing it too quickly, and without using vanishes or swaps to achieve that transformation, will simply draw attention to the types of power you have gained that are best left hidden. All of the other sleights taught in this book will be meaningless if you cannot insinuate them into your daily behaviors, and start your journeys from more mundane origins. Large or grand gestures too early on simply give away the art of what you’re doing. It lets them know that you have a secret, and as we all know:

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“A good magician never reveals his secrets.”

There are 6 main ways that camouflage affects us on a daily basis. This is because it often creates 6 different issues for newcoming observers. These include:

A Stagnant Mind

Chaotic Choices

Whispers

Glass Houses

And Isolation

We’ll start with #1:

A Stagnant Mind

Because of how often you commit to subtle habits everyday, your brain becomes lost when trying to discover anything new. You can force yourself to look, but it becomes hard for you to see the truth casually or on a daily basis. Many people see things as black and white due to their history with any given item. An example of rising above this is using what you yourself consider a weakness, but applying them into your plan towards benefits nonetheless.

With me, the example was clear. I had finished book one back in about 2023ish and just needed an editor to help add the finishing touches, but because of that, I started growing lazy, and just passing the time with this website that I knew was incomplete, but that I accepted as complete enough for the time being. This was unacceptable for me, but I had developed a pattern of watching tv in my free time more than writing the second book (THIS BOOK). I needed to find a way to change the pace if I wanted to truly succeed, but how? I had already established a pattern of being lazy, and as I said, our brains LOVE patterns.

Well, I looked into creating a new pattern using the least expected of routes. I set a deadline for May 15th of 2025 to launch my business and my site, and then told everyone that I was going to be on the local news by the end of that month (Which meant only about 6 months to get it done). Why did I do this?

Because I have other patterns as well. More specifically, I have a history with two very annoying patterns: cowardice and pridefulness. With that in mind, I used these two weaknesses, not by trying to change them in any way, but by simply appreciating them for what they are: problems and weaknesses. Nobody likes to be seen as weak, and now that I have put out this declaration, I only have two options: Succeed or be ashamed (be tortured by my lack of pride and even my embarrassment at the results). This also plays to my cowardice as that future is terrifying, making me work much harder in the present to make sure these results occur and that my plans will go off without a hitch.

The best part is that, even though I failed to reach newsworthy status by May, I still won in the end because I had no choice. Once the month had passed, my failure to get a news interview started continuously torturing me through shame, and the fear of being joked about behind my back for years to come. The only antidote to at least some of this, is to get on the news as soon as possible (Someday soon, I hope. 😂)

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In short, I’m using the threat, and perhaps even the reality of torture (something we have a history and pattern of seeing as bad), and I’m using it as a foundational piece in my plan to help me accomplish something good, and so far it’s been a damn effective method.

We all have a pattern or history of how we feel an item must be used. The truth of the matter is, however, that this is a trick of the brain that only limits us in the long run. Be sure to avoid the labels and titles that you give things or that others give you. Do not ignore the adjectives, as that would throw your life into chaos, but simply check to see if there aren’t more adjectives that can be used as well. Just because you’ve used similar words to describe something, that doesn’t mean those are the only words that can be used. Besides, those adjectives may have fit them in the past, but that doesn’t mean that it applies to them today. Don’t let your patterns trick you into believing that a part of your item's description is the same as the whole description itself. Be sure to check and see if there isn’t a piece missing that’s been blended in by their similarities to other descriptors and mindsets.

This applies not only to your nouns or adjectives, but also your actions as well. So many people believe that they became gods just because they haven’t lost in a long time, but the truth is that those who have one the most have simply made themselves a huge target with everything to lose. Your patterns of success can transform you into someone who believes they cannot lose. This is a crippling mindset that will break you, and everything you care for, in the long run. Never mistake pride for capability - not with anything in life… even death.

“The trick to living a good life is knowing that you will die.”

