The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

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From the, from the book, The Game-

Were you a-

... by Neil Strauss

For anyone.

Um, yeah, just be yourself.

You know? Read books so you have something to talk about.

100% agree.

And the problem is that the subconscious developed 80% of the population literally have sexual attraction backwards.

This is why we talk about mystery, Neil Strauss, a.k.a. style in the book The Game or The Mystery Method, and they're all talking about this pickup artist thing called peacocking.

All look maxing is, is the old peacocking strategies.

That's all it is because they have to like go off and looks and you know, act like a fucking peacock.

I don't like how video games have been destroyed.

Can I just have my comfy times? Can I just have my game where there's no propaganda? It's like, no, you can't escape real life.

You're a schlub in real life and now you're a schlub in the game.

Enjoy it.

Before that, I was a primary school teacher in London and in Wales, and before that I was a super lonely nerd.

So I thought I'd tell you the story of how I moved from being, uh, socially awkward and isolated and depressed and having anxiety to becoming a teacher, to discovering game and the pickup arts and reading The Game, and then to discovering day game and eventually to doing what I do now, teaching and writing about and making products about day game.

Now, rewind to my childhood in the early '80s in Wales.

Idyllic, fantastic family, great sister, great parents, great primary school.

Things were slowly getting a bit better, and the traveling was helping as well.

And coming back to Great Britain, I did some more training to become a primary school teacher.

During that year I got another girlfriend, and during that year I read a book in two thousand and five called The Game, which is Neil Strauss' account of the underworld in Los Angeles of pickup artists and meeting Mystery and how he developed this skill set of seducing women.

I read the book.

Oh, yeah.

You're telling me that the guy with the big furry hat and the massive sideburns mystery out of Neil Strauss's The Game, even he could get laid with his stupid hair and his flares.

And oh, and now the Real Social Dynamics, Tyler and Max and everybody else, they've come along, and they're not, not all of them were exactly, you know, the pinnacles of giga chad masculinity.

And it worked for them, and it hasn't worked for me.

Oh my God, this is why all women are bitches, right? Like, all women are like that.

One of the problems or one of the things that I see online, especially when it comes to trying to encourage guys to get into a long-term committed relationship, especially one that encourages marriage, is that they would say, "Why would I get into a relationship? Like, a woman's just gonna take all of my money and do this thing in any case." It's like, okay, did that happen to you? Or did you read one story or a small number of stories online that told you that this is something that's super, super common? Because, dude, even the heads of the red pill movement, like even the most red pilly of red pill guys get into fucking long-term marriage relationships.

Like Neil Strauss, the guy that wrote The Game, is now this completely renewed...

Uh, Tucker Max, the guy that invented the entire genre of fratire, lives 30 miles away from me at a ranch in fucking Dripping Springs, surrounded by...