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Social Engineering Applications

  • Matt Aaron
  • 8 years ago
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Here are my rough plans for applying my studies of various elements of social engineering into real life.

Definition: "Social engineering is the art or better yet, science, of skillfully maneuvering human beings to take action in some aspect of their lives." - www.social-engineer.org

1. Body language reading - understanding the other person, using mirroring of postures and some verbal patterns (words/idioms) to gain comfort from other person. Clean appearance, adapting to the situation. 

2. NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) - explore this more, read Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius or Frogs into Princes .. contact the local NLP chapter to figure this all out. Separate the BS from the quality/applicable stuff and apply it in meeting suppliers/contacts on upcoming trip.

3. When needed, ethically getting the background information I need on a person or company

Update: Spoke with a retired private investigator from San Jose, CA. Biggest takeaway: success in his field usually came from REALLY understanding his subject. And He could charge a much higher hourly rate because of this. 

e.g: Many P.I's worked the standard 8-5 hours and would not deviate from them. If someone was faking workers compensation for on the job injuries, they would make sure NOT to exercise during these hours. 

A photo of them playing tennis would violate there workers comp. This P.I. understood that and would work after hours to catch them. 

Once again, small improvements made a big difference.

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On Ram Sukh

I have always had trouble in getting up in the morning. I would rather stay up late, finish up my work, and then go to bed. I remember always getting up little groggy, and my eating and social schedules were total out of whack. My health was deteriorating with increasing cholesterol and TGL numbers, and my productivity was not stellar either.

I was a tenure-track professor of engineering at that time, and work and more work were the only things that occupied every void of time of my day. I knew things were not going in right direction, but I did not know any better either.

Thankfully I did not have any morning classes, until then. I was told that next semester during winter I would be teaching an 8 am class. Now as this was supposed to be a semester long ordeal, I did not want to take any chances. I could not miss a class at any cost. I had three months to prepare before the semester, and I started to train myself to become an early riser.

Slowly, but steadily, I changed my waking schedule to 4 am. No matter how much work I had, or how wonderful the program was on TV, I would slip between the sheets by 8 pm. I just promised myself- I would do this work in the morning when I get up, or I would watch this TV program first thing in the morning (yes, I did that).

That worked perfectly for me. Very soon I realized I had plenty of MY time in the morning. I could do some yoga, meditate, work, and eat a healthy breakfast in the morning before the day would even start. I could see the crack of dawn every morning from my window. An experience that one can enjoy everyday!

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