Sorry for sounding cynical, but this hacker just hacked his way into the author's brain (social engineering). Of course he likes chicken biryani. I also like ch

Sorry for sounding cynical, but this hacker just hacked his way into the author's brain (social engineering). Of course he likes chicken biryani. I also like chicken biryani! Now tell me what your favorite drink is and I'll tell you what mine is! Successful/influential people tend to greatly underestimate the lengths that some people will go to just to put thoughts inside their influential brains. When you let someone else's thoughts get inside your brain, you are giving them power over you. You should only give that power to people you actually trust, not random people who hacked into your account. I think that's why it's so hard to reach influential people (aside from the fact that they get zillions of emails per day). At least at a subconscious level, they must feel like their brains are constantly under assault by foreign thoughts (often coming from people who are trying to gain something out of it). The mind is like a sponge, it absorbs everything around it. People believe that they have control over what they believe, but it's not the case. Your environment will decide for you what you believe. That's why brainwashing works and why there are so many terrorists. Everyone is vulnerable.