Great discussion guys!
Just wanted to add a point about following routines and using props to your advantage.
"Monkey see, Monkey do"
"Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. "Teach a man to fish, and he will never starve"
What your doing in giving people random techniques, one liners, and props... is making them dance. Telling them these are examples, they begin to catch on that there is more. I wish somebody would teach me how to create new routines at the drop of a hat, new jokes, new props, I guess I've got to sarge the idea a few times before I can even fathom it... or my brain will explode.
Using a routine, to its fullest is key, don't supplicate to somebody by giving it to them on a silver platter, you must tease them with your technique, it's not the whole game, its just part of the package of course. You pull off the ESP test while making a new friend and looking for a lover, it's pretty damned simple. You get to hold her hand, stare deeply into her eyes, you make yourself appear fun, but it is only an experiment if you don't have what mystery calls congruency. It is not part of you, when you use it as a gimmick, it will only come off to the girl as a ruse to get in her pants, if she notices that it is all you have, she will back off since she doesn't want to appear easy. If you do have the whole package, you can use a routine any time, pick up a new routine, you could spin it back to the next person who crosses your path. Also if you have the whole package, and she blows off your technique, than you were overcompensating something, your body language probably got less astounding, your eyes closed, you start to blush, stuttering, freezing, all that bad stuff.
So in all, a technique is not a "crutch" it is just something you do for fun, like laughing, petting your dog, or juggling darts while tight rope walking over a volcano. It is a show of your mind, to show you are healthy, to prove you are unique.
If you don't put something of your own, into everything you do and learn you will gain nothing! So When I visualized(way is cool) doing the ESP test after the first time I heard it, I pretended to be the girls mind, I was saying the test to myself, and I didn't enjoy the way the words formed in my head, so I said repeat the word "over and over and over again in your mind" than I would think of a deep glare and pause and snap back to attention! "I didn't say stop, I can't see the number yet, if she is playful and open(of course I opened her so I know I can talk to her) I tap on her head "is this thing working?" than I blink my eyes "ahhhh yes, there it is, oh not quite" I played the recording over in my head a few times before I tried it out. Yeah I know, slow and boring, I hate it too, I need new thinking techniques to be on my feet in public, I have a slow wit, but I'm working on it(haha lying to myself am I?). So I'd imagine having to gauge her interest level before I reveal the number, and I remembered the reading her breathing speed, chicking her eyes for that glazed look, and listening for any negative voice inflections. Than I'd spring it on her. I really didn't think I'd get anything from the method, but I did, and I was happy, and carried on being myself again.
Always ups and downs, I knew this wasn't for me... so I threw in making her wait, and making her repeat the number faster and faster in her mind... it got me pretty hot for me, so I showed that when I talked tot he girls... I did my best, and succeeded, still the thought of ESP was the lie, and without sufficient proof to be able to tell her I'm lying through my teeth, I never used the technique again.
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Just a quick note to self as well for you to ponder.
Some people like to be corrected to learn their problems, some people like people to hold their hand, others enjoy group discussion, some enjoy the diary perspective and learning from their own thoughts, some just never learn. Give up on the guys who just won't learn guys, learn to see key words, or train them to stop being dumbasses and to talk to you respectfully.... IE Don't give the troll food, especially if he's not going to eat it.
So Gangsta, accept that he doesn't like "routnies, readins, handwriting analysis, the cube...all that crap"and than ream him for it, get his blood boiling, rrught until he gives up and says OKAY, I'll TRY!!! Your job is than done, you were compassionate, and he learned something while you were having fun...
Nice calm discussion though. Tr and convince me to use them next time though... I want encouragement, in one way or another... you were just making statements similar to what every body else is saying ad verbatim. Make me want to create routines I enjoy on my own, something that will be real game, not flash game. Prove me wrong, to make me right, I don't want to be boring and bland anymore.
