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Notes DYD Mastery Journal
Notes DYD Mastery Journal
"I thlnk you're here because you have a problem, a pain, a frustration that you'd
like to get handled. I thlnk that the problem of not having success wlth women is ilke
a virus running on your mental computer system in the background ... everything
runs through it and is corrupted by it... and it bogs the entire system down. I also
suspect you're here because you're hoping for a technique ... a secret trick...
something that's golng to magically fix everything and give you all the success you
ever wanted ... and you have your fingers crossed that I or one of my guests is going
to reveal it. In other words, I thlnk you want a quick fix, and you're hoping that its
here. - - Further, I think that the REALITY is that you already probably know FAR
more than the averagee guy, and probably know even more than most guys who are
VERY successful wlth women. You already know the tricks! You already know what
you need to do, but you're just not doing it. And actually I think you KNOW THAT
THE PROBLEM ISN'T THAT YOU NEED MORE TECHNIQUES. I think that at some level
you realize that the problem is something BIGGER, something more intense... and
more difficult to face. I thlnk you know that you're using one or more "secret resons"
to justify your inabllity to have success with women... and that they somehow give
you a kind of depressing comfort... because If you fail at thls, you can always fall
back on your secret reason: "I knew it. I knew that this wouldn't work for me..." I
think that most people go to therapists so they can hear the words "I understand. I'd
feel the same way if I were in your sltuation..." and so they can explain and justify
the way they are... NOT to change, But I'm not going settle for that here I'm not
going to settle for you walking out of here saying "Yea, I knew I wasn't going to learn
anything that's going to help me. I'm just going to have to accept that this is an area
that I wlll never have together in life.
"
Before we get into the material, I want you to take a moment and consider the series of
events and the reasons why you're going through this program
I know that you didn't just wake up one day, say "Hey, I think I'll get myself a program to
teach me how to meet women"
If you're anything like me, you've spent a LOT of time, effort, and energy trying to figure out
the female of our species And if you're like me, then you've probably gotten to the point where
you're ready to take your success to the level to the place we're calling "Mastery"
I'd like to invite you to really reflect on the years you've spent in your life trying
things that didn't work, starting something then dropping it a few days or weeks
later because you just didn't have what it took to stick with it, and beating your head
against the wall
I really want you to reflect on where you are, and, more importantly, on where you want to
go... now make a commitment to YOURSELF to spend at LEAST the next 90 days working with
this program every single day
"I want you to start watching everything that happens around you and think of it as part
of intricate complex mating ritual"
I've made it my purpose to learn as much as I can about this particular process - first so I
can be succesfull myself, and secondly so I can teach other guys effectively
In the process of learning the "secrets" of how to successfully attract women, I've realized
that by addressing some of these more abstract and conceptual levels a guy can not
only learn how to attract women better and faster, he can also become more whole
and integrated as a man
I also believe that sometimes just having an awareness of something can trigger a snowball
effect - and lead to incredible change, development, and evolution
"Steven McCovey teaches that awareness itself can build momentum. Alot of my purpose
today is to just have you become aware of what's going on around you; Aware of some of the
processes that are happenning in your mind. Aware of some of the emotional, psychological
automated processes that are happening and you're not even aware of.
"
I fully expect that the first half of this program is going to challenge your mind and
emotions, and it's going to make you think in ways you've never thoght before
But stick with it - not only will this material change you on a more fundamental level, but it
will also prepare your mind for the incredible specific insights and step-by-step techniques
you're going to learn in the second half - and these techniques are going to literally blow your
mind
"I want you to notice specifically as you go thru the program how the meaning changes
for you of things, how things become more meaningfull"
This program goes deep ... very deep
Mastery in this area of life comes from a deeper understanding of the principles, mindsets,
and strategies
It's about getting to the point where you control your own destiny instead of
feeling like it's controlled for you
It's about moving from effect to cause... from watching things happen to making them
happen ... from hoping and wishing to realizing
The commitment to Mastery is the commitment to take control of your [own] life
In this program I'm going to share a lot of concepts, theories, and ideas that it has literally
taken me my whole life to learn, refine, and understand - in other words, the source of this
program is my own journey and experience of learning
We're going to spend a lot of time doing personal work in this program
You've heard the phrase "You can't change other people, you can only change
yourself"
We're going to start with that idea, and work on ourselves ... knowing that by
improving the inside, the outside will take care of itself
"Once you have changed yourself you become much more effective at changing the
things around you"
3:40 - [4] Mastery by George Lenard quote (good metaphor for skill mastering)
"As with all significant learning this is measured not in a straight line but stages. Brief
spurts of progress separated by periods where you seem to be getting nowhere"
First, we try to learn the tricks. We want the quick flx. We want magic techniques that will
instantly solve our problems.
Then, after learnlng a few tricks, you realize that there's still something wrong - when
you're beating your head up against the wall and It's just not working you seek out
more "In-depth" knowledge.
This is when people usually get my Advanced Series. But then once you get some level of
skill in a particular area, you then begin to realize that there must be a DEPEER level
of understanding. You realize that there must be something much bigger at work.
You realize that maybe there are other areas that you can develop that will
strengthen the area you are trying to develop.
"You begin to realize there must be a deeper level of understading, a deeper level that's
connected to other things. A deeper level that ties everything together; that ties not only
the subject you're learning to itself, but also everything else in the world and in your life
to each other"
That's what this program is about. We're going to address many of those other areas... and
the first place we're going to start is with what I'm golng to call THE DEEP INNER GAME.
"And this goes right to the heart of the DEEP INNER GAME, right to the heart of
dealing with yourself. "
The first step involves discomfort, anxiety, and even pain.
The first step on the road to Mastery is to admit that you do not want to do all the
things that are going to be required for you to REACH Mastery.
It's to come to grips with the fact that there are going to be a lot of things that are
going to be physically, emotionally, and psychologically uncomfortable along the
path, and that you're going to do them anyway.
It's to make a personal commitment that you're going to do whatever it takes, no matter
how much you don't want to do it in the moment, to reach your objective.
"If you can't take this step, the others aren't gonna work for ya"
When you start learning new things about how to meet women, changing how you think and
learning and trying new things, this will be the same for you.
The transition period will be the one when you feel most sensitive and vulnerable.
Remember that there is a long-term payoff to getting outside of your comfort zone
and sticking with the process.
Eventually the discomfort and feeling of vulnerability will go away, and you'll be
enjoying a new level of success.
"So what does transition vulnerability mean for you? It means you're gonna feel it. It
means that as you're going thru these steps you're gonna get uncomfortable. You're gonna
try things that will freak you out. We will talk about issues and then you're gonna go out
there in the world and they will come up for you... and you will realize you're powerless
and helpless in certain situations. What do most people do when they run into transition
vulnerability? They go inside, they hide, they close up, they go "you know what, i'm
shutting that out" And repress it. I want you to be aware of it. Don't worry about it; it's
just a step you need to go thru. Just like the cat, you need to get aware of the enviroment,
the room and soon it will be second nature to you.
"
We humans llke to identify with these aspects of ourselves and become attached to them in a
way that prevents change
Many think that 'learning' new ways of thinking, new ways of communicatlng, and new body
language is somehow inauthentic and fake
I think that this attachment is one of the biggest stumbling blocks people face when wanting
to improve
It's OK to learn and do things that don't feel llke "you" in order to get a new skill
The seminar is a detour... and spending some time learning techniques to become better
with women is a detour
Don't make the mistake that a lot of guys make and become ADDICTED TO AN
IDEAL
The better you get at something, the further you feel from the IDEAL... because the
more you know, the more you realize you don't know
Don't become one of the guys who is a llttle "too into" thls stuff ... who can't thlnk about,
talk about, or do anything else ... who obsess over it and lose touch wlth the rest of reality
Don't attach your identity and self esteem to the Idea of getting to an unreallstlc level
Don't become addicted to this like a drug
Focus on it, [and] then integrate it
***2:51--->***
Track 6 [7] {6} - Five steps to evolution
Imitate the best until you are gettlng consistent results.