I’ve lived by this quote for many years now, and nothing seems more true. So many people fall into mundane patterns in life simply because they believe that they have all the time in the world. After all, for every second that’s past, you’ve lived through all of them. That’s one hell of a pattern. Nonetheless…

Things change.

We all end up dying someday. The only question is if we can do it with the finesse that comes from preparation and awareness of such possibilities.

So, how do we notice camouflage, and re-energize our stagnant minds?

We’ll start, with Units.

1. Units

The first strategy to avoid falling for this vanish is by changing the types of units by which we measure things. There are many things to measure the world by: “Good versus Bad”, “Smart versus Dumb”, “Long versus Short”, but in these comparisons there is almost always an opposite view that people forget to integrate into their thinking. One of the clearest signs of this is how people claim that they’re chasing after a goal when they’re more likely to be running away from something.

Perhaps you're chasing financial independence to escape the suffocation of your relatives, or you chase prideful victories to avoid embarrassing shame. Of course, the same can be said of believing that someone is running away from something when really they’re pursuing something more valuable. BOTH are happening at once, whether that’s the intention or not. You rarely can have an item without avoiding it’s opposite. This goes back to Book 1 and how every What will either attract or repel other Whats. Every choice comes with sacrifices. For every choice you make, there are thousands of choices

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you didn’t make, but just because you’ve given up on a resource, that doesn’t mean that you’ve given up, period.

2. Scope

Now, nearly all measurements have a sort of spectrum. Inches turn to feet, feet turn to yards, yards turn to miles. Centimeters turn to meters, and as an American I don’t know what comes next. First and foremost though, you need to make sure you’re using the right units for the job, because we all know that measuring your height using pounds would be a bad idea. Make sure that you use every layer of unit within the spectrums, and that you’re using the right spectrums, in order to make your measurements more valid and reliable.

The scope may sound like we’re just changing the units again, but this time we’re not talking about changing the units from using ones that measure distance to ones that measure weight. Nonono, in this case, we aren’t changing the type of trait being measured, but rather we are changing the size of the ruler.

For example, when testing out a clothing product, it’s important to see how long it’ll last, but depending on what you're buying it for “How Long” could be a matter of years, or minutes. When I was a kid, if I needed a costume for Halloween, I’d only really need an outfit that would last about an hour or two. When buying a decent suit for their first big job interview, many men would try to buy something that would last years, but only when being worn once or twice every few months maximum. While buying T-shirts college students would often hope for one that lasts years while being worn everyday. The intensity and size of the units can be raised or lowered to suit your needs without changing what they’re measuring, such as time.

This is often one of the biggest sources of disagreement between large groups of people. Abortion is a matter of if it's a powerful word like murder or a less powerful word like correction. Politics is often thrown out of wack because people speak of opposition as being demonic instead of unpleasant. Your roommate not putting away the dishes can be seen as disgusting to you, and mildly inconvenient to them.

This is not just because you are seeing different things, or just because the events are happening differently to different people, but also rather because some people use smaller units to measure things than others. People see your politician as demonic, not just because they’ve heard something different than you, but also because they’re using smaller units to measure their indiscretions by. You see their indiscretions as being worth 2 feet, while they see it as being worth 24 inches. Your number is a measly 2 in terms of discomfort while theirs has already reached a whopping 24. The fact that their tolerance for disagreement is lower than yours (with smaller units used) on this subject will allow the same problem to seem as big to them as it is small to you. Of course, using different units, rather than scope, as seen above will also contribute to this. Maybe you see your representative as contributing to the economy while they only see how they’re affecting the environment. In the end, seeing more than others can see means you can do more than others can do, and so you must never let the alternative units, scopes, or anything at all become washed away in the camouflaging patterns of repetitive use and/or habitual dependency on any particular portion of your mind. Never get stuck in a pattern of using specific units or specific scopes of those units.

