We've all met them, those well-dressed, well-appointed smoothed-tongued manipulators who can get away with anything and make astronomical profits from it while the rest of us are stressed to breaking point by the conflicting demands on our time. These are the winners in our society, and the system makes it remarkably difficult for them to lose. What can you or I do when faced with these self-serving individuals who will stop at nothing to have their way?
It seems like the Players have absolute control over their Game. They created it, they dominate society's upper echelons, and as a result they are blessed with a permanent advantage. How can we hope to take them on?
What we need is a new way to play the game: a way to reverse our positions of power and take the advantage from the seasoned Players. They base their plays on their existing power, on their surety that we are the underdogs. Herein we may find our way to undermine them, since it is this confidence in their mastery which is at once the source of their easy profits and their greatest weakness.
Meanwhile, they become dependent upon this advantageous position; and when the trump is removed from their hand, they really have no idea of how to cope with the situation they find themselves in. They will usually resort to what they know; bluff and bluster, which only serve to worsen their predicament, as they amplify the downward spiral in which they find themselves. The outsider, on the other hand, has no such advantage. Therefore, we must rely upon intelligence and stealth, to create our good fortune.
Fortunately, Players are particularly susceptible to being played. The great majority of Players are nothing more than one-trick ponies. The Players never expect the sheep to use their own tactics against them. The reason for this is twofold.
First, the average Player views the rest of us as fools, incapable of thinking tactically. Second, they see themselves as gifted with a shrewdness which the rest of us simply do not have.
On the surface, we seduce the Player, lulling them into a false sense of security while we go about their undoing. To do this, we must first develop ways of identifying them. Next, we must learn to understand their nuances, so that we may differentiate between various types of Players and thereby better attune our movements to theirs. Next, we observe their movements to discern the underlying pattern hidden beneath. Players are always 'on their game'. That is to say, they never let up in pursuing their hidden agenda.
Because a Player thinks of himself as supreme he takes no notice of his own mistakes, believing himself incapable of making any. In addition, his unwillingness to take an interest in anything which will not benefit him materially makes him remarkably shallow. If problems do arise he will have no way of thinking creatively in order to address them, and will therefore be reduced to a state of panic, and so the downward spiral begins.
Finally, not being able to engage in any situation in which they are not guaranteed success makes the Player into a coward and further restricts their range of movement. It is little wonder that the Players need this elaborate ruse, called the Game; for without it they would have nothing, and be nothing. - 16890
It seems like the Players have absolute control over their Game. They created it, they dominate society's upper echelons, and as a result they are blessed with a permanent advantage. How can we hope to take them on?
What we need is a new way to play the game: a way to reverse our positions of power and take the advantage from the seasoned Players. They base their plays on their existing power, on their surety that we are the underdogs. Herein we may find our way to undermine them, since it is this confidence in their mastery which is at once the source of their easy profits and their greatest weakness.
Meanwhile, they become dependent upon this advantageous position; and when the trump is removed from their hand, they really have no idea of how to cope with the situation they find themselves in. They will usually resort to what they know; bluff and bluster, which only serve to worsen their predicament, as they amplify the downward spiral in which they find themselves. The outsider, on the other hand, has no such advantage. Therefore, we must rely upon intelligence and stealth, to create our good fortune.
Fortunately, Players are particularly susceptible to being played. The great majority of Players are nothing more than one-trick ponies. The Players never expect the sheep to use their own tactics against them. The reason for this is twofold.
First, the average Player views the rest of us as fools, incapable of thinking tactically. Second, they see themselves as gifted with a shrewdness which the rest of us simply do not have.
On the surface, we seduce the Player, lulling them into a false sense of security while we go about their undoing. To do this, we must first develop ways of identifying them. Next, we must learn to understand their nuances, so that we may differentiate between various types of Players and thereby better attune our movements to theirs. Next, we observe their movements to discern the underlying pattern hidden beneath. Players are always 'on their game'. That is to say, they never let up in pursuing their hidden agenda.
Because a Player thinks of himself as supreme he takes no notice of his own mistakes, believing himself incapable of making any. In addition, his unwillingness to take an interest in anything which will not benefit him materially makes him remarkably shallow. If problems do arise he will have no way of thinking creatively in order to address them, and will therefore be reduced to a state of panic, and so the downward spiral begins.
Finally, not being able to engage in any situation in which they are not guaranteed success makes the Player into a coward and further restricts their range of movement. It is little wonder that the Players need this elaborate ruse, called the Game; for without it they would have nothing, and be nothing. - 16890
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Tired of watching people being used and abused John Berling Hardy has dedicated himself to giving you the tools with which you can set your own course. For more of his writings please visit www.playingtheplayers.com
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