Learn to make finer and finer distinctlons until you can clearly see how and why each approach works in
each situation
Learn how to asslgn higher and lower values to behaviors, results, mlstakes to create an internal system
that wlll gulde you.
Learn to create variatlons of great ldeas and to combine great elements of great ideas to evolve improved
versions
Learn to innovate, design and create new things that have superlor value LAST
The mistake most people make is dolng these in reverse
"Imtate Assimilate Innovate" - Clark Terry (Jazz Trumpet Player)
The counterlntuttive nature of wisdom and expertise, and how dolng the obvious thing doesn't always
serve you
The best thlng to do in a sltuatlon isnt usually the OBVIOUS thing, Masters do counter-intuitive thlngs ...
things that wouldn't be natural for others
The Master makes success look almost effortless, which leads novices to assume that what he is dolng Is
easy and slmple
Don't be fooled Into beileving that it's not complex just because it looks easy
When you spend years cornbining expertise, experience, great mentors and access to great advice, you
start gettlng lucky all the time
This will lead to situational predictive powers - you'll be able to see possible scenario outcomes, and then
behave accordingly
"Finally, you need to move this from the center of your life to part of your life "
"I want you to succeed. I don't want you to win by beating others. I don't want you to
compare yourself to others; I don't want you to use that. I don't think that strategy is
usefull in this situation.
"
0:49 [10] {8} - Improve the quality of your life and become more attractive to women
This would involve having challenges and meeting them, receiving love, getting physical
affection and sex, doing good
If your perspectlve is that attachment to reality is negative, then detachment or mls-ldentlficatlon and
losing your preferences is the answer. Transcending this world (or LIFE) leads to the greatest quality of
life
If your perspective is that giving of yourself is what improves quality of Ilfe, then doing for others will
improve your Iife
If your perspective is that joy or enjoyment is what Improves the quality of your Iife, then doing things
that add joy to your life and keep you in the FLOW state is the answer
Choose the path that improves your own personal quality and enjoyment of life, and then stick to it. It
will make you more attractive
** (2:10) ** "I want you to be very selfish; I want you to improve your own life. I want
you to improve the quality of your own life. I want you to do whatever it takes to make
your life great so that YOU feel good about it. I want you to think of that in terms
winning for yourself... Again I think too many people compare themselves to everybody
else. They're looking at what everyone else is doing. They try to figure out "Ok how can I
do that to make me happy" Instead of actually looking at the things that make them
happy, looking at the things they feel; will improve the quality of their life and then
increase those things. So I now want you to give yourself permission to improve the
quality of your own life. Stand out from the crowd, make yourself happier. If the quality
of your life is good, you will feel better and you will become more attractive
automatically.
"
It's a state that takes all of your attention, where time passes effortlessly
Elements:
--The challenge is matched well with your skills
--Compete and compare results only with and to yourself
--Creates enjoyment or long-term satisfaction
7) The Tests
- Fears (fear of something is worse than the thing itself)
- The Shadow, your dark side
- Your emotions, how they come up at critical times
- Tests from Women
- Feminine distraction, confusion, emotions ... staying strong, composure
- Making mistakes you know you shouldn't make, and paying the price
- Sacrifice: Something must die in order for something new to live ... you must let a part of you
die, and let it go
Track 12 [6] {3} - Being in the center / Living in the middle of your own reality
Find Your Center
Center Yourself
Become the Center
Finding your center is about getting in touch with what you really want for your life and for
yourself. It's about "finding yourself", "choosing your own path", and "Iiving consciously", It's about
figuring out who you are and how you fit into your world
Centering yourself is about taking a moment to shlft your awareness into your own body,
becoming aware of yourself and your surroundings, and then operating from that perspective. It Is
a way of gohg lnslde and becoming grounded
Becoming the center is about moving women from the center of your universe to an lnterestlng
part of your unlverse. It's about becoming so interesting and attractive that women make you the
center of their universes
What is it that you really want for yourself and your life?
If you could start all over, and operate from a place where you get to choose every aspect of who
you are. what you do, and where you're going, whal would that look like?
What do you like aboul your life that you want to keep, and what do you not like about yourself that
you won't accept any longer?
Who are you going to be in the future, when you're not living half-way?
We're going to discuss moving your frame of reference inside later in this program (which is helpful
when linding your center), but for now I want you to think about finding your owncenter, so you can
operate from that place
In your imagination, open up your chest and your heart, allow that opening to envelop
everything and everyone around you
"When you learn to do those 3 things, and you learn to do them quickly, just CENTER.
It will have a profound effect on the way you come across. You can do them very quickly
once you automate the process"
1:55 - Acting from a centered state
Notice everything around you, looking at the details
Consciously make meaning from these things
Look with an optimistic eye, pro-actively looking for things that will help you
Realize that learning a lesson by trying something is far more valuable than getting a short-term
win
Focusing one of your senses: If you smell something that is familiar, but for some reason you
can't quite figure it out, you'll often close your eyes, or try to tune out your other senses in order to
"focus in" on the smell. Something is going on here. It's as if you're automatically trying to use
your brain's processing power for one particular task... and focusing it.
Consciously use your Peripheral Senses to notice finer and flner details, and to see what works
and what doesn't
Think of the relatlonshlp of the sun and the earth. The sun is at the center of the earth's
universe. The earth could be said to "belong to" the sun. Because of the sun, earth has day and
night; it wakes and sleeps, and is able to suppbrt life.
Most men behave like the opposlte is the case. In fact, most men behave like wandering planets who
are looking for a sun to orbit... someone to cling to... a place to get energy from... a central figure in
their Iives. They have not learned how to become their own sun, give themselves energy, and become
powerful and attractive on their own.
In order for a body to be in orbit around another, it must be close enough, but not too close. It must
be MOVING, it must exert less gravity than the central body it orbits.
A woman wants a man who is strong enough to attract her, hold her In his orbit, and keep her there
... but the thing that really keeps her "attracted" (feeling attraction) is the tension that comes from not
qulte being "all the way there"
"When you run into a challenge often what it takes is to just center yourself, to get back
on track "oh hmm i'm in control... I forgot about that, and then go into success""
4:50 [4] {10}
- Yourself
- Women
- Situations
Another is letting things that are beyond your control frustrate you, victimize you, upset you,
make you mad, control your thoughts and emotions, By accepting everything as it is, you make
yourself powerful
Center yourself, accept, then be pro-active to get what you want - pushing against things robs
you of power - accepting them gives you power
"Guess where you can use that. Everytime you have a challenge. Every time you're
nervous... Center... accept the situation... you know what she might not like... whatever.
What can I do to be proactive now... When you push against things it robs you of power.
When you accept them, it gives you power.
