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From this point on, some of the page numbers may be missing. This is most likely NOT a computing error or glitch. It’s just because this site is designed to match the physical copies of each book (Which have some blank pages/unnecessary titles — to help subtly clear your mind between certain sections).

Please, continue onto the next available page when such things occur. I'm fairly certain nothing will be missing.

Aside from that though, I hope you enjoy your online reading session, and good luck!

The Warning

Just A Heads Up:

This first book will be about the “props” that liars use. NOT the principles or methods with which they use them by,

but it is still HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, because it is designed to help you defend yourself, WHILE you continue to learn their methods.

I’m sorry to say, the lessons for safety were written before the "funner" methods of victory.

Now, Book 1 isentirely free, but if you want to risk skipping it, and have no defense first, then you should know that thestarting chapters of book 2 are absolutely free as well. They’re available online at Wishful-Tinkering.com. So you can start dismantling traitor’s lies right now, if you want.

You are the customer. You are the one this business is providing value for, so choose whichever option feels more valuable TO YOU!

But keep in mind, after a few chapters BOOK 2 WILL COST MONEY!! (Though the link to buy it is hidden.)

This book is FREE.

Do with that what you will.

Title

Their Least Favorite Victim

by 

“An Author”

 

Honorations

Written in honor of Linda

Who are you, truly?

I still do not know.

Foreword

Foreword:

People Are Scared To Trust Others

This is because most people are greedy. 

They’re liars, and they’re traitors.

Our business teaches you how to Con the con men, by using the morally correct version of a centuries old trick: "The Fiddle Game."

Once we’re big enough, we hope it will be safe to commit to anyone, even the wrong people, without fear of regrets.

Signed With Ambition,

Wishful Tinkering.

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I’ve written this series with one simple belief in mind; that the anomalies and abnormalities of the world are what lead us to great empowerment, that you cannot lead without being different from those who follow you. Before I ask you to listen to me, my opinions, my beliefs, or my vision, I want you to know who I am. If you find that you can trust me, keep reading. If you’re doubting me now, already, then put down the book and walk away. Please, do not waste both my product, and your time, for the sake of appearing interested.

For starters, while I know it’s not the best way to start off a book like this, I must tell you that I was born with Autism. People judge, and others say that I should be more protective of their pleasant perceptions of me. In all honesty however, I don’t care what strangers think about me. In truth, I’d rather have a thousand of you put the book down and have it be read by the people that’ll actually listen, than have it be bought by countless strangers, and never be read, or listened to at all.

As I was saying, I was born with Autism, ADHD, Anxiety, and Bi-Polar Depression (although the medical term is “Manic Depression”). I was diagnosed with Bi-Polar only in 2018, 20 years after my birth. The rest were diagnosed at a very young age. I was always told, repeatedly, pretty much since birth, the same old mantra: “Author, you’re not able to socialize like everyone else. You may never be able to. You’re just going to have to learn to live with that.”

And yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am the one writing my own book. Please do not assume that the holy word of all professionals is correct without exception.

I have been underestimated since birth. I’ve been considered a freak, and a weirdo, among other things. What I can tell you for certain is this: You can’t lead without being different from those who follow you. In my

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most recent years, people have come to me for advice even when I’ve specifically told them that I most likely don’t hold the answer. I’ve gone from being seen as “retarded”, their words, NOT MINE, to being seen as quote “Genius”, “Charismatic”, and if you’re looking for a name “A Gentleman”.

I did it, not by listening to the adult claimed “professionals”, not by studying the crowd of “normals”. I did it through a stack of paper; but perhaps not the type you’re thinking of. As I said, I believe in the power of abnormalities. You may think I’m too weird, but I often believe that you’re all, too normal.

In third grade I was alone. I wasn’t just alone because I didn’t have any friends. I was also alone because I couldn’t make them.

One day, I was out on the blacktop, doing math, at recess, by myself, because I had nothing better to do. When I looked up from my notepad, everyone had vanished. “They forgot me out here.” I thought to myself “This is a whole new low, even for me.”, but then I looked over to the teacher’s picnic table. It’s the one place that everyone avoided, and yet there they were, every single student surrounding the table. I went to the outskirts of the crowd and decided to stand on my tiptoes. With a quick look over my right shoulder I saw a man, a grown man, doing card tricks. “Shit!” I thought to myself “It’s a frickin’ teacher pulling everybody in.” Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I had a potty mouth back in the day. We aren’t all born sophisticated, you know. By the time I had thought these French thoughts of mine it was too late, He had spotted me standing out from the crowd like a kid in exile, and what does a good teacher do with a kid in exile? 

