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Jiang's term for the strategic capacity to embody multiple selves so convincingly that one becomes unpredictable and can manipulate an opponent's perception.
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Multiple personalities
Jiang's term for the strategic capacity to embody multiple selves so convincingly that one becomes unpredictable and can manipulate an opponent's perception.
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Caesar's distinctive power is imagination: he can imagine himself as different people at once, become all three roles at once, and therefore understand opponents who cannot understand him.
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Jiang defines the third and strangest element as multiple personalities: the ability of leaders like Putin and Stalin to embody multiple selves and therefore be unpredictable.
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Jiang argues Stalin had to actually become a sheep in front of Hitler, not merely pretend, in order to make Hitler believe he could eat him.
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"...general, the politician, and the administrator, the legislator, they're very different personalities. They're in contradictions with each other, okay? So for example, Pompey was..."
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"...And the last thing, which is the strangest of all, is multiple personalities. Meaning that Putin and Stalin are such good men that they..."
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"...understand? Okay? But Stalin could only do this if he had multiple personalities, okay? Stalin had to be a sheep in front of Hitler...."
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"The ability to be multiple individuals at once. And that's how Stalin was able to win World War II, and this is why Putin..."
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"...of empathy. Okay? Another word for dissociation that we use is multiple personality disorder. Donald Trump is so unpredictable because he's literally 100 different..."
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"...them. So the only way around this problem is to create multiple personalities, right? Because literally, you have to have multiple personalities. You're a..."
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"...So in real life, in a game, it's a person with multiple personalities that wins out. The problem, though, is when we go back..."
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"...trying to bring God to the world. Whereas a spy has multiple personalities. So Stalin could be a different person to different people. In..."
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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