"
As the name suggests, this part of our inner selves can be a dark, elusive, rightening thing
As we grow up, we are confronted by parents and other authority figures who tell us that certaln
things are 'bad' or 'wrong' and that WE are bad or wrong for even THINKING those things
As we develop, we repress these important aspects of ourselves and put them into "the
shadow"
We can only become aware of our own shadow by watching carefully for it, then taking
advantage of the fleeting momts when it sneaks up and rattles our world
Carl Jung said that The Shadow is where your personal gold is ... its the place where your
greatest treasure waits for you
As you get to know your Shadow, it's important to embrace, welcome, and integrate it... only by
including it will you be able to transcend it
But use good judgment ... too many people ONLY see the good in others, and ironically allow
this shadow trait to harm them[selves] over and over
Includes the story about how to see people realisctially, from an objective side... the
whole drawing with viewing people from the right angle... where you see both the light
and dark sides.
~Also applies to use not viewing our own dark sides which makes them stronger~
3:47 [2] {2} beating others (the two sides of winning in the shadow)
Does it bother you when another guy gets a girl that you wanted?
Do you like the idea of taking a woman from another guy?
Which would you enjoy more... getting a girl that you wanted but no other guys seemed to want
... or getting a girl that you know every other guy wanted ... and a girl that would make every
other guy jealous?
Is it enough to win by getting what you want ... or do you feel the need to win by beating other
guys and getting the thing that THEY want?
But it also allows you to feel "self conscious", and insecure because you don't "measure
up"
When you compare yourself to others, it can be very negative, or very positive
Think of the last three times you had a strong, instant, overpowering emotional response to
something that took over your mind and body
Think of the three things in life you fear most, and how you respond when confronted with them
Think of those things you desire more than anything, and the reasons you desire them
Recognize these elements as parts of your own unconscious mind that you're not integrating
into yourself, and commit to integrating them in the future
Most of our perceptive abillty is actually PROGRAMMING that is LEARNED... not the objective,
accurate, perfect set of equipment we think of it as
A loud bang outside wlll be perceived as a car backflring by one person, a car accident by
another, and a gunshot by another - all projections
You can only perceive something relative to what is already programmed In your mind - thls is
why we often see things that aren't there, and miss thlngs that are - because our minds are
playing an active role in their "being there"
Projection comes up often in relatlonshlps between men and women - we often project our own
negative aspects onto people we dislike and we project our own positive qualities onto those we
are attracted to
This leads to many problems, as we're not recognizing our own "dark slde" or seeing our own
"light side"
yourself or others. As you think about yourself, allow your body and mind to relax, and make a
personal commitment to begin working with these areas of yourself more, instead of only
projecting them onto others
Find one person to do the next part of this exercise with, all the better if you don't know the
person you're getting to work with you. I want you to sit across from them, and:
1) Confidently tell them about three of your strengths... the strengths that you've projected onto
others and haven't acknowledged in yourself, but that you're now going to lead with, develop, and
admowledge in the future as use more as the basis for your own success
2) Authentically and directly tell them about three of the repressed, dark traits you have that you
have been projecting onto others
The story of the farmer who broke his plow, and of using personal challenges, emotional
triggers, and shadow issues as the guiding path to your own "Personal Gold"
I'd like to suggest that when I asked you to imagine someone that you admire, then list the three
things you admire about them, that you unconciously went into your shadow and PROJECTED
three things about yourself onto that other person. I'd like to also suggest that you have chosen
three aspects of yourself that are YOUR own strengths that you don't acknowledge enough, lead
with, and develop
I'd like to suggest that when I asked vou to imagine someone that you don't admire and that you
disrespect, that you again UNCONSCIOUOSLY went into your shadow and PROJECTED three
things about YOURSELF onto that person. I'd like to also suggest that you have chosen three
aspects of yourself that are your OWN weaknesses that you don't acknowledge, come to grips
with, and confront in yourself ... and that these three aspects of you are holding you back in life to
an extent that you can't even imagine
Read the list of people you admire, and the traits you admire most about them. Then look into
the mirror, and review these things in your mind, realizing that these are your own personal
greatest assets. Affirm to' vourself that vou will lead with, capitalize on, and develoo these
strengths more, instead of only projecting them onto oihers
It almost has to be
You're dolng a thousand llttle things unconciously, habitually, and constantly that you aren't
aware of... and worse, you are programmed to do them ... and think that they're perfectly normal
And you probably WOULD think they were perfectly normal if you realized that you were doing
them
You must actually learn to see your bllnd spots, and actually CHANGE HOW YOU THINK,
COMMUNICATE, BEHAVE, AND RESPOND
A good place to start Is by getting feedback from tough, loving friends and mentors about areas
that you wouldn't normally ask about
Ask others to be honest wlth you and tell you about your weaknesses
After a month, ask them again, and get an update
Continue to get honest, critical feedback from others if you want to continue to improve over
time
"By getting good tough loving critical feedback from friends and people who don't think
you're that cool, you'll get alot insight. I can't tell you how valuable this is. Ask some
people who know you. You know I think i'm pretty great. But how great do you think you
are? When someone tells you you're kinda bastard... It sticks with you.
"
Perceptual Gaps
As humans, we have several "self deception systems built in to our minds, bodies,
and emotions
Where the nerve bundles connect to the back of each eye, we have "blind spots"
We're not aware of these spots because our minds compensate for them, and
because each eye covers the bllnd spot of the other
We also have *blind spots" when it comes to all other senses as well
[Demonstrate blind spot and unseen shape]
There are *holes* in our other senses, just like the "holes" in our visual field
In addition to blind spots, there are also events that are outside the RANGE of our
"perceptual equipment"
There are movements too fast or too subtle to see or feel, sounds that are too high or
low to hear, and scents that are too faint to smell
"I'm showing you this, because there is alot of things like this in your life. Gaps in your
own perceptions; Programming that you have, that only you know about. You're the only
one that can detect it. And when you do detect it, you need to sit down, just like I did and
draw the shape so you can say wow there it is. I recommend keeping a journal. When
these things come up, when you get a shadow issue, write it down, talk about it; think
about it... work on it. Go to work on it. Make it better, improve it. By spotting these
things and taking them out of that place where they're...you're not aware of them, you
then have power over them"
Just like there are gaps or holes in our perception, there are gaps or holes in our thinking, our
memory, our mental associations, and our abilities
The problem is that many people not only don't perceive these gaps or Iimitations, they swear
that they don't exist
We humans often have memories that aren't true, feel sensations in our bodies that came from
our imaginations, and assign meaning to things that are completely off-base
Self deception has a very Important purpose: It keeps us sane and functioning... In a very
complex world
There's just too much going on for your brain to deal wlth all of the information, so it uses
various tools to selectively distort and deceive you... in order to make thlngs effcient and effective
But olten we deceive ourselves in ways that are NOT useful ... in ways that actually wind up
holding us back and harming us
We make up stories to justify our inability to succeed, we assign responsibility for our lives to
others, and we become mental victims to imaginary oppressors
The process of self deception is very difficult to detect, because it is not only "transparent" and
happening all the time, but it also erases its own tracks
To become aware of your own negative self deception patterns, you must pay careful attention;
attend to it on an ongoing basis
If you're getting a "secondary payoff" from this particular habit pattern, then the chances that
you will both keep doing it and keep repressing it are strong
The place to start is these "major" areas of self deception that are habitual, recurring, and more
"obvious"
One might be making an excuse for not starting a conversation with a woman you'd like to talk
to
Another might be not cleaning up and preparing yourself to meet women before you leave the
house because you're probably not going to meet any women anyway
Another might be not improving an area of your Iife because it SHOULDNT matter to the type of
woman you want to meet anyway ... and you don't want a woman that cares about that thing
because it would mean she's shallow
Of course, the women always wind up being more imperfect than the man could have Imagined, the
image that the man had turns out to be completely inaccurate, and he ultimately winds up hurting
himself badly (and often the woman as well)
Part of this recurring theme is the part of us as men that want to rescue women who are in trouble,
are damaged, or are broken
Unfortunately, trying to rescue a woman who you've idealized before hand is almost certainly a losing
battle
You must first become brutally honest with yourself, then learn to see women more accurately, and
then choose your relationships carefully based on a more mature foundation of knowledge and
understanding
When we do have to face things that make us uncomfortable, we can go to great lengths to
"tune out" and "numb" ourselves so we don't feel their effects
One way we deal with issues we don't want to confront is called "Self Medicating"
We self medicate with:
- Food
- Sex
- Fantasy
- Sympathy from Others
- Gullt from Others
- Attention from Others
- Excuses
- Complaining
- Dissociation from responsibility (interesting concept)
- Avoidance
The reality is that it's usually easier to deal with the actual issue than it is to deal with the
negative psychological, emotional, and physical patterns that we use to avold it
Deal with the underlying issue, and be aware when you're medicating yourself
Track 2/9 - [3] {4} addiction
Addiction is the Shadow side of habit
"Being addicted to your struggle gives you an excuse for why you never get anything
done... always doing things"
1:24 - [4] {4} [The] difference between imagined [feeling] and actual feeling
I'm fascinated by the concept of the difference between the way you THINK you should feel
when something happens and the WAY you feel about something when the event ACTUALLY
happens
Have you ever made yourself sick by worrying about a future event, only to experience it and
wind up saying "That wasn't bad at all"?
