| ▲ | kruffalon 3 hours ago | |
I don't think that's a viable strategy. If you're a Mark (=trusting person) I don't think you can just decide to become a Skeptic. I admit I skimmed the article and even if I would read more closely I don't think I would understand it better. I'll use my intuition for how individuals transition between the roles. Mark -> Skeptic: requires to be have been grifted and possibly having the grift explained by a Skeptic. Or possibly having someone close to you get grifted. Mark -> Grifter: I'm not sure it's possible, but maybe the corruption pdf posted[0] is a clue. Skeptic -> Grifter: desillusion about the point of not grifting since everyone else is doing it too. So maybe late stage corruption[0] or just nihilism based on seeing grifts succeed so much. Skeptic -> Mark: honestly... Shrooms maybe? Or finding and being chosen into a trusting community. Grifter -> Skeptic: I think realising that you've hurt someone in an unexpectedly harsh way could help this transition. Otherwise I don't really know besides being short of Marks. --- | ||