It’s simple, we kill the bat-man I just make people think they’re in control by doing some / most of the things they’re trying to make me do acting like I think I do it based on my own decision. I make them think that they are the ones who’s pulling the strings making me think I’m in control, when I’m the one pulling the strings making them think they’re pulling my strings.

I’m charming and very good-looking so I use the halo effect to my advantage a lot. But aside that, here’re just a few examples which are overtly simplified since it’ll take more than a page to go into details:

  1. I find some way to plant the seed. If you’re my bottom bitch and I want you to peruse a career in fashion design, I start to get you to be interested in fashion first. Then I take you to malls and walk around the sewing machines. How do I take you to the mall while making you think it’s my decision? Well we hang out at a random place then I make you feel bored by having a boring conversation. Then I suggest we move to another place. Then I suggest two places. One even more boring place and one is the mall. So the mark chooses the mall. Then we move to the section that has sewing machines. And eventually I manipulate her even further into fashion design over the course of the following months.

  2. Then she brings up tailoring and asks whether she should go to tailoring classes and buy the machine and shit. I say “No” and give crappy reasons why she shouldn’t do it. She sees my crap and she thinks she’s smart so this makes her want to do it even more. So eventually, she tries to convince me it’s actually her passion.

  3. Reinforcement - over the course of the days or months, I ask her ‘why’ she loves tailoring so much. This is a loaded question and it makes her think she actually loves tailoring.

These aren’t all the tactics I use.

I’m not God. I cannot make people do shit 100% of the time but these methods so far has increased the probability of influencing them greatly.

But remember “The King maker is the true King” and “The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled is convincing the world he didn’t exist”.

What other things I should add to pull the strings or friends, family and “plates”?