How to learn outer game

“The Journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” -Lao Tzu

In the process of doing thousands of hours worth of residential training, teaching people from all over the world, helping people with a gamut of inner and outer game issues, I keep coming back to a fundamental lesson.

Learning is best done in small chunks.

Usually, what happens is something like the aspiring PUA goes out, tries everything all at once, the girls get weirded out, he gets frustrated, everyone goes home sad and alone.

I hope to save you from this terrible, expensive, time-wasting fate, and help you learn much more quickly.

So, just like that person taking a journey of a thousand steps, you’re going to take a journey of thousands of approaches. Maybe less. Probably less. It’s irrelevant, let’s move on.

First, commit to practicing regularly. twice a week for 4 hours+ is bare minimum to get better. Consider it like working out: If you work out for 3+ times a week, you’ll probably gain a lot of strength. If you’re just trying to maintain your strength, you can go to the gym less often. Starting out, go out regularly, but just like in the gym, you don’t want to go so often you burn yourself out.

Also just like the gym, some people are going to hate practicing approaching. I understand, there’s lots of times I was like, “Dude, a nap sounds way better than going out and talking to random people!” But you know what got me out of bed? Pick up buddies! Just like working out tends to happen more often if you have a buddy pushing you, the same thing will happen with pick up. You’ll hold each other responsible, and you’re more likely to go.

“But Justin!” you exclaim, “If I had any friends, I wouldn’t need this pick up stuff!” Don’t worry my introverted reader, I have a solution for you too! Take a shower, put on some nice clothes, and go to a place with a bunch of people. I’m a fan of pubs and shopping areas, but go wherever there’s a high concentration of people. Hang out for half an hour. While you’re there, you’re probably just going to get bored and talk to people just because you can. If not, if you just don’t have it in you to be social, and you put in your half hour, I give you permission to go home, but I want that half hour!

Now, when you’re out, doing your approaches, most people will try to apply everything they’ve learned. This is a quick way to get good at none of them. If you aim at every target, you aim at none. Pick one or two things you want to focus on, and drill into them. Start with opening. First, practice opening indirect. Then try opening, and then giving the women a compliment. Work your way up to a compliment opener. Getting comfortable with everything means that you can apply whatever will best suit the situation. From there, practice building rapport, story telling, breaking rapport, kino, qualification, sexual escalation. If you do it just like you did with openers, you’ll find yourself making steady improvements constantly.

Even having approached numbers of sets that get into the 5-digit range, I always fall back to these basics. And I focus on one at a time when I practice to keep my game sharp as a tack.

Uncommon Commonalities

I’m sure you’re familiar with the concept that commonalities create rapport. It is not simply commonalities that create rapport, but uncommon commonalities. If you meet someone in your town who grew up in that town, and you did too, then you have a commonality, but it won’t create that much rapport. However, if you find someone in Austin who also went to the same school from a small town in Germany, that is an uncommon commonality.

Even better than being uncommon, is having a commonality the stems from childhood. Sharing similar tastes in cartoons or something with someone will allow you and that other person to geek out in a way that’s special between the two of you. For instance, I happen to love Disney songs. One of my favorite soundtracks is the Little Mermaid soundtrack. When I tell girls that, a lot of times they feel the same way, and the connection between us is made deeper as we belt out “Under the Sea” together.

Now, singing songs from a red-headed mermaid in the middle of the club may not be something you’re willing to do, and I understand. The point is not to do something totally foreign. The point is to find something special, unique about you that will help women see what’s special about you, and you share with her. Maybe she wanted to be Princess Leia, and you’re all about Han Solo. Maybe she longed to be the pink Power Ranger, and you always wanted to be the Blue Ranger. Whatever it is, drop your defenses, let her in to the parts that are a little goofy, and special, and she’ll be thinking about you long after you’ve gotten her number.

If you don’t have anything flowing to your mind that comes from your childhood, you can also create a strong connection just by the passion with which you do something. If you find someone who shares a passion in Crav Maga with you, then you guys can talk about proper heel-palm strikes.

The sad truth is that a lot of people lack passion in their life. They work, eat, go home, watch TV, and go to sleep. If you have something in you’re life that you’re passionate about, you already stand out. People are drawn to passion, like a moth to flame, so talk about it. If you get known as “the guy who does xyz,” then people who share that passion, or are at least curious, will find their way into your life, and you’ll find a connection happening almost instantly. If you can instill that passion in another, that’s even better, because then you have rapport, and a clear demonstration of excellence. She’ll feel attracted as well as safe with you.

So go and find your passion, and get to know people to find their’s. Find the uncommon commonalities, and you’re sure to find your love life skyrocketing!

How to Change Your Life Today… Right now, this very Moment!

“Live as if your father was dead.” -David Deida

Growing up, we are told what to do. Go to school. Go to church. Clean the yard. Get a job. Learn to drive. Go to college. Find a wife. Have kids. Get old. Die.