3. Subjectivity

The reason I brought up politics was to prepare you for the next section which is about subjectivity. If you cannot measure how things will be perceived by others then your potential as a magician will immediately plummet. Not only must you master your ability to re-measure things in your own mind. You must also be able to see the units used, and the size of them, or anything else involved in these 7 red

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rewrites, as perceived in your opponents’ minds. The magician who does this better is often the magician who ends up winning in the end.

For example, as we’ve established in the last chapter, timing is crucial to throwing off the game plans and strategies of your opponents. It is a requirement for quick and easy successes, NOT a suggestion, but we’ve also stated that cover ups only work when an opponent isn’t expecting them, so how do we create these opportunities in situations where • Timing, • Direction and • Potency are needed (A.K.A. Every battle situation)?

The easiest answer is to combine them with camouflage. You should start off by mirroring the pattern that your audience (whether on your side or not) expects to happen due to their history of living in the world. In short, you need to find a way to match the Units, Scope, Awareness and other forms of perceptions in this list with how they expect them to be. If they believe that you are only supposed to have achieved two steps towards success today, then you better be damn well sure that you only take two steps even if you could do a hundred more. The more you fit within their predetermined measurements, the more you’ll be insinuating a pattern of traits similar to their past. The more ordinary you appear, the less they’ll be expecting something extraordinary like a cover up. Again, the further into each section you go the more powerful the variation your studying becomes, but because of their power at breaking through people’s mental barriers, it’s often easy to use them to open a space for the weaker methods as well. Once everything becomes hyper similar, a cover up through contrast becomes almost impossible to stop. You’ve made the whole game a pure shade of simplicity and white. Now you’re ready to create the ultimate contrast, by adding a cloak of pure blackness. This is the most overwhelming form of The Cloak And Dagger.

Of course, you need to be aware of your own weakness to this, too. NEVER assume that because a technique worked once that it will work a second time. Never let a pattern of victories lead you to believing that your enemy cannot adapt and change, because eventually they will. You must always remember this line from the intro:

“Once is a trick. Twice is a lesson.”

4. Awareness

Another fun fact to consider when changing your perceptions of an item is to check on people’s awareness of it. This may sound silly, but plenty of people assume if they know something that others must know it as well. These people tend to make terrible liars because they assume that you already know the truth and so they mostly lie out of an awkward last ditch effort to gaslight you from what you know more than to misinform you as to what you don’t.

This is something that many people have noticed occurs more potently in a large number of people with Autism, such as myself, and it’s one of the reasons I became able to communicate more effectively after learning how to keep secrets. It’s funny really. I only learned how to share what’s in my head after realizing that people don’t just suddenly know the information that’s in there to begin with. I always thought that I knew people needed to be told things, but I had absolutely no idea how much info really needed to be shared until after I learned magic tricks and the art of secret keeping.

In card magic, there’s something called “Flashing” (NO, not that! Get your mind out of the gutter.) In magic what flashing means is to literally let the audience see what they’re not supposed to see. (Again, NOT THAT!) For example, if I have a gimmick box with a secret compartment hidden inside, and I accidentally open the compartment in a way that the audience can see that it exists, I’ve accidentally flashed that compartment to the audience,

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If I’m hiding a card up my sleeve and the corner pops out a little and someone else notices, that’s called “flashing a card”, and so on. When measuring another’s account of things especially, never take their words at face value, even if they’re being honest with you.

Trust me, as a fake psychic, I know how terrible witness testimonies really are. In fact, I can give you an example from my own life, but this time, not as the psychic:

You see, one day my grandfather and his newly married wife came home from a psychic reading, and they had a lot to share with me. First his wife told me about how amazing it was.

”It was crazy the things they knew.” She said.

“They even knew about your great grandmother’s relationship with Randy (My grandfathers name), and they even told us about how she came to pass. She said that she had an issue with her lungs.”

”It was really impressive” Said Randy, “I have no idea how she knew everything she knew.”

