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What I Learned from the 48 Laws of Powers: Law 3 Part 2
The use of smoke screens to disguise your actions.
The things I learned from this book is so helpful.
It says how deception is always the best strategy, but the best deceptions require a screen of smoke to distract people attention from your real purpose.
Having bland face like the unreadable poker face is a perfect smoke screen, so you can hide your intentions behind the comfortable and familiar. This will make them not to catch on when you lead him into a trap.
Know that: The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.
A helpful or apparently honest gesture, or one that implies the other person’s superiority — these are perfect diversionary devices.
Properly set up, the smoke screen is a weapon of great power.
You are greatly mistaken if you believe that deceivers are colorful folk who mislead with elaborate lies and tall tales.
The best deceivers utilize a bland and inconspicuous front that calls no attention to themselves. They know that extravagant words and gestures immediately raise suspicion. Instead, they…
