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                      How To Master The Art Of Deception

                                               With Patience?


                                                 By Kanika Choudhary

                                                                 about  running  away  faster  from  the
                                                                 lion- they don't shun the impossible.
                                                                 Instead, they all betray each other  in
                    The realization that you are weak and        an  instant  and  try  to  run  faster  than

                    powerless  over  other  people  and          their peers. People's life too flows the
                    situations  is  generally  very  unsettling   same way. The powerful people know
                    for  us-  when  we  feel  knocked  down      how to disguise their viciousness and
                    or miserable. Everyone wants to lash         crookedness      behind     a    bright
                    out  and  exert  their power  on  people     welcoming  smile.  In  the  corporate
                    all at once. No one wants less power;        world, however, both the lion and the
                    everyone  wants  more.  But  in  today's     deers have suits on.
                    world, seeming too power-hungry can
                    instantly put you under the rear sight       Power requires the ability to play with
                    of  people's  mental  handguns.  We          appearances.  Deception  is  an  art  of
                    have  to  seem  harmless,  subtle.  To       civilization  and  the  most  potent
                    adumbrate-  play  dumb.  This  act  of       weapon in the game of war. Perhaps,
                    'playing  dumb'  has  been  around  for      what separates humans from animals
                    centuries  with  even  animals  acting       is the lethal ability to deceive people.
                    slow  and  congenial  to  catch  their       Animals  can  only  literally  hide

                    prey.                                        themselves using camouflage but not
                                                                 their  feelings  and  ideas.  In  Greek
                    To  exemplify  the  exacting  impact  of     myths,  India's  Mahabharata's  cycles,
                    this  trick,  ponder  on  how  a  lion       in  the  Middle  Eastern  epic  of
                    hunts. A ferocious, mighty lion sleeps       Gilgamesh, it is a privilege- a boon of
                    in the jungle as a recluse. Suddenly, he     the gods to be able to  use deceptive
                    hears the frivolous rebukes of a herd        tricks on other people. In Ramayana,
                    of deer and decides to make his way          Ravana  -the  villain-  deceives  Sita  by
                    towards  them.  However,  his  first         appearing in front of her in the body
                    instinct isn't to run and devour them        of a golden deer. Albeit, Sita was not
                    all at once. No matter how tempting          to  leave  her house, she  was  tempted
                    the feeling is, he slowly makes his way      to see the 'beautiful' deer. Falling prey
                    towards  the  herd,  hiding  behind  the     to  Ravana's  deceptions,  she  was
                    bushes and pounds upon the nearest           abducted to Lanka. You must learn to
                    ones. No matter how close the deers          be  many  different  people-  wearing  a
                    are to each other, they too don't think      different  mask  with  different  people.




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