Have you ever had something great happen in your life that you've waited years for it to happen
... only to be disappointed when it was real?
Have you ever watched someone make a mistake or lose, and you felt GOOD about it ... you
enjoyed watching them in pain?
Have you ever watched someone win a great prize, receive a great gift, or win a competition ...
but you hated it and them?
It's important not to get too attached to the idea of how something is going to feel when it
happens, because it doesn't usually feel the way you think it will feel
Knowing this allows you to act with more restraint, purpose, and wisdom
Ignoring this reality and not reminding yourself of it constantly will only lead you to continue
chaslng after imaginary good feelings that will probably never materialize... or worse, worrying
about bad things that will happen in a future that ruin that future before it arrives
Track 2/10 - [4] {4} think big ("realistic" and pragmatic thinking)
Men often use the labels "realistic" and "pragmatic" to describe a mode of thinking that I'H label
as "negative"
People who succeed in life to the greatest degree typically have "unrealistic" and "overly
optimistic" thinking patterns
People who are depressed and suicidal typically have the "most accurate" perceptions and
outlooks on reality
If you want to succeed with women, it's time to get away from trying to be overly "realistic" and
"pragmatic"
Icarus's father constructed two pairs of wings - one for himself, and one for Icarus - from
leathers and wax thread. They needed the wings to escape from a prison where they were being
held.
Overcome with the understandable confidence that must have come from being able to fly,
Icarus Ignored his father's specific and strict instructions, and he flew too close to the sun. The
sun melted the wax thread that held hs wings together, and he fell to his death. Ths
combination of overconfidence, bllndness caused by success, and unconsciously ignoring
important feedback and available information is called HUBRIS.
HUBRIS: Pride, presumptuousness, arrogance. The kind of overconfidence that leads to a fall;
A blind faith in oneself that leads to ignoring important feedback or available information, and
unknowingly walking right into and causing massive failure.
I've found that hubris is a leading cause of fallure for men in the datlng world. Many men believe
that they are too smart to seek the help of, and learn from a guy who's less intelligent than them
(but who's also more successful with women)...
...Many men believe that the concepts we're talking about here don't apply to them,
becauseeventually they'll meet the ideal woman and she'll see no need for this stuff... instead
choosing to spontaneously fall in love. Many men believe that they don't need to actually
PRACTICE and PREPARE before using the things they're learning because they think that
"understanding something" is the same as being able to "execute something" perfectly
Don't buy this line of thinking. Put aside your pride. Put aside your overconfidence.
Put aside your hubris. Every time you prepire to improve, approach your skills as a beginner.
Open your mind, and try to see new things. Become curious. Ask stupid questions
Learn to see the clues that hubris is staring within you. Teach the concept to others around you,
and ask close friends to let you know when you're getting out of control. Create a system for
yourself of centering, reevaluating, and resetting your inner systems when you suspect that you
might be becoming overconfident in an unhealthy way
The folly of hubris is typically difficult for a person to see in themselves. ... but easy for everyone
else around them to see clearly. Hubris leads not only to failure, but also to ridicule both
BEFORE, and AFTER failure. It leads to people wanting you to fall, and hating you for success.
Find that "sweet spot" between neutral and conkient that lea& to consistent improvement, and
then do whatever you have to in order to stay there
You secretly feel better than others when you're humble, and you harbor negativity to people
who are confident and strong
Visual of the "sweet spot" between Hubris and Blind Self-Indulgent Humility
Track 3/2 [3] {3} - getting it in your head
Too many guys (myself Included) want to learn everythlng Instead of DOING to learn
When they have challenges gettlng started, they default to LEARN MORE before dolng - whlch
Is often a way of "creatively avolding"
They think "I have to work through everything in my mind before I can act"
Ways of learning:
Knowledge - books, seminars
Training - Mentor
Experience - doing, testing
In most situations you have enough knowledge to go and apply some of it in order to learn from
actual experience
If you only rely on the "Informational" way of learning, you'll limit your success by probably 95%
A good model: Plan-Do-Study-Act
"It's important to be aware of this, sometimes you have to cut yourself off from learning
more. You have to go... wait I gotta stop what I'm doing. Learning can be creative
avoidance. Don't use learning as a way of creatively avoiding"
"Plan what you're gonna do. Then do it. Go do it. Then study what you did. Then act on
what you learned. Then make a new plan. And its a circle. Plan do study act plan do study
act plan do...
"
The Wussy tries his hardest to be sweet, nice, understanding, and accommodating ...
all he has to show for it is another woman he loves who isn't talking to him
Here are some of the elements that combine to create a Wussy. Avoid them...
