Yes, yes, we all know the Triple H song (well, about 70 of them). But I'm not talking about the master of the Pedigree and 9 time world champion. I am also not talking about the multi platinum West Coast rapper. This time, I'm talking about "The Game", a book written by master player Neil Strauss.
I first heard of the book once i stumbled onto the "seduction community" purely by chance. Somethingawful.com's "weekend web" series was doing their usual good job of making fun of random online forums and communities. That week, one of the web sites ridiculed was fastseduction.com. Now, don't get me wrong, the article was great, check it out for yourself, but now i started thinking "wow, there is a group of people that seek macking advice the same way i seek combos and strategies in Tekken, weird". I skimmed through the page, didn't think much of it, thought that 90% of the shit in there was too outrageous to work, and moved on. However, the idea of an empirical method to macking planted itself into my memory and it wasn't long that after a failed macking attempt, i would start asking myself - "ok, what did i do wrong there", and later - "how can i correct this behavior", however i was still too proud to seek advice, especially since just about everyone i know had different opinions and weren't exactly swimming in quality girls, except of course the jacked 30 year old Guido looking bouncer at a local bar that would always let under-21 girls into the bar, but he didn't need an "approach", he just had a mack inducing lifestyle.
So i started glancing around a wide array of web sites - different people were offering different shit, and all of it cost a lot of money... which brought me to wikipedia to see if i can weed out the nonsense from the facts. That's when i stumbled onto "The Game" - i read the quick summary, and realized "hey, advice or no advice, this book sounds fun".
On my way to a Soul Calibur tournament i picked it up at a local Borders Bookstore. Once i finally started reading it a few days later, its like a whole new world opened up to me. Neil Strauss was speaking from experience about his untimely transformation from AFC (as the pickup community calls it - "Average Frustrated Chump") to a master pickup artist. I couldn't put the book down - not only was it sprinkled with helpful macking advice, but the story was impeccable, and it also served as a revue of sorts to some of the "pickup gurus" that were peddling their product on the internet.
So now I'm armed with some knowledge, and a desire to improve - so i started trying to get my hands on as much "pickup material" as i can get. Here's what i have so far:
The Game by Neil Strauss aka Style - a non fictional journey into the seduction community
The Venusian Arts handbook and the Mystery Method by Mystery - guides by Style's mentor and host of VH1's "The Pickup Artist"
Ross Jeffries' Speed Seduction series - "Unstoppable Confidance" and "Fear into Charisma" - an audio and video guide, respectively, by the man many consider the father of the seduction community. He advocates using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), which is like a subtle hypnosys.
"Double your Dating" and "Body Language DVDs" - by David DeAngelo - this dude advocates a "cocky and funny" approach to improving your game.
Whew, i got a lot of reading to do...
All i have to do is put down the 360 controller and not play Madden or Prince of Persia Classic
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