Monday, May 25, 2009

Points from The Game

The Game is a true non-exaggerated story about the authors life in the underground society of pickup artists. Neil Strauss, at the time of writing his book, was in the pickup community for about two years. And in those two years he was immersed in the art of seduction. The book isn’t a guideline for people to pickup women, but it is one of the best stories about one of the most transformed people in the pickup community who truly had a desire to be the best and find what he was looking for in life.

In order, here are excerpts from pages that I have tabbed. This information is to only be used for learning, and besides, most of this stuff is common knowledge that can be found on the net.

The first tab is about Maddash and how whenever he brings a woman to his place he always kiss-closes. He has her pick him up and she comes inside. He says that it’s easier to get a woman back into the room later if nothing has happened. At the end of the date, he invites her back to his place for drinks. If she notices the guitar (prominently placed), he plays a song for her. They play with his puppy. He shows her the rooftop. He brings her back to show her winamp, and sits her on his lap, and kisses her on the cheek. If she doesn’t kiss on the lips, he shows her some more stuff on the winamp visualizations, and then kisses her on the cheek again. He says that almost all women want to be directed and ordered about. And then he says that you can figure out the rest. This seems pretty simple to me.

On this page Style talks about all of the instructors and how they each have different methods. Style believes the same thing that I do. He believes that each instructor believes that his way is correct. Style says that his goal was to feed from all these instructors. He preferred to combine teaching and wisdom from various sources, find out what applied to him, and discard what didn’t. He goes on to say that with each teacher wants to believe that his material is the best. “Power is retained by attracting loyalty, and subjugation is guaranteed by giving it.” Some of the pickup artists that are mentioned are, Ross Jeffries (Speed Seduction – subliminal language patterns), Mystery (Mystery Method – social dynamics), David DeAngelo (Double your Dating – cocky funny), Gunwitch (Gunwitch Method – animalistic sexuality), David X, David Shade, Rick H., Major Mark, Juggler, Steve Piccus, and Rasputin. There are a bunch of methods, or combinations of methods, and a bunch of guys that are professionals when it comes to the pickup community; these guys are called pua’s (pronounced: poo-uhs) or pickup artists.

In Chapter 2 it mentions about a post from Juggler that intrigued Style. Juggler advised AFCs to overcome their shyness by trying to talk a homeless person into giving them a quarter or by calling people randomly out of a phone book to ask for movie recommendations. He told others to challenge themselves by making the pickup more difficult on themselves by saying things like they were a trash collector, or they drove an ‘86 Impala. Another thing he says later on is that talking too fast is a sign of a deep lack of confidence.

Rick H., had two rules mentioned in the book. The first: No good deed goes unpunished (A phrase, ironically, that was coined by a woman, Clare Boothe Luce.) The second: Always have a better answer. One of the corollaries to Rick’s second rule was to never give a woman a straight answer to a question.

There’s some stuff that I’m going to copy straight out of the book because it’s so brilliant, and was posted on the Mystery Method forums, but I’m only going to post the beginning of it. I’m going to italicize it.

One thing I have going for me is that I am fearless around women. My method is very simple. Every single thing a girl says or does to me is an IOI. Period. She wants me. It doesn’t matter who she is. And when you believe that, they start to believe it too. I am a slave to my love of women. They can sense it. The weakness of women is language and words. Fortunately, that is one of my strong points. If they try to repel my advances, I act like they are from Mars and what they are saying doesn’t make any sense.
I never try to defend myself or apologize for being a womanizer. Why? Because a reputation is attractive to women. It’s true. I am the other man who guys worry about when they marry a girl.

Zan keeps on going to explain his cocky-funny routine with waitresses. He says that he goes cocky-funny immediately.

Another excerpt is about beauty. Helena Rubinstein once said, “There are no ugly women; only lazy ones.” Since society holds men to less rigid standards of beauty than women, this is doubly true of guys. Give a man like Sweater—or any man—a tan, better posture, whiter teeth, a fitness regime, and clothes that fit, and he’s well on his way to handsome.

This is Styles response to Papa when Papa was talking about how rich he and his dad is. “You’re qualifying yourself to
us. Instead of gaining our admiration, all you’re doing is displaying lower status. A rich man doesn’t have to tell you he’s rich.”

I’m in middle of reading ‘Think and Grow Rich’ and I can’t help but laugh at what Mystery wrote that was put into Style’s book.
I’ve been reading Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, and I want to suggest something related. If you regularly masturbate, you can easily become addicted. This addiction comes in the form of daily regularity that curbs your desire to go out. It also does not allow you to harness your sex drive, which can be used to motivate yourself to work on wealth-building projects.
If you aren’t getting laid on a regular basis (which happens to all of us from time to time), then don’t just choke ’til you’re broke. Set a date with yourself. Only jerk it once a week. If you jerked it today, set the jerk date for seven days from now. If you don’t get a girl between then and now, you’ll have something to look forward to. Make it a good jerk! Use the best porn and hand lotion. Look forward to it and this will keep you from wasting your life away jerking it daily and focusing constantly on the pain of not having a girlfriend.
In the meantime, harness your sex drive and build something.

Another quote… One of the primary rules of pickup is that a girl can fall out of love with you as quickly as she falls in love with you. It happens every night. The girls who start rubbing your chest and making out with you in a club in two minutes will leave you just as quickly for a bigger, better deal. That’s the game. That’s life in the field. And I understood that.

Another quote that I edited because it’s context has a greater scope.
…you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself. I’ve never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don’t finish what they start; they don’t live what they dream; they sabotage their own progress because they’re afraid they won’t find what they seek. You are your own worst enemy.

According to Style…Pickup should be a glorified hobby.

Eric Weber was the first modern PUA. A question was asked about naturals and guys working on their game.

What do you think is the difference between naturals and guys like us who need to learn analytically?
I think that naturals have the psychological power to do it. Toward the end of my singlehood, I found a boldness that was shocking. I developed the courage to tell a woman after a glass of wine, “I’d like to fuck you.” There are some women looking for you to be bold and a leader. It took me a long time to learn that.

“All you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it. And then you die.”

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