Get others to like, approve of, and validate them, their actions and their behaviors
Do what others want or would want them to do
Please others and make others happy
Not have anyone become mad, upset, or disappointed with them
Not cause conflict, anger, or fear in others
Not experience any negative emotions themselves
Nice guys don't draw boundaries, they don't stand up for themselves, and they don't say "no"
very often
Usually Nlce Guys harbor a secret belief: That they're better than everyone else because
they're so "nice"
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth ... when you're befng nice in order to get
somethlng back, you're being manipulative
These were sharp, intelligent guys... in many cases they were men who were very good with
women ... but they always found ways to convince themselves that the particular woman they
were dealing with was DIFFERENT
I can't help but confront my guy friends when I see them potentially screwing up their chances
with a girl (or a girlfriend, or even a wife)... and they always give me that same shoulder shrug
with the "Yea, you're probably right" look
There's usually some comment about "this girl is really special' or "I think that this one is
different"... and It always ends up Ihe same way
When you let your Inner Wussbag out to roam freely, only bad things will happen
Don't say l didn't warn you about this one
1:39 [3] {2} - the "I want her to like me for me" wussy
Many guys I know (some that have been good friends for many years) will argue with me tooth
and nail about my concepts
The basic argument is that they don't like the idea that they need to "learn" my "techniques" in
order to meet a woman
They typically have an idealistic fantasy of meeting a woman who just falls for them and loves
them for who they are... without them having to actually DO anything
Most of these guys go months and months without dates. which isn't at all surprising
The common ending to this story is that they meet a girl that they think is all kinds of fun... and
she realizes after not too long that she's dealing with a Wussy who wants lo kiss her ass and be
Mr.Super Nice Guy... and she hits the road or makes his life hell
What's funny is that I often get emails that start with "I've been using these techniques to meet
and date some amazing women ... right now I'm dating two models and a lifeguard ..." and then
they drop the bomb ... "But there's this ONE SPECIAL GIRL that I really want ... and I have to
have her"
The only thing that this obsession says about you is that you're secretly a WORLD-CLASS
WUSSBAG
If you really like a girl, fine ... but don't get obsessed with her - it's a Wussy move
3:52 [5] - evicting the inner wussy
Center Yourself
Stand up straight, balancing perfectly on your splne
Three deep breaths, slowly taking control of your body and life
Relax your shoulders, stomach, Jaw, and forehead as you exhale each tlme
Look up and to the center, open and notice the edges of your peripheral vislon
Inhale slowly, and notice both the feeling of air rushing into your nose, and your stomach expanding
and contracting at the same tlme
Pay attention to your vision, the air rushing into your nose, and your stomach moving at the same
time
As you exhale, release emotional tension, anxiety, pressure, and ill feellngs toward yourself or others
In your imagination, open up your chest and your heart, allow that opening to envelop everything and
everyone around you
Tony Robbins has done a lot of work on this topic ... and I recommend that you read his books
To get started, try this:
- List 10 things that you REALLY don't like doing, then make a deal with a friend that you're going
to do one of those things If you don't accommplish a certain task by a certain time
- Think of somethlng you have wanted for a long time, then commit to buylng it or getting it for
yourself if you put in an hour a day at something for one hundred days in a row
Tell five people that are close to you that you're going to do something, and if you don't
accomplish it you're going to give each of them a hundred dollars in cash - so they make sure and
ask you
Hire a personal coach to keep you accountable. Send your coach a list of the things you want to
accomplish, then break each up into smaller tasks and have your coach ask you for personal
commitments.
Have regular meetings with your coach, and have your coach ask you point-blank questions
about whether or not you're keeping your word
Spend some time thinking about what NATURALLY motivates you (both positively and
negatively) and then use those things as tools to get leverage on yourself
One more way to get MASSIVE leverage on yourself is to understand and use what is called
"Logical Levels"...
Gregory Bateson and later Robert Dilts and others have discussed the concept of "Logical
Levels" or "Logical Types"
The basic concept is that there are different levels of context and meaning in brain structure and
perceptual systems, and if you can put these levels into a useful and meaningful structure, you
can accomplish amazing things for yourself and others
Spirit/Physics
Reality
Identity
Beliefs
Values
Understanding ~knowledge/experience~
Skills
Techniques
Situations
Each of the "higher" levels acts as a context around all levels below it
Changing something at a higher level automatically changes all the levels below it
Changing something at a lower level can change a higher level, but doesn't always
The importance of adressing all the levels... unless you do that, it causes you to feel
something's missing in your life
3:11 [4] {3} - example of working with logical levels
He has decided that It's time to get back into the game, meet some women, and get some dates
If he were to work on "Situations" he might spend time trying to figure out where he should GO
to meet women
If he were to work on "Skills" he might spend time every day starting conversations wlth women
so he could become comfortable introducing hirnself
If he were to work on "Identity " he might spend time hanging around guys who were natually
good at rneeting women and doung exercises to cultivate a strong self Image of a man who has
so many women around him that he doesn't have tlme for them all
If he could only choose one, which one would be the best place to focus his energy and why?
"ALL levels need attention" ~The model here is just a usefull map in knowing what to
adress, and how to prioritize them one to the other~
"Because Ithink that if you don't adress all the different levels in your life, you're going
to wind up having something missing"
****5:12 on reality****
Track 3/7...8...9...10...11 [5] - Johari Window
Track 3/12 [2] - Focusing on the level that will give you the most results
Most people are interested in getting instant results - we humans are wired to value results right
now - not later
This leads most people to focus on the very lowest levels most of the time
Most men focus on situatlons then techniques
It's very rare to find a guy who's even Interested In skills and understanding ... never mind
higher levels like Reality, Identity, Beliefs
If you only focus on situations and techniques, but you keep the self image and bellef
system of a guy who doesn't deserve or have success with women, what do you think is
going to happen?
If the higher levels affect all of the levels below them; then where do you think you should focus
most of your energy?
1:19 - [2] {3} focusing on the higher levels (reading the slide)
Reality - Describe your outlook on yourself and your reality. Do you see your reality as a place
where you are in control? In your reality do things go your way? How would you change the way
you view reality if you could?
Identity - Do you see yourself as a man who deserves success with women? Do you see
yourself as a guy that women naturally want to be around? If you could change how you see
yourself, how would you change it?
Beliefs - Do you believe that it's natural and easy to meet and attract women? Do you believe
that women want to be around you? Do you believe that you're the very best choice a woman can
make? If you could install some new beliefs in your mind that would increase your success with
women and dating, what would they be?
Values - Do you have a clear set of values in your life that you live by? Do you value your time
and yourself and accept no disrespect or wasting of your time? What do you need to make more
important in your life, and what do you need to make less important?
Understanding - Do you understand exactly how and why women become and stay attracted
to men? Do you know the step-by-step process of how a man and woman go from first eye
contact all the way to the bedroom? If there was one area that you should get a better education
and understanding of, what would it be?
"Something I do when something I want doesn't go well or a situation doesn't work out...
and it's important... is I stop. And I replay it in my mind and go ok let's fix that. Lemme
visualize it going right and the things i'm going to do the next time.
"
As you can imagine, when you begin allowing your life to be a constant game of anticipating
emotional responses, worrying about avoiding the situations that caused the response, and
dealing with the emotions that you feel in response to your anticipation, it can create quite a
tangled mess
Many men allow themselves to live lives of quiet desperation, constantly imagining horrible
situations to avoid, then playing mental games to avoid feeling the emotions they are triggering
inside themselves by imagining bad situations and emotions!
If you want to have lasting success with women and dating, it is vital that you master your
emotions
Positive Ernotions
Negative Emotions
Emotions about past events - "Reflection Emotions"
Emotions about present events - "Response Emotions"
Emotions about future events - "Anticipatlon Emotions"
Emotions about yourself
Emotlons about others
Emotions about relatlonship between yourself and others
Emotions about relatlonshlps between others that don't involve you
Emotional anchors... same emotional response every time you think about It
Emotions responding to generalized concepts and judgments
Emotional prejudice... responding to an idea or thought, not the thlng
2:53 - [2] {3} do we choose how we feel?
5:30 - [2] a 1-10 scale of emotional control
Track 4/3 - [3] {2} cultivating the pause
Track 4/4 - [3] {5} emotional reframing
"Being annoyed is great. You know why? Because it shows you a shadow issue! This is
one of those moments when you go... wow I got an insight about myself! "
Track 4/6 - [2] {3} objectifying your demons
Track 4/7 - [2] {2} shifting locus of control
Track 4/8 - [1] {1} encouraging independence in others
Track 4/9 - [1] {1} weapons of influence
What We Want
We always want this:
Return
Reward
Performance
Security
Action
Instant Gratification
Invest
Work
Preparation
Risk
Plan
Delay Gratification
The reality is that each column is essentially the same thing. Investment is work is preparation is
risk is planning is delaying gratification. Return is reward is performance is security is action is
instant gratification. Once you begin to see the world through from the "invest first" paradigm your results tend to increase dramatically over time
Think of the places in your life where you want the return without having to do the
investment.