What if that’s not the journey for you? It’s the outline to the story society tells us to live, but is it the story you need to live? Is it the story you want to live? It’s can be hard to shed the trappings of a “normal” life, and go blaze your own trail through life. I’ve been fortunate to have family and friends who support me through my non-traditional existence, but even with my blessings, there have still been times when I’ve had everyone telling me that I shouldn’t do something, and I had to walk my path very alone.

How to change your life from normal to great…

In the course of life, we are called as men to find our purpose, and fulfill it. This philosophical question, “What is the meaning of life?” constantly calling to us for an answer. Scale it down; make it more useful for us to ponder, “What is the meaning of my life?” What do you need to do before you die? What purpose do you serve? Some peoples’ purpose is just to be an example of what’s possible. Sometimes it is to make some lucky lady very happy, to have a few kids and the white picket fence. Perhaps it’s to be an artist, an entrepeneur, a civil rights activist, or even the president of the United States. Okay, probably not that last one…

Scaling it down even further, what is your purpose in getting great with women? Do you want to be a playboy, surrounded by women, a bachelor for life? Do you seek to bed a bunch of women, so that when you find the One, your wild oats have been sown, and you can settle down happily? Experience has taught me that the traditional methods of dating are flawed, and while they may work for some, they fail for many. That said, society will scorn you if you follow a non-traditional path, and friends and family may even confront you. It is tough to blaze your own trail, and people may not understand your choices. It takes a lot of self-esteem and courage to go out and do what’s right for you, and let other peoples’ opinions be damned. Funny enough, chicks dig courage and self-esteem…

Going forward:

1) Figure out what is your end goal? It’s okay if this changes, happens to everyone. Just go for a general direction for now.

2) What milestones do you want to hit on your journey? What do you want to say you’ve done? This can be total ego, it’s your life, sometimes the cheap thrills are totally worth it.

3) Spend time figuring out the best way to go about reaching your overall goal, while hitting those milestones along the way. If you need some ideas, feel free to comment below.

How to be Manlier Than Approach Anxiety

Problem:

When most guys go out, they’ll approach like they buy milk. There’s no purpose, they’re just doing another task on a list of things they feel like they have to do. It’s better than sitting at home playing the new Modern Warfare game, as far as developing a social life, but it’s still not as effective, and initially attractive, as it could be. Also, when it’s just a task, you’re more likely to succumb to the effects of approach anxiety.

Solution:

When you go out, have a purpose. I don’t mean simply goals, like, “Go approach ten women,” I mean purpose. The difference is intent. If your goal is to approach ten women, and you do so with the same amount of purpose you go grocery shopping, then it’s all for naught. Approach like you’re a man, like you’re storming the beaches of Normandy, like you might die tomorrow, and if this is your final act, then by God, you’re going out with a bang! (So to speak, of course.)

This is you

When things matter, then they should be treated as such. Don’t go through life half-assing things that matter. Give them your full attention. Be present, feel the emotions welling up inside of you. Thoughts are okay, but should not be held on to like a safety blanket. They should be like butterflies, interesting, fleeting, allowed to drift away as quickly as they come.

Most people starting to learn seduction will attempt to stop approach anxiety, but that is counter-productive. Approach anxiety is a good indication of who you should approach. If a woman can create that nervousness in you, then she’s someone you’re attracted to. A man’s deepest purpose is generally found down the path that he fears to follow. Going and approaching despite the fear will allow you to feel your purpose. It is masculine to overcome fear. Bravery is not the absence of fear, but action despite fear. Women and fortune favor the brave.

If you “destroy” approach anxiety, using some psychological trick to remove approach anxiety, you’re removing the ability to be excellent. Women know that approaching a beautiful woman is difficult, and they know when the situation is especially difficult. Woman are very emotionally intuitive. A hard approach for you might be easy for someome else, but women can feel the emotional energy within you. When you approach, she can feel the emotions you overcame to approach. When you overcome obstacles, and approach no matter the circumstance and strong emotions, she’s going to feel far more initial attraction than some guy who felt no fear, and approached her when it was “easy.” Go for the 3-pointers, take the hard shots. That which seems difficult in seduction is usually the easy way.

This is not to say that one should waste time, or make things unnecessarily complicated. Quite the contrary, seduction can be simple. Simplicity is not always ease. Approaching a woman with simple honesty, “Hello, I saw you and I wanted to talk to you,” can feel far less easy than dropping the newest opinion opener. However, it is simple, because she knows your intent, and few men have the clarity of purpose to put it out in the open like that. She’ll feel it even more strongly if you said something like that after overcoming approach anxiety. It is a simple thing to do, but it is not always easy.

Action Steps:

Now, I implore you. Go out, find the women that take your breath away, that make you do a double-take. Find the ones who you make excuses not to approach. Make it your purpose, and approach those women with nothing but truth and simplicity: “Hello, I saw you, and I want to talk to you.”