How to Find a Weakness

Most weaknesses begin in childhood, before the self builds up compensatory defences. If you suspect that someone has a particular soft spot, probe for it indirectly. By probing beyond appearances, you will often find people's weaknesses in the opposite of the qualities they reveal to you. Find the one person who will bend under pressure. Feed on uncontrollable emotions. The two main emotional voids to fill are insecurity and unhappiness. Insecurity: suckers for any kind of social validation; unhappy: chronically unhappy.