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  • Never Post Your Achievements

    This is for everyone on the whisper. Never Post your accomplishments. All it does is make low life twits feel the need to reply with negativity.

    It does not mean you should not celebrate your achievements but do so in private.

    Post about stupid stuff and jokes, so they think you have no future. People hate progress these days.

    Whenever you mention your achievements on social media. Please put down the number of hours, day, weeks and years of struggle that you’ve put it to get this success. People get inspired not by your achievements but by your spirit of never giving up.

    Whenever you see a successful person you only see their public glories, never the private sacrifice to reach them.

  • Do Not Go Past The Mark You Aimed For, In Victory Learn When To Stop

    The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. In the heat of victory, arrogance and overconfidence can push you past the goal you had aimed for, and by going too far, you make more enemies than you defeat. Do not allow success to go to your head. There is no substitute for strategy and careful planning. Set a goal, and when you reach it, stop.

    This means not getting too high or too low — stay unwavering to avoid reacting out of emotion.

    The most common thing people try to avoid is staying too low — the depressive emotions. People are quick come to come to someone’s aid to try and lift you up. But how often do people come in a moment of great achievement to help you bring your emotions back down to neutral? Some may think, ‘but why would you want to bring someone down from the high of an achievement?’. It’s not about stopping the elated feelings of achievement, rather it’s about mitigating the potential character defecating effects of letting success get to your head.

    Tasting the sweet elixir of success puts you in a vulnerable position, especially if you haven’t tasted it before. So when other people come to challenge your success and achievement, it can reveal insecurities.

    Power has its own rhythms and patterns. Those who succeed in the game are the ones who control the patterns and vary them at will, keeping people off balance while they set the tempo. And the essence of strategy is controlling what comes next, and the elation of victory can upset your ability to control what comes next, in two ways.

    First, you owe your success to a pattern that you are apt to try to repeat. You will try to keep moving in the same direction without stopping to see whether this is still the direction that is best for you.

    Second, success tends to go to your head and make you emotional. Feeling invulnerable, you make aggressive moves and ultimately undo the victory you have gained.

    But the lesson is simple. The powerful vary their rhythms and patterns, change the course, adapt to circumstance, and learn to improvise. Rather than letting their dancing feet impel them forward, they step back and look where they are going. That is the challenge. To pause amongst the midst of victory is the challenge, is the hardest thing. To take a breath, analyze, and move with caution, but swiftness.

    It is as if their bloodstream bore a kind of antidote to the intoxication of victory, letting them control their emotions and come to a kind of mental halt where they have attained success. They steady themselves, give themselves the space to reflect on what has happened, examine the role of circumstance and luck in their success. As they say in the riding school, you have to be able to control yourself before you can control the horse.

  • Never Appear Too Perfect

    Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

    By appearing perfect — by appearing superfluous to mistakes and flaws, others may manifest envy.

    Only a minority can succeed at the game of life and that minority inevitably arouses the envy of those around them.

    You will be a fool to think that there are not people who envy you because of your success, because of the things you have attained and I would be a fool to think so as well.

    Some people find it hard to believe that the people closest to them could plot to see their demise.

    Reasons Not to Stir Up Envy

    1. Be careful not to affect a false modesty that people can easily see-through.
    2. Your humility, and your openness to those you have left behind, has to seem genuine
    3. Any hint of insincerity will only make your new status more oppressive.
    4. Do not alienate your former peers.
    5. Emphasize how lucky you have been.
    6. Make your happiness seem more attainable to other people, and the need for envy less acute.
    7. Display a weakness, a minor social indiscretion, a harmless vice.
    8. Give those who envy you something to feed on, distracting them from your more important sins.
    9. You may have to play games with appearances, but in the end, you will have what counts: true power.
    10. Do not try to help or do favours for those who envy you; they will think you are condescending to them.
    11. Consider showing your wealth only on the inside of your house.
    12. Apply this wisdom to your own character.

    “No matter how smart you are, you will NEVER have any success at all if you are not good at managing and leading people. Regardless of how much of an expert you are at something you need to be the kind of person that leaves people feeling whole and not full of holes. You need to be the kind of person that coaches people up and doesn’t talk down to people. How you make people feel is of the utmost importance.” – Clay Clark

  • Preach The Need For Change But Don’t Reform Too Much

    Everyone understands the need for change, but people are nonetheless creatures of habit. Too much change is unsettling and will spark a backlash. Make a show of respecting the old way of doing things. Evoke revered history and cloak your changes in familiar rituals.

