The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Schiller has always believed that people are born with the ability to manipulate minds, which is human instinct.

When a person is a baby, he will cry to remind his parents to take care of him. This is the most primitive manipulation, but usually neither party is aware of it.

There is a type of children whose education has failed and they will also show similar tendencies. When they are still old enough to cry, they use crying to blackmail their parents to satisfy their own desires. When they are too old to cry, they blackmail their colleagues and friends by throwing tantrums and wallowing in order to satisfy their own needs. , this is the lowest level of manipulation, and usually both parties are unaware of it.

But if you look for the common ground between the two, you will easily find that the intense emotions displayed by these manipulators can bring pain-like reactions to others. People must find ways to stop this pain, and if they are in a strong position If a person is not determined to stop the pain, the method will become to satisfy his needs.

Emotions are of course the key to manipulation, but there is actually a very significant difference between venting emotions normally and using emotions to manipulate others. Schiller has published 2 to 3 monographs to demonstrate the connection and difference between the two.

Among them, the easiest thing for ordinary people to distinguish is that in most cases, there is no very obvious direction when venting emotions. People who fall into intense emotions have a blank brain, cry until they are so angry, are so angry that they are incoherent, and laugh as if they are about to die. .

The area of ​​the human brain is limited. When a certain intense emotion bursts out, the rational part will be compressed to the minimum, and they usually cannot coexist.

But if a person's emotions have a very obvious direction, especially If you do what you do, I will stop, or If it weren't for you, how could I cry? This type of direction is a A kind of mental manipulation.

Human emotions are instinctive, and the reason why they burst out is that they are not completely controlled by human reason. If he can let it burst out and stop at will, then this is not a real emotion, but just a disguise.

When emotions burst out, people can only feel the pure emotion, not the source behind the emotion. If most of the brain is still thinking about the source behind the emotion, it means that he also has enough brain areas to contain this kind of emotion. mood.

And if he doesn't do this, it means that he wants to achieve his goal through this emotion. This is not catharsis, but manipulation.

Accepting other people's intense emotions is a very painful thing. When people's empathy organs are working normally, they will always be infected by emotions unconsciously. The more intense it is, the more energy is required, which is not a requirement of reason. You can really do it no matter what.

Empathy is a curse that humans are born with and cannot be controlled by any reason.

Then showing strong emotions can be seen as a form of punishment. If you don't satisfy me, I will stuff a lot of stuff into your empathy organ until you become extremely painful.

If the parents do not meet their demands, the naughty children will cry incessantly. This kind of crying is obviously not because of sadness, but to punish the parents so that the parents can meet their various unreasonable demands.

If it happens that this child does not encounter any strong superiors when growing up to make him understand that there is a price to pay for using emotions as a weapon, then he will rely on this method until adulthood.

The vast majority of them are relatively stupid and will be taught how to behave by the more cruel adult society, but there are also some gifted individuals who do not need a teacher to teach them, and they can clearly understand the truth and realize this invisible Punishment can manipulate others and bring great convenience to oneself.

Then they will become the real manipulators, and the method is no longer low-level crying and fussing, but instilling many unacceptable emotions into them in a calm way, leaving them at a loss what to do and extremely panicked. , willing to pay any price to end this situation.

The manipulator can only choose to satisfy the needs of the manipulator.

Of course, not everyone is aware that they are manipulating others. During their long years of growth, they have used this method countless times, constantly improving and mastering it, until it becomes their instinct and part of their personality.

When the manipulative instinct is embedded in their personality, their every move, word and deed manipulates others at every moment, becoming a veritable mental sadist.

They don't think they are perverts, because it has become their instinct. Manipulation is not their method, but themselves. They think they are such people, and all the emotions they burst out to manipulate others are their real ones. Emotions are true and false when they are fake.

This kind of manipulation ability developed among the general public is not very clever, but if it is supplemented by theoretical knowledge and the inherent shining points of some manipulators, they will become excellent masters of manipulation. .

A poor manipulator will only use emotions as a weapon to whip others, which is a punitive manipulation. However, a truly brilliant manipulator usually rewards and punishes at the same time. They will wave the whip at the right time, but at the same time, they will also use all kinds of temptations in themselves. The eye-catching advantages are packaged into sweet candies, which make people enjoy them even if they are painful.

The opposite of manipulation is anti-manipulation. The best anti-manipulation is to manipulate others. Schiller wants to explain this to Bruce. When Bruce dares to manipulate Schiller, it means that he has completely gotten rid of Schiller's manipulation. .

