The reason for me thinking as such and sharing about it is that when it comes to actual application and actual techniques of being able to influence others, it's so obscure and all over the place. like at one point author would show a diagram of skills map and each component present in it based on fate and six axis model, which if you look at would think and get curious to know how can I learn all these techniques shown in diagram and as any reader would expect, to let author expand upon each considering it's freaking 1000 PAGES LONG!!!

And it is just used as reference and nowhere explicitly he talks about things like sesnory priming, social proof, compliance and identity entrainment and stuff like in one section dedicated to talking about all that. Now let's just assume I am "dumb" hence I couldn't find it when everyone else could....ok now,

even then when it comes to talking about practicing techniques to create expectancy,building compliance etc. he's suggesting his readers to just introduce the concept of hypnosis...like the problem with that is if I actually do this with even more than 2 people in a year and they ever happen to meet each other considering the one i'm using it upon is an influential person, the trick can get exposd and they would tell everyone to be aware of this when encountering me so using it on new people could get difficult.

and let's just again assume that I'M DUMB for not reading through whole book already to conclude this, even then you cannot disagree that the book is hard to follow and it keeps jumpining to topics without concluding previous ones fully.

also the jump is abrupt ansd makes not much connection when compared to previous topic just discussed n micro lens.

whoever said it's poorly written, he or she was right.