Richard Cooper - The Unplugged Alpha (2021) Book Review

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Richard Cooper steam rolled to success with 750k YouTube subscribers between 2017 and now - His book the unplugged alpha was lauded with popular ratings on amazon but is this book really something that can be positive for men’s dating life? And has he milked huge popularity despite not being actually good at dating in-spite of his 750k subscriber count there’s no infield of him , no proof he’s dated even a 7 from pickup and there doesn’t seem to be much innovation about the things he talks about.


Divorce Coaching Grift?


Richard seemingly charges $997 for a 15 minute phone call - has his divorce coach and divorce meet-up group which he charges an annual fee for - the man is milking other men who seem desperate for relationship guidance with himself someone who dated 2 single mothers in a row and had LTRs with them also . His success in dating seems almost non existent- you’re better off reading a Tom Torero book and just going out doing a few approaches then buying any of this crap.


Now you have to be some what retarded and have poor relationship management and approaching skills to date with 2 single mothers and have one ****ty divorce. As far as relationship success goes I put him way below those of Tom Torero, Liam Mcrae, James Marshall , Simple Pickup and heck even poorly dressed Sasha Daygame trumps this guy .

My Problems with Richard Cooper’s 21 Convention Speech Entitled " Be Better" :
Just reads as bull**** self-help to being with “take action” where have we heard that one ? “No body owes you ****” Woo! At 18:11 he calls about entrepreneurs and bull**** guys who sell products online- bit rich coming from someone who seemingly has no really entrepreneurship experience, no dating/daygame success yet now charging $1000 for a coaching call. “ Take a look of the real results they actually get out of life” well take a look at Richard Cooper’s real results with women- 2 single mothers dated, one divorces- I can’t think of worse results than that. I’d rather be Yad running around Oxford street than have the relationships Richard Cooper was in. How has someone like this got 800k subs yet someone who 10,000s of cold approaches in Nick Krauser got 5k subs and James Marshall got 350k subs . Again im overvaluing the daygame.com coaches here a fair bit obviously but its just hilarious how someone who’s achieved so little in dating can be so boastful about so little that he’s done .





“You only have so many ****s to give , choose them wisely” I mean this again isn’t innovative - it’s just a “manly man” way of saying avoid decision fatigue. Richard then gives a list of LTRs to avoid including those who are “drug and alcohol dependent ” again pretty obvious , again this is just all obvious self help bs that may seem profound but lacks real innovation coming form someone who has achieved so little in the dating world against the previous 21 convention speakers.


His next piece showing that “unicorns don’t exist” seems ironic given that he himself doesn’t have much proof of successful LTRs - there are examples of good marriages and dating coaches that have had good LTRs , Robbie Kramer, Liam Mcrae and Paul Janka are three good examples of this and they’ve had legitimate dating success . Seems that Richard is taking his own frustration of relationship failures and making broad based self help quotes and conclusions that don't even make sense if you've had some daygame experience.





Guys being cucked into paying large amount for Richard Cooper’s courses:


As mentioned before Richard seems to be shilling a divorce course at roughly $500 a piece and a patreon ,a book and various other products. It appears he's taking full advantage on cashing in on men who've made similar relationship mistakes to that of him but the whole thing is pretty odd seeing as he has achieved so little in relationships and dating and yet- is making money now selling "red pill" products. Mix that in with a bit of Red Pill alpha male sayings and you have a recipe for a lot of hot air. Why is this guy a coach? what has he achieved? Did he just milk the bull run that was Rollo Tommasi's red pill? It seems so . But what of the men who actually buy his ****- his patreon group has 150 subscribers - there are literally 150 people out there that will pay money from someone for dating advice off someone who's dated two single mum's . Its an unreal situation which doesn't make sense. Richard has also pivoted to Crypto courses too (somewhat unsurprisingly seeing as all his business ventures seem to just be taking advantage of certain fads rather than showing any progress of his own in the dating world.) The classic "monthly subscription" course selling that so many contrapreneurs endeavour , patreon , crypto courses you name it Richard seemingly is involved.


