The Game Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Arttists
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Neil Strauss (Style) - The Game (complete e-book)
Christ Superstar—as Jesus."
At least he knew what he wanted in life. "What I'm really after," he fi- nally said, "is for people to be envious of me, for women to want me and men to want to be me." "You never got much love as a child, did you?" "No," he replied sheepishly. At the end of the conversation, he said he was going to e-mail me the password to a secret online community called Mystery's Lounge. He had created Mystery's Lounge two years before, after an enterprising bartender he'd slept with in Los Angeles found an Internet post he'd written about her on a public seduction newsgroup. After spending a weekend poring through the rest of his online archive, she e-mailed Mystery's girlfriend, Pa- tricia, and told her about her boyfriend's extracurricular activities. The fall- out nearly destroyed his relationship, and in the process taught him that there was a downside to being a pickup artist: getting caught. Unlike the other seduction boards I had been reading, where hundreds of newbies were constantly begging for advice from just a few experts, Mys- tery had cherry-picked the best pickup artists in the community for his pri- vate forum. Here they not only shared their secrets, stories, and techniques, but also posted pictures of themselves and their women—even, on occasion, video and audio recordings of their exploits in the field. "But remember," Mystery said sternly. "You are no longer Neil Strauss. When I see you in there, I want you to be someone else. You need a seduc- tion name," He paused and reflected: "Styles?" "How about Style?" That was one thing I prided myself on: I may never have been socially comfortable, but at least I knew how to dress better than those who were. "Style it is. Mystery and Style." Yes, it was Mystery and Style giving a workshop. It had a nice ring to it. Style the pickup artist—teaching lovable losers how to meet the women of their dreams. But as soon as I hung up, I realized something: First, Style needed to teach himself. After all, it had only been a month since my workshop with Mystery. I still had a long way to go. It was time for a motherfucking change. One of my teenage heroes was Harry Crosby. He was a poet from the 1920s, and, frankly, his poetry sucked. But his lifestyle was legendary. The nephew and godson of J. P. Morgan, he hobnobbed with Ernest Hemingway and D. H. Lawrence, was the first person to publish parts of Joyce's Ulysses, and became a decadent symbol of the lost generation. He lived a fast, opium- enhanced life, and swore he would be dead by the age of thirty. When he was twenty-two, he married Polly Peabody, the inventor of the strapless bra, and persuaded her to change her name to Caresse. For their honeymoon, they locked themselves in a bedroom in Paris with stacks of books and just read. At the age of thirty-one, when he realized that his lifestyle hadn't killed him yet, Crosby shot himself. I didn't have a Caresse to lock up with me, but I shut myself in the house for a week Harry Crosby-style, reading books, listening to tapes, watching videos, and studying the posts in Mystery's Lounge. I immersed myself in seduction theory. I needed to shed Neil Strauss and rewire myself to become Style. I wanted to live up to Mystery and Sin's faith in me. To do so, I'd have to change not just the things I said to women, but the way I acted around them. I needed to become confident, to become inter- esting, to become decisive, to become graceful, to become the alpha male I was never raised to be. I had a lot of lost time to make up for—and six weeks to do it in. I bought books on body language, flirting, and sexual technique. I read anthologies of women's sexual fantasies, like Nancy Friday's My Secret Gar- den, in order to internalize the idea that women actually want sex as much as—if not more than—men; they just don't want to be pressured, lied to, or made to feel like a slut. I ordered books on marketing, like Robert Cialdini's seminal Influence, from which I learned several key principles that guide the majority of peo- pie's decisions. The most important of these is social proof, which is the no- tion that if everyone else is doing something, then it must be good. So if you are in a bar with a beautiful female friend on your arm (a pivot, as they call it in the community), it's much easier to meet women than if you're hanging out alone. I watched the videos Grimble had given me and took notes on each, memorizing affirmations ("if a woman enters my world, it will be the best thing that can ever happen to her") and patterns. There is a difference be- tween a line and a pattern. A line is basically any prepared comment made to a woman. A pattern is a more elaborate script, specifically designed to arouse her. Men and women think and respond differently. Show a man the cover Download 2.8 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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