

Often the key to deception is being bland and acting with humility.Patterns will also help mask a deception.A helpful or honest gesture can divert from a deception.If you lead the sucker down a familiar path, he won’t catch on when you lead him into a trap. The bland exterior-like the unreadable poker face-is often the perfect smoke screen, hiding your intentions behind the comfortable and familiar. Deception is always the best strategy, but the best deceptions require a screen of smoke to distract people attention from your real purpose.II: Use smoke screens to disguise your actions: Hide your intentions not by closing up, but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals - just false ones.Unable to distinguish the genuine from the false, they cannot pick out your real goal. Use false sincerity, send ambiguous signals, set up misleading objects of desire. Do not give them the chance to sense what you are up to: Throw them off the scent by dragging red herrings across the path. If at any point in the deception you practice people have the slightest suspicions to your intentions, all is lost.I: Use decoyed objects of desire and red herrings to throw people off the scent: Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelop them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions.

Never outshine the master.Īlways make those above you feel comfortably superior.