His last chapter goes into TRT therapy which can really **** you up if done wrong. It seems once again misguided that someone won't offer natural solutions to testosterone problems like sunlight, switching diet or eating oysters instead Richard goes full blown on recommending TRT which seems extreme for the majority of the audience.



Single Mum Heaven Monetised from Naive followers?


The issue with the book from chapter 6 for an "alpha male" book there is so little success here- Richard seemingly dates 2 single mum's falls for one, gets cheated on then ends up in another relationship with a 40 year old - hardly much to brag about in terms of successes . In fact i'd argue being in no relationship would be better than any of this ****. The fact that he's managed to monetise this into 200 million views and 750k youtube subs is pretty unreal all things considered . Once again when I compare this to other legitimate dating coaches out there when you take into account the likes of James Marshall have 350k and Tom Torero had 80k before his channel got taken down Richard has seemingly done better to monetise his non existent skillset and seemingly not even getting a single daygame lay .


Chase Excellence not Women


I mean this another horrible piece of advice- for men being proactive about problems is VITAL . Spending too much time on self development can deter dating success. For me personally i achieved my best dating success from being proactive , consistent and approaching regularly. These aren't things that Richard promotes in his book and I feel he is doing his followers a massive disservice here and instead results to plugging vague self help statements continually throughout his book and speeches- once you scratch beneath the surface there's very little there


Concluding Thoughts:


In many ways the rise of Richard Cooper has personified everything wrong with the current world of self help- instead of being an actual accomplished individual in dating he has been a monumental failure and he has seemingly taken advantage of the rise of the red pill to cash in on suspecting males who don't seemingly know better. With divorce rates rising , men are probably being more drawn into his bs and that's somewhat understanding as men are tribal they want leaders and see Richard Cooper's no ****s image as attractive- I can somewhat understand why people fall for this ****. The self development scene has long lacked critical thinking and proper analysis and instead of following someone who's actually getting daygame results people are inclined to follow Richard with his bad boy demeanour and fast cars. Who cares about women when you have a fast car and a pack of self help quotes . There's no need to work hard or approach if I make quotes about hypergamy and ridicule women about how hard dating has become .


Men's dating sphere has seemingly regressed - we went from Tom Torero, James Marshall and Liam Mcrae - all people who actually dated good quality men to Richard Cooper who seemingly jumped from **** relationship to **** relationship and then wrote a book and sold courses relating to it. Maybe men are just procrastinating from really creating options for themselves and Richard Cooper's book is one solution to read and procrastinate over actual approaching? I don't know- anyhow this book is best avoided and Richard himself just isn't anyone special for an aspiring daygamer or someone looking to improve their dating life as a whole.


Score: 2/10
















In terms of innovative thought most of his videos seem inspired the Rational Male rather than any of Richard Cooper’s unique dating perspectives- Most seem to be some alpha regurgitation of red pill/Self Improvement lingo. Again problematic - Richard doesn't seem to have any real fixes for people's dating life other than Alpha lingo and driving a car 68 miles in the 60 zone.
 

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That's messed up if that is true. Good work in analyzing these books and reviewing them for the masses.

Anyways, just some feedback, you should change the font colour of the titles of the articles on your blog. You cannot see them because of the background.

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I haven't read his book yet. I think with a lot of things you look for something you can add to your repertoire.

Are there little tweaks you can add.. adjustments. One person doesn't have all the answers, there may be trends when you compare content from multiple people.

I definitely have never been a fan of "AWALT" the all women are like that thinking that some redpill.

Have you read practical female psychology yet?
 

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You think chasing women is better than success? Women are always there, is better to develop yourself into a man of quality and then start practicing dating, than the other way around.

You're position is discarding everything he writes, which says a lot about you.
 

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Haha, middle-aged Red Pillers who urge men to contribute to GDP so they can get Chad’s leftovers in their 30s and 40s while teenage broccoli heads without two cents to rub together get first pickins. JFL.
 

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this book is best avoided and Richard himself just isn't anyone special for an aspiring daygamer or someone looking to improve their dating life as a whole.

