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- The Blueprint Decoded NOTES
- Day 1
- Introduction
- • Goals evolve. Once you reach one goal, the natural tendency is to always want more.
- • At first, most guys just want to get one girl and get out, then they want to get the skill. They get good,
- but it's not consistent.
- ► The blueprint is about becoming consistent. Having that click where you don't have to think
- about it anymore. It's not something you're doing, but something you are. (Being, not doing.)
- The Secret Code
- • You're not meant to understand more than what will take you to the next level.
- ► Every time you watch it different things will pop out. You'll understand more.
- • The same info will mean different things depending on where you're at. If you watch it again in a year
- it's gonna hit you at a different level. From surface to deeper levels.
- ► (de2e: Like when you're underlining important stuff in a book. If you read it again in a year,
- ttie stuff you fiad underlined will now seem obvious, it'll feel like you were missing the point.)
- built upon the basic belief/frame that the woman is higher value than
- the man, on a pedestal, and the man needs to find some way to get
- up there through tricks/techniques.
- • For guys who've had little success with women, this makes a
- lot of sense: She's attractive, socially proofed, guys want her, and
- you're just an average-looking guy. It's LOGICAL that she would be
- higher value, "above" you socially.
- • The Big Realization: THIS IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD. In
- reality, you're equal.
- • When this old paradigm is what you really believe in, your
- reality, then everything you see you'll try to fit it into what you believe
- in. The Blueprint is about giving you a new reality through pieces of
- the puzzle, so you can give yourself permission to do what works.
- (From social conditioning and ego to authenticity and self esteem.)
- All The Old Stuff Still Applies
- • Leaming this stuff doesn't mean you can just sit around. You still have to go out and approach girls
- and be social. IF YOU GO OUT, MOST OF YOUR PROBLEMS AUTO-CORRECT.
- • All that changes is that we're coming from a different frame now. Being, not doing.
- Social Conditioning - Limiting Beliefs
- • Most people in the world walk through life in a walking daze. They don't know what their values
- are, who they are or what they want out of life.
- • What most guys think gets girls:
- ► Money - No. There is a small % of girls that are attracted to guys with money, but it's the
- same as with anything different, like bodybuilders - most girls are terrified of them, but small
- % are obsessed. So most are not attracted to money, except for gold diggers, and do you
- really want to date those!? But guy sees dude with money and hot chick, and thinks he
- NEEDS money. You don't need it for chicks, it's not a bad thing, if you do it for yourself.
- ► Looks - No. Only thing about this is that being good looking means that you usually have
- less limiting beliefs, it's easier to approach because you think you deserve a good reaction.
- Old Paradigm
- • When pickup first started, it was
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- You also get results faster because some girls will select you. "He's cute." But for the most
- part, there's no difference. What happens is guys will have this belief and see random
- anomalies to validate their beliefs.
- ► Romance - No. IVIost guys see romance In movies and think that's how you get girls. The
- romantic approach could work If the girl wants you so bad that she's intimidated by you. She
- thinks you're too amazing to like her, but then she thinks: "Oh, look at these flowers and
- chocolates and stuff he bought me, I guess he really does like me."
- ► Commonalities - No. (de2e: People will rationalize connection and find commonalities if
- there Is value, as explained later.)
- ► Friendship First - No. Lots of guys think they can become good friends with the girl and
- sneak in under the radar, listen to her problems, then suddenly come up - "SURPRISE! I
- have a dick!" and become her bf.
- • There's no cause-effect relationship between all these things and attraction. If attraction already
- exists the girl will let the guy get away with these, but they aren't the cause.
- Social Conditioning - What Everyone Else Is Doing
- • Comes from: the media, society, parents, work, friends, religion, movies, music, television,
- advertising, billboards, radio, magazines. Ever since the day you were born, it's hitting you from all
- angles.
- • The common view is wrong because:
- ► Girls are wired to go for guys that stand out from the crowd. (The crowd is doing what SC
- tells them to.)
- ► The types of approaches encouraged by SC are, generally speaking: chode, lame,
- desperate, needy, weak, beta. They communicate low social value.
- Mass Confusion
- • Has there ever been a time in history when we as a people had a wrong belief about
- something on a mass level? (Ex: Earth is flat.) Could it be possible that maybe even today we could
- be wrong about some things?
- • We have no clue how most of the stuff around us Is working because we live In such an amazing
- society. (Ex: It's normal to fly in airplanes with thin windows, sitting feet from being in midair
- thousands of miles above ground.)
- ► As a result, the natural tendency Is to give authority to society. We let society dictate our
- beliefs to us, we think "Weil, they're right about all this other stuff". It's easy to give up control
- of beliefs and let society dictate beliefs because it seems to be the right way, just because of
- the way that our society is structured.
- Social Conditioning - Why It Works
- • People are very FAST learners. This Is because they learn and are Influenced socially . We learn from
- the people around us constantly. This is both very good and very bad.
- • There are 2 ways to learn:
- ► 1. Firsthand experience.
- ► 2. Socially. We know most things without having to actually try it. People are constantly
- looking at what other people are doing; they're looking to see who they can learn off of. (Ex:
- Don't have to jump out of a very high window and get hurt to l<now it's bad. Learn it from
- mom/TV/teacher. This is good.)
- • MOST SOCIAL CONDITIONING IS A GOOD THING, lets you survive. But it messes guys up in the
- rare case it isn't right.
- • We accept ideas socially based on:
- ► 1. How certain they are of their Ideas.
- ► 2. How In alignment they are with their own Ideas.
- ► 3. The number of other people that buy into those ideas.
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- • So whenever something passes through those filters your unconscious mind teiis you "this must be
- true. " The consequence is that IDEAS, NO MATTER HOW STUPID, CAN SPREAD LIKE
- WILDFIRE. Most myth, propaganda, etc. is based on the logic: "It's true. I can feel it."
- • You have to become a person that can look at stuff with your own set of eyes and outside of social
- conditioning because social conditioning...
- ► Gets you to look at the surface of things and not the depth.
- ► Gets you addicted to never-ending stimulation.
- ► Gets you addicted to letting other people think for you.
- ► Gives you beliefs that seem so real because so many other people believe them that you
- don't listen to your own common sense.
- Value
- • The core root of all attraction. You get attraction when you know how to communicate value.
- • Value is anything that:
- ► Helps you survive.
- ► Helps you have kids.
- ► Has characteristics that those kids would survive.
- ► Beyond that, it's anything that gives you good emotions.
- • Value is like a magnet. Your focus goes to the value. (Ex: If you're really hungry and talking to your
- friend, then someone walks by with a plate of hot food, you're focus will instinctively go to the food,
- make you look at it. Same as if a hot girl walks by.)
- ► For millions of years, we've been hardwired to want short-term more than long-term benefit.
- (We eat oversaturated foods, we procrastinate, we have faulty belief systems that make us
- feel good, take drugs, drink alcohol, believe in convenient falsehoods, etc. -> Guys like
- attractive women even though one you pick based on looks may not be a good mother.)
- ► Day-to-day, the quest most people are on is pleasure, building value for themselves.
- • What constitutes value for a man is different than for a woman.
- ► Man : wants attractive, skinny(represents youth and health), large breasts(represents fertility).
- ► Woman : decisiveness, resourcefulness, dominance, confidence, fearlessness, a guy who
- dictates reality and does not have reality dictated to him, leadership. (These qualities are
- gonna be a lot more important to survival than anything else.)
- • If you're walking up to a woman and you're nervous, your heart is beating fast and you talk like
- you're unsure of yourself and quiet, THAT HAS ZERO VALUE. NONE. That's like having negative
- value. How well could you kill an animal to eat in caveman days if a woman intimidates you?
- (Sidenote: Cavemen didn't need a mirror, you don't need one either.)
- • Before, being a provider to a woman had value. Now she has male groupie/parents/job to take care of
- that. She doesn't need money to survive, so being a provider isn't all that appealing anymore. Some
- respond to that, but most don't.
- Sub-Communication
- • It takes a guy a couple seconds to decide if a woman is attractive, takes a woman a couple hours.
- Why? -> Men look for visual cues, women look for behavioral cues.
- • Communication is the words that you're saying, the surface level. Women are looking for sub-
- communication, the communication beneath all of that. The words that you say very rarely register to
- a woman, you're thinking that they are, but they're not. The more attracted she is, the more that the
- words that you're saying are irrelevant. You could talk in gibberish.
- • 2 types of sub-communication:
- ► 1. Your behavior.
- ► 2. How people react to you.
- • Some examples of sub-communication:
- ► Eye contact, vocal tonality, body language, your sense of individuality, humor and
- playfulness, comfort in your environment...
- ► indifference to what people think of you,
- ► your concepts and boundaries of what you will and will not accept,
- ► your control over your own emotions and your own sense of reality.
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- ► your confidence to say what's on your mind and stand out,
- ► your self-directedness, conviction and grasp of your own standards,
- ► your sense of entitlement and willingness to go for what you want,
- ► and the types of things you say and the way in which you say them all in relation to the other
- peopie there.
- • If your behavior is on, but logically you're not the l<ind of guy that she goes for, then she's still gonna
- be attracted. It's why, even when a girl finds out Tyler teaches pickup, she's still attracted. It makes
- no difference. The attraction triggers are not influenced by logic.
- ► (Sidenote: As soon as you go all "logic" on her, you have cut off the process of attraction that
- you two've been building up.)
- • As a man, your behavior, and therefore your attractiveness, can change second-to-second. This also
- means that attraction is a very fast and straightforward process. It happens within seconds.
