How do narcissists and people of the dark triad get so good at manipulation and trickery?

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I mean I was wondering how they manage to get so good at forming ideas on how to manipulate someone or trick someone into doing what they want.

I don’t get how they managed to learn this. I mean I personally cannot figure out how to manipulate or trick someone buy myself, somebody has to teach me.

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Basically you are playing a game the whole life. There aren’t any other people, just buttons to press on and, since you are doing it your whole life — you figure out what buttons do what. That’s pretty much it and there isn’t much else to be busy with anyway, so your processing and learning capacity is *a lot*.

Think of interacting with NPCs in a game. You have options of what to do or to say and there isn’t that many of then really, so you just try it all out, until you get what you want. You don’t have to understand how it works or to emphatize with anything that happens in the other’s mind, just observe reactions and adjust your behavior.

Then if something doesn’t fit the narrow set of pre-existing buttons or buttons don’t do what you want, you either move along (cause you don’t care that much) or get straight into rage and violence smashing the controller against the wall if you don’t have enough self-control.

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