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When they use CONFUSION as a weapon

Name: When they use CONFUSION as a weapon
Uploaded: 2025-12-18T15:01:18+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker explains how to differentiate between genuine confusion and the deliberate use of confusion as a manipulative…

18 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker explains how to differentiate between genuine confusion and the deliberate use of confusion as a manipulative tactic. The core indicator is the person's intention to learn: those who weaponize confusion have no desire to understand and instead aim to keep both themselves and others in a state of bewilderment. The speaker likens this to throwing a smoke bomb into a room, creating chaos so they can exit unchallenged. The ultimate goal of such individuals is to frustrate their conversational partners to the point of giving up, using confusion as a strategic weapon.

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Confusion as a weapon. So how do you know the difference from the outset of those who use confusion to weaponize it as a tactic and those that are genuinely confused? Here's how you tell. Their intention to learn. People who use it as a strategy have no interest in learning from it. They want to stay confused and keep you confused. They want to use it as you had a smoke bomb just to fill the room, with confusion so that they can leave. You ever been in conversations where their whole objective is to get you frustrated enough that you just want to give up? That's the tactic right there.