He pointed two fingers at me, palm up, then curled them in and out twice, to form a come hither motion. “Wanna see a magic trick?” asked the ignorant man while doing so. This is how I, me, the kid with no friends and a lot of enemies, terrified of even opening my mouth or being the center of attention for fear of ridicule, ended up sitting down at

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a table, with tens of students blocking all exits, starting a match of wits with a man who’s already shown me that he’s a professional swindler.

He started by having me pick a card. It was the 7 of Diamonds (I say for example). I then placed the card in the middle of the deck. Then he shuffled the deck and looked at me, all serious-like. After all this, he finally decided to pick up the top card from the deck and ask “Is this your card?” showing the 5 of Hearts (I say... for example). And that my friends, in case you were unaware, was not my card (You know what I want to put here). I, in turn, said “No,”. He flipped over the next card. That wasn’t it. Another, and another, until there were 7 cards on the table (...).

I said, rather proudly, “You might want to try a different trick.”. He smiled, asked me to hold out my hand. I pinched the cards. With one swift slap from him to my hand, all the cards from it were on the ground, all but one. There was one card in my hand, my dearest readers. It was the 7 of Diamonds, my, freely selected, card (I say.   For example).

I was astonished, confused, bamboozled. I had to know how it was done. It was just like I had seen on TV. I thought it was only POSSIBLE on TV. I asked him - No. I begged him. He wouldn’t tell me. I went home, and began my “research” on my brand spanking new iPod Touch. Ah, those were the days. I looked up every detail, from fake mistakes to card slapping, until the day I finally found it. There was only one problem. All the tutorials used terminology I had never even heard of before. It took years to be able to perform the tricks, years that I would be willing to sacrifice to beat that schmuck teacher.

You need to understand. I hated teachers, not because they were bad people, but because of all the awful misunderstandings I’ve constantly had with them. You see, in school, everything is about communication. Knowledge is useless until it is shared in some way, be it a product, or a lecture, or any other form. Don’t misunderstand. I was smart, I was doing exponents in second grade, solving quadratics in every known method by 6th. It wasn’t just math. I just... knew things. For example, I

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understood what Shakespeare was saying without any prior experience or lecturing. He just... made sense to me.

But, communication was essential. In math it was always, “show your work”. In English it was always, “Did your parents tell you that?”. No matter what I did, I was misunderstood. If I tried to answer they wouldn’t understand me. This often led to them thinking I was cheating. If I said nothing, it was assumed I didn’t really know anything, and I was ignored. I’ll say it again.

 

I, hated, my teachers.

 

In such, to beat this teacher at his own game, not in some game of words, but a game of action, cleverness and wit? The thought was invigorating to the highest degree.

I ended up studying for 3 years, and as if by the hand of Fate, I ended up in his sixth-grade class. This was still elementary school, and the first day often allowed for a bit of free time. When the moment was right, and we were both free and available to talk with one another, I went up to him and asked, with a smug grin on my face:

 

“Wanna see a magic trick?”

 

“Sure.” He said, and so, I began performing his own trick back to him, afterward performing an Erdnase One-Handed Cut (a one-handed shuffle often performed by card professionals). He said, “Wow, I don’t know what that cut is, but have you seen this one?” He then proceeded to pull a deck of cards from inside the desk drawer and do a different one-

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handed cut. “It’s called the scissor cut,” he said proudly. And so, I went home, and looked up… yes, you guessed it, the “scissor cut”. This, ladies and gents, is how my one-sided competition began.

Eventually, however, I started to recognize something interesting - and important. You see, I had been practicing on other people. These people, over time, grew highly interested in the card tricks. They were becoming interested in me. Now, people were asking me questions and actually waiting to hear the answers, and, somehow, I was able to communicate effectively. They understood me. It was clear they understood me, but how?

I often learn best by analogies, so I started with the basic concepts of intelligence and learning and then extrapolated from there. I realized that to be taught to an extraordinary level with such speed, you’d need an extraordinary teacher. This is why I began looking into “Geniuses”. Eventually, I found that the same saying kept popping up, over and over again.