Track 5/4 - [3] cognitive dissonance
Track 5/5 - [2] path or purpose
Track 5/6 - [8] {6} - 5/11... BIG questions
"So think about those for a minute. I hope you wrote some of them down. Pick out the
one right now, close your eyes; pick out the one in your mind right now that was the one
that really stood out for you, like "ah that's the one that I really need to, I need to go one
way or other on. I'm on the wrong direction; I need to go the right direction. Or you know
what I just never even thought about it. But I can tell that if I just do that one, it'll make a
big difference for me" "
Track 6/4 - [1] {1} - 5/11... Center of the universe misconception
2:10 [1] {3} - Women aren't the center of the universe either
"Attractive women do have the power, and they know it. But it's because we
unknowingly give it away to them. The reality of the situation is rather shocking, but
obvious when you take the time to think about it. A real man, one that has his life together
in every way is far more rare and desirable than an attractive woman. How many men
have you known that were total package, meaning that they had all aspects of their lifes
handled, from being in control of their emotions, to keeping themselves healthy, to
knowing how to dress and groom themselves, to being great communicators, leaders and
interesting conversationalist, and how many physically attractive women have you
known? Most people have known only a handfull of real men who had their lifes totally
together, but they've met hundreds or thousands of attractive women. Ask 10 attractive
women about this and they'll tell you that beatifull women are everywhere, but a real man
is very rare, desirable and in high demand. It's often uncomfortable and daunting to even
consider changing a key belief and perspective like this and entertain the idea that you
could have been wrong all your life. But once you stop looking and treating attractive
women as if they were rare and valuable and more important yourself, and you instead
realize that they key is in yourself; it has all kinds of magical effects. It starts to break
habit-patterns of thought and behaviour that put women in control of you. It helps you
realize that attractive women are desperately seeking and competing for something, and
you can be that something. It causes you to take responsibility for your thoughts,
emotions and results (that you're getting in the world) and it causes you to open your
mind to the idea that there is a way for you to cultivate the skill and ability to make
women feel attraction for you.
"
"Well imagine what it must be like for one of those attractive women who only meet a
guy who really has his life together... every couple of years. Imagine what that must be
like.
"
"Women don't require much time to interpret logically whether or not you're a real man
who has your act together, and whether to feel attraction. Does that make sense? Do you
get that? This is the male version. What we're talking about here (in this program) is other
side of the coin"
4:57 - [2] {4}
"That's the first kinda game, that's the universal game broken down to the simplest; to its
fundamental, stripped bare"
"These are the 2 stories, the timeless stories, summed up. Now... most... are the first
one... 99% of all the stories you're gonna hear [...] is number. What i'm gonna suggest is
that, that doesn't feel very powerfull when you're a man and you've been doing that.
You're pursing, you're striving, you're trying to get something you lack. That
communicates that you don't have what you need, you're not the center of the universe"
"[story] number 2: that's what we're trying to do her" "Now i'm not suggesting that: she
pursue you -> you run away... I'm not saying this is the best way. I'm just saying that if
you can understand this second one, if you can get a feel for it, you can start to
experience it in your real life, you know what it feels like, you get the feeling of it... It'll
change everything for you!
"
"The topic that I feel is the center, the quitissential, the crux of this whole thing. If there
were one thing that you could just get at a deep level, its gonna be this section right
here"
**1:56 - pleasing yourself, no need for women (glover)**
4:31 - [1] {2} the secret of creating and maintaining attraction: status
Track 6/10 - [1] {3} status & weakness
*3:55 [4] quote from the improv book on the status realization*
Track 6/10 - [4] impact of status
"What I would like to suggest is that everything that you do, everything you say, every
little gesture, every movement... all of it... conveys status... And that there's a subtle
motive behind even the most innocous or innocent gesture, thought, concept... all of it!
"
"Everything will change. The way you see interactions will completely change. You
start realizing that when you communicate with people and you start writing letter back
and forth, you can hear when someone is trying to give you the 'i'm higher status than
you' view. You can feel it, and you can tell what they want"
"If your status... If the gap gets too far... two people can't really relate to each other. "
1:34 - [1] {2} status and attraction
Track 6/11 - [1] - quote from some book
Track 7/1 [1] {2} -Status, leadership, dominance
1:00 7/1 [1] {2} - Are you unconciously high status or low status
1:32 - Where does status come from?
Coz security is the foundation of a high-status attitude. And yesterday, in the last
sections, that's what we were doing, we were uprooting alot of those insecurities...
we working on them. Coz when you uproot those, and you eliminate the insecurities,
you build-up your self-image, self-esteem, your value to yourself as a man, the
quality of life... you naturally start to become higher status in your mind
7/2 [2] {2} - Are you unconciously high status or low status
"Identifying with high status... when you y'know walk in a social situation you're like
[...] in interactions with women; you just do the high-status thing, coz you identify with
it. It's just a part of what you're doing. It's just a part of what you're doing, its part of who
you are.[]...and she does something, and you feel that twinge [...] I don't wanna piss her
off, in your mind you 'that's the low-status thing to do, you gotta be kidding, that's not
me""
They know that when they're hanging out with people and the high-status people [are]
over here, they know they are not one of them. They notice they feel uncomfortable, and
the high-status people are hanging out and being cool and talking 'oh that's ... it'd get
kinda weird and' coz they identify with low status
I went to my first school dances [...] and didn't really have that many friends, and I wasn't
one of the cool kids... and I remember being at the dance, standing up against the wall,
just watching, hoping that something would happen for me. And I can remember the
distinct feeling of all the kids dancing [...] and I just was not part of that group. It was
really clear that there was a huge barrier that I could not figure out how to overcome.
Back then it was... it semeed like it was very traumatic. [...] when I think back now I ,
what I realize is that I identified myself with low status. Unconciously that's who I was.
And I disidentified myself with high-status. I could not even imagine myself in those
situations.
7/4 [2] {2} - status ranges
"Now everything i'm gonna share with you is a generality. When I say "always" "never"
that's not what I mean... It means it's a principle. There are sometimes when I screw up in
life, i do something stupid, and as soon as I do, or make someone's life hard because of
my screw up... y'know what I just say "I am sorry, I screwed up, I'll do whatever it takes
to fix it""
"Like I said if you get too far above somebody [...] there's too much of a discrepancy.
That can be a problem too, they just can't identify with the person. Your status is so much
higher than a woman... let's say you're dealing with a woman who doesn't have very high
self-esteem; your status is too much higher; you're going to blow her out, you're gonna
[...] freak her out a little too much. Wanna maintain that healthy comfortable distance...
the zone, the flow...
