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Hi guys,
Wow, sorry it took so long to respond guys, but I have literally been working around the clock. In fact, before I respond to some of your replies, let me share with you something interesting.
A few days ago, for a period of 7 days, I worked a total of 118 hours. In fact there was a 40 hour period where I worked straight with no sleep.
But here's the amazing thing, a few months ago I hired a new employee. He's on salary, and as part of his contract he is to work 40 hours a week. Now guess what - he worked almost as many hours as me, even though he wasn't getting paid one cent of overtime.
Plus I never once pushed him to work so many hours - he took the initiative. Heck, I was the one trying to get him to go home and get some sleep.
So the question is Why? Why did he work the equivalent of 3 full time jobs for the price of 1, and why was he so excited to do so?
The answer is that I treated him the same way that I treat the girls I date:
1) I Lead - A lot of business owners and managers seem to think that managing is about forcing your employees to do their job by coercion, threats, or other negative motivation. Or the exact opposite of begging the employee to do the job. With the first method, the employee is resentful and hates his job. With the second, he despises the employer and has no respect for him.
This is no different than how a lot of guys try to get girls to do what they want. They either try to use all sort of techniques on them, trick them, or pressure them. Or the complete opposite and behave as doormats. All of those relays to the chick your insecurity in your own attractiveness.
Instead, I shared with him a vision. I shared with him the vision of my company years from now, and with him as part of it. I shared my dreams, and he chose to a part of it. When he accepted the position with me, I could only offer him a fraction of what he was receiving in his past employment. So why did he work with me? I asked him this question. He said because I knew where I was going, and I had no doubt that I would get there. He wanted to be a part of it.
Same thing with girls. I know where I'm going, and I lead, and they want to be a part of my world.
2) I Made Him Feel Special - In every other e-mail that I send to him, or every time I speak with him, I continually exalt him. Like girls, at first he was a bit uncomfortable with the praise. But just like the girls I date, it wasn't long before he realized that I had no ulterior motive, and he relished in the feeling of appreciation. We're always making up new and better nicknames for each other. One day he's The Prophet and I'm the Man, a different day he is the Great One, and I'm the Awesome, etc.
This is how I behave with girls. I put them up. At first they may feel a bit awkward, but once they pass that initial awkwardness, they relish the feeling of truly being raised on a platform. And of course, the only natural thing to do is for them to raise me as well. I mean, the value of the praise is determined to a very great extent by whom it is that gave the praise. So it's no surprise that they in turn praise me as well.
Anyway, here are the responses to some of your posts...
Oscar Wilde wrote,
Further simplification of the concepts:
Absolute confidence in yourself (and zero concern for others perception of you)
There are no rules, only guidelines
Very good simplification, I like it.
es_mer8 wrote,
I've had nearly two weeks to fine craft my skill.
Es_mer8, with all due respect, it takes way more than two weeks to fine tune any skill, including picking up chicks. What you'll find is that there will be several waves of "aha" moments. One when you realize everything you've known about girls was wrong, another when you start implementing the attitude of being the prize, another when you move on to seduction aspects like speed seduction, mystery method, doc love, or whatever piques your fancy, another when you realize that you no longer need any of those methods, etc.
Everything else in your first post (points 1 - 6) I agree with. Very well written!
Kricket wrote,
His Quote:
"and after all this, I've come back to where I started from."
Except this time, you are a new person.
WOW. Very, very, true. Excellent observation!
Slickster wrote,
Well inorder to get others to like you, you have to like yourself... With that said there will still be people who won't like or be attracted to you. And thats okay.
Yup, that's it right there. Like yourself, and I mean TRULY like yourself. When you truly like yourself, you tend to like everyone else. And that will cause others to like and be attracted to you. Still, not everyone will be attracted to you, and that's okay. That doesn't mean that you're not attractive, and it does not mean that they are bad. Not everyone has to like or be attracted to you. Good post!
Ronin I wrote,
To really understand this I only need to look at my current situation. I am currently seeing two women - both of them pretty equal in just about every measurable way. But one of them has made herself VERY available to me while the other has proven to be a bit more work (over the past 3-4 weeks or so). In that time I have seen my IL in the "challenging" girl steadily increase while my IL in the other girl has remained steady or maybe declined a bit.
Let me ask you this question Ronin. The one that has made herself more available to you... What if the more time you spent with her, the more you realized that there is more and more to her? And that the more time you spent with her, the more amazing you felt?
I will grant you this much - challenge DOES work, assuming that you're comparing two average guys, neither of whom know how to share themselves with others to the full extent.
I can tell you from my statistics that I have yet to have any girl break up with me after we've went out on 3 dates. I'm sure given enough time that will change, but in the meantime I have not yet had a chick break up with me after we've went out 3 times.
Why? Because I am a drug. I've had a girl tell me rather poetically that when she is with others she feels like a bird with her wings clipped off, while with me I let her fly.
The bottom line is that, for me at least, the more time that I spend with a girl, the more she likes me. My average date is 4 hours, and that includes first dates.
So Ronin, if the girl who has made herself available to you in fact made you feel 2x, 3x, or 10x better than the girl who was a challenge - who would you pick?
Plus, I never said in my post that you should always make yourself available to the chick. The simple truth is that when you start realizing how attractive you truly are, others will realize it as well. And because of that you will not have enough time to spend exclusively with this girl - others, both male and female, will also be desiring of your time. And even if you do choose to spend a good amount of time with one girl, she will unconsciously realize that you are not doing so because you are desperate, but because you enjoy her company, and that will cause her to enjoy your company even more. It's a proven fact that when you find out that someone likes you, you tend to like them more (assuming there was some attraction in the first place).
I agree to a certain extent that it depends on your motives. But sometimes it's not your motives that matter but HER INTERPRETATION of your motives.
What I'm suggesting is that HER INTERPRETATION doesn't matter. You do what you want, and you lead. What she thinks is irrelevant. I know that this might at first glance contradict what I said earlier about making people feel good about themselves, but it doesn't.
When I'm with a girl, I am sincerely interested in her and what she has to say. I don't look at the chick as a task to complete, but rather as an experience to savor. She has my complete and undivided attention.
But I will still behave in the way that makes me happy. If she's okay with that, fine. If she's not, then that's also fine. Every girl that I interact with has two choices... she can play the game by my rules, or she can move on. This doesn't make her a good person or a bad person. She is neither a sweetheart nor a bytch because she picked one choice over the other. Just like I do what makes me happy, she has the right to do what makes her happy.
So what I'm suggesting is do whatever it is that makes you happy, and don't care what she thinks about it. Guess what though, she WILL test you to see if you will actually stick to your guns, or if you're just playing the part of someone who does what he wants. Almost every girl tests me. I don't mind... it comes with the territory. But pass the test, and she will accept your rules without condition.