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HOW TO BE A CHARLATAN
AND MAKE MILLIONS
A ten step programme to change your life
By
Dr. Jim Williams F.I.A.C.
LET’S GET STARTED
DO YOU SERIOUSLY WANT TO BE A CHARLATAN?
Adopting the Charlatan identity.
Containing the following valuable lessons: 1. Do you sincerely want to be rich? 2. What is a charlatan? What is he selling? 3. Insights into the charlatan’s character 4. The con artist and charlatan contrasted: a case study 5. An overview of the charlatan’s world 6. Seize control of life – become a charlatan! |
1 Do you sincerely want to be rich? I had a notion it was the title of a book by Dale Carnegie but Top of the list was a page for The Little Black and White Book. So that isn’t your experience? Making money isn’t so easy? Is Mr. Stewart a charlatan? I wouldn’t care to say. Actually my 2 What is a charlatan? What is he selling? The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary says a charlatan is: ‘An No, I’m not sure what an ’empiric’ is either. There’s a tendency to think a charlatan is the same as a grifter The Dictionary tells us that a fraud is ‘a criminal deception’. By These or similar words don’t appear in the definition of The con artist is in the business for the money. His motivation The ‘wonderful knowledge or secrets’ are what differentiate the It’s for this reason that most confidence tricks are finite. Once The point about money is that it’s tangible: you know when A charlatan’s scheme isn’t inevitably a zero sum game, which is The stark nature of the con artist’s proposition is clear in a * I say ‘his’ and might equally have said ‘her’. English lacks an inclusive |
Case Study: The Nigerian 419 Fraud The 419 fraud is a scam on an industrial scale. It’s The structure is always the same. The writer So that’s the deal: $10,000,000 for the use of But of course, you’re not going to allow this However getting at your bank account isn’t And so it goes on. The victim is bled of I used to wonder who fell for the 419 scam, until |
The 419 scam is brutally frank in disclosing its nature. The mark is However the example serves to illustrate a point. The pitch made In contrast, the motives of the charlatan’s mark are as complex as In the world of ‘wonderful knowledge or secrets’, the benefits To us as would-be charlatans, this is a blessing. |
3 Insights into the charlatan’s character I hate to say it, but, if you plan to continue, this is who you are. It The dominance of the charlatan over his victim satisfies a range The range of a charlatan’s motives is illustrated in the next |
Case Study: The Girlingites 1 The Girlingites were a small nineteenth century |
The degree to which Mary Ann Girling was motivated by greed is The second feature of the Girlingite rules is Mary Ann’s claim to Finally, the isolation of the Girlingites shows Mary Ann to be in The charlatan, of course, isn’t an expert. Or if he is, it’s incidental |
4 The con artist and charlatan contrasted: a case study Both the grifter and the deliberate charlatan are dishonest and some |
Case Study: Giacomo Casanova – Con Artist or Three of his schemes illustrate the relationship Again while young, Casanova attracted the The most discreditable of Casanova’s operations Casanova’s schemes were always rational and The bismuth and mercury scheme was a simple The real basis of the relationship between In the business of Mme d’UrfÉ, Casanova’s |
One aspect of the Mme d’Urfé affair is worth noting. As we’d This can also be true in the case of a con artist’s scam. But just 5 An overview of the charlatan’s world At this point it may help to draw the elements of our lesson together |
The world of con artists and charlatans
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- greed
Motivation:
- self esteem
- power hunger
- resentment
- lust
- greed not essential
Psychology:
- rational/calculating
- always dishonest
Psychology:
- unstable
- often narcissistic
- may be honest
Required skills:
- authority in technical field
- friendliness/charm
- fast talk
- technical skill
Required skills:
- ‘moral’ authority
- charisma
- rhetoric
- technical skill optional
Nature of victims:
- greedy (materially needy)
- rational
Nature of victims:
- spiritually needy
- Irrational
Nature of Offer:
- Financial/material
Nature of Offer:
- Spiritual/psychological
Nature of Relationship:
- Trickster as technician
- Trickster as equal partner
- Inherently finite relationship
- Zero sum
Nature of Relationship:
- Charlatan as guru or rebel
- Charlatan superior partner
- Long term relationship
- Not necessarily a zero sum
Legal basis:
- Intrinsically illegal
Legal basis:
- Often lawful
6 Seize control of life – become a charlatan! Do you seriously want to be rich? To return to where I came in. I was fifty years old and thinking Yet, I asked myself: why wasn’t I rich? You’ll understand that I took it for granted that I wanted to be So why wasn’t I? The implication contained in books such as Marc Which suggested a hidden flaw somewhere between desire and The clue, I think, lies in that word ‘serious’. Back then when I This is a book about making money out of being a charlatan – The reason that the sale of self-improvement books is greater The reason we buy such works is because they answer our Yet, don’t worry about it. You’re a potential sucker, but so what? All wisdom starts with an insight. So this is my pitch. It’s time to reverse roles and, instead of being Most programmes of self-improvement are defeated by our real Of course, such a life isn’t without its pitfalls, but this book also |
Should I become a charlatan?
Benefits:
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Risks:
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Incidentally, if you take up the charlatan life, you may also discover |
And that’s it so far as this introduction is concerned. |
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