Now, all of this would be hard to prove the techniques behind. Why? Because they’re not using the psychics exact words. If I tried to argue with my step-grandmother, I’d have to have found some way to prove that just because the psychic knew about my great-grandmother’s lungs, it doesn’t prove their psychic. That’d be a very difficult idea to prove, especially if the psychic spoke it with such certainty.

but…

This is where my grandfathers great memory came into play.

”Yes.” He said “It was amazing, she pointed right at my chest and said that she had an issue ‘in here’.”

Now, that, ladies and gentlemen reveals the trick. She didn’t say anything about my relative’s lungs. She said that something vaguely ominous happened involving their chest. A bit more digging goes to show that my grandfather was the one who brought up the relative and that the pyschic had said this off of simple statistics (Often called “fishing” in the fake psychic trade). You see, many old people suffer from, if not died from issues involving their chest: Heart conditions, trouble breathing when they sleep (the facr that cigarettes were popular during their younger years didn’t help), asthma becoming more of a problem, the list goes on. Another two common versions of this are to talk about an elder’s legs or back.

My point, however, is that I would have no way of arguing against their wording if I wasn’t aware of their wording to begin with. Fake psyhics THRIVE on the misremembering of others to deny any doubts on their claims, because their mutual friend has misremembered the claims as something far more grand and impossible.

So again, just be aware that when going into any situation, especially social situations, there are things going on that you don’t even know that you’re ignorant of. You won’t even know, that you don’t know.

5. Timing

Now this one has a special place in my heart for how quickly it can raise your abilities of persuasion to a much higher level. If you can allow someone to save face by claiming that their old path was correct at the time, you can help someone start a new pattern without feeling like they need to break the old one. It can also help place older patterns into such a light as to let you redirect them towards whatever goal you’re aiming for.

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Let’s start by using time in order to help free someone from the patterns of belief that hold them back from agreeing with you on important subject. You see, you have to keep in mind that, because camouflage means blending the part to the whole by focusing to highly on the established patterns, many times, if you attack the pattern you’ll also unintentionally be seen as attacking the whole itself. This, combined with how people faultily base their self-esteem on What they are, rather than WHO they are, makes them EXTREMELY vulnerable to even the slightest prick at their patterns. This is because if you attack What they’re used to believing, then they view you as attacking them, because again, Whats are how they measure themselves whether that makes them emotionally needy or not.

If you attack/criticize/provide a reason for change, towards a person’s belonging, beliefs, or behavior especially, you’re going to be in for a world of hurt. You cannot change these patterns of Whats without first allowing them to feel like the patterns were the right thing to have. This, of course, creates a hiccup in the persuasion of others to do something new, like trying out your business or going out with your dorky self when they prefer bad boys. How can you suggest a change in their patterns while also claiming that those patterns are perfect, just as they already are?

The trick is rather simple. Say that their pattern WAS correct when they used it, but now the EXTERNAL PATTERNS have changed, through no fault of their own. Their patterns were correct when they used them, but the patterns of these assholes outside of themselves means that they should consider a new pattern not because they were wrong, but because the times have changed and now there’s a new definition of “right”. In short, you’re saying that What they were in the past was great, but now they have a chance to be even better.

6. Applicability

Applicability is the art of using the same measurements, but then applying them to another item entirely. It doesn’t change the units you’re measuring, or the size of the items being measured. It simply changes the item or situation being measured, itself. For example, if someone says that you’re ugly, a good response using application may be, “Well at least I’m not as ugly as you”. You’re not changing the unit (looks) or the size of scope (an individual). This time you’re only changing where the scope is pointed (Not at you, but at them.) This is the power of applicability.