 

“There’s a thin line between madness and genius.”

 

I began looking into this quote and  eventually found something quite strange; an anomaly, or abnormality, if you will.

People often say this quote. It’s very well shared, and yet very few people who have heard it, have ever become smarter. If people knew the locations of madness and genius so well, as to even know the space between them, surely they’d have become more intelligent by now. That’s when I realized - they had no clue what they were talking about. It was all an illusion, just one big magic trick. There isn’t one thin line between madness and genius. There are two. These two lines are so similar from our perspective that they almost perfectly overlap within our vision. They’re so similar that we often mistake the difference. They

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even start and end with the same letters. These lines, are Sanity, and Society.

A genius is just a madman who’s being restrained by Sanity and Society. This is why you can have a man deemed loony in one year, and a genius several years later. If society finally catches up with him, and he’s finally within their realm, he’ll be considered genius. But that begged the question: Who lives, most, on the outskirts of sanity and society? I couldn’t go explaining it away as, “Smart people are too stupid, therefore there is no answer.” I had to keep digging. I knew I was close, and so I dug and so I dug.

 

Who lives most on the outskirts of sanity and society?

 

I have my own interpretation, but I always like to allow for dispute and discussion. In such, I’d like to phrase it to you as a question. (I create through debate.) 

 

What human lives, more, on the outskirts of sanity and society, but still within their realm? Who lives more on the outskirts of sanity and society, than a child?

 

I cannot think of anyone greater. Now, sadly I must confess, what I’ve found on the other side of madness is not, in fact, intelligence. It is wisdom. 

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There are several key differences:

• Intelligence can make all the right statements, while wisdom can ask all the right questions.

• Intelligence is about the facts, and knowing what to think. Wisdom is about the art of thinking and knowing how to think.

• Intelligence comes from studying. Wisdom comes from experiencing.

• Intelligence is stable. Wisdom is resilient.

• Intellect does not usually lead to wisdom, but wisdom does usually lead to intelligence.

• Adults have intelligence, but children have wisdom, and geniuses have both. 

In short, what I was looking for was not merely an intellectual, but a successful human being, and I found them. Success is a result that often spawns, not just from intellect or wisdom, but from both intellect AND wisdom. When a grown man or woman gains the insight of a child, you have the makings of a genius.

This is why I achieved what was once deemed impossible for me. I may not have learned from children, but I learned from perhaps the only communications specialists that have ever had the child’s seal of approval. I learned from magicians, masters of attention, story-telling, and directing. It’s no wonder people trust me to lead them. People always trust their magicians, so long as the performer’s good enough. That’s why we can lead you astray.

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While children are not the only anomaly in my wheelhouse, the discovery of everyone’s lack of attention has led to many changes in my life, because one inaccurate claim can ruin someone’s life, and often it’s the people I care about. However, the moral of the story is this: I did the impossible through means the average person would have laughed at. In such, I have found a power that many people simply haven’t grasped. 

Because they never even tried.

 

And I did it ALONE.

Because I had to.

 

Most people consider me too weird, and I, in turn, consider them too normal.

For you to do this, to achieve success, admiration, friends, loved ones, it’ll take risk. It’ll take going into places you’ve never been before, some out of fear, and some out of ignorance. You’ve gotten a taste of what it will be like in here, in this book. This journey will be a relatively difficult process; one that may take multiple books, and multiple authors, but we have to start somewhere. It can be here or it can be there, but here. We. Are. This is the crossroads. Will you journey where you’ve never dared to travel before, or will you read the same old information you always have, book, after book, after book?

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It’s your choice.

You need to choose. 

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Chapter 1 — Pre-Chapter Quiz:

Question 1: What Are WHOs?

X.) A Logical Unit of Measurement

%.) An Assortment of What Values You Have

F.) A Word For Souls Or Spirits

1.) A Psychological Construct

 

 

Question 2: What Do Magicians Mean When Talking About “Heat”?

!.) The Amount of Attention and Suspicion On Them

E.) A Type of Misdirection Only Masters Use

P.) The Old Mentalist Strategy

#.) A Key Rule of Magic By Howard Thurston

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Why do we love?

Why are we who we are?

Who are we?

When it comes to embracing the unexamined, nobody is better at spotting hidden clues (and using them for personal gain) than a fake psychic.

