My task is made more difficult by a simple truth: Every reader will have been manipulated by the grand experts of all time in social engineering—their parents. They found ways to get you—"for your own good"—to do what they thought best. Parents become great storytellers in the same way that social engineers skillfully develop very plausible stories, reasons, and justifications for achieving their goals. Yes, we were all molded by our parents: benevolent (and sometimes not so benevolent) social engineers.