"
"There's a way to say anything and still not communicate lower status. You can still say
anything you want. There's a way to do it without communicating lower status. "~It's
not the opener, it's how you deliver it ~
1:20 [1] {3} - a principle to guide all your actions and communications
2:04 [2] {3} - The prime directive
"If there's one thing you drill into your mind from this whole program, from everything
you've ever heard or learned from me; this is it, the prime directive. Never communicate
lower status, never communicate lower status"
Go back to everything you've ever done wrong; everything [...] ever screwed something
up; there it is... violated the prime directive
7/6 [1] {3} - masculine and feminine polarity
0:55 [2] {5} - David Deida and Ken Wilbur on the masculine and feminine energy
"We talked about being on your path or purpose. When you're on your path, you're on
your purpose... it manifest itself to a woman as strong masculine presence, masculine
energy. That's a masculine energy thing. And since the polarities kinda arch and attract
each other; when you communicate that strong masculine presence, it will create the
reciprocal energy from the woman, the attraction will be created"
If women distract you, get you off track, take you off-base, freak you out; then that's
about you, that's about your life. That's a mirror for you, that's a lesson; it's something for
you to learn. Your relationship to life is your relationship to feminine energy
4:10 - [4] Yin Yang sign
7/7 [1] {3} - feminine assestment
7/8 [1] - masculine context
7/9 [1] {2} - myers-briggs type indicator
"It's been one of the most usefull things that i've ever learned in my life PERIOD bar
none! It's something that I use everyday. I use it alot in bussiness, I use it in interpersonal
relationships, I use it in family, and yes I even use it when interacting with women"
~This also happens to automatically come out of "living an interesting life" if you
build one, you're a "walking DHV", and a lot of the proper subcommunication arises
automatically. Louis & Copeland cover it best in their mastery product under the "be
building a life you love" section ~
"I've come to believe, thru studying this for years, using it to interact with people, for
years, and myself... and reading alot of books about evolutionary biology, psychology
and alot of the tests that they've done about people, that most of this is genetic. I think
that most of this 'personality-type' stuff is... you're born with. I really belive that. And I
don't think that it changes much over time"
1:32 [4] {2} - the four pairs
"There's some books you should read, and the one I recommend the most is 'the art
of speed-reading people' by Tieger"
7/10 [2] {2} - the temperaments
" [introverts] Sometimes they don't look very happy. Introverted people are used to
growing up with people saying to them "what's wrong?" all the time. Coz they're just
sitting there in their head thinking about things. They're way in their head"
8/1 [2] - using personality types
8/2 [2] {2} - metaprograms
Some of my favorite metapograms
Most people (i've found) move away from what they don't want. They don't move toward
what they want. It's a strategy that's not likely to get you what you want in your life.
When you're constanly moving away from - what does that suggest? External locus of
control; toward, when you're moving toward what you want, that suggests an internal
locus of control
"If you understand what someone is, if you understand your own, you will have alot
more success communicating and interacting with other people"
2:32 [2] {2} - two unconcious approaches
"We're gonna talk a little bit about female psychology now... we're gonna shift gears.
You'll notice that we started with the bigger contexts and now we're kinda narrowing it
down. We're aiming toward eventually arriving at practical step-by-step techniques, and
in the middle of these things, we're gonna talk about female psychology"
"Woman's gotta figure out if you get it. [...] if you've got that masculine energy thing
handled [...] women want sex too. "
3:40 [1] {1} - the female psyche
8/3 [1] {1} - sexual currency
8/4 [1] {1} - counteracting sexual currency
"The quickest way to achieve this, is to communicate that you have more value and a
higher status, than the woman you're communicating with"
~This also happens to automatically come out of "living an interesting life" if you
build one, you're a "walking DHV", and a lot of the proper subcommunication arises
automatically. ~
1:09 - [2] {2} the difference between what she wants and what she wants when she's with
you
3:43 - [] {} the secret formula to devauling yourself instantly
" Review these often [...]Ok... learn to recognize these things as they start to happen, so
you go ''uh! I'm doing it again. This is one of those ones we all do as guys"
2:40 [1] {1} - Why she stays and why she goes
The reason i'm dividing them up [is] because I want you to realize that... women will
spend time with you, because they want to be around you. They like the experience that
they're getting. They feel good! And [if] they don't wanna be around you [its] because
they don't like the experience they're getting, they don't feel good, they don't enjoy it, its
not helping them. It doesn't have anything to do with how you feel about them
5:02 - [2] {4} The theory of scarce and abundant choices
Stop for a minute right now. Close your eyes. Think about what you're feeling like, your
decision-making process. How it is for you when you have one option, or you're trying to
get an option. Think about how you feel when you're making a choice based on that. Now
think about making a choice based on the idea that you have infite options, too many...
you don't have time for all of them. How do you make that choice? Just get how it feels
inside. Feel it in your gut.
8/6 [1] {2} - choice
1:28 [1] {1} - Friendship, the ultimate "friend"
2:27 [1] {1} - the difference between friends and just friends
8/7 [1] {4} - attractive female friends
"I'm about to reveal to you an elusive-obvious strategy that most men have never
considered, or if they have considered, they have never put into action. It could possibly
be the highest leverage thing you can do. The most effective strategy in the world
possibly, for meeting a conssistent, steady supply of attractive women with very little
risk, very little rejection, very high chance of success"
"I know guys [...] who date alot of attractive women, and guess what? They never go out
on the street, approach women, they never go get women's phone numbers, they don't
deal with this issue of 'is she or isn't she single'. It's not part of their model at all. And yet
they're consistently with one after another amazingly hot beatifull women. Guess what?
They have attractive interesting female friends who they are just friends with. Attractive,
social women, they hang out with other attractive, social women. Alot of times they're the
hub in the network. And what most guys do when they meet an attractive woman, what
they're thinking is 'how do I get her? How do I get her?' And they're missing all this stuff
she's talking about going out, having fun with her friend and parties that she throws and
this and that and the other thing, they're missing it entirely"
8/8 [3] {4} - make friends with atleast 3 attractive women
If you don't already have this going on, you need to do this immediatelly! This is the
number one strategy when you [...] finish listening to this program. This is it, do it
immediatelly.
2:37 [7] {2} - the structure of friendship
You ever notice that some people who make friends with anyone and they make friends
with all these people that you go 'wow, how did they ever made friends with that person?'
Well they just walked into a relationshiop thinking 'i'm just gonna make friends with this
person'. And they deal at a different level; they talk to people in a different way.
Start thinking about friendship; Do a little analysis on it. Consider it. Think about the
structure. Make some female friends. See what it's like.
8/9 [1] {1} - encouraging independance revisited
1:20 [1] {3} - things that create that inner-bond
8/10 [3] - playfull antagonism
8/11 [8] {3} - make friends with guys who are masterzs
2:30 [2] {3} - the common denominators of disaster
"You gotta understand these things, you gotta automate, you gotta get them to the point
where they are unconcious competent" ~Concious Evolution~
8/12 [2] {2} - attraction and honest signals
3:36 [4] {2} - honest signals list
"Posture's unconcious... Especially when you see a woman you're interested in; last thing
you're thinking about is your posture" ~step 1 of fidentia's method~
Centerdness is also mentioned later on as a "honest signal"
8/13 [1] {2} - telltale giveaways
0:48 [1] {1} - instant ewws
8/14...9/2 [2] {2} - inaffective approaches
" Outside we had an interesting conversation about David X and somebody was saying
'well you know he kind of goes against what you said. He feels ok about complimenting
women' it was an interesting discussion. I don't have a problem complimenting women.
But i'll tell ya... I don't give them a compliment so I can get approval from them. A
woman can tell when you're trying to give her approval in order to get it back. Or
whether you're [...] giving a compliment coz you just feel like saying it. Don't try to get
approval by giving it"
1:33 [1] {1} - is she or isn't she [single]
It doesn't interest me at my current level of development, maybe sometime in the future :)
9/3 [1] - comedy mailbag
9/4 [1] - social skills / attraction continuum
Aiigh... we gonna talk about becoming more interesting in this section, which I believe is
very important.
Quit trying to change women and learn magic techniques; Make yourself attractive first.
" Remember I said anything... too much of anything becomes its opposite. There is this
optimal kinda place to live in. And it's kinda right maybe a little past smooth. Not quite to
slick and definetely not to cheesy. Just think about that for a second [the continuum].