- ► Also, attraction either happens or it doesn't. She either likes you or she doesn't. Don't try to
- change her mind if she's not attracted. It's done. Tyler doesn't get crushes on girls that don't
- like him.
- Objectif ication (and Why It Doesn't Work)
- • On some level, you can sense that women look at you as an object of value, just like you may look at
- them. So the tendency is to objectify yourself, turn yourself into something that has value.
- • SC tells us that the way to get value isn't to become a better person, more authentic, but to:
- ► 1. Get the job.
- ► 2. Get the money.
- ► 3. Become like the guy you see on TV. (He has the girls.) You see how he looks, what
- products he uses, etc.
- • Society has in many ways evolved to preserve social order. It is designed to give you a set of
- achievable goals that you can strive towards and meet. It gives you never ending mental stimulation.
- Gives you the answer to everything. The unconscious assumption is that if you believe in the system,
- everything will be fine. Go to work, get the girls.
- ► Fight Club: "You are not a special snowflake. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are
- not your furniture. You are not your fucking khakis."
- ► All the things society tells you to do will not inspire the confidence or qualities to get attraction
- and have success with women. All it'll do is give you a temporary fix of confidence, but not a
- real set of values or self esteem.
- ► Society is in many ways a lot like a Hollywood movie. There's a good guy, a bad guy, and an
- ending that reinforces social norms. It's real simple - everybody believes they're good, the
- other guy's bad, there are no differing opinions. People don't want to have to dig in deep or
- be required to be aware all the time.
- • Attraction will never work by a superficial set of values (looks, money,etc.) because, by a
- superficial set of values, an attractive girl is the pinnacle of achievement. You could be a doctor that's
- saved 1000's of lives and a 19-year-old girl with fake tits, some nice clothes/hair, skinny because she
- does coke will have more value than you if you believe in that set of values. No matter how high you
- go, you cannot win this game if you believe in SC. This game is rigged against you. YOU CANNOT
- WIN THIS GAME.
- Social Conditioning - Consumerism
- • When you buy something, like when someone buys their 1 2'^ pair of shoes, they aren't buying the 12'^
- pair for comfort, utility, etc, but for a little piece of self esteem for a couple weeks. You feel great for
- the first couple weeks wearing a new shirt, then the feeling wears off until you buy a new one. But has
- it ever occurred to you that you should feel that way ALL THE TIME?
- ► Best consumer: mild paranoia, confusion, no identity, no values (just wants what other people
- want.)
- • There's nothing wrong with possessions, a good job, etc if you're doing what you love to do and
- you're not doing it to impress anybody or live up to somebody else's standards that you didn't even
- create. The problem is when you see a cute girl and hesitate and think you need more money, looks,
- etc to talk to her.
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- • All guys who are good at pickup understand SC on a very deep level. They look around like in the
- matrix and see how much everyone is affected by what other people think of them.
- Spectatorism
- • We're constantly looking for other people to have the glory. We're looking at movies, 6 hr/day of TV.
- People would rather watch a show about the natural environment than actually go out into wilderness.
- It's easier to watch other people.
- • THE GLORY IS TO BE HAD. This is your life. Turn the TV off, turn off the web surfing. It's garbage.
- ► Tyler believes in a life of your own design. Doesn't worry what other people think. Life's too
- short. Do what you want, because this is all there is.
- Social Conditioning - How It Affects Your Perception of Your Value
- • When you see a girl you like, your mind is processing your value to her. Is she out of your
- league? Do you live up to her standards? Are you good enough?
- ► If you're looking for other people's standards to determine your value, you will always come
- up short. Even if you're successful, you're still a dumb chode that spends all his time living up
- to other people's standards. You still are coming from a foundational level where you react to
- other people is how you spend your days.
- • If you have your own standards, and you walk up to an attractive girl and she has one of your
- values (beauty for example), and you're screening her for more, then you don't really care what she
- thinks. You're not immediately won over just because she's attractive.
- ► All this is sub-communicated - when she can sense that she's trying to live up to your
- standards, and you're not trying to live up to hers, she's gonna be far more attracted. (Who's
- reacting to who more? Who's trying to get the other person's validation? The lower value
- person in any interaction iool<s to the higher value one to dictate their identity.)
- ► But most guys go up: "Please give me lOls so that I can go into state. Tell me I'm cool." Then
- they try to live up to her values.
- Living In Reaction
- • Lacking a crystal-clear concept of:
- ►
- 1.
- Who you are.
- ►
- 2.
- What you value.
- ►
- 3.
- What you're grateful and appreciative for.
- ►
- 4.
- How your emotions work.
- ►
- 5.
- What you really want out of life.
- ►
- 6.
- Why certain influences are positive or corrupting
- • Say you go out and get plastic surgery or you go out and purchase things that'll impress people -
- while on the surface level it feels like you're helping yourself, on the deeper level you're establishing
- the pattern that you're constantly living up to other people's standards. A pattern of living in reaction
- through habits of behavior.
- • People want the shortcut, the magic pill, they don't want a slow, gradual process. They want tactics,
- not principles. We don't want to fix the larger problem, or face the complexities. When we're living in
- reaction, we're just putting a band-aid on our problem.
- The Self Is Always Coming Through
- • When you're a cool guy, you can say the dumbest stuff and get away with it. A different guy who isn't
- cool could do the exact same thing and get a very bad reaction. Who he is is showing through the
- cracks of what he's physically doing.
- • It's a liberating thing because you realize you don't need to keep "doing stuff" all the time just
- to attract a girl.
- • Also why this stuff will keep on working no matter how much media coverage it gets. You're just a
- cool guy, women's magazines can't warn women: "Watch out for any guy that seems cool."
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- Value Causes Rationalization
- • On one level, you have the person you think you are. The values you have. On another level, you
- have your biological drives. Your biological drives are telling you to do what will be good from the
- perspective of value .
- • There's sometimes a tension in some situations because what would benefit us the most, selfishly,
- goes against our values. The tension is resolved through backwards rationalization .
- ► To feel good about your emotionally motivated actions (and feel like you're the one in
- control), we invent logical reasons for them during or after the fact. All of us do it to some
- extent.
- Value Comes 1st (Rationalization)
- • How you are perceived depends on your value. A nice guy with low value won't really be seen as
- being nice, but a total dick with high value who does one nice thing for a girl will make her say "He's
- such a nice guy." -> Because he's high value and the gih likes him, she will find something to
- rationalize why she likes him. "I like him because he's nice." She will impose the qualities that she
- likes in men onto him unknowingly.
- • Some gihs will say: "I don't care if a guy has value, I just want a guy who can make me laugh / that I
- can feel a connection with."
- ► But if you have value, how easy is it to make a girl laugh? When you have enough value,
- sense of humor is automatic, you could do anything and the girl will laugh at it uncontrollably.
- Think about the popular guys in high school who said stuff that wasn't even really objectively
- funny, but everyone still laughed at it.
- ► And when someone has value, we pay more attention to them and see these slight little
- things in common and say: "Oh, wow, we have a connection." It's the value that makes the
- girl receptive to the idea of having a connection with you in the first place.
- • It's not that you shouldn't worry about your sense of humor or making a connection with a woman, it's
- just that value tends to be a prerequisite. It's not everything, but it tends to come first. She's gonna
- give you much more of a chance, listen more, and be more affected by you if you have value.
- • Because we only have so much time and energy, we tend to seek out the relationships that
- provide us the most benefit. It's not good or bad - it is what it is. Recognize it, but don't analyze or
- judge people for it.
- ► Every relationship is up for grabs. The second someone senses that they benefit more by
- directing their time + energy from an old relationship to a new one, their mind is wired to start
- seeking out reasons to do so.
- RAS (Reticular Activation System)
- • Part of the brain which filters out that which is of no value to you and zones in on that which
- does have value.
- • This also works with your memories of past events. When a relationship has value, your RAS causes
- you to remember the good stuff in the past of the relationship. But when the relationship has no value
- anymore, the focus changes. You start to only see the bad things about the person and in the past of
- the relationship.
- • To get around RAS and not put too much value on the girl, you have to treat her as if she is like a
- guy, if she can get your full attention fast, then subconsciously she thinks: "Oh, I have value." When
- you can be normal around a very attractive woman, that's gonna get a pull of attraction.
- • With RAS you know how to pull the social energy in your direction, and you also know how to make
- people fight to get within your field of vision.
- ► The game the girls play is trying to get you to react to them, they're trying to get into your
- RAS.
- • Point is, people sustain relationships by focusing on what they get out of it. When the value changes,
- what they focus on is subject to change.
- • What you shouldn't take away from this is (DEAR GOD!) not that everyone is rationalizing against you
- - that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You can recognize what's going on but at the same time you just
- chill and assume the best.
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- The most liberatinp mindset:
- Accept that the world owes you nothing, and in the end you'll
- get back no more, no less, than you deserve.
- • The world is a light place, so don't get too caught up in this stuff. Understand it, but don't focus on it.
- Value Is Your Magnet
- • When you have value, people will listen to what you have to say and they'll try to impress you in
- conversation. You'll change the topic of conversatlon/venue/etc and they're Into It.
- • People want to be in the warm end of the pool, not get kicked out. Want to be at the popular end of
- the table, instead of looking over at it.
- Situational Value / Subjective Perception
- • Social value could come as a result of a specific situation. It's a form of value that isn't worth
- anything on its own, but in a particular situation, as a result of the environment, is worth a lot. The
- environment gives someone status they wouldn't have on their own.
- ► (Ex: Professor giving inspiring lecture, performer performing concert, guy throwing party at
- his house, DJ, celebrity, bartender, etc.)
