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- Meta - The Game - Narrative Structure - Random Highlights - He possessed two traits I’d noticed in nearly every rock star I’d ever interviewed: a crazy, driven gleam in his eyes and an absolute inability to do anything for himself. id:: 66302c17-c384-49fa-8242-85745feaba0f - From a formless lump of nerd, Mystery had molded me into a superstar. Together, we had ruled the world of seduction. id:: 66302cb6-1f5a-4364-9280-0655e1e07c57 - There was Mystery, a magician; Ross Jeffries, a hypnotist; Rick H., a millionaire entrepreneur; David DeAngelo, a real estate agent; Juggler, a stand-up comedian; David X, a construction worker; and Steve P., a seductionist so powerful that women actually pay to learn how to give him better head. id:: 66302d1f-01a4-4116-9271-78a12e094d1b - Terms like AFC, PUA (pickup artist), sarging (picking up women), and HB (hot babe)1 entered my permanent lexicon. id:: 66302d3a-6521-437e-a8b7-8d753f8db2e9 - I made it my mission—my full-time job and obsession—to hunt down the greatest pickup artists in the world and beg for shelter under their wings. And so began the strangest two years of my life. id:: 66302d93-3143-4bf5-a602-60d431a19688 - A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man. id:: 66302eb7-de00-4b9d-a897-0854b5296935 - I-just-bench-pressed-the-world smile on his face. id:: 66302f40-5bc9-4f8c-8edc-e36bd6e1c1ec - Think of tonight as a video game. It is not real. Every time you do an approach, you are playing this game.” id:: 66302f6a-65cb-4aa6-808c-e27a97298edd - “It took me ten years to discover this,” he said. “The basic format is FMAC—find, meet, attract, close. Believe it or not, the game is linear. A lot of people don’t know that.” id:: 66302fb9-956f-4f89-ab19-bf3739c5bcf0 - “The number one characteristic of an alpha male is the smile,” id:: 66302fda-9465-483e-94c6-1f7e8bf922b2 - Peacock theory is the idea that in order to attract the most desirable female of the species, it’s necessary to stand out in a flashy and colorful way. id:: 66302ffd-a59d-4989-8e2e-a617de1b8299 - The point of Mystery Method, he explained, is to come in under the radar. Don’t approach a woman with a sexual come-on. Learn about her first and let her earn the right to be hit on. - Mystery told us the first commandment of pickup: the three-second rule. A man has three seconds after spotting a woman to speak to her, he said. If he takes any longer, then not only is the girl likely to think he’s a creep who’s been staring at her for too long, but he will start overthinking the approach, get nervous, and probably blow it. id:: 663030db-446d-4cda-bc82-323be6f4e33a - You should speak to her over your shoulder, so it looks like you might walk away at any minute. id:: 663030f4-38ee-41ae-b98b-1062edf2e435 - Compared to Extramask, I was going to be an easy student. id:: 663aa1cf-cc4e-433b-8ce6-d964dbd6ac5a - As soon as you ask yourself whether you should or shouldn’t, that means you should. And what you do is, you phase-shift. id:: 663aa1ab-29bb-4861-ab52-1a7bfdf6feec - “I just say, ‘Would you like to kiss me?’” #gold #kissclose - Watching Mystery work, I noticed that he used the exact same openers, routines, and lines—and got a phone number or a tonguedown nearly every time, even if the woman was with a boyfriend. id:: 663aa335-9d76-4269-9e11-3ac8310c9904 - The secret to meeting women, I realized, is simply knowing what to say, and when and how to say it. id:: 663aa373-bbc0-4e83-91f7-af65b8bf0f4e - “You got that number-close,” he said, “because you forced yourself on her. You let her play with you.” id:: 663aa3cd-25c9-4495-904c-2001ce859c56 - You have to act like you are the prize.” id:: 663aa3ef-9933-4967-9a55-732526f77a03