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Or take Next, starring Nicolas Cage.

In that movie, Nic is able to tell the future in all of three minutes, and the spell is long enough for him to bend his head low and lift it back up as necessary.And he’s as deft maneuvering in the gunfire. When I first saw him I thought, All right, Bluff is back from another plastic surgery. You see, their tricks looked too much alike, and they contrived to knock the enemy all over the place without as much as shooting a gun.

It logically follows that if Nic doesn’t brandish a gun in Next and Bluff isn’t a frequent shooter either, then their main weapon is knowing how to be in the right place at the right time, smiling their bulletproof, white-teeth cover-boy smiles at the bullets coming their way…

Maybe that’s what gets the bullets blinded – or how else can you explain that they miss the target all the time?

To put it scientifically for all of you nerds out there, the high probability of success in a situation where the probability of survival is negligently low is guaranteed for these individuals by either congenital or acquired ability to synchronously interact with aggressive agents, thereby allowing the individuals to attain their goals and use their capabilities in the most optimal manner possible.

Anybody get that?

That’s what the distinguishing feature of stalking is – the absolute synchronization with the world and the use of power, aggression, and weapons kept to a minimum.

A poem – by Guberman, I think – comes to mind.

I had a friend who fed himself to lice

Mending his rags as old as life

Cut out Creation’s likeness nice

And hunted God… without a knife

What does it mean to be in the right place at the right time?

In the nerdy parlance of overly smart mathematicians, this means having the right space and time coordinates at a given moment.

That is, F (x, y, z, t) = f (t), where f (t) is that tricky function essential to success and to the feeling of deep mental satisfaction.

Anybody get that?

To put it simply, here’s an example: Say a cat runs across the road, escaping the cars prone to hit her any second.

Three things have always amazed me:

1. As a rule, the cat runs without looking around, instead looking steadily at some point ahead.

2. But if it stops and takes a look around, the cat is bound to be run over.

3. A simple yet amazing fact: a car drives through the spot where the cat was a second ago, but the cat is already not there.

Here, the following analogies offer themselves:

1. A person crossing the road of life looks at a point ahead of them like the cat. They can only see their ultimate goal and trot toward it.

This sort of obsession is a distinguishing trait of so-called ambitious people. That is, those who achieve success, for it is ambitious people that do.

There’s a certain secret to it, and in fact it’s a property of human consciousness. You can look at thousands of things, but you can only see those that your eyes search for, and once you see them, you just keep on looking at them. That’s as simple as that, and everyone knows it, but…

…Duck hunters know a funny thing: a duck shot while flying falls into the grass, and as the duck falls, the hunter mechanically follows its path with his eyes. Every hunter sees the spot the duck has fallen onto and then goes there to pick it up, but they won’t find it unless they look steadily at the spot as they approach it.