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Manipulation and Misunderstanding: The Faithless Narcissist’s Mind

Waleed Ahmed
6 min readDec 17, 2024

Manipulation is what you will always get when a faithless person approaches the problem of ‘trying to get anything’ or ‘give anything’.

A faithful person will harmonize with you.

The path of harmonization requires uncovering.

Harmonization goes with innocence, which causes them to want to first reveal all their cards because they trust you.

They will reveal why they want that thing that they seek.

They will ask openly, without pretensions, without twisting or stretching truth.

They will leave it in your hands whether to give or not.

But most importantly, they will have faith that either

  • you will simply give them what they asked for; or
  • you have good reasons not to and will gently explain why you would not give it to them (so if you don’t give, they won’t hold it against you, and they may explicitly as you ‘why?’)

Faithful people function on good reasons.

They believe they have good reasons to ask for what they seek. And they do, because they don’t come from a place of dishonesty or subversion. Also, faithful people naturally have empathy, so what they want doesn’t tend to be…

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Waleed Ahmed
Waleed Ahmed

Written by Waleed Ahmed

I'm Waleed Ahmed, and I'm passionate about content related to software development, 3D design, Arts, books, technology, self-improvement, Poetry and Psychology.

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