Where are you right now? Where should you be, where would you like to be? "
1:07 [1] {1} - sexual ornamentation
1:11 [7] {3} - the five foundations of success
9/5 [1] {2} - communication and meta-communication
"So communication (surface level) and then there's meta-communication (more complex
levels of communication. I want you to become aware of it. "
Master the simple levels before moving to the complex levels [1] {2}
1:22 [1] {3} - the story of content
2:04 [1] {3} - four levels of communication
3:08 [1] {4} - comments on content
9/6 0:25 [1] {1} - being distracted with content
"Only after you become unconciously competent can you go back to 'ok now I can just
kinda get back to the conversation and enjoy it!' Now that you know what's going on a
deeper level"
"You'll find that if you go out with some of the guys that [are] really good at
approaching women; they have certain themes, certain things they use everytime to start a
conversation. I have several of them myself. But it's not the content, ok... it's the idea
around it. They can take out the thing they said and plug in it, rather like it, and get the
same result. They can make things up on the spot. You make something up right on the
spot, new... brand new. No one's ever heard before... but because it's based on something
you know, you know it's gonna work. Most guys are trying to think of something original
and creative to say for every woman... 'can't say something canned... i need something
creative... blah blah' and then she's gone... Or when they walk up and they say it, she's
nervous... coz they don't understand what's going on the deeper level [...] They're
distracted by the content. They're distracted by their own... the content they are trying to
make up.
"
2:50 [1] {1} Become a master of content. "You need to master it, don't let it master
you"
"If you are not a master of content. If you're distracted by it. Then you're gonna be
focusing on the content. 'oh that's interesting... oh really you're interested in that. Me too'
you don't know what's going on. When you master content, you understand how to use it,
how it works, how its distracting, then you can be the one who uses it for distracting
instead of having it used on you. And i'm not saying use it to distract or manipulate. I'm
saying use it to distract, because we're all distracted by it at all times. Atleast you can be
entertained by it.
"
9/7 [1] {1} - reverse rapport [usefull only for the flirting stage]
"Remember I showed y'know the hero's path [...] that these things happen kinda
predictably? In life there's a universal drama that plays itself out in different levels, in
different scales. I don't know the answer, but all I know is that... it's really interesting to
me how the tough things happen when everything seems to be going well. And I think
that the idea of being attached to the ideal of 'i'm gonna get my life to the point where
everything's gonna be handled and than nothing will be able to touch me, nothing will be
able to hurt me; I think that that's a type of... self-hypnosis, idealization and hubris that
will create a huge Achilles's heel. That something's gonna come up and WACK! And then
you're really gonna be taken out. And I think that if you, if you structure your life a little
more realistically... and you realize that y'know life is going to happen. If you know a lot
of people, some of them are gonna get sick, some of them are gonna die. You can't time
that stuff. You can't know when its gonna happen.
"
"Dan [Sullivan] shares a concept [...] he call it the gap. What he says is that... humans...
we have ideal-making minds. We create ideals, that's what we do all the time, we're
thinking of doing something, our mind creates an ideal about what that's gonna be like,
how it's gonna feel [...] the problem with an ideal is that it can never be real. You can
never actually have an ideal come true; that it's not reality. The metaphor that he uses is
the horizon. The horizon is not a thing, it's an ideal. You can never arrive at the horizon.
If you look at it, and you see the horizon line, i'm gonna go over there. You get there and
you go 'it's still there'. Now ideals are usefull for some things. They allow us to imagine
something that we would like to achieve. Make steps toward it. Organize things so that
you can achieve them. The problem comes in when you become too attached to the ideal,
when the ideal becomes too important. And especially when you kinda fall victim to the
thing he calls the gap [...]"
"Dan did a program with them called 'pure genius' and I highly recommend it"
12/6 [7] {4} - Add five things
"If you sat down and you spent two hours, uninterrupted, focused, in front of your
computer with your keyboard [...] and you just said... what are some of the things I can
do to be an incredible wingman for somebody? At the end of the two hours you would be
sitting there going 'whoever these guys are that I make friends with; they are the luckiest
guys that like have run around on the face of the earth. And you can add so much value to
their lifes" ~ THIS is an AMAZING concept for getting ANYTHING anything from "how do I
become a great friend to female friends" or "how do I become a social hub everyone looks to for social
circles?"
"I think would be get atleast once in your life, just so you know what's going on with it,
if you haven't had them. I personally think its good idea to get most of these regularily"
12/10 [1] {2} - Getting laid
"I talked about the evolution that guys go thru, and most guys eventually get to a point
when they do start learning how to be succesfull with women. Just like anything else.
When you get quantity handled, quality starts becoming a more important issue. And you
start reazling the quality isn't available to everyone. Things that are desirable, of highquality are in high-demand and they're typically alot more rare than the readily available
version. So y'know getting laid is fine. But think about improving yourself to the point
when a really a fantastic woman shows up in your life, you'll know what to do to be able
to keep her around.
"
"This is going to be a little bit of a summary. It's kinda just a new view that i've been
taking to really clearly separate the two paradigms. I call it the attraction-centric model"
12/12 [1] {5} - Attraction-centric model
13/01 [1] {1} - Juxtaposition
13/02 [1] {1} - The 'all women are one big organism' fallacy
"I already tried that on a girl, and she didn't like it, therefore all girls must not like it,
therefore it's a stupid idea and it wouldn't work"
"Remember human minds generalize, they generalize things very quickly. Something
happens, triggers a chain of events, you go 'oh that's how it that works'. Happens 3 or 4
times, it might as well become a law of the universe for most people.
"
"If you're learning stuff from people [...] they know what they're doing [...] its probably
worth trying things more times than you normally would. And maybe if they don't work
now, try them again in six months. And if they don't work in six months, try them in a
year. If it doesn't happen in a year, maybe a year and a half or two years"
"There's something that I do that has brought a tremendous amount of value in my life
[...] and that is: when something doesn't make sense to me, when it doesn't add up. It just
didn't fit together, I try to make a little mental note... and I think about it, I go 'Ok why
did that happen? What's going on there? I need to plug that one in and look for the
answer' [...] and sometimes it literally takes years for me to figure something out."
"[on the going out alone excercise] I have done this a couple of times, personally... just
to get over this issue myself""
"OK we're gonna start talking about... in the next sections... we're going start talking
about techniques and communications. "
13/06 [1] {1} - Sexual Communication
2:26 [1] {1} - 4 steps of sexual communication
"This is kinda the universal process that happens. This is the meta-process, this is the
big-picture that is always going on behind the scenes. You might not be able to see some
of these things happening sometimes, because they are happening on a subtle level.
"In 99% of the first ten minutes, it's not about you; it's about her... her stuff. Remember
she's projecting at the same time, she's got her shadow"
"One of the things that really amazed me several years ago, when I started going on alot
first dates with women for like cofee, tea, that kinda thing. The more kinda confident I
became, and the more I started to understand what was happening and started to see these
dynamics... as I was putting it all together in my mind. [...] when I could see the matrix...
I would sit down for a cup of cofee with a woman and I would see a lot of times they
were like shaking. You notice a little hint. Or they're a little nervous. [...] and as soon as I
realized that I went 'omg she's nervous! It's a completely different game here. This is not
what I thought it was at all!' y'know coz unconciously i would always imagine it as 'she is
totally confident, she knows she owns me... she's just sitting there going -when is gonna
screw up so I can walk off---' When you get your game together, when you understand
what's happening, women become nervous often. "
17/08 [8] {8} - Principles for approaching women (key beliefs)
2:50... 17/09 [0] {0} - Starting conversations with women (opinion openers)
17/10 [7] - Analyses of movies
SPEAKERS
19/1... 19/6 [9] - Eric, Hypnotica, Rasputin
19/6 - Perssistance
RSD SPEAKERS
20/10...20/12 [10] {8} - Final thoughts