And as a charlatan psychic there are really only two tools to use. These tools are both WHO someone is and What someone is, and they’re also used in any magic trick, lie, or manipulation. This section will be discussing both of them. Now to you, these tools may sound like the same thing; worse yet, for you scientific folk, this may sound like I'm talking about souls and spirits, or some other "self-help guru" talk. I, personally, am not a man who believes in spirits or souls. I believe in their possibility, but I would never bet my life's success on them. Whether that will lead me to failure remains to be seen, but I am doing pretty well if I've caught your attention so far, no?

Let me clarify the reason we need to separate WHOs and Whats and their differences — before you read a whole book about it (Hehe). You see, these two different “props” are really just the different units your mind uses to measure everything. This includes the realities outside of you and inside of you. Now, I’ll just state that Whats are the units our brains use to measure logical things, and to analyze the logical parts of

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the decisions you make. They are also the units you use consciously, and often to some degree, by choice.

WHOs are different though, and very few people know how to use them effectively. The only real exception are the manipulators, who have seemingly stumbled onto using these units intuitively, and based, more on understanding the results they receive, than the actual psychology they're using. 

People rarely use WHOs on purpose because they are a more unconscious, emotional unit of measurement (in your gut). They are often used automatically when deciding on the emotional aspects of any decision. This part here is vital: 

Average (and therefore common) manipulators can’t trick you using logic, because telling you the logic of their plan has too high a risk of revealing the logical (and often painful) results you’ll face. In simple terms, no matter what:

Manipulation is all about bypassing logic in the human mind.

And again, our mind only has two units of measurement, the logical and the emotional. So if logic isn’t a viable method for tricking you, then manipulators MUST use your emotions to bypass them. They MUST use your WHOs! 

and since you don’t know how WHOs function yet (Just like everyone else)— right now, you’re far too easy to fool. You ARE at risk.

This section will aim to fix that.

Then section 2 will be about specific examples of how WHOs can be manipulated internally.

After that, we have a section for measuring if your life and relationships are heading in the right direction for loyalty and fulfillment,

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And after THAT, we have a section of how to retake command of manipulated emotions through logic.

But for now, let’s display some of the magic I promised you:

Good magicians always study their props so that they know how to use them, and any good psychic/manipulator must learn to use them subtly before they use them publicly, as well. Only after mastering these tools can we start to use them, in more magical methods, for a more ultimate gain. You cannot benefit from the liars in life until you know how they operate. Of course, learning these props helps you spot other people’s games, too. The more we understand their props, the less subtle (and therefore less useful) they become to manipulators.

For example, in card magic, most masterful magicians know to only use either Bicycle playing cards, or the Bee playing cards within the United States. Why?

It’s because of a thing that magicians call “heat”. Only experienced magicians use this term, so don’t tell anyone that I’m revealing this (unless you want to). “Heat” is used to describe the amount of attention a person is giving you. It’s essentially like we’re pretending that the audience has heat vision as a superpower — the more focused they are, the hotter the laser eyes they’re giving you. When a magician says “Wow man. They’re burning your hands, huh? You need some ice?” What they really mean is “HOLY SHIT BRO! They are EXTREMELY focused on your hands right now. You aren’t going to get away with anything like this. You need me to help you out, cause a distraction?”

What does this have to do with only using two brands of cards? Easy. Only newbies use fancy decks of cards, because they bring on “Too much heat”.

Any time you use a fancy-looking prop, people will immediately assume that it’s special or gimmicked in some way. This means that they’ll look 100 times closer at the trick to see what makes them special, EVEN IF

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THEY’RE NOT, making your performance a lot harder to get away with. So using the right props, and in the right way is essential. Boredom is often the most manipulative facade of all, and so the facts and ideas we take for granted are the riches gold mine for con men to use.

The props we’ll be using in order to defend ourselves against manipulators are mostly categorized as “constructs” in psychological terms, so you’ll need to learn how those work before we can dive into the actual WHOs and the Whats.

And here... we... go!

My dearest readers, in psychology, there’s a term labeled “a hypothetical construct.” It’s also often called simply “a construct” by non-psychologists, such as myself. 

