Tactical Stealth Cognizance
The cognitive strategy of underplaying your perceived level of understanding and awareness to heighten your position against opponents.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
-Sun Tzu
Stealth cognizance, aka subversive intelligence, is a method of playing dumb, average, neutral or less-experienced with specificity of purpose to gain an advantage in any inte…
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