The Laws of Human Nature

Or perhaps we fall in love with a person who is precisely the wrong type for us and we know it, but we cannot help ourselves.

You must learn how to exploit this. If you can somehow create the impression that others desire you or your work, you will pull people into your current without having to say a word or impose yourself. They will come to you. You must strive to surround yourself with this social aura, or at least create the illusion.

In general, people will want to see more of you, want to see less of you, or be rather indifferent. They may fluctuate among the three states, but they will tend to veer toward one. They will reveal this in how quickly they respond to your emails or texts, their body language on first seeing you, and the overall tone they take in your presence.

the more active our imagination becomes, the greater the pleasure we derive from it

They project onto you their own fantasies and preconceptions

What you want in general is to create an air of mystery and to attract interpretations

To the degree that you can see yourself and what you produce as objects that people perceive in their own manner, you have the power to alter their perceptions and create objects of desire

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With so few people out there who understand the art of desirability, it affords you endless opportunities to shine and exploit people’s repressed fantasies

what is real and what is imagined are both experienced similarly in the brain