The simplistic, beginner definition that I’ll give you is this: The term "hypothetical construct" refers to a psychological concept or idea that cannot be measured directly (“Construct”). Intelligence is a construct, for example. You cannot measure intelligence directly. In an IQ Test, for instance, you can directly measure the number of questions you’ve answered correctly and then associate that amount with intelligence. Still, you’re not measuring the intelligence itself. You’re only measuring the ratio between correct answers as compared to the incorrect answers. 

You're measuring answers, then using an agreed-upon correlation with those answers to suggest whether or not you are intelligent. In terms of directness, you are only measuring answers, only the answers, not intelligence. Plus, since you can't measure intelligence directly through any method, the "agreement" that we’ve made on this correlation is meaningless and can change to suit the different times and anyone in those times' needs. Giving only good answers is called "intelligent" by the public now when it used to be called "wisdom" before; However, psychologists still tend to side with the older definition. In the past, intelligence was linked with creativity and knowing how to think, so why is it now that we only measure, and test, to see if they know what to

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think in schools? Why don't we measure the process if it’s considered that critical thinking is a part of the system? Or at least, why don’t we test it more thoroughly and with more physical proof?

To be clear, I’m now speaking of basic school exams and quizzes, NOT an IQ test. Those may seem mostly focused on answers, but the questions themselves are designed to have multiple trains of thought going on at once. In short, one question tests your ability to follow many different styles of thinking. For starters, IQ tests are a masterful way of testing both how many paths someone can think of to a solution, as well as how well they can cut away at those paths until they find the correct one. These two categories of thinking are called “divergent thinking” and “convergent thinking”.

Meanwhile, most academic tests in kindergarten through 12th grade are only focused on convergent thinking, which is only a small portion of intelligence as a whole 

In old-fashioned (and psychological) terms, the answers you gave meant very little in terms of true intelligence. Back then, knowing what to think was called wisdom, and knowing how to think was called intelligence. Now the roles are reversed. To this degree, when you got a 75% on a test, that did not mean you are only 75% intelligent according to our previous standards. It only meant that you got 75% of the questions right on that test, but nothing more. Your brain may function differently and more stupidly, or you may have come to the wrong answer through methods that would have been correct in other fields. According to the older definition of intelligence, having a good memory wouldn’t be the only prerequisite for being considered smart, so remembering the correct answers shouldn't be the only thing measured on tests and quizzes, according to the olden day rules. I'm a rather old-fashioned man, myself, and I've always agreed with this view.

Knowing HOW to think should always be prioritized over knowing WHAT to think.

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This is crucial in reading any situation "psychically". The reason I'm teaching you to use WHOs is because they're a type of measurement that's DESIGNED for divergent thinking, WITHOUT stopping you from applying convergent thinking later on.

Today, you may consider yourself an idiot, but a few years ago, in the right category, you would have been considered nothing short of a pure genius. This is the primary limitation of listening to another man's boundaries. They may work for him, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will work for you.

In order for you to be a successful magician in every aspect of life, we'll need to discuss WHO the people around you truly are, including yourself, and WHOs are a construct, just like intelligence. They cannot be measured directly, but that's not to say that they aren't real or that they cannot be experienced. Everyone knows what it's like to experience feeling smart at one point or another, whether we can measure that intelligence or not. The same can be said of discovering WHO you truly are.

There’s another fact to be considered here, too. Constructs are also ideas you can imagine the signals of but that you can’t fully understand until experienced. Today's intelligence has the signals of "good answers,” but that does not mean intelligence is the good answers. One is simply a signal for the other. Emotions are yet another example of a construct. You can explain to a child what happens when two people are in love; you can try to explain how it feels physically, and what they often do together, like kissing. These are the outward signals of love, but the child will not fully understand what it means to be in love until they have experienced that emotion, for themselves, internally.

It’s like a house that you’ve never been inside of before; from viewing it on the outside, you can get some… general… idea of what’s going on within, but no matter how many times you’ve done it with other people's houses, visiting a new friend’s house for the first time is mind-boggling. Even if you’ve passed it on the street many times before, and especially

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if you’re only walking up to it now, all the way up that walkway, all the way up to the front door, you have an idea in your mind. Still, that idea is almost always completely shattered when you actually look inside. Either that or you had no strong assumptions because that's how little knowledge you had to go off of. That collapse of the assumptions, or that epiphany of the unexamined, is precisely what you’ll feel when you see someone’s true WHO for the first time. That is what it feels like to finally see any construct for what it really is (For example, you'll also feel this way, but more powerfully when you fall in love, head over heels, in real love for the first time; as well as when you have an epiphany of a brilliant new idea and can feel yourself reaching a new level of intelligence). You may not be able to see WHOs now, but just because you cannot see the truth, doesn't mean that you never will or that it doesn't exist. Even a blind man can see the truth, so long as he bothers to look for it.