This one is extremely important to keep in mind when building a serious relationship with anyone. Many times what breaks a newcoming relationship, whether in love, friendship or business, is the lack of effort they feel that the other person is putting in. Now, you may think that you’ve put in plenty of effort, and it may be true, but in this section of applicability I want to point out just one key thing: The more you make a person feel like an exception to your rules, the more special and appreciated they believe they are to you. Don’t camouflage the value of your friends by creating a pattern that blends them with a group of strangers. Don’t let the patterns you’ve used with others become the only way you know how to communicate, because those that are special to you can’t tell they’re special when you only apply the same patterns to them as you would apply to everyone one who isn’t.

If you use the same old pick up line to every girl you meet, and the one you’ve just started flirting with has heard about it? Well, just don’t expect her to be swooning over you and your attention to her as a person. Many people want to feel like what they have with their partners is special, or at least unique in some way, even in business. After all, would you feel more confident that you’re getting hired if an employer says you seem just like everyone else, than if they stated you had something special that others didn’t?

People know that every person has something unique in their character. That truth has been passed around since the beginning of time. Some cultures may fight to change that, but they’re only fighting it through nurturing because they know that it grows oppositely in nature. The second you seem like everyone else is the second that others can recognize you’re being phony.

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With that in mind, don’t just do good deeds for your friends, but make sure to do the good deeds that they need most. The more you can apply specialized and personalized actions or gifts to them, and them alone, the more valuable you’ll be proving that they and their relationship are to you. So be sure to show your priorities for what they are by breaking your patterns for those you care about most, because nowadays, breaking your own patterns isn’t as easy as it sounds.

Chaotic Choices

Now, this is where the second form of camouflage comes up:

Chaos.

Patterns have done us a lot of good when showing how the parts can be blended in with the whole, but there’s one form of similarity that tends to drag everything into it like a blackhole.

That one form being the absolute absence of rules. In short it’s formed by overwhelming us with so much intensity all around that similarity becomes no longer an issue. For example, when you first get out of high school, and are either applying for apprenticeships or colleges, one experience that many of us share is the overwhelming motion that seems to infect every part of our lives. The bills begin to grow rapidly, your dependence on others begins to shrink. Suddenly you need your own car insurance. Dating has become a major issue. Friends are moving far away, and everything just seems to be in a giant rush. This is what I mean by “Chaos” not just a large list of problems, but a list of several different types of problems that are moving in many different directions at once. It’s the obsessive movement that has now created camouflage.

Yes, this is similar to the larger action covering up the smaller action, but in this case it’s the illusion of important actions blending into the many actions. This isn’t just about vanishing the item anymore, it’s also about blending the path the item took with the path of others, while it was vanishing in the first place. You’re not just vanishing one thing. You’re vanishing everything.

Through the Chaos-es of the past, many of your opportunities have already vanished in life, because you’ve mistaken committing to doing many actions as being the same value as performing the important ones. Just because you’re busy, doesn’t mean you’re productive.

Think about it: You’ve been working hard your whole life, to the point where it feels like a living hell to you. Yet, others out there are being a million times more successful than you at the goals you want to achieve. How is that? They can’t REALLY be working a million times harder, can they?

The answer: They work hard at THE RIGHT things.

You've been at work for how long now? And how many times do you repeat the same actions multiple times per day? How can you know that “things’ll change” or “Life gets better” if you aren’t the one changing and are only repeating the processes that you currently think suck? If your process sucks, what makes you think the results will be any better?

The only way to escape the rat race is to stop ACTING like a RAT.

No matter what job you’re doing on repeat for 9 hours a day, I have to ask: Do you honestly believe there isn’t something more productive that you could be doing than the same thing you’ve done 24 times in the last hour? There will always be opportunities to escape your tragic life, but the first step is to stop living in the patterns that put you there to begin with.

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If you want to gain influence, you need to stop thinking like a student in school, or a slave at work. You need to start thinking like a magician, then a jester, and then a king…

And a father…

And a son.