Score: 2/10

In terms of innovative thought most of his videos seem inspired the Rational Male rather than any of Richard Cooper’s unique dating perspectives- Most seem to be some alpha regurgitation of red pill/Self Improvement lingo. Again problematic - Richard doesn't seem to have any real fixes for people's dating life
I read "The Unplugged Alpha". It's a good read for those who are moving from a blue pill ideology to a red pill ideology.

It's an engaging read and moves fast. There's good insight in it.

It's a fair critique to say that it might be a re-packaging of "The Rational Male". Rollo Tomassi did write the foreword for the book.

Richard Cooper’s real results with women- 2 single mothers dated, one divorce

there are examples of good marriages and dating coaches that have had good LTRs , Robbie Kramer, Liam Mcrae and Paul Janka are three good examples of this and they’ve had legitimate dating success .
Those results are not good and I wasn't fully aware of his history with single mothers.

It's common to point out failures among influencers. In 2019, Nick Krauser pointed out that Caleb Jones (aka Alpha Male 2.0/Blackdragon) had previously been a cuckold.


The most common critique of Rollo Tomassi is his long marriage and that he hasn't been a single man since the 1990s.

Neil Strauss also had a predictable divorce when he attempted marriage.
 

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Please watch.
 

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Rich Cooper is a clown imo. "Unplugged Alpha" really? That has got to be the most cringe title I've ever heard. I would be embarassed if anyone found out I owned that book.

Everything he says is just a rehash of the shvt Rollo/Roosh/Heartiste (but mostly Rollo) pretty much figured out a decade ago. He has nothing original or groundbreaking to say. The only useful thing to come out of his mouth is "Chase excellence, not women" but I still think this is a cope statement and the implication isn't even true imo.

Haha, middle-aged Red Pillers who urge men to contribute to GDP so they can get Chad’s leftovers in their 30s and 40s while teenage broccoli heads without two cents to rub together get first pickins. JFL.
broccoli heads lmao. facts
 

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You think chasing women is better than success? Women are always there, is better to develop yourself into a man of quality and then start practicing dating, than the other way around.

You're position is discarding everything he writes, which says a lot about you.
Didn’t say that - I said creating options is what’s best for the majority of men - look at this forum most the problems would be solved if the men opened more and created more options instead of fixating on situation specific scenarios regarding one single girl

And what has Richard Cooper had to show for all his self improvement? Two ltrs with single mums I mean it doesn’t get worse than thatyet some how hes a dating coach

there aren’t many dating coaches that I can confidently say I’m better than in fact Richard cooper maybe the only one where I think this guy really sucks and Id do a better job than him
 

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Didn’t say that - I said creating options is what’s best for the majority of men - look at this forum most the problems would be solved if the men opened more and created more options instead of fixating on situation specific scenarios regarding one single girl

And what has Richard Cooper had to show for all his self improvement? Two ltrs with single mums I mean it doesn’t get worse than thatyet some how hes a dating coach

there aren’t many dating coaches that I can confidently say I’m better than in fact Richard cooper maybe the only one where I think this guy really sucks and Id do a better job than him
Like I said, you're focusing on what type of women he has, which is true, but he's also is a very successful guy with money. You take the good< and discard the bad.

What makes you think you do a better job than him? You have money? You kids well take care of? His ex is a lawyer.

If you better than him, then he why haven't you wrote a book? Women is the cherry on top, but you're making like puzzy is the ultimate goal.

What kind a job you have? How much are you making? How's your physique? Your mental strength?

He's not in a forum full of losers like you asking for advice on women, he's giving those advice and making money.
 

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I read "The Unplugged Alpha". It's a good read for those who are moving from a blue pill ideology to a red pill ideology.
Same way Sayed Quteb is a "good read" for those who are leaving Socialism for Salafism
 

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Red Pill Theology and it's adherents are actually comparable to Clooney and those satirized here

They've made some solid, if not especially original points (The pitfalls of Western meddling in Near Eastern politics had been documented at length eons before Syriana. None of what we today call Red Pill Knowledge is especially new https://www.sosuave.net/forum/threads/rationale-male-players-handbook.282121/#post-3116512 ), while also possessing an insatiable hard-on for non-sequitur leaps in logic which can only be described as Olympian

Both Red Pillers and Progressives go out of their respective ways to spend 80% of their lives retreating into fantasy, then whitewash being out of touch with "normie life" as an advanced way of existing
 
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I think that his "game" is pretty much dead every time a woman Google's him or checks him in YT. Therefore, perhaps he turned for pay-4-fun, therefore the need of money. I always thought that he is a positive part of the redpill community, shame he decided to charge so much on his content/advice.
 