- • This leads to situational confidence. If you know that you can anticipate a positive response based
- on your environment, you're gonna feel confident. You assume value and when you know that you
- have value, you will tend to be outside your head, when you don't think you have value, you will tend
- to be inside your head. In the moment vs. micromanaging.
- ► When you are outside your head you are: enjoying yourself, acting in the moment, letting
- your real personality come out, saying what's on your mind, being unaffected by how other
- people react, being detached from the outcome of any one particular interaction, taking things
- as they come, being fully present to what's going on around you and expecting that everyone
- is your friend.
- ► When you are in your head you are: not enjoying the moment for what it is and saying to
- yourself "How can I make this moment better?", "How can I get more
- status/liked/acceptance/validation?" You are trying to change your personality specifically to
- make people like you, feeling flustered by all the social things that you feel like you need to
- be doing, being emotionally affected by other people's reactions, feeling like some particular
- interaction HAS to work or you might not get another chance, trying to think a step ahead and
- analyze how everyone will respond to you, being too stuck in your mind to even pay attention
- to what's going on around you and feeling like you're being judged. Makes you feel:
- unnatural, forced, needy, contrived.
- The Best Way To Make People Like You:
- • Just express your personality freely and let the chips fall where they may.
- • This implies that you are secure with who you are and probably have the value to back it up. What
- you're sub-communicating is so much more powerful when you can just be in the moment and allow
- the words to come out, shows you aren't even trying.
- ► What you'll find is that anytime you go into your head to try to impress, you'll lose the girl.
- Even if what you are saying is not as intelligent as if you had gone into your head to fish it
- out, you'll still hold more attraction. You'll be saying nonsense and she'll be enjoying it, but as
- soon as you go into your mind of some cool thing that you wanted to say to impress her,
- you'll repel her.
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- Reactiveness
- • In any social interaction, one person's reacting more to the other
- person than the other person's reacting to them. Always.
- ► They change their personality/act different to get your
- acceptance; they analyze how they are taking up your
- space and time.
- • When you are having these types of reactions to people you are
- giving your power away. People don't want you to do that,
- everyone wants to be around the cool, fun, charismatic dude that
- doesn't do that.
- Core Confidence
- • Whereas people with situational confidence will become inhibited and reactive when you put them
- into a new situation, someone with core confidence doesn't depend on being in a situation. They
- assume value all the time, they have core value as opposed to situational value.
- • The reason why you should have core confidence is simply because people will buy into it. You can
- see the glitch in the matrix, how other people are walking around and if you just appear a little more
- confident than them, you'll have the dominant reality.
- ► "If you act like a rockstar, you'll get treated like a rockstar. "
- • Anyone can understand how and why you should have core confidence intellectually, but to really
- become a guy that's great with women, you really need to have that "click" in your head: "Okay, I
- have core value." A lot of this seminar is how to create that click.
- • This is about being able to be that same cool guy no matter where you are or who you're with. Able to
- go into any environment and be the person who you're meant to be, not relying on any personality
- shell or situational confidence.
- Love
- • When most guys get in, they want one girl. Truth is, you have to become good with women in
- general. You have to get out of the model of the world where every girl you meet you're "failing in love
- with".
- • It's a big mindscrew when your 1^* girlfriend breaks up with you, and you want to get her back more
- than anything, especially with SC, and many guys come into the community wanting to "win" their old
- girlfriend back.
- • What is love? Language is a weird thing in how it sometimes dictates our reality, instead of
- describing it. In most languages, there are many words for many different types of love (brotherly
- love, love for a father, love for a mother, infatuation, long term love, etc.) while in English it's just
- "love".
- ► When you break the one word up and you don't have this one all-encompassing word that's
- supposed to mean everything, then the self-hypnosis most guys get into is not so common.
- ("Forever" is the key word in self hypnosis.)
- • A lot of people see love as having supernatural properties. (Ex: Only one soulmate for tfiem out there,
- true love lasts forever, fate will handle love for them.)
- ► With the belief systems that there's these types of "powerful forces" at work, it's no wonder
- people self-hypnotize themselves into wacky beliefs and emotional pain.
- • Love is not caused by another person. It's a trance that you put yourself into caused by yourself.
- As we loop our thoughts over and over around the concept of a particular person, our mind shifts the
- way that we perceive them and suddenly everything makes sense - it's love. Our thinking makes the
- person into someone they're not.
- • A chode is walking around with a gap in his self esteem, gets to plug the gap temporarily if he finds a
- woman. Mistakes validation or codependence for love. But you should be able to self-generate that
- feeling -> a lot of guys are stuck in unhealthy-land, use the girl as a pillar because they're
- disconnected from their own self esteem. Use the woman as a sort of situational confidence.
- ► The difference in Tyler's relationship is that he wasn't coming from a position of lack, and
- neither was she. There was an offering of value there, like fueling fire, not codependence.
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- When you first start talking to a girl in a club and you two hit it off, you may start to feel as if you two
- have a connection. This is bad because when you were just having fun, she was giving you her "hot
- guy" personality, but once you start to become outcome-dependent and she starts to lose attraction to
- you, you start to lose state
- ► Get over it by: l<nowing that you do not l<now somebody until you've gotten to l<now them over
- a significant period of time. Don't make judgments/assumptions.
- Love is something that you experience everywhere. To become very good at picking up chicks,
- sounds weird, but you have to get that spiritual side of you figured out. You become a person who
- is independently happy, validated and amused.
- ► That good feeling, that validation most guys get when they have a gf - you should be feeling
- that about the whole world, and once you do, then you can focus it on one person. It's no
- longer needy/attached/codependent.
- Full Circle
- Player
- • Sometimes you have to go on a
- journey in order to get what you
- really want.
- Day 2
- Identity
- • A concept that relates you to and also separates you from your social environment. Your concept of
- who you are and how you're different from people. -> "Here's what gives me a certain status
- relative to other people and as a result I can act in all these different ways.", "I'm cool so I can act
- cool."
- • We are always processing our world through that little seed in our mind that is identity. What we
- perceive, the way that we perceive it, what we think about other people, way
- our emotions respond to other people.
- • If you think you are down low on the totem pole and you meet a guy who's up
- high, your experience of that person is gonna be a lot different than someone's
- who's as high as him.
- • There's nothing physically stopping you from being who you want in social
- situations. We all have a construct of what a cool guy looks like, but we don't
- give ourselves permission to be that guy. The only thing that's really
- stopping you from being that guy is your sense of identity. If you don't think
- you're the cool guy high up on the totem pole, then anytime you try to be cool,
- it'll feel weird and you won't want to do it, like swimming upriver.
- • Ultimately, your potential for social success is unlimited, but It's your identity
- that's going to push you forward or pull you back. Anything that involves
- elevating your status or going beyond the constraints of your identity, you will
- block out that idea subconsciously. "That's not me."
- • Most of your personality is arbitrary. It could have developed one way or another, depending on your
- circumstances. You may think that you came up with your personality ("That's me, I can't do
- something that's not me!"), but most of It at this point you did not come up with. -> When you were
- young, did something and got validation, started to develop those personality traits.
- ► Although your core never changes, many of your personality traits have developed in
- reaction . (Beta behavior, introversion, etc.)
- You Can Be The Person Who You're Meant To Be
- ► The biggest thing is not to get too attached to what you believe right now. To grow and evolve
- you can't be attached.
- • Everybody has a good idea of what they deserve, including the types of women. When you believe
- that you're on a girl's level, you're gonna behave naturally and you're easily gonna be able to create
- attraction with that girl. When you think you deserve her, attraction is automatic.
- ► But when you're going into your head to relate to what she's saying or impress her, on some
- SUBTLE, SUBTLE level the power's being given away.
- • The core difference between guys who are dancing monkeys (entertainers) and guys that pull is that
- the guys that pull know who they are.
- Social Feedback
- • You don't figure out how the world works on your own. You learn not to do a lot of stuff through 2"^
- hand feedback - learning socially.
- • On a subtle level, what we're doing all the time is looking how other people are reacting to our
- behavior. Because we can read social cues, we can learn what is normal, permissible behavior.
- ► So if you were young while your identity was forming and you tried to step up and you saw
- other people say "that's not permissible behavior", "That's not the right way to act" then your
- mind goes "no, don't do that" - "don't act cool, don't act popular, don't be fun, etc."
- • A great deal of your reality is unverified and second-hand . We don't have enough time to learn
- everything on our own, so we learn to trust secondary info. We trust it based on how certain the other
- person is of what they are saying.
- Totem Pole
- Cool
- Guy
- You
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- • When someone has a lot of certainty about who you are, there's a lot of psychological pressure put
- on you to become that person.
- Imprints
- • In your mind, you have a concept of what a cool/uncool person looks like, it's an instinct to know what
- high status behaviors are.
- • Your mind is always pinging to find out how you're supposed to act. In different situations you
- act differently, depending on where your mind thinks you are on the social totem pole.
- ► These different ways of acting are called imprints. You use different imprints in different
- situations. So depending on how people are reacting to you when you ping, you choose a
- different imprint.
- • Your mind lets you choose a different personality based on what it thinks people will accept/like. It
- does this because for the first millions of years of evolution if you made someone unhappy they would
- take a rock and bash your head in. Now you can do practically anything and get away with it.
- ► Yes, you'll get humiliated a lot and feel uncool since you're trying to be someone you're not
- when you're working on your personality, but you won't get injured, you won't die . If you're
- afraid of humiliation and discomfort, then you'll never grow.
- ► It's harder to willingly humiliate yourself then get in a fight for most guys because, while being
- a manly man is part of your identity, being a dumbass chode is not.
