Breaking the Will - the antisepsis of motivation

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 Motivation
 Brain Washing
 Total Control
 Role Model

Depersonalization and Demotivation
Techniques of the Montevideo Secret Police applied in SM Training

• Physical Incarceration
• Disorientation
• Breaking the Will
• Administering Pain
• Solitary confinement
• False Hope
• Interrogation
• Good Guy, Bad Guy
• Sleep Depravation
• Starvation

A lot of the techniques listed above have been used by tortures, and SM tops for a long time however we will quickly outline just one of these section by way of an example. You will also see that this is at the opposite end of the spectrum for motivation. These are all the things NOT to do if you want to do if you want to motivate someone

Breaking the will ^


It is important to break irretrievably the will of the subject. This can be accomplished using the following five steps:

1. Shatter all hope and visions of escape, release, provision of food or comfort, relief from pain or suffering etc.
   • Disorientate -- Unpredictably change the prisoners environment: location, layout of cell/cage, timing of meals etc...
   • Punish -- Respond immediately and severely to any attempt to escape or personalize his environment.
2. Grind down the confidence
   • Degrade and Humiliate -- Enforce menial activities.
   • Punish -- Administer shocks when prisoner is unable to accomplish impossibly difficult tasks
   • Depress -- Phase all confidence-destroying actions with consistently increasing severity.
3. Remove any scope for voluntary actions.
   Note: This is an important step, since the subject is in danger of building self-esteem from the successful accomplishment of even the most minor task which he as chosen to undertake.
   
4. Bombard with negative messages.
   • Ridicule -- especially in front of other people and peers, anyone what he might have felt he had status with. If he is tied in humiliating bondage and looking at himself in the mirror so that the image is reinforced. He sould not have a contradictory 'message' to the one that you are giving him.
   • Lie -- Tell the subject that he health is becoming poor, esp when he can no longer judge what is true and what is false.
   • Sensory Depravation, deprive of all sensory stimulation -- solitary confinement, left in the cage to feel abandoned, hooded and left in the sleep sack in a quiet room. With ear plugs for total silent or with strange sounds from next door to write unrealistic meaning into and get paranoid about.
5. Systematically destroy the subject's self image.
   • Shock -- show the subjects photo or other evidence of his declining condition, Photos of his slavery, his transition into a dirty filthy shit eating pig from his sweet innocence when you first met. Continuously reinforce the message that you are winning, that your will prevails.
   • Deconstruct --use different strategies unpredictably for different aspects of a prisoner - physically, emotionally and spiritually. 
     That is so that he no longer assumes 'xxx' has out come 'yyy'.
   • Negative role model -- show how others in the subjects same position have also been destroyed. As with all role models he needs to see examples to aspire to