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Rich Cooper.....Everything he says is just a rehash of the shvt Rollo/Roosh/Heartiste (but mostly Rollo) pretty much figured out a decade ago. He has nothing original or groundbreaking to say.
There is a reason Rollo wrote the foreword for "The Unplugged Alpha".

It's a good assessment to say that it most draws off of the works of 2000s/2010s era Rollo/Roosh/Heartiste.

A good portion of 2000s-2010s Roosh was based off of Roosh being in the field and doing approaches. I doubt Rich Cooper has spent as much time in the field as Roosh did.
 

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I think that his "game" is pretty much dead every time a woman Google's him or checks him in YT. Therefore, perhaps he turned for pay-4-fun, therefore the need of money. I always thought that he is a positive part of the redpill community, shame he decided to charge so much on his content/advice.
Yeah, Red Pill Thought is heavily theoretical, yet very sparse on brass tacks. Doesn't make it invalid, of course, so much as it's highly impractical often times
 

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There is a reason Rollo wrote the foreword for "The Unplugged Alpha".

It's a good assessment to say that it most draws off of the works of 2000s/2010s era Rollo/Roosh/Heartiste.

A good portion of 2000s-2010s Roosh was based off of Roosh being in the field and doing approaches. I doubt Rich Cooper has spent as much time in the field as Roosh did.
Rosh actually got dates and had successes

there’s very little evidence for any dating success from Richard Cooper he dated 2 single mum’s in a row then decided to write a book about it that was literally it

like the guy didn’t even have one solid daygame lay before he wrote the unplugged alpha and at age 40 dated someone who was 30 . I don’t see him being a resounding image of dating success

better off listening to tom torero podcasts or Nick Krausser blog
 

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I’d actually rather be single than date two single mum’s in a row I can’t think of anything more demeaning - the fact he went with another single mum after being cheated on by the first single mum is just testimony that this guy is probably far more retarded than your average Joe man at dating
 

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There is a reason Rollo wrote the foreword for "The Unplugged Alpha".

It's a good assessment to say that it most draws off of the works of 2000s/2010s era Rollo/Roosh/Heartiste.

A good portion of 2000s-2010s Roosh was based off of Roosh being in the field and doing approaches. I doubt Rich Cooper has spent as much time in the field as Roosh did.
Richard did literally nothing - there’s no evidence he even had a coffee date with a good looking girl prior to the writing of the book

don’t think he deserves the 600k odd YouTube subscribers he gleaned and I think it’s ridiculous that people who actually dated beautiful woman from dating have a lot less

the natural lifestyles 350k subs

Tom torero 80k subs before he was deleted

Nick Krausser 5k

all three of these never engaged in ltrs with single mum’s and in Richard cooper’s own revolutionary terminology they “did the work” yet Rich with his trt and fast cars with YouTube vids of him driving 71 mph in the 70 zone was able to gleen a larger following after two ltrs with single mum’s and getting cheated on with 0 cold approach lays
 

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he dated 2 single mum’s
Dating single moms is not good. However, it does get more difficult to avoid dating single moms for men as they age. For middle aged men, a good portion of their similarly aged dating pool will be single moms.

I have managed to make it into my early 40s without dating single moms. I consider that an accomplishment.
 

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I’m 56 and most women I have dated 46 and up have children of various ages.

Those that don’t aren’t necessarily any more dateable and may raise red flags of their own.

The ‘avoid single mums’ philosophy makes sense when you are a lot younger but is a sobering reality as you age (unless you are in the top 5% of guys which most of us aren’t).
 
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