- • The mind has developed an emotional system that doesn't let you act above your range
- because it wants to keep you alive. It gives you encouragement to access the confident part of your
- personality, the "confident imprint" whenever you think you have value and gives you discouragement
- from accessing it when you don't. You still have this system even though most of the threats it was
- designed to help you avoid no longer exist. There's no risk of getting kicked out of the tribe and dying.
- Now it's only "really embarrassing and annoying".
- State / Nimbus
- • Fancy word for confidence. You give yourself permission to be the person who you're meant to be.
- When you're in state:
- ► A feeling of being complete,
- ► A surge of positivity, steadiness and dominance,
- ► A sort of naturalness where everything clicks,
- ► A feeling that you are the source of good emotions in the environment,
- ► A feeling of total abundance where nothing could go wrong,
- ► Your jokes hit and you can say anything,
- • When you're out of state:
- ► A feeling of being incomplete,
- ► A burden of being weighed down, anxious or antsy,
- ► A sort of unnaturalness where everything is off-rhythm and ill-timed,
- ► You view other people as the source of good emotions (value scanning).
- • Key distinction: you have good emotions and you don't care vs. you have no good emotions and
- you're self-conscious. Your mind quiets, you're in the moment and you're totally outside of your head.
- • Naturals tend to go in state more than regular people, it's what makes them natural.
- • When you're in state, people's unconscious mind says: "this guy must have value, he must be the
- shit". You're also communicating authentically, which is what people like - when you're coming from a
- position of abundance, you have less need to be inauthentic.
- • The problem: when you know about state you get self-conscious and try to force it.
- ► While on one level you can understand that state is liberating, state allows you to do what
- you want, say what you want and it'll work great, on another level you have to have a
- personal boundary : Never monitor whether or not you're in state, just go:
- "If I'm not in state, I'm JUST GOING TO GO THROUGH THE
- MOTIONS ANYWAY"
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- Resistance
- • Concept from eastern philosophy, a new emotion.
- • Resistance is the emotion that you experience when you wish that the reality that is in front of you
- was different in some way. It's the opposite of acceptance. Never resist tlie reality tliat's in front of
- you, just accept it and take right action.
- ► Instead of: "Oh, I'm so depressed. I hate being depressed." do: "I'm depressed. I don't mind."
- Creates space between you and the emotion.
- • So the first gateway out of not being in state is just accepting. "That which you resist, persists."
- Taking Right Action
- • Taking right action is a muscle. We live in a society where the idea that [bad emotions are a valid
- excuse not to act] is a good reason not to do something. Taking right action is like saying "This is
- what is required to be done and I'm gonna do it regardless of emotion." You feel the emotion in your
- body, but you just move forward anyway.
- ► It's like when you're drunk and the police officer asks you to walk in a straight line. You're
- totally shit-faced, but you try, you just try. THAT'S LIKE WHAT MOST OF TYLER'S LIFE IS.
- • The only difference between courageous and cowards is being able to walk through a fog of bad
- emotions. Even Tyler doesn't take right action all the time, maybe 1/3 of the time, but most people do
- it 2% of the time.
- 2 Qualities To Cultivate:
- • Non-Resistance
- • Right Action
- Identity Criterion - State Thermometer
- • There is truth to the idea that people in impoverished countries are happier than those who have
- many luxuries. The reason?
- ► Someone who lives in impoverished may have less rules about when they allow themselves
- to experience happiness. "I can be happy when I'm out dancing." Vs "I can be happy when I
- have this and this and when I've accomplished this in my job, etc"
- • What does your mind need to view yourself as a worthwhile guy? Your identity/entitlement criterion is
- where your mind looks to reference how much value you have. (A.k.a. the rules you have to decide
- whether or not you can go into state.)
- • The "thermometer" that you use to decide whether or not you go into state is actually
- programmable . Much of the programming you have in your thermometer now is done through social
- conditioning. These are most of the ways guys chase after state:
- ► 1. Superficial Standards - looking good (incl. clothes, haircut), having a high status job,
- making money or owning nice things. Society's unrealistic standards.
- ► 2. Alliances - friendships or relationships. When you feel guaranteed acceptance because of
- the people around you.
- ► 3. Competencies - When you have anything that makes people want something from you.
- Access/knowledge/expertise/jokes. Something the community has been based on for so long
- - get in state because it allows you to feel you can provide the good emotions.
- ► 4. Roleplays - When the circumstances in your life call on you to assume a role.
- Teacher/being around people of lesser status.
- • These things are kind of like rules that you want to move past. Try going out not dressed as good or
- alone to accumulate new reference experiences and learn not to depend on any external forces. Nice
- clothes aren't bad - dress nice if you want to, but don't be limited by it. Move past it.
- ► It's letting that confidence come from within and not needing something else to be there.
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- • Pickup lines. WInen a pickup guru wino Inas so mucin authority and social proof tells you "use this line",
- your subconscious mind believes it, says "look at this, I have something to offer now." You say it with
- confidence, in a way that conveys value, because you now truly believe that you have value.
- CORE VALUE: The Final Criterion On State Thermometer
- • IVIost guys spend their lives chasing circumstances, it's a self-destructive pattern. The problem is,
- most guy's perception of the cause-effect relationship with these things is sinewed.
- ► Ex: Cool clothes. Most new styles were created by guys who have enough charisma to pull
- them off. Hip hop clothes were first created by people who didn't have money, but they
- decided it was cool and believed in it so much that it became cool. So rather than going out
- and trying to get the perfect clothes, what if you said "I'm gonna make these clothes cool.
- Own what I'm wearing." Anything that you have, you can make cool. Don't be the guy who
- reacts to trends, be the guy who creates them.
- ► Likewise, most people are looking in a venue for friends/relationships, "When I have these
- relationships, then I'm gonna feel confident." But in reality, core confidence is what brings the
- relationships to you.
- ► Most people need people reacting to them in order to feel confident, but they don't realize the
- cause and effect that when you are confident people react to you.
- • The first layer of getting core confidence is the flipping of cause and effect. You can stop chasing all
- the circumstances. It's not gonna happen right away. We're just planting the seeds here. If you don't
- know how your old, outdated emotional system works, it all feels so real. Knowing about this
- allows your core confidence to just sort of come out. And as you get more reference experiences your
- mind starts to accept "This is the truth."
- • Traits to cultivate to get core value:
- ► You identify yourself as an individual that can't be categorized, with a dynamic and flexible
- identity that could evolve at any time that you choose.
- ► You know what you've been through in life and trust yourself to get by no matter what
- situation you choose.
- ► You value your opinion of yourself more highly than the values and opinions of others and
- you determine your own value by a criteria that is your own .
- ► You know that your acceptance in any particular situation is never a threat to your overall
- well-being.
- ► You know what your best qualities are and that even if people don't see them or acknowledge
- them, you know very well that they exist. (You don't need other people to validate that your
- best qualities exist. Your state will not go down.)
- ► You know that you offer real value to people and if they don't see it, it's their issue, not yours.
- ► You believe that your life, perspective and energy have an inherent value whether other
- people acknowledge it or not.
- Guv With Situational Confidence
- Guv with Core Confidence
- You
- • His roots, where he draws his state
- from, are all outside of him.
- He doesn't need the roots of his
- confidence to extend outside of
- him. It comes from within.
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- Conflicting Realities - Anticipated Responses
- • Whenever you do anything, you have an anticipated response. You can predict, so your sense of
- reality is winat allows you to make predictions about the world.
- ► You have a model in your head about all the different cause-effect relationships. It's your
- view of how the world works, how people are like and how they should respond to you and
- your view of what you deserve out of life.
- • "Whoever has the strongest reality wins." They'll tend to impose that reality onto the other people
- around them. They have the stronger belief about who they are, how people should treat them, and
- where they stand on the totem pole. It will suck other people into that reality, and people will begin to
- treat them through that context.
- ► So while most people are always pinging to see how they should act.
- ...people with strong realities ping much less than others, and are less affected. They act mostly
- the same in all situations...
- • Ex: strong reality of a hot girl in a bar vs. a dude who gets a lot of girls:
- Hot Girl Believes:
- Cool Dude Believes:
- ►
- 1. I'm a hot girl.
- ►
- 1 . 1 have no shortage of options.
- ►
- 2. You are the next guy of the
- ►
- 2. I'm chatting you because I'm
- night.
- having fun. Girls are
- ►
- 3. You need
- silly/adorable/fun to be around, and
- validation/approval/sex from me.
- I'm chatting you. That's it.
- ►
- 4. 1 am too hard for you to get...
- ►
- 3. 1 am totally fulfilled in everything.
- ►
- 5. . . .but feel free to entertain me if
- 1 have everything 1 need.
- you like.
- ►
- 4. You seem cool, and if you turn
- out different from the other girls, we
- might hang out.
- ►
- 5. When 1 want something 1 take it,
- but for now I'm just chatting and
- having fun.
- • How to tell who has a stronger realitv in an interaction:
- ► Who is Screening vs. Qualifying - who is trying/reacting more in the interaction? Can be
- obvious (trying to impress) or very subtle (who is going into their head more and exerting
- more effort?) -> There's no "tactic" for this. The self is always coming through. Ex: Even if you
- are talking more than her maybe you're just in a blabbermouth mood and she's trying to
- impress you by seeming aloof.
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- ► Who is emotionally affected by the other person's acceptance, and who would feel no
- change?
- ► Who is losing their concept of what's cool and who feels no change?
- ► Who is changing the way that they normally talk in order to keep up and who is setting the
- tone of the conversation? (Ex: White guys who start talking gangsta, "Yo", if around a cooler
- dude who does it all the time.)