But many people, especially those who are kinder and have a higher moral bottom line, have an instinct that they cannot sit back and watch any pain in life. Naturally, they cannot use their emotions skillfully to punish others.

Then either practice turning off your own empathy organ, or at least weaken your ability to accept other people's emotions, so that you will be less susceptible to emotional punishment.

Either you can only isolate yourself physically and run away as soon as you feel something is wrong, but be aware that the criterion for judging something is wrong is always your own feelings, and no matter how sensitive you are, you will never be able to tolerate any discomfort, otherwise the alarm will be raised. Once the organ is blunted and the person cannot feel the source of danger but continues to suffer, he will surely fall into the abyss of depression.

There is a more niche proposition between manipulation and counter-manipulation, which is induced manipulation.

There are many psychological monographs on mental abuse, and there are even more psychological monographs on anti-psychological abuse. However, so far, only Schiller has published a psychological monograph on how to cultivate a sadist.

Because this is a completely academic article, certain inferences and conjectures that are not rigorous enough cannot be published, so Schiller's actual research results are much more than what is shown.

The theory still starts with babies.

Why do babies know that as long as they cry, adults will satisfy their needs?

From common sense, a baby can only make sounds when it feels uncomfortable. Because it cannot speak, it can only howl and cry. The sharp cries are actually just venting its emotions.

But if we push the timeline back a little further, how did humans or animals evolve the ability to howl?

Animals have the need to communicate, but if we look at the original vocalization and listening functions, it may not be complex communication, but just a simple warning.

Discovering danger and notifying companions is the original function of the vocal organs of all living things. Even if some creatures use sound waves or other similar things instead of sounds, their original function must be to warn.

It is also said that the vocal range of women is higher than that of men. This is actually because once the tribe is in danger, there needs to be a group member who can use a higher vocal range to notify the distant defenders to participate in defense or evacuate. The same is true for babies.

Therefore, during thousands of years of evolution, the cries of women and babies will instinctively arouse people's vigilance. Some more sensitive people will feel very irritable when they hear similar sounds. The restlessness flowing in the blood is an aroused alert instinct.

So babies howl because of pain, but the fundamental reason for developing the howling function is to express pain and remind others at the same time.

The reason why this function has been retained to this day is that the tribes that noticed the warning sound survived, while those who ignored the warning were destroyed by danger.

If a baby cries loudly enough, it will be taken care of by its parents in time, but if the baby is not sensitive enough and cannot cry, it will be easily ignored and will not grow well.

The better you are at using your emotions to punish someone who is good at wielding the whip, the easier it is to attract attention and make it easier to profit and succeed by manipulating others.

On the other hand, the cry may initially be just to express pain and alarm, but once someone responds, they will realize that it is effective, and this instinct will be strengthened.

For operators, once they taste the sweetness, they will intensify their efforts, keep trying intentionally or unintentionally, hone their skills, and even develop it into a hobby until they are addicted to it and completely dependent on it.

This is the essence of cultivating manipulators, and induction manipulation is also carried out based on this theory. Once the manipulator sends a signal of manipulation, he will control his emotional changes and show pain, making them think that his manipulation is successful.

An obvious benefit is that it will make them relax their vigilance, so once they encounter a difficult mental manipulator and cannot get rid of it after trying many methods, induction manipulation will be the last weapon.

Because in addition to making the other party relax their vigilance and make it easier to escape, those who are brave can also try to give the other party strong positive feedback to make the other party continue to project energy until the other party's mental threshold is raised to a point where you have to do it. To the point of becoming a spiritual addict.

If you pull away after doing this, the other person will either become extremely empty and miserable and become a good man again after eighteen years, or he will want to go further with someone else and finally get an iron job that started in three years.

Schiller knew that Lex must have a talent for mental manipulation. I am afraid that he can use this skill freely without his training. What's more valuable is that it will hardly affect himself, and it is a weapon rather than a skeleton.

But Schiller needed to determine what level Lex was at, so he needed to do some induction to see Lex's level of manipulation.

From a technical point of view, it is not difficult. As the saying goes, don’t use your hobbies to challenge other people’s careers, let alone use your career to challenge other people’s lives. For Schiller, performing emotions is his life.

But the only problem is that Schiller has not signed Lex's graduation file. He is still his professor. Any mental manipulation and abuse of students is against teacher ethics. Arrogance has always been a problem in this regard. Its bottom line.

But Ill didn't.