Now, I can help you see at least the size and general shape of what you're dealing with. I can lead you to the signals, like leading you around the house from all angles, even from a bird's eye view, like we're flying over the roof of the house. I can even show you its lowest points as if we're viewing the bottom of the basement floor together. Heck! I can even walk you all the way up to the front door, 

but opening the door is your responsibility. That is your task. To quote me is easy, to understand me is important, but to implement me is your task. You, my dearest readers and newfound friends, are the only ones with the key to this great mansion. There is much that I can show you, even from only the outside of this vast and beautiful space. It's a new promised land, but to sneak inside and join the party requires a unique invitation; everyone has a different one, and I can't go using mine for you. The final step. That final push. The movement of your eyelids. The opening of your eyes to WHO we all truly are.

That's up to you. 

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Some paths to power have been designed for you and will be SO easy to use that it's actually scary. Some paths in life will go against you and make any move for power either impossible or excruciatingly painful for no good reason. WHOs are merely a concept to be attached to anyone and anything. It’s a type of label that your mind attaches to all other forms of concept.

In such, it’s not only important to know WHO you are. It’s also important to know WHO your best future self will be. People don’t love and sacrifice for their future selves if they haven’t met and fallen for them before, and you won't know the WHO that will empower you most impactfully in the future if you don't know WHO you are right now and what paths you match with. Without the fast and easy paths to success in life, you'll either never escape the selfishness of this world, or by the time you do, you'll have become so old that you can't even enjoy your newfound powers in the end. Either way, joyfully protecting others will become an impossibility. It is extremely crucial for you to master your self-identity right now before searching for your proper goals in life and your ways to power, because your ignorant eagerness to know the path will allow deceivers to lead you do their path. Besides, if you can’t obtain satisfaction and stability in your own life, you will be unable to lend it to others. Remember my friends, one’s generosity is only as good as one’s fortune.

The most significant problem with this is that you still need to find out how to view your own WHO by yourself, and while the path to doing that can be described to you, it cannot be done for you. Seeing one WHO is all it takes to see them all, but how to reach out and touch, sense, feel, even one, is a mystery you'll need to solve on your own. Like any other experience, you won’t know what it feels like to experience “the sight” of a true WHO until you see it and feel it for yourself. It’s not something that can be explained directly in words, because words are merely verbal signals. 

Luckily for us, when it comes to WHOs, all of them interact with each other in very, very, limited ways, so when you identify your own,

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watching how it reacts to others, even if you can't see them yourself, will give you a near-exact image of any other WHO. Besides, as a magician, I know from personal experience that people can learn to see things that their minds couldn’t even begin to comprehend just a few minutes prior.

Now, my book series is designed to help you become more powerful than any of the tyrants that are now above you, but it will take time. Believe it or not, true power doesn't just teleport to you overnight, even for magicians. Before you start using my techniques in life, I want to give you the tools for life in the shapes of both Whats and WHOs first. Only after that can I teach you how to use them for the quickest and most powerful results. 

But for now, just remember that there are very few things as essential to be divided in your life as the separation in your mind, between knowing the difference in "observing" an item, and "comprehending" that which you just observed. Sometimes, when  you cannot understand what was being said, you might not be listening well enough to the speaker, but in truth, you may also have just been listening to the wrong people. Make sure to check both every time to avoid late confusion in life; never just observe. Remember to also comprehend, and question what you've  observed through sight, smell, hearing, or any other sense that you can imagine. This, of course, includes when you're listening to me. Doubt me when you can.

Now, I've been talking a lot about WHOs and Whats towards the end of this page. I'm sure that it has you a little confused. Don't worry, though. It'll be explained, starting in Chapter 3. Good thing this first book is free, huh? I'm sure you'll start seeing the bigger picture, sooner rather than later.

 

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Chapter 2 — Pre-Chapter Quiz:

Question 3: What’s My BIGGEST Rule On Genrosity?