- ► Who would be having just as much fun if the other person wasn't there and who would feel
- like they're getting kicked out of the wamn end of the pool? The ability to amuse yourself is
- one of the most attractive qualities anyone can have, because it's gonna eradicate the
- highest level of neediness and you're the party.
- Being Unreactive
- • By feeling good, you're not feeling that pull of neediness and it allows you to be unreactive.
- Neediness makes you react. By not allowing your own behaviors and emotions to be thrown off by
- the other person's reality, you are being the most unreactive.
- • This DOESN'T mean being unresponsive or inexpressive. It's about being yourself, responding to
- the world, but on your own terms. Another way of looking at being unreactive is acting through your
- own intentions. When a girl tries to push you into the role of chasing/impressing her, you don't allow
- that into your reality. You don't react to that as being a part of your reality.
- • THE KEY: You stay positive, upbeat and being you, and draw her into that good reality and state that
- you're in. "Not only do I not put up with negativity, I don't even realize that negativity exists, because
- I've never seen it." -> It's outside of your reality, like trying to fit a square block into a circular hole.
- Trust In Your Faculties
- • Most people need to be told what to do by watching others, they do not have the muscle to go off of
- first-hand experience.
- • When a girl tests you (Ex: "Ew, you have a hairy back. That's nasty."), you have to remain unreactive.
- Think about it - does the girl care about the actual aspect of you or does she really care about how It
- affects you? If it bothers you or causes you to react?
- ► You only react to people you perceive as having higher value than you - would you be
- bothered if a mentally 111 homeless person said "You're a meanie"?
- ► By reacting when someone criticizes you and keeping talking and convincing other people
- that you aren't what they said, you are showing that the other person is obviously in your
- RAS and high status to you. You're giving your power away when you react too strongly to
- criticism.
- ► Basically it says "I don't value my own faculties highly enough to take my own opinion of
- myself over somebody else's. I need other people to believe what I believe in order to make it
- real. I value other people's opinions more highly than I value my own." You have no trust in
- your faculties.
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- The Formula: (Dominant Reality)
- MOST UNWAVERING^^
- • Whoever has the
- /^CDXAIKIX\/ ^^^^^^
- Certainty ^^^^
- most unwavering
- certainty and least
- emotional reaction
- to conflicting views
- ^"^^ LEAST EMOTIONAL
- will tend to have
- the dominant
- REACTION
- reality.
- ► Most people's views of reality are very subjective and always up for grabs, when you have
- the dominant reality people will tend to look to you. Usually people are always pinging, while
- a guy with a strong reality isn't (much):
- ...But as they start to accept the dominant reality, it gets imposed because of absolute certainty:
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- ■
- ...Most people are always looking to others and seeking out certainty.
- • So if you believe that whatever limitation you have (looks, money, etc) is a shortcoming, then it is. But
- if you believe that it's no big deal and completely arbitrary, then it's not. If you want to fix something
- about yourself, then do it for you, but realize that it's you who decides whether it's an issue or not.
- • When you tal<e a woman out, you have to bring her into your reality. Most guys have it
- backwards, they try to think "what would she like?"
- ► She's gonna take a journey into many guy's realities and stay in the one that gives her the
- most good emotions. Let her mess/play around in your reality, which is lOOx more exciting
- than what every other guy is doing. That's what she wants.
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- The 4 Pillars Of A Strong Reality
- • 1 ■ Who you are. Your identity.
- • 2. Your values. Taste/opinions. When you Inave tinese, you're not mesmerized by superficial
- qualities. You become a naturally screening person.
- • 3. Personal boundaries. Strong sense of winat's acceptable in your reality/what's not.
- • 4. How you expect people to act around you. Whatever price tag you put on yourself is your price.
- • Other Factors:
- ► How strong your beliefs are.
- ► How much your beliefs influence people to think and act how you expect.
- ► How little your beliefs depend on the people around you to reinforce them.
- Strength Of Reality Is A Muscle
- • The strength of your reality is a muscle - becomes stronger as you get more centered , as you get
- more experiences.
- • Just like a muscle, you have to break it down first by putting yourself into situations that test
- your sense of reality.
- ► A man always has to be leaning into his fears, pushing his fears, or else he's stagnating.
- Living on your edge.
- • Progressive desensitlzation and GO OUT is the process to become a good PDA. Any night out
- where you've accumulated new reference experiences is a good night. That's why you try the
- difficult/challenging approaches, the ones that intimidate you.
- • Imagine yourself in your most pimp image, when you feel best, and LAUGH AT IT . You have to
- learn to laugh at yourself and let that image go. Let go of trying to control what other people think of
- you. LET GO. Express yourself freely without thinking that you have something to lose.
- ► When you get shot down and feel humiliated, the big pimp image dies, so you learn to stop
- looking to second-hand opinions to validate your sense of self. You stop self-seeking in other
- people's reactions to you. "The more fire you blast onto you, the more it melts off all the shit
- around your core. "
- ► With every inch by painstaking inch, you COME INTO YOUR POWER.
- Coming Into Your Power
- • You make internal and external distinctions when
- you do this.
- ► External: what her reactions mean, what
- you should/shouldn't say.
- ► Internal: Not being stuck in your head,
- not sheltering yourself with existing
- beliefs/assumptions, and being "in the
- moment", dynamic. You learn how you
- need to be in your head. What
- thoughts you allow/don't allow in your
- head.
- • This is about where you are moving towards
- on a day-to-day basis . Every day, you have to
- ask yourself if you are growing and leaning into
- your fears or not. (see diagram right)
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- Masculine / Feminine Polarity
- • Very attractive woman will respond to a man who has a stronger reality than her.
- • lUlasculine polarity is your grounding amidst the emotional chaos. It is the magnet that draws
- women towards you in the form of your deepest self esteem. Total trust in your faculties and ability to
- determine reality. (Ex: not value scanning.)
- ► 1 . Acting only through your own intentions.
- ► 2. Being entirely uncontrollable and above manipulation.
- ► 3. Dictating the reality around you rather than being affected by it.
- ► 4. Being in the moment and walking through the world with ease.
- ► 5. Having absolutely no intimidation of the girl or the world whatsoever.
- ► 6. Tapping into the energy inside you, not around you, as a source of your mood.
- ► 7. Feeling no spikes or lulls of self esteem from any girls' responses to you. You might gain or
- lose attraction, but it does not affect your sense of who you are.
- When you go out, and you're thinking of some complex
- explanation about what's happening, there's 2 words to
- simplify it - HAVE FUN.
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- Day 3
- state
- • Here's what to do if your mind is trying to block you from accessing state:
- • Principle #1 : You are not your mind.
- • You know what a cool guy acts like, because you can recognize one when you see one. There's a
- manual in your mind, it's just that your mind won't let you access the manual.
- ► Imagine you're flying an airplane and your mind has the flying manual for it. It doesn't want
- you to take off - it won't give you the manual - but you start down the runway anyway.
- You're doing it whether or not you get the manual, like a crazed lunatic. So all your mind
- can do is say "okay, okay" and give you the manual to stop you from not crashing.
- ► This is the same as when Tyler sees a group of girls he wants to approach. "Hmm. I can't
- think of anything to say right now. Well, I guess that's going to be awkward." And then he
- goes.
- ► Trust yourself. Force that snap. You don't want to sit there procrastinating and getting stuck
- in your head. You want to be like that obnoxious guy to your mind. It's like going into the
- ocean, you don't tiptoe in, you jump in. You will mess up every so often, take it as a reminder.
- • The best guys can approach with NOTHING in their mind. They're just feeling. They're just feeling
- good. This is counter-intuitive, because in almost all endeavors, your logic and intelligence is your
- greatest asset, but in meeting women, thinking is your greatest weakness. When you're not thinking a
- step ahead, it's cocky.
- • 2 principles to get "unclogged". (Never get the "I ran out of things to say" syndrome.)
- ► 1 . What you have to say is valuable purely because it comes from you.
- ► 2. What you have to say is interesting, not because of the content, but because she's
- interested in what you find interesting.
- • If she finishes talking, and there's a silence and you go into your head to think of what you should say
- - if there's that type of pause, then probably you're done. But if you stop and keep the tension ,
- consider what she's saying, then probably she'll giggle because of the tension.
- ► You're not retreating into your little bullshit shelter of judgments, interpretations, labels,
- comparisons, etc. It's a shelter for you from facing reality for what it is. You're not really
- experiencing it.
- Polarity
- • Like a draw of attention towards you, a magnet. A woman's gonna feel it standing close to you and
- either know it's attraction or rationalize it in some way.
- • Congruence tests are so the woman can see that you are centered in your own reality, creates a lot
- of polarity. Playfully brush them off.
- ► Another type is when she breaks the rhythm of the conversation and you hold it - get
- attraction.
- ► (SIDENOTE: Advanced supplication - when you are acting indifferent in order to mal<e her
- lil<e you.)
- • lUIAN -> ACTION, GIRL -> REACTION
- ► It's why you can't get attraction just by simply reacting well to everything she does. You have
- to be the one leading the interaction. She's following.
- Chaos vs. Grounding Energy
- • One big part of masculine polarity is being at home in the environment. "This is my house. This is my
- environment. We're already friends."
- ► Carrying yourself with total confidence and even playful cockiness.
- ► Asserting that what you have to say is funny, interesting and worth being heard.
- ► Positioning yourself as already chosen by every girl in the environment, and you are choosing
- the girl that you like.
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- • Women draw their state from their environment, men draw state from themselves.