In short, you need to stop allowing yourself to get distracted by what kind of person you think you are in the present, and start focusing on the person you want to be in the future. You need to stop camouflaging yourself into these “labels” and start applying yourself in a way that denies all labels to begin with. In truth, most patterns restrict. You need to break them if you’re ever going to reach new limits. Once the work you’re doing stops benefiting you and those around you, ditch it, and start doing something helpful. It’s okay if it seems unpredictable. That may scare those around you, especially if you’re vanishing your goals, but it’s better to be scary and safe, than to be predictable and tortured.

Similarity, whether to the past or something else, can be a dangerous pattern.

This is how we can end up choosing the wrong friends in life. For example, we often end up choosing the wrong friends due to what in Book 1 we called “Projection”. You see, while projection is often a tool used to hide the traits we hate most about ourselves. When looking for the value of others we often apply it positively as well. Many people, for example, will assume that the same things that make them happy will make others happy, or that, just because they think the artwork they created was beautiful, others will think that it’s beautiful to them as well. The truth, however, is that different people have lived different lives than you, and so many of them have developed different patterns. In a way you become prejudice towards those you like, not as being entirely different from you, but as being overly “the same”.

Don’t mistake a kindred spirit as being someone similar to you, and don’t assume that someone similar to you is a kindred spirit.

The truth is that many times now, you’ve probably walked by someone who would have been the best person in your life, just because they walked, talked, dressed, or acted in a way that you thought “wasn’t you.” You cannot admire someone who isn't above you, and being better makes them different. The best people to help you grow may seem to most different from you.

Stop trying to only have friends that act like mirrors.

That’s what narcissists do.

Too many predictions, and similarities can blind you to opportunities, among other things.

Nowadays, we’ve developed our own form of autopilot to use when things seem predictable, and as we’ve stated: every day feels similar to us. That means that we’re on autopilot a lot more than we may realize.

This is what we discussed last chapter when we talked about perceptual blindness. The scariest part about this is that these cover ups happen everyday. Why? Because, as I’ve stated, the further down each section you get the more powerful each technique becomes, and they’re SO POWERFUL, in fact, that they can create opportunities for the weaker ones. That, plus the fact that I said camouflage happens to us every day, means that cover ups still happen everyday, as well. I know, that’s such a pain, isn’t it?

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The second your brain relaxes, things go missing. The second you stop focusing on the hunt, your prey disappears. Even if you tried to create a habit of searching for these things, habits are patterns and do you know what patterns create?

Camouflage.

And camouflage allows for cover ups.

This’ll sound crazy, but one of the best things you can do is learn to focus on only the important things.

(We’ll be getting into identifying the important things in a separate menu.

For now, you should only try to focus your attention stronly for as short of an amount of time as possible. As a magician, I can tell you that Newton's law of “Equal and opposite reactions” applies to attention as well. I’ve stacked decks for my next trick, directly in front of audiences without them noticing before, witkout getting caught. It works because they were so focused on the last trick that they lost all focus and attention on me while waiting for the next one. Our brains get exhausted and need to rest in between serious attentions spans.

This often applies to working on projects, too, and is believed to be one of the causes of burn out.

Whispers

One of my first big tricks in life was simply learning when to fight and when to walk away. The more hostile someone is towards you the more often you feel a need to choose between fighting and running away. Many people see running away as the cowards option. In truth, however, it’s often a trick of the wise. When being attacked the Chaos of it all starts to make things blend together, including the end results. The truth is that most battles don’t need to be fought, not physically, not even verbally.

People who want to argue or fight are almost always forgetting one key fact:

While actions speak louder than words, results speak louder still.

One of the biggest problems Chaos can hide is the COST of winning. There are things called “pyrrhic victories”. These are moments where winning costs you more than losing.