    People understand the need for change conceptually but are unsettled by a change that seems drastic or chaotic, or that affects them personally. We’re creatures of habit and change upsets our routines and expectations.

    Some change provokes immediate resistance. Too much change too quickly creates anxiety that will eventually boil over. Every revolution, no matter how welcome at first, eventually sparks a strong backlash. Never reform too much at once

    However, there are ways to make change more appealing and less threatening to people, and therefore more successful.

    An effective approach is to employ a comforting deception: preach change, and even make changes behind the scenes, but maintain the comforting appearance of familiar institutions and traditions.

    A simple gesture like using an old title, or keeping the same number for a group, will tie you to the past and support you with the authority of history.

    Meaning, on the surface you may appear to support the past, but inside, you are manoeuvring in ways that support your own causes of a new change — politicians are masters at this.

    When Charles Darwin published his ideas for evolution, he faced fiercer opposition from his fellow scientists than from religious authorities. His theories challenged too many fixed ideas.

    Jonas Salk ran into the same wall with his radical innovations in immunology.

    Max Plank ran into the same issues with his revolutionizing of physics. Plank later wrote of the scientific opposition he faced, a very astute comment.

    It’s kind of true, isn’t it? The old traditions of the past we’ve witnessed over the last century are being forced out because the previous generation before us are shrinking smaller. Everything from marriage, equality, race, religion are all shifting us globalization, technology and we, evolve (or even devolve). And the cycle will repeat over and over.

  • Play on People’s Need to Believe to Create a Cult like Following

    People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. Give your new disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf. In the absence of organized religion and grand causes, your new belief system will bring you untold power.

    Not only will your followers worship you, but they will also defend you from your enemies and voluntarily take on the work of enticing others to join your fledgeling cult. This kind of power will lead you to another realm.

    This phenomenon can be observed through many large celebrities and influences. Their dedicated fan base will be there to defend them whenever someone speaks down upon them.

    You might think it a gargantuan task to create such a following, but in fact, it is fairly simple. As humans, we have a desperate need to believe in something, anything. This makes us eminently gullible. Dangle in front of us some new cause, elixir, get-rich-quick scheme, or the latest technological trend or art movement and we leap from the water as one to take the bait

    The History Of Charlatanism

    Charlatans have been around for centuries. They sold elixirs that would promise immortality and superior health and peddled alchemic shortcuts to wealth. “They originally focused on small groups — until, by accident, they stumbled on a truth of human nature: The larger the group they gathered around themselves, the easier it was to deceive because people were more emotional and less able to reason. Any deficiencies in the charlatan’s ideas were hidden by the zeal of the mass. Passion swept through the crowd like a contagion, and they reacted violently to anyone who dared to spread a seed of doubt. Through decades of studying this dynamic and experimenting the charlatans perfected the science of attracting and holding a crowd, moulding the crowd into followers and the followers into a cult.

    5 Ways to Organize Your Cult-Like Following

    1. Find a way both elevating and comforting.
    2. Create rituals for your followers.
    3. Organize them into a hierarchy, ranking them in grades of sanctity, and giving them names and titles that resound with religious overtones
    4. Ask them for sacrifices that will fill your coffers and increase your power.
    5. To emphasize your gathering’s quasi-religious nature, talk and act like a prophet.

    In the late 1700s, a French doctor, Franz Mesmer created a mass following with claims he could cure people of all ills by using magnetic forces. He invited people to his apartment for demonstrations; with a background of incense and harp music, people sat around a pool of supposedly magnetic water, from which rods protruded. Visitors touched their bodies with the rods and held hands with their neighbours to channel the magnetic force.

    Mesmer’s assistants sprinkled water on participants and rubbed the supposedly healing fluid into the skin. Participants experienced trance-like states or hysteria and felt a strange power moving through their bodies.

    Word of Mesmer’s powers spread, and his fame and wealth grew, even attracting royalty. A cult of “Mesmerism” was born and societies formed around the country to experiment with magnetism. Eventually, however, a French commission investigated and debunked his practices and theories. Mesmer’s reputation was ruined and he retired, but a few years later his cult revived and spread again. Mesmer knew how to create a cult-like following.

    With the right mix of spectacle, message, and religious fervour, you can get people to believe anything, and make you powerful and wealthy.