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How to Be a Good Manipulator: Using Psychology, Biology, and Authority to Bend People Without Breaking Them

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What if manipulation wasn't evil—just effective?

How to Be a Good Manipulator is not a guide for the moral or the meek. It's for readers who want to understand the psychology, biology, and brutal mechanics of control—whether to resist it or wield it.

In this unapologetic breakdown of influence and deception, author A.A. Castor doesn't offer comfort—he offers clarity. Through real psychological principles, dark behavioral tactics, and disturbingly familiar case studies, this book teaches how people are shaped, steered, and sometimes enslaved without ever realizing it.

From cult leaders to corporate climbers, from toxic relationships to spiritual influencers, this guide explores:

• How fear, shame, and hope override logic • How to frame reality and become the voice of "truth" • Why people follow confidence—not correctness • The emotional addiction of "love-bombing and withdrawal" • How to use charisma, guilt, authority, and confusion to bend behavior • Why freedom is often just a prettier cage—and how to make them love it

Whether you want to recognize the tactics being used on you or become the one pulling the strings, this book is a mirror, a manual, and a weapon.

Disturbingly honest. Laughably real. Absolutely lethal..

© 2025 A.A. Castor (Audiobook): 9798318497551

Release date

Audiobook: 16 April 2025

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