$.) You Can’t Give What You Don’t Have

Q.) Only Give To Those In Need

8.) The Less You Give, The Less You’ll Have

4.) Friendship Is More Valuable Than Money

 

Question 4: What Is A “Fiddle Game”?

G.) My Favorite Board Game

“.) A Con Game Designed To Benefit From Liars

*.) A Reference I Make To The Devil

A.) An Old Magic Trick I Created In The 1st Grade

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Ah. You’ve decided to continue. Good. I'd like to explain again that this series, is about embracing the unexamined so you can have the power to protect those that you love against liars. Still, the purpose of this specific book, is to examine a specific anomaly or abnormality. I feel each piece of the unknown is important enough that it must be given its own segment within the series. I am starting with this particular piece of novelty out of its sheer importance and relevance to your future progress. This book is being used to help buy you more time (through safety) to keep learning how to dismantle, and eventually benefit from, the liars in your everyday life. I'm hoping that you will find enough power, that you may be able to lend some of it to those you care for, before it's too late, sooner rather than later.

In the end, you need not only to understand something about my philosophy, but to internalize and accept it, first and foremost. You can't give what you don’t have. Now, there are many "examples" of where my philosophy appears wrong. Still, if you truly look, nothing we have has come from nothing. There will always be a cause to this effect. Whether the effect is a gift, a mystery, or even misery, in the end, there will always be someone, or something, to thank for it. While people may not have grown the flowers themselves, those blossoms that have been given to you, by your friends, by your family, or by the universe itself, all had to come from somewhere. Perhaps you mistake the senders. Perhaps you mistake the amount, or the ownership; but the one giving you anything, be it a blessing, a curse, or the seeds to both, has had it on themselves to give. After all, they at least had it long enough to give it to you. 

You cannot empower those around you without having any power to give. Just as you can’t lend money to your dying grandma’s bills if you have no money on you, you can’t bring attention to a worthy cause if you have no attention on you. This is the way of the world. One’s generosity

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is only as good as one’s fortune. Before you can truly choose when to commit to another, platonically, romantically, or otherwise, you first need commitment to yourself. It’s easiest to start by using unconditional self-love, specifically. The techniques in this series may seem to be self-centered, since I'm literally teaching you how all cons work. To be honest, it'd make sense if you felt like using them to lie on your own terms, turning into the very thing you swore to destroy.

And even more honestly, I still feel that would be a better outcome than to have liars win, and honest people lose. (There'd be a sort of "strange equality" if we were ALL con men, you know?) But that is not the point of these books. So for the sake of my own sanity, please do not use these methods out of context, and keep this chapter in mind while moving forward in the series, and in this book. 

This is THE core lesson of the series: To dismantle the idea of “it takes one to know one”, or to “never stoop to their level.” Because the biggest secret that con men keep is how they already have a history of creating their own weaknesses. For example, there’s a centuries old con method called “The Fiddle Game” —  It’s one of the 7 types of lies a person can tell — and is specifically designed to help benefit from betrayal, and from cons told by other liars. Sound familiar? It should. It’s what I’m selling, and do for a living.

(Now, I know what you’re thinking: There’s only SEVEN types of lies!?!?)

Yep. The world’s best liars and con men have found out that even they and their lies have limits — (Lol… Then they gave them REALLY weird codenames.) But again, with the invention of The Fiddle Game, con men have been benefitting from other liars for centuries — Literal Centuries. And it’s no surprise that they don’t exactly share its existence with the outside world.

But now, with my upgrades, honest people can use The Fiddle Game, too.

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So here’s a fun fact:

“With me, you can almost ALWAYS, con a con man.”

But again, this book is mainly about self-trust and self-love, and how to keep them from becoming dangerous/risky. Note that this book is not written to suggest that you cannot trust without learning to trust yourself first. It merely means that, if you cannot contain and hold onto that trust, no matter where it came from, you will always be unable to choose where it'll go in the future, leading to your downfall, due to the liars and traitors you feel you can’t leave, or that you don’t “deserve” to doubt. The same can be said of anything you wish to give or keep. As such, you’ll be hearing a lot about how “self-love” is manipulated in this book because WHOs use self-love to build self-trust. Again, Overcommitment IS dangerous, but please read my series with empathy, and not just fear.

