Hello all,

This is a topic on the use of manipulation on people.

So I've now come into the end of my first year of college.

A lot has happened this year. I'm a founding father of a fraternity and have done well in academics. I have a girlfriend that has been a perfect LTR and I have cheated on her several times now.

I've realized that in every interaction I have with a human being, I'm always looking to manipulate them. I want to see what benefits I receive from and how I can get it

Heres a very detailed example.

So I smoke a lot of weed now, causing me to miss this class called Honors which is a ridiculous program at 8am every Tuesday and Thursday. I gave up on it ages ago, I have a B. So I went over the max absences and was being threatened to be failed.

I've never come close to failing a class before.

The professor told me that I had to speak with the Dean of Students to confirm my absences and he will listen to whatever she tells him.

I looked up the Dean of Students and arrange an appointment when her schedule was very busy. I knew this because of my fraternity brother who interns with her, he said he would suggest her to reschedule, since she does like to cancel on people. He also told she is not charge of absences, professors just like to put the pressure on her.

Because of this she rescheduled me a week later and her first sentence to me was "I'm sorry for rescheduling, my apologies".

I look at this as her first feelings towards me being sympathy. This puts me in a good spot, in comparison to just meeting her on a normal appointment with neutral feelings towards me. It's like being at +1 instead of 0

Then I told her about my single (Gotta sell the single mother story, right?) mother who has shingles and how I had to take care of her and that is why I missed class.

My mother did have shingles, but that is not why I missed class.

Then I framed the professor's request to speak to her by saying that he will listen to everything she says.

I talked about her nieces and talked about my upbringing in ways to bring out feelings of sympathy from her, but never be so drastic to bring out pity.

I did not want to appear like a whiner, I wanted to appear like a student who needs her help and has motivation. I shot out my founding father office position and small talk about her family etc.

In the end, she ended up saying "Let's take advantage of the fact that he will listen to whatever I say."

She sent an email to the professor excusing every single absence stating that I have brought documentation and reasonable evidence for my days.

I had no documentation at all. She then told me if my honors grade does result in endangering my scholarship to come speak to her personally since she believes I am a "nice young man who wants to make the best of his education and the opportunities."

When she said that I realize how much I've managed to sell that Idea to her.

It's how I approach every interaction with people, with my girlfriend, with my own mother sometimes.

Do any of you guys use manipulation to this extent? Is this healthy? Sometimes I question my underlying agenda since I am a very selfish person. I look at everything at what I can personally gain.

Does living a life of manipulation mean living a life always on guard? Or is the way to live a life to its fullest?

Do you disagree with this way of living?

I love having discussions, so go forward and shit on me if that is your opinion, the red pill doesn't ever hold back on that anyways.

Lastly, cheers guys, hope your day is well, just finished my work for the day and wanted to make this post to see where it leads.