- ► This means: you can feel happy whenever you want, it's simply a decision you have to make
- about where you want your awareness to go. (The limitation that most guys are under is that
- SC tells them that constant never ending stimulation is where the happiness is.)
- • Exercise: Shift your awareness from outside to your breath. Take a 4 second breath and feel it in
- your hands, feet, etc. Stimulation can get you focused on "the little me" (and where you fit into it all),
- but when you slow it down, your perception dilates and you feel the depth. Lets you feel good and
- enjoy the moment, instead of overwhelmed. You can feel good independently and not look to your
- environment for instant gratification.
- ► Another way to change your state at will is through your physiology. Jump up, clap your
- hands, etc will make you feel happy.
- • Consciousness vs. Self-Consciousness - Consciousness, us being aware of everything around
- us, is a great gift. The problem is self-consciousness. When we're just conscious, that's when
- everything flows. You can retreat into your mind to fish things out, but that's all that it is, don't be
- always thinking about past memories or future projections. When you're having a great night, it's not
- "I am the doer." It's "This is happening through me."
- • The energy you need to get in state, you're not gonna find that by feeding off other people's
- reactions. You bring it up from yourself.
- ► It's why guys use tactics - to get some type of positive response and pump their state up. So
- when they get success they think it was the tactics, when it was really the state they got,
- which they could have had anyway if they had the ability to draw it from themselves and not
- the environment. Don't need tactics.
- ► In fact, Tyler believes that at some point the girl will withdraw lOls completely to see if you
- are drawing state off of the environment. A dude who does will start reacting, attraction goes
- down. It'll make you feel as if when you make one little mistake, the girl goes away.
- • When you have a proactive social strategy (You act the same no matter what the social pressure or
- who you're with, not reactive, you don't keep changing yourself for everybody.), you're mal<ing the
- choice to be authentic and be yourself and let the chips fall where they may. And you realize that just
- by doing that, it'll solve 99% of your social situations automatically.
- Trust In Yourself
- • You are responsible for yourself. Other than a couple close family members or friends that you may
- have, who will help you, the responsibility is all yours.
- ► Your main responsibility is holding your awareness where it counts.
- • If you're a business owner, you realize quickly that the people around you have the luxury to whine
- and complain, but you don't. You can't blame people or take responsibility on anyone other than
- yourself. When you're the leader, there is no one responsible other than you. If somebody else
- screwed something up, you screwed it up . Personal responsibility and accountability is what being a
- leader's about.
- • Most people are constantly playing out all sorts of imaginary mental movies in their minds - about
- past events or possible future scenarios and don't know how to be "present" to what's directly in front
- of them. They're looking for a way to escape, mentally.
- ► It's future projections that create the anxiety. Think about it: the moment itself is perfectly
- fine. It's so easy to do it when the road is perfectly in front of you and you're in the moment
- and you keep your focus on it as it's unfolding. It only gets difficult when you think too far
- ahead.
- ► You are like a plane that has a system where it can land by itself, all you have to do is
- ALLOW it to. Then everything's fine. But say you start thinking into the future that you're
- gonna crash and burn, then you start jerking the control. "No!" That's like what happens when
- guys "get in their own way".
- • Most of your thoughts are useless and repetitive. It's good to think when you are acting through
- your own intention, (Ex: actively brainstorming, working on something, crunching something out, etc -
- "It's thinking time.") But it's not good when you are just being compulsively drawn around because
- you are not able to hold your awareness where it counts.
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- ► If you had a case of amnesia, would your past events still affect you? Then why should they
- now? We can learn from the past, but. . .
- • You trust in your faculty to carry you forward as the moment unfolds. You experience life more vividly
- because you're free of all the distracting, useless noise who's only purpose is to bog you down.
- ► No matter what happens, you know that your mind will be presented with the right course of
- action, not before, not after, but when and only when you need it.
- TRUST
- (in yourself)
- ► It's not a belief, it's an understanding. You don't have to keep telling yourself that you believe
- it, no, you understand it. - It takes time to calibrate yourself.
- ► You don't think of the words, you allow it to arise out of you. (Being, not doing.) You're just
- the intermediary; don't take credit for what comes out of your mouth.
- • Read Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead + Atlas Shrugged.
- Walking Through The World With Ease
- • Core confidence, having a strong reality, acting through your own intentions, masculine polarity and
- being present. When you take all of these and merge them you have WTTWWE.
- • There's a certain way of walking through the world that is just a lot more natural. If you're in a
- fun environment, merge into that. Don't resist it. It's walking with the current of the world, not
- against/above/below it. Knowing you are just a necessary part of the greater whole.
- ► You don't attach your identity to anything. Not being rich/poor, your current circumstances,
- etc.
- ► You can navigate the complexities of the world with the same certainty and understanding as
- you could for just the most basic of facts, like the way you know the ground is stable and the
- sky is above you.
- ► While most people are stuck in what they fear, whining at what they think is unfair, your mind
- is dialed only for what's right in front of you. The way fon/vard is to exist in each moment. The
- order of things as it is is fine, but at any moment you could just break out and do whatever
- you feel like doing, not to impress anybody, but because you feel like it and it's something
- that you enjoy.
- • WTTWWE allows you to be self-forgetting . Conscious, but not self-conscious. Allows you to be
- spontaneous, think of what to say at the right time instead of straining. More importantly, it's this
- foundation that makes people want to look to you.
- ► This is not about a technique, it's something you are. It doesn't mean you can just not
- approach anyone or not be social.
- ► It's not about egoic learning (where you read every single book and check them off your "tick
- list" and think you're not a chode anymore), this is about signposts pointing you to a better
- way of being.
- • Being successful with women is one of those things where, once you "get it", you will look back in
- utter disbelief that you ever found it difficult.
- ► In any type of success, there's like this "glass wall" between the haves and have-nots.
- The Bearings That Make Your World Make Sense
- • AKA your map/reality. Your view of who you are, what people are like and how they should respond
- to you and your view of how the world works and what is possible.
- • There are empowering/disempowering realities. In a disempowering reality, the person has their
- world make sense to them and they feel comfortable, without achieving the success.
- • "Success Barriers" - You think that you want success, but your mind has blocks that it has put up to
- stop you from getting it. In getting any kind of success, the further that you push beyond what your
- previous concept of where you should be at is, the more anxiety you're normally gonna feel.
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- • Ramifications of a new reality:
- ► 1 . The doubts that you have the mental energy to learn all the ins and outs.
- ► 2. The nauseous feeling that you're going backwards in your understanding of the world.
- ► 3. A sort of instinct that people might not accept the new you.
- • Whenever you decide that your idea of reality may not be what you think it is, that puts you into
- disarray - which makes your social status go down, so that's why people may have developed an
- instinct to ignore outside input. It's better to be confident and wrong than uncertain.
- ► Having to reconsider your reality Is stressful on you, that's why when it expands so much you
- either feel like you need to take a nap or you can't sleep.
- • As far as your mind is concerned, your perception of reality does not have to be objective, it just has
- to be accurate enough to keep you going and alive. Most people are not too concerned with
- objectivity. Otherwise we'd be seeing all sorts of random particles and energies in the air that have
- nothing to do with our survival. Flawed or not, if it's kept us alive so far, it's easier to go deeper into
- the existing reality than deal with the headaches of thinking through a more complex view of reality
- Strength Of Reality (Expanded)
- • To make their reality stronger, what some people will do is link up one belief with another
- belief. "Of course this is true, because before I did x, and tliat relates to y. "
- ► We are continually seeking validation of our existing beliefs. People want to find out they
- were right all along, not wrong.
- ► Some people are not capable of having a shift in their thinking because you would be
- threatening too much. If one belief turned out to be wrong, it was attached to a bunch of
- others. So now they're stuck. This is usually what creates difficult people to get along with.
- • So people develop blind spots. A guy who has strong beliefs and thinks he's god's gift to women
- will have many blind spots and his state won't go down when he gets negative reactions, because it
- doesn't fit into his reality.
- ► But someone who has weaker beliefs will have less blind spots. They'll see how people are
- actually reacting, and are affected if it's a negative reaction. They are addicted to response,
- total social calibration, and most people who have it get shy. Sometimes, they get creative
- and come up with the perfect line for every situation, (if she says this/gives a certain reaction,
- then you say this, and it's all good.) But if he doesn't get the reaction, his state drops.
- ► There are pros and cons to both. One dude of the first type could be socially out of step and
- get blown off, other dude could get bad reaction, have a good comeback, and stick in.
- • The "Third" Guv - He can see the negative social feedback, but not focus on It. It's a mix, redefines
- our concept of a strong reality because it is simultaneously strong + weak. It's "be like water", you are
- adaptable. A strong, but flexible belief system.
- Reordering Perception To Preserve The Map
- • People do this all the time.
- • The ability to quickly sift through ideas and either take them on or reject them is actually a strength
- and a skill. The more adaptable you are in allowing conflicting or paradoxical realities to exist in your
- mind without being shut down by them, the more readily you can jump between maps, and where
- other people would fall flat on their face, you will stand.
- ► &<: You know that people rationalize value, what's best for them, but there's also the belief
- that you want to believe the best in all individuals , even see yourself in them. The people who
- see everything through the lens of "The Selfish Gene", value, etc. tend to be so... empty. So
- you have to hold the paradoxical realities in your mind without having to resolve them or have
- everything make sense - because concepts are limited, they are not reality. (The map is not
- the territory.)
- • From an evolutionary perspective, your mind doesn't care if your life sucks. You're not gonna
- die, so it doesn't matter.
