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We all spent some time learning something somewhere, and those who didn’t study well enough… well, they’ve departed for greener pastures.

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To break the tension after Chapter Three, let’s pull a snippet from one of the earlier Stalking courses—General Stalking, if you will.

Stalking of Denarii is one of the subgenres of Stalking, and this chapter is a perfect fit for our course.

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“The problem with hurrying is that it wastes a ridiculous amount of time.” (Gilbert Chesterton)

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I’ve thanked my Mentors countless times on my websites and sincerely appreciate everything they've taught me. I get that, like it or not, I’m basically part of their legacy. Of course, thanks to my stubborn streak, I’ve also grumbled about them, still do, and will likely keep it up until I finally pass the last initiation and become the well-rounded person I'm supposed to be.

Why am I telling you all this? I guarantee that right from chapter one, lots of you will be rolling your eyes—even in the reviews: 'How did gullible little me end up following this brand-new guru?' Still, as best as I can manage, the lectures will stick to the same principles I was taught myself.8

Any other approach is probably just a waste of strategic effort.

Tradition—and Stalking, for that matter—isn’t about magic passwords like 'I’m here from Ivan Ivanovich, amen!'; for a beginner mystic—it’s not even Knowledge.

You can’t know everything (well, unless you’ve unlocked the siddhi of the Second Arcana, but let’s be honest, not eeeeeeveryone has that). That’s why, personally, I don’t think knowledge is top priority for practically any practitioner (especially a newbie).

Skills are definitely a big deal for beginners. But they don’t sprout out of nowhere. Skills are the outcome, not the starting point.

So, what’s actually left for our would-be student to get the hang of? Understanding—that’s the real key to everything: both Knowledge and Skill.

But here’s the problem: the average person simply doesn’t know how to understand anything. Their entire life, thinking patterns are drilled into them. Their whole mental toolkit is like a computer desktop—just a pile of shortcuts and not a single real program. If you start paying close attention to yourself,and your own ‘thinking,’you’ll be amazed to discover that, most of the time,you’re actually not thinking at all. Most of the time, you’re just unconsciously recycling thinking patterns,evaluations, and final conclusions that were programmed into you back in early childhood.

If you ever try thinking for yourself instead of copying someone else’s playbook, you’ll be horrified to find that actual thinking is, for the most part, —really out of your reach!

It’s just not something you know how to do…

Sure, you can count, write, spin long, fancy sentences full of clever words, and mark an X on a ballot. But thinking?!

To spell this out in the simplest terms, let’s start by dotting every ‘i’ and crossing every ‘t,’ as they say.

Question number one:

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Genetically, a pig and a boar are pretty much the same animal. Let’s release a boar and a pig into the same reserve in winter, right alongside the warm and fuzzy wildlife—wolves, bears, poachers, or, heck, even just mosquitoes…

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Place your bets, folks!

No, the pig is not a saber-toothed mutant from some secret lab… No, our little porker doesn’t have a black belt—or any belt—in krantez-do, and no, the pig doesn’t have any (redacted by the book editor) ‘protection’…

Place your bets!

Holy moly, why do you folks hate pigs so much?! Seriously, we can’t just let that slide.

Alright, assignment number one – explain, in a thorough and well-argued way (at least three sentences), your reasoning for making that bet.

By the way, who did you bet on?

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Question number two. So, which one of those two characters up there is actually the human?

Oh, come on! We’re obviously not talking about you. You’re such a remarkable and unique exception that you just go ahead and prove the rule about everybody else.

The author officially declares: all names are fictitious, all characters are imaginary, and any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental—and absolutely not about you, promise.

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Please justify your answer with arguments, references, evidence, and eyewitness accounts (all, naturally, in triplicate—one for me, one for yourself, and one to submit to the Akashic Records). The minimum length for witness statements is the standard: three lines written in tiny, illegible handwriting.

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Assignment number three: find on the Internet a textual description (photo, video, live stream, or, if all else fails, ask your cat) of how a mother cat teaches her kittens to catch mice. Keep a close eye on this process.

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As you diligently slobber on your pencil, make a list of at least four ways in which the cat teaches her kittens to catch mice the WRONG way.

Now teach the cat, or just your spouse, a random passerby, or even me—the not-so-bright one—how exactly to teach proper mouse-catching.

Make a list of at least four points on exactly how to properly teach mouse-catching. As a scientific experiment—and to prove your point—scan and post online the bodies of three mice caught by your student. To make up for this terrible sight, just add a photo of a chubby cat and some irresistibly cute shots of her overstuffed kittens right next to it.

And now, for those who thought the last three tasks were about as thrilling as waiting in line at the DMV, here’s a bonus challenge (totally optional) just for you.

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The author of this book officially warns all particularly ‘gifted’ readers and those in tanks* that he has blatantly lied, misled, and will continue to mislead in various spots throughout this book—in the most obvious ways for those paying any real attention.

Not because he doesn’t get it or is confused, but because learning to hunt is way easier with half-dead mice.

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