This creates another whisper or secret that only your truest friends will know about you. Because you can camouflage your strengths with the enemies surroundings and everyday life, your attacks can come

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from ANYWHERE. This brings us to a collaboration of both patterns AND chaos. Here’s a beautiful thing for you to know:

Chaos doesn’t have to consist of speed. It’s about overwhelming the observer, not just out pacing him. With that in mind, stillness can be its own form of chaos. Think about it, there’s nothing that will make you mind more shuffled, more chaotic and confused, than if your attacks seem to be coming from everywhere and yet are vanished enough to seem nowhere at all. In a way, you’ve surround their mind and encompassed them in a chaotic torture chamber of nothingness. They’re in an empty void with no floor, and no foundation to stabilize their minds with, falling for eternity, or at least until you choose to give them a target.

The world has probably done this to you several times in past without you knowing how it works. These are the days where you start out frustrated and end up scared because the sources of frustration seem so large in number and sudden in force that they begin to overwhelm you to the point of collapse. Essentially, they’re piling on as many problems as possible until they can finally reach the final straw that breaks the camel's back. (In this case, in case you’re unaware, you are the camel.)

And finally, there is another form of chaos that a pattern of vague stillness with their surrounding can allow: the ability to delay your victories for as long as they like.

If someone wants to keep you from winning forever, all they have to do is trap you in a pattern of stalemates, losses, or even victories in battles that earn you nothing. By locking them into a stillness pattern, you’ve essentially transformed their life into a place where time stands still. You can do this in several ways, but one of the easiest is to tie something the need in order to progress in life to their victory against you, and just… keep retreating while they hunt you. You’ll be safe in doing this as you can blend into the background whenever you like as you camouflage your involvement with any and all attacks. You don’t need to really retreat. Just camouflage certain parts of your offensiveness to make it seem to be lowering.

Of course, you can still choose to not camouflage yourself with their everyday life in order to defend yourswld. You can also just camouflage your weaknesses INTO your strengths. Now, not only can you cover up what really hurts you, but you can also set up land mines for when they attack the wrong spots, punishing them for attacking, and creating the pattern of “Oh shit! My attacks are hurting me more than they're hurting him. How do I defeat a person like that?”

Remember that suddeness heightens emotion, and this includes emotional pains and fears. By blending your weakest spots with your strongest spots, not only do you deny them targets, but you also bait them into traps.

Only you and yourself will know what really hurts, and even then you can cover them up or progress even farther into using a stronger vanish later in this section (for those attacks that REALLY hurt you.)

And you can camouflage them in 2 ways:

By making everything seem a strong together

Or by making everything seem weak together

The first one is great for creating a threatening presence, which will usually stop your opponents from fight you before you even need to act. This may be the ultimate form of defense, after all, you don’t need armies, big castle walls, or a million cannons to protect yourself if no one is intending to attack you. Whether that is out of fear or love is obsolete in the essence of war.

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And the second one is great when trying to conquer rather than defend. If you’re looking to expand your kingdom, the easiest way is to beat your enemies while they’re underestimating you. This is for several reasons:

If you’re overestimated, your followers will ask you to help with things you do not hav the strength to achieve.

If you’re estimated properly, your enemies will know which weaknesses to hit to achieve the most damage.

Only if you are underestimated, will your followers and your enemies treat you in the most profitable ways.

In short, being underestimated is great for a long term strategy of attack and self-sufficiency, while being overestimated is a great temporary fix to a situation where there are multiple enemies at hand.

In case like this, you need to use your camouflage based on what you wish to achieve.

Glass Houses

Threats

If you focus on too many goals then you focus on none.

You shouldn’t try to create a pattern of success without an end goal.

WHAT

Isolation

THE HOW:

Vulnerability:

I…

WHAT

I…

WHAT

I…

WHAT

Understanding

We both have been alone at one point.

You should never ignore Anything or Anyone.

WHAT

Protection

They have a weaknesses

You should never assume that your opponents are invincible.

WHAT

THE WHAT:

Freedom

You can still stop your problems by finding the individual antecedents.

WHAT

Exception is

What’ll be unique about you is your particular reason for existing

WHAT

Sharing

You’ll be able to share your visions with your enemies

WHAT

Call To Action

WHAT