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- ► Everybody says they would want to be the alpha wolf when asked, but being the alpha isn't
- all only good. He has to expend more energy, is responsible for the groups survival, has to
- hold down competition for the alpha role.
- ► When you raise your social value, you're gonna get conflict and haters. They hate that you
- have success when they don't, so they find little things to focus on that are true, then blow
- them out of proportion and rationalize hating you this way.
- ► So your mind does not want you to get high status. It's pretty good living being a beta male,
- while being that outgoing guy you have to expend more energy. Your friends may not like you
- anymore.
- • Leader of Men vs. Wandering Nomad theory. There are 2 types of guys who get laid a lot. One is
- the alpha, leader of men. The other is the wandering nomad - women seem to be attracted to guys
- who have something genetically different about them, like an accent. The genetic reason for this may
- be because they want to bring in new genes - it would have been good for the tribe.
- Bootcamp Revelation
- • Guys would go on program, get great results, and then bitch and whine later that they didn't do good.
- ► Why? If a guy's reality is that he's not good with women and 4/10 approaches go well, then
- instead of focusing on the 4 that went well, he's gonna focus on the bad. Whereas a guy who
- believes he's good may only do 2/10 and focus on the 2. Reticular activation system - they're
- validating their map of reality.
- • See the best in other yourself and see the best in other people. Cut yourself a ton of slack. When
- you see the best in other people, you assume they are seeing the best in you. That becomes a part of
- your reality.
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- Day 4
- Success Barriersf^conf-J
- • Success barriers means you think you want something, but if you got it right now you may not
- be able to psychologically handle it. (Ex: Being president seems like a good tiling, but it would
- mean not only having a few people ripping on you, but whole channels dedicated to it.)
- ► If you think a girl's more attractive than you perceive yourself as being, then you're gonna
- become outcome-dependent and needy. If your unconscious mind understands that you'd be
- devastated by being broken up witii, then it's gonna seif-sabotage and try to put you into a
- situation where you wouldn't even get the relationship in the first place.
- • But being in a position of high status is easy once you understand it, it's no more difficult than being in
- a position of low status. In fact, once you've completely come into alignment with it, it's actually easier
- than being low status and dealing with all the self hate and mediocrity that goes with that. It's getting
- there and dealing with all the new headaches of social pressure is where the success barriers come
- in.
- • Put yourself into a position where mistakes will occur. (Ex: Tyler had to screw up several
- relationships with hot girls in the beginning because he still had insecurities. But the important thing
- was, he let himself get far enough to screw up - most guys won't even get that far.)
- This Seminar Won't "Fix" You
- • Just hearing "be in the moment" won't make you get it. But if you go out, you'll start to see the
- connections between when you do bad and times when you do good, and in a year's time you'll be a
- lot less in your head than you used to be. The ratio of time you spend in the zone that you want to be
- in will slowly tilt in your favor.
- • This stuff takes time. You may think that the destination you want to get to is great, and getting there
- is the bad part - that's not really true. Life is about moving towards that core self and authenticity, and
- the journey that you take to get there - that's meant to be enjoyed. Even if it's difficult, man, that's
- your life.
- Anticipated Responses / Assumptions
- • Everyone has a reality of how they expect to be treated. How you expect the world to respond to you.
- This is the core of natural game. You could really make an argument that this is what it's all about.
- ► 1 . Whether a person of your status can be expected to be treated badly or well.
- ► 2. Whether people are generally trustworthy or manipulative, friendly or mean.
- ► 3. Whether there's an abundancy or scarcity of people in the world who could like you.
- • Ask yourself:
- ► Do I like myself?
- ► Would I hang out with somebody like myself?
- ► If I saw a guy who looked like me with a really attractive girl, would I be like "What's that
- about?" or would I be like "Of course he's with her." (RSD calls it "when you believe that a girl
- could like you just for you.")
- • People are always doing things to cause their anticipated responses to come true. (Ex: A girl
- who has low self esteem and her anticipated response is that attractive guys won't like her - will blow
- off guys that approach her more than an attractive girl. She'll have behaviors that keep her model of
- reality intact. A self-fulfilling prophecy. On the other hand, a girl who thinks she's attractive who then
- meets a guy who shows no interest is gonna start flirting with him.)
- ► Someone who believes that the world is a friendly place and everyone is his friend is gonna
- have all these little behaviors that reinforce his reality.
- • People are always trying to maintain their reality. They are trying to make their world make sense.
- They're not willing to shake up their reality, they don't want to take on the new bearings. They're
- maintain their reality by seeing everytliing through a lens. Take the fucking lenses off! Allow
- yourself to experience reality head on.
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- ► People will go home believing The Blueprint, find an example that contradicts this program
- (which inevitably you have to because the world is always shifting around), what a lot of
- people do is say "No, that has to go with that principle I learned at The Blueprint." - but that's
- exactly what Tyler is trying to teach you NOT to do. He could spend 4 years coming up with
- the most accurate map, but it still wouldn't be reality. The map is not the terrain.
- Self-Fulfillinq Prophecy
- • When, by the strength of your beliefs, the reality that is stored up in your head becomes the reality of
- your actual life.
- • This happens because your mind is always seeking out evidence, even if it's obscure, to reinforce
- your existing beliefs, and because of the confidence you have in those beliefs, you draw people into
- your reality and inadvertently get them to act in ways that they don't expect.
- ► If you approach a girl and fully believe that she's friendly, of course there's a 95% chance that
- she's gonna be super-friendly. You can tell when someone expects everyone else to be
- friendly (ex: hot girl) to them vs. someone who doesn't just by looking at them.
- • If someone tries to tool you, by calling you a smarty pants, etc - there's 2 ways you can interpret it:
- ► Many people interpret that being called "smarty pants" makes them feel bad. They lose a bit
- of state and at some level, the other people can feel it and feel that they called you out and it
- reinforces the reality in the other people's minds that they were correct.
- ► On the other hand, if you don't care, think it's fun, and you treat it as if it was a joke, it
- reinforces the idea in the other people's minds that they were just joking all along. -> The
- strongest reality wins, you don't have to have the best comeback or the better answer all the
- time.
- • Anything that you don't like in your life, you don't have to acknowledge it. You only have to
- acknowledge the reality that you want and then the self-fulfilling prophecy comes to exist.
- Micro Behaviors
- • Things much more subtle than most sub-communication. (Ex: Like when you can look a girl in the
- eye, and your eyes hold steady, shows you are not running through images in your head. You're
- outside your head.)
- • You CANNOT consciously control or understand most of these like you can with sub-communication.
- You can't and you don't need to - it flows from state/within, and when you are flowing, it's all handled
- for you automatically. All that you need to know is how to flow.
- Congruence
- • If you have full belief in the anticipated responses you know you're gonna get, that's gonna drive your
- micro behaviors, and it's what makes you really, really good at this. You're fully assuming that what
- you want is the reaction to be is gonna happen.
- • Ex: When you're telling a story, you can make a girl laugh on the spots on the story that you want her
- to laugh just by believing that she's gonna laugh. It's like this vibe.
- Flinching (Or Retreating Into Your Mind)
- • When you doubt yourself, it's gonna blow your anticipated responses. If you retreat into your head,
- the great assumptions you have won't work. -> You'll come off as creepy.
- • This knowledge (The Blueprint) can both help you or hurt you. Can help by letting you see the social
- phenomena and do stuff you couldn't previously do. But it could hurt you if you're going through life
- constantly asking yourself: "Do I have the stronger reality here?", "Am I retreating into my head? ...
- oops, I guess I am."
- ► The solution is that we can look at it with a large scope or a much simpler one, which
- is "HAVE FUN". When you're in the science lab, be a scientist. When you're out, be a
- person. It's perfectly fine to teach and learn this stuff because it helps us, but if we're thinking
- about it when we're out, that's only going to go against us. And isn't there a funny irony there
- that in working to understand social dynamics more subtly, you could actually become less
- socially savvy? You could become less socially skilled and lose that coolness about you
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- when you're focused on it too much. You have to be able to disconnect yourself from it when
- you go out.
- Giving Value
- • If you believe that women don't enjoy sex as much as men do, if not more, then when you're calling
- that girl over, you're gonna feel like you're taking value, like you're trying to trick her into something.
- • Having a Inigin level of integrity as a person and knowing that you always offer value to the people that
- you interact with is gonna allow you to come across so much stronger .
- How To Fully Believe In Yourself:
- Trust In A Foreign Set Of Bearings
- • When we learn new bearings like now, we have not developed the reference experiences yet that we
- could trust in them.
- • The process
- ► 1 . You're learning the ins and out of how the new behavior works.
- ► 2. You're gathering evidence. Looking at what other people are doing and you're
- experimenting.
- ► 3. You eventually get it to the point where you don't have to think about it anymore. You have
- fully trusted in the bearings. Your mind has gone through the process and you now have an
- anticipated response , new assumptions. This is called internalization .
- • Internalization - the process of trial-and-error that you have to go through to create an assumption
- that you never have to think about ever again. For something to be internalized:
- ► 1. You do it naturally.
- ► 2. You're in the moment when you do it, because it doesn't require any thought.
- ► 3. You never have to think about it ever again.
- • Your beliefs/assumptions about what will happen if you approach a stranger are, unless you've done
- it hundreds of times, second-hand knowledge. It's the same as jumping out of an airplane - you think
- you know what would happen, but it's based on second-hand knowledge. Unless you really tried, you
- don't know. But because most SC says that you can't, you don't try.
- Newbie's Paradox
- • A newbie, if he's not confident when he's approaching, is gonna get bad results/negative evidence.