The first step in giving a gift is to notice that you have something worth giving. The second step is keeping your hold on that gift until it's in the receiver's hands. Trying to bring a dying fish new water is a kind and honorable gesture, but it will be useless if the water slips through your fingers before you can get there. People who cannot control their generosity will never be a reliable source of empowerment for those who need it. They cannot keep their valuables on hand specifically for those they love, or even those in need. As you journey onwards, through your life, you will come across a day where the ones who love you, will need you, and when that day comes, I hope that you will be prepared. I hope that I, myself, will have prepared you. For now though, we move to a key debate.

Now, the main argument I hear against my philosophy for giving is that someone my opposition once knew personally loved others very much, without loving themselves. I once knew a person whose father was an alcoholic. They told me they didn't believe in my ideas because their father didn't seem to feel much love for himself, but seemed to love his children unconditionally, including the speaker in question. We had a bit of an argument, and as we talked, a realization hit me in the brain. I,

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however, did not speak it out loud, because at the time, they were going through some significant changes in their life, filled with at least some uncertainty. Since my point may have been invalid (At the time it was just a newly formed hypothesis, after all), it felt wrong to discuss it with its various interpretations, some of which were very negative. I had not yet acted on my plan to investigate further. I had not yet accounted for as many interpretations as I have now, and so I remained silent.

My point towards their argument is that, while their father may not have grown that love within himself, he still had found unconditional love. His child, the one speaking, clearly loved him nonetheless. In fact, that ability to love this alcoholic seems to have torn the child to pieces, and shreds, on certain future occasions. In the end though, the family loved their father, at least as a family member, and he willingly gave this love, outwards, to his children. Perhaps it was not unconditional love that was given to him, but even in such a case, you cannot prove that his love for his children was unconditional either. Perhaps they just never found the condition that would make him stop.

You may state that he had no extended love or excess amount of it. You may be right, but that does not mean he could not give his love away. He may not have loved himself enough, but what little love he did have, he gave to his children. He may, very well, have sacrificed his own love for someone he deemed more important, or with more potential, than he himself. This could very easily lead to a spiral (a clearly negative interpretation). The more you love someone, in comparison with yourself, the more often you'll be willing to sacrifice for them. If you start out with very little love, and give what's left away to your family, then you will have zero, and your family will have more than that, leading to you feeling a need to sacrifice more, outwards, towards your children, to make up for seeming like a lost cause (to yourself) and so you sacrifice your self-love for your kids, making them more loved, and you're willing to sacrifice more the next time around, and so on. After all, how can you feel a need to take care of yourself, if you hate yourself in comparison, to your children? Especially if you cannot choose where your love will go.

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This is not to say that the family is to blame for an alcoholic or depressed father. This is his choice, even if he can't control it, or doesn't realize that it's the one he's making.

 

And I don't know if he was truly unaware...

 

But it was his choice to make; not the son's, not the daughter's, not the wife's. At the end of the day, it is very easy to give love, but it's nearly impossible, to take it by force, even if you're taking it from yourself. And if we're being honest…

That's why you're here, isn't it?

Because you feel that you need to prove something, anything, to someone else, anyone else?

But most of all, you need to prove it to a single person,

And you know who it is because of your own feelings, and how you feel like you're incomplete as you are right now.

Tell me the truth. Are you here to run towards something, like a goal, or a relationship or are you just running away?

In truth, you don't need to answer that, because the point is that you're running. You’re moving, you’re progressing. You’re doing whatever you wanna call it, and you’re doing it because you can’t stop, and you can’t stop because it hurts to stay still and just be…

Most of all, it hurts to just be ”you”. This is the greatest tools for manipulators. If you can’t sit still, and just be with yourself, what makes you think you can be loyal to yourself?

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And if you can’t be “unconditionally loyal” to yourself, through self love,

Then how can you direct that loyalty with any conscious, and correct control? 

running,

running,

running,

You're always running, and you always have been.

My point in making this the first book, is to let you rest. For the first time in your life, I want you to be at peace, to not need to distract yourself from feelings of guilt, or of shame, or of a need for ambition.

You don’t to chase a better self, because without even knowing you, I can bet 10 to 1 that you are worth loving, even if you can't prove that fact to yourself yet.

And if you need more proof from me...

Well... why do you think this book is free to read? 

Good luck.

And I'll see you in chapter 3.