The Game

I started reading a book too. Yeah, The Game. The Secret Society pickup artists.

It's a fascinating story though about the silk road. Yes the dude went from just being a nerd in his Apartment, huh? He was making like hundreds of millions of dollars.

Neil Strauss, he wrote that book, The Game.

Neil Strauss, who wrote The Game, Emergencies. Written like 10 New York Times bestsellers.

I read the book, right? Not one girl.

So dude, that validates everything I thought about George. Dude, I read that book.

It's the secret to negging, truly. It's like pretending you don't care, kind of insulting girls. It's negging them.

The key thing is, if you see a group of girls at a bar and the one you like, right? Don't pay attention to her. Be nice to the other three. And then kind of rip her apart a little bit.

That hairstyle's 80s, huh? And then go back to the girls, right? Supposedly that's going to get their juices flowing. It doesn't work. They spit in your face. I had a girl spit in my face.

Neil Strauss did the game. We talked about this. I was like, why hasn't someone done that? That was 20 years ago. Neil Strauss, I met him. How come no one's done a book like that since?

For people that don't know, Neil Strauss wrote this book called The Game and it was basically a way of negging.

It's the secret to negging, truly.

There's this book called The Game by Neil Strauss.

I don't know if you ever read that book.

Neil is great.

I spoke about this idea to Neil Strauss, the guy that wrote The Game and he wrote Rick Rubin's book

I was at a point where I was looking at my life and asking, "What's the point of all this?" and a lot of the people who were involved in that world were very unhappy. The relationships that they were having were very shallow, and they weren't getting what they wanted out of life. So I wanted to write a book that would help people see the other side of that.

So I wrote "The Game" as a way to expose the tricks and techniques that these pickup artists were using to get women.

But I also wanted to show the dark side of that world. The fact that these guys were often hurting women and themselves.

I wanted to show that there was a better way. That you didn't have to be a pickup artist to find love and connection.

Just because we're throwing quotes at each other, one other one from last year that stopped me in my tracks from Neil Strauss, the guy that wrote The Game, who's a pickup artist dude and he's kind of now transcended that. He's actually coming on the show in a couple of weeks. He said, unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.

The original world that we had when Neil Strauss who wrote the game came up and did pick up what that was was exclusive marketing.

And I think that the world much of the world of men's online dating at the moment in the more sort of nihilistic black pill side is exclusive lifestyle.

the game was like a huge, huge selling book and the pickup artist kind of community in the 2000, late 2000, late 2000s, early 2010s, it kind of morphs into the red pill community or kind of splits.

the game was like a huge, huge selling book

the guy that wrote the game

I read The Game, that Pickup Artist book and then I read his sequel to it where he realises that like much of the way he'd chosen to live was wrong.

The basic premise of all seduction teaching and practice is that interactions between men and women are subject to certain underlying principles that, once understood, can be readily manipulated.

With the advent of the Internet, elements of the pickup artists communities ideology hardened into something darker.

It paved the way for other masculinized self-help formations to emerge, such as Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life, says O'Neill.

The inciting incident for the kind of infection of pickup artistry on these communities of lonely and increasingly bitter young men was Neil Strauss's 2005 bestseller The Game, which is basically the story of a journalist who got drawn into the world of pickup artists who were men who treat dating kind of like an engineering problem, right?

If you read a lot of pickup artistry stuff, they treat it like picking up women is like it's an issue of numbers and repetition and learning repeatable tactics like, you know, and women can't do math so she won't even notice.

Neil Strauss, author of The Game is the guy explaining to Elon Musk very reasonably.

The inciting incident for the kind of infection of pickup artistry is Neil Strauss's 2005 bestseller The Game, which basically tells the story of a journalist who got drawn into the world of pickup artists.

He was putting on those earrings, being like, bitches love earrings in the mirror. You know, Neil Strauss's book about it's like the pickup artist. Have you ever read that? And yeah, what is it? The Game? Yeah. And then they talked about peacocking, how you can still get any girl if you're not the best looking guy in the room, and even mentioned negging from the book.

There's a book called The Game. That's basically what that is. Neil Strauss wrote it, and he now wishes he hadn't written the book, but I assume he still takes the royalty checks.

Did you remember the book, The Game? No. Okay. So yeah, this was a while ago, but it was a guy, I'm a little fuzzy on it, but it was this guy, he wrote a book, and essentially it's teaching men how to get a woman to be obsessed with you.

That's the only like dating advice I thought was applicable of those like, you know, all those like, you know, I guess you would say what? Neil Strauss, the game. Like the dating experts. If you're in a bar and you're just having a fun time, people want to, women will gravitate toward you. They want to go to your fun.

Neil Strauss went with us on one of our trips he's an author of many huge books including one called The Game which is about pick up artists and mind control experiments it knows all this and he was saying this is like the game but for running a country with total control wow

Neil Strauss went with us on one of our trips he's an author of many huge books including one called The Game which is about pick up artists and mind control experiments it knows all this and he was saying this is like the game but for running a country with total control wow and that to me was a bold statement because this is a guy who's studied all this and written the best selling book about it and he's like the whole everything we're doing all the things we're saying is a playbook for how to control peoples what people are thinking and manage perception right

Neil Strauss went with us on one of our trips he's an author of many huge books including one called The Game which is about pick up artists and mind control experiments it knows all this and he was saying this is like the game but for running a country with total control wow

Didn't he have the book about nagging?

I follow him on Instagram. Oh yeah, he's doing better now.

He wrote the biggest book ever, the pickup artist game.

I just got attracted to seekers like you and and I I wanted to read the things that you guys read