- The paradox is that, in order to get that unwavering belief, you need reference experiences in
- order to believe it. But you can't get the reference experiences without the unwavering belief a lot of
- the time.
- • To have unwavering belief you have to get to a point where. . .
- ► 1. You fully assume that what you're gonna do is gonna work and...
- ► 2. You have to be totally indifferent to the odd times that it doesn't.
- • ...That's how it's gonna be totally relaxed, natural and congruent when you approach. There's no
- pride attached to it. It's just a funny thing to do, and you know that anybody else could figure It out if
- they were to try. You can't make an identity out of it, believing that you can do all this stuff other
- people can't. Don't make it a big deal - you shouldn't have this false sense of superiority just cause
- you know how to approach women.
- Ego Defense Mechanism
- • Telling a newbie to go approach a woman is a lot like telling him to go walk into a wall. There's always
- a little dip as he's approaching, that little bit of flinch. That self-protection. It's like dipping your toes
- into the pond to see if it's warm vs. JUMPING IN. It's an inability to put your real personality on the
- line.
- • Ego Defense Mechanism - When you're talking to a girl and your unconscious mind will make you
- flinch so that you can tell yourself: "She didn't reject the real me. She rejected the flinching me."
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- The Halfway Point Between Fear And Total Belief Is
- INDIFFERENCE
- • You can't really go out and try to cultivate total belief as a newbie, because what you're gonna
- get as a newbie is evidence that you suck. But what you can do is go out and get reference
- experiences that it doesn't matter what other people think of you .
- ► Eventually, you cross something called the indifference threshold . It's true indifference,
- letting go of the outcome.
- • Confidence is communicating that you're successful with other women. The women's system Is
- designed not to feel attracted to you if you're not confident. So if you aren't successful with
- women, the system is designed to make you not get girls. It's designed so that you can't get confident
- unless you really have what the women want.
- ► So what you have to do is essentially scramble the system. Pummel your brain with so many
- reference experiences that the whole system overloads. You realize that you're still here after
- getting blown out a million times, and then you cross the indifference threshold. And now
- that you're indifferent, things change. (You go from stifled -> unstifled.)
- ► When your mind has the click "It's better to be this high value, fun, social guy than it is to
- avoid attention and not infringe on anybody, the micro behaviors start to come in. RAS starts
- to look at behavior of cool guys more.
- • The indifference threshold is something that can be crossed very quickly. Don't try to be confident in
- life, just try to be indifferent. Confidence will flow from that point.
- Stifling
- • When you're stifled, your mind is telling you: "Don't let your voice be heard past this range that is
- permissible. Don't take up space beyond xyz range. Don't go interrupting
- people, taking up their time and space. Don't do that"
- • Stifling happens because, as you change environments you're not totally
- certain of what that environment is (possible danger), so your unconscious
- mind stifles you in. What happens is your voice is not totally unlocked. You
- have to unstifle yourself.
- ► That richness in your voice is what she's responding to, that
- unstifledness. (It conveys that you are comfortable in the
- environment at a deep level, unconcerned with taking up space.)
- • How to get unstifled and cross the indifference threshold:
- ► First realize the law of inertia is acting on you. An object at rest will stay at rest unless acted
- upon by an outside force. If you're just sitting there with your buddy and then you see some
- girls you want to approach, you don't have any momentum. So you need to BE that outside
- force to get yourself unstifled.
- ► To get unstifled you have to do something that's out of character, isn't really you an expands
- the energy, time and space that you're taking up.
- • 1 ■ The Imitation Game - Imitate something that's not you. (Ex: Lion, crocodile, toaster, rhinoceros, t-
- rex, whale.) The club social pressure is pushing down on you, and the club can get on top of you, or
- you can get on top of the club.
- Social Vibinq
- • Logic is the opposite of emotion, they flush each other out. When you're vibing with people and trying
- to be to logical, that can break the vibe - Logic is a vibe-breaker. The idea is that socializing and
- vibing with people is an end in and of itself. If you're feeling like you have to prove yourself, that's not
- really vibing.
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- • Emotional states are addictive. Someone wino's addicted to positivity winen you bring up a negative
- topic won't focus on it, they'll change the subject. But someone addicted to negativity will play off of it
- and explore all the negative ramifications.
- ► The more often that you access an emotional state, the more synaptic pathways your mind
- creates in order to access it again and again.
- ► Memory is also state-access dependent. When you're unhappy, you'll remember unhappy
- memories more and vice versa.
- • Why Tyler reads books is not only to get the info that's in it, but to get the presence from that author,
- get him into that zone.
- • The new social habits that you get from going out are maintained. You don't go back to being
- introverted, stuck in your head, logical right after you stop going out.
- Logic vs. Emotion (cont...)
- • If you're used to being an engineer or computer programmer and you're doing logic all day, a lot of
- the time when you go out to that social gathering, you feel alienated/disconnected from the
- environment. You see people playing around and you're still trying to compute it.
- • A logical conversation is very linear, so you're thinking very linearly - topics that are logically related.
- Vibing is not linear, you're just expressing yourself outward. You're shooting images in-between each
- other's heads that amuse you and therefore amuses her back. (The value is fun.)
- Side Belief: Sex is a natural consequence of chemistry and therefore an inevitability. It's a way to cement
- a moment and blow off steam.
- Unhitching From Social Conditioning
- • You have unhitched from your old identity and the easiness of social conditioning.
- ► When you're in newbie/intermediate phase, it's like there's a hole in you, an
- anxiousness/uneasiness that makes you crave validation and more reference experiences to
- reinforce your reality. You want to keep living in the reality because, in abundance, your state
- goes up. So you get addicted to reinforcing your reality. (Approaching every girl, getting "pick
- up" friends, researching it for hours at a time.) You can't relate to your old friends as much,
- because they're stuck in the old reality. So you keep pushing the reality and start to develop a
- false self , instead you want to find your centeredness.
- • Being a chode is easy - it doesn't require an expenditure of energy, you could go through your whole
- life without anybody insulting you, humiliating you, and you won't have to push your edge.
- The Concept Of "It Didn't Worl<"
- • There was a point in Tyler's life when he was a teen and going through a rough time and thought, "If I
- just had X and y and z, then I'd be happy." Then a couple months later he had all the conditions he
- had said would make him happy, but it didn't work.
- ► Think of how celebrities feel when they have all the fame/women, but they're still unhappy.
- Because if your conditions are bad, you can blame them, but when you can't blame anything,
- you start to feel nuts.
- • Later he lives on beachfront Hawaii, nymphomaniac gf, RSD going fine, perfect day and everybody's
- happy, but he's not. Thinks "I have arrived, so why am I unhappy still? What the hell is going on
- here?" True insanity is when you get what you want, but you still have not become the happy person
- that you expected.
- • What happens is that you develop an ego - like your "pick up persona" that you need to "put on" in
- certain situations in order to get love and respect, and it starves real self esteem. In the same way
- that a chode feels the need to show other people his watch, when you learn about social dynamics,
- you feel the need to show people your more gregarious self.
- ► If you've developed a lot of shells around your core personality, then you always feel like you
- need to be doing something and controlling the frame, find it difficult to just chill. You feel this
- type of antsiness.
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- Ego vs. Self-Esteem
- • Society has got most people so fucking scattered, going from stimulation to stimulation. They don't
- even realize that confidence and feeling good about yourself is a default state .
- • The difference between ego and self-esteem:
- ► Self-Esteem: you're born with it, it's indescribable, self-sustaining.
- ► Ego: A rational construct that we come up with as a substitute for self-esteem, when self-
- esteem becomes wounded at a young age. Getting status, making money, pulling girls -
- allows us to logically see why we should have confidence.
- • On the surface, ego makes sense. -> "If I don't have anything going for me, then why should I feel
- confident?" It's rational. We come up with reasons why we should feel confident even though it's a
- default state.
- • There's a very freaky epiphany that happens when you realize that happiness is your default state.
- Means that there's been no real purpose to all that you've done in your life. Start to question "Why am
- 1 doing this if 1 could just feel happy independently?"
- • You used to have self-esteem, but at some point in your life you were wounded. (Parents told
- you not to talk to strangers, not talk loud, social conditioning hits you with "the path to happiness".)
- Kids are sponges, soak this in, and...
- ► What eventually happens is that you don't feel you can be confident just for you
- anymore. You feel disconnected from the tribe, not a part of it. Your mind can't just let you
- stay that way, unconfident, so it says "What are some logical reasons why 1 can feel
- confident?"
- ► So you start comparing/differentiating yourself from other people. (Self-esteem is based on
- common humanity, and ego is based on separateness/differentness.)
- • The ego is false because we don't have perfect memories, we twist them more positive/negative so
- we can make an identity out of them. Your ego is never as accurate as you think, it's just this little
- fake construct that you've made.
- ► It seems big, but really it's like a little grain of sand stuck to your eye, that's the filter through
- which you see the world.
- • The ego is made up of:
- ► Logical evidence : "1 got this girl, this one, that one."
- ► People's opinions : You try to "find yourself" in other people's opinions.
- ► Rationalizations : "This person's such a dick and the only reason other people like him is
- because they're stupid." Everybody has a story (connected to other stories, etc.) to come up
- with their sense of self.
- ► Comparisons : Life is about the unknown (no one knows where the universe is, whether
- we're actually alive, what happens when we're dead, etc.), but what the ego does is it tries to
- shelter us from the unknown through labels/judgments/comparisons. Tells us "I know the
- environment" and tries to shelter us from the very frightening truth that we are constantly in
- the unknown. Our mind says "we have to find a context ."
- • Human life is absurd in that we create relationships, do amazing