How to Spot a Manipulator in the First Conversation
Most people ask themselves, "can I trust this person?" It's the wrong question — and it's the one manipulators are counting on.Trust is a verdict, and a verdict needs evidence you don't have yet in a first conversation. Ask it too early, and you'll answer it with how someone made you feel in the first ten minutes, which is exactly the material they control. So this file replaces it with something better: six observable signals, and two tests you can run live.Nothing here is a diagnosis. Any single signal in isolation means nothing — kind people give unrequested gifts, nervous people over-ask…
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