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Master Don Juan
Can these DJ princioples work a little too well? From my experience, they can.
This is a problem that I've run into sometimes, and I wonder if anyone else has experienced it.
When I first became a DJ back in my sophmore year of high school (little under 6 years ago) , I learned at an exponential rate after starting as a hopeless AFC. I first found the main site in 2000 (by sheer accident, I might add-- fate has definitely been kind to me) and joined the forums in 2001.
I absorbed every shred of information that I could find on this site, and from the very beginning my ability to easily apply these things in real life is what gave me my power. It was a power that no one else had, b/c i kept the specific techniques to myself and displayed only the result of those techniques. From the beginning, i knew that the world is not ready for stuff like this to become mainstream, and it only hurts you if you share it b/c if chicks know what you are doing it utterly destroys your chances of success. People I went to HS with in those days told me that they noticed that I seemed to have an aura of confidence hanging about me that grew stronger every time they saw me. I drove myself even harder. I started at the bottom of the social ladder and by junior year I was on top. (I didn't even do anything to get there, It just sort of happened as a side effect). I still wanted more.
This created a paradox. By senior year, my power and understanding of DJ skills had grown so much and so quickly that it was unnatural. Everyone else had stayed the same to some degree, but I had literally changed myself into a whole new person. People were not able to deal with it. Even with all my skill and influence, I was hard pressed to find a date to prom, and in retrospect, I know why. Here I was at age 18, with all the combined knowledge, skills, and techniques of the best people that I could find on this site at my disposal. Chicks at school had their clandestine advice magazines like seventeen, cosmo, etc. and were used to knowing how to deal with the typical AFC high school dude, but they had no idea how to deal with someone like me. I hate to sound self-aggrandizing, but I probably blew them all away with raw display of skill. I know this, b/c a chick I used to hang with said to me one day during senior year, "Will, people are a little intimidated by you. You're a great guy, but you're just too damn powerful."
that got me thinking. At the time, I was holding nothing back. I was projecting confidence and charm like there was no tommorrow (It's hard to turn something like that off once it gets going) and although i had nothing but good intentions it was intimidating to people who had never seen anything like it before. I had considerable power at my command, but at the time i didn't really know how to control it so I displayed it full stength all at once.
Since then, I've learned to hold back a lot, simply to blend in a little bit more and not reveal too much at once. This helps to put people at ease and still allows me to be a DJ.
I was wondering if anyone else here has run into a similar problem and what they have done to help curb it.
This is a problem that I've run into sometimes, and I wonder if anyone else has experienced it.
When I first became a DJ back in my sophmore year of high school (little under 6 years ago) , I learned at an exponential rate after starting as a hopeless AFC. I first found the main site in 2000 (by sheer accident, I might add-- fate has definitely been kind to me) and joined the forums in 2001.
I absorbed every shred of information that I could find on this site, and from the very beginning my ability to easily apply these things in real life is what gave me my power. It was a power that no one else had, b/c i kept the specific techniques to myself and displayed only the result of those techniques. From the beginning, i knew that the world is not ready for stuff like this to become mainstream, and it only hurts you if you share it b/c if chicks know what you are doing it utterly destroys your chances of success. People I went to HS with in those days told me that they noticed that I seemed to have an aura of confidence hanging about me that grew stronger every time they saw me. I drove myself even harder. I started at the bottom of the social ladder and by junior year I was on top. (I didn't even do anything to get there, It just sort of happened as a side effect). I still wanted more.
This created a paradox. By senior year, my power and understanding of DJ skills had grown so much and so quickly that it was unnatural. Everyone else had stayed the same to some degree, but I had literally changed myself into a whole new person. People were not able to deal with it. Even with all my skill and influence, I was hard pressed to find a date to prom, and in retrospect, I know why. Here I was at age 18, with all the combined knowledge, skills, and techniques of the best people that I could find on this site at my disposal. Chicks at school had their clandestine advice magazines like seventeen, cosmo, etc. and were used to knowing how to deal with the typical AFC high school dude, but they had no idea how to deal with someone like me. I hate to sound self-aggrandizing, but I probably blew them all away with raw display of skill. I know this, b/c a chick I used to hang with said to me one day during senior year, "Will, people are a little intimidated by you. You're a great guy, but you're just too damn powerful."
that got me thinking. At the time, I was holding nothing back. I was projecting confidence and charm like there was no tommorrow (It's hard to turn something like that off once it gets going) and although i had nothing but good intentions it was intimidating to people who had never seen anything like it before. I had considerable power at my command, but at the time i didn't really know how to control it so I displayed it full stength all at once.
Since then, I've learned to hold back a lot, simply to blend in a little bit more and not reveal too much at once. This helps to put people at ease and still allows me to be a DJ.
I was wondering if anyone else here has run into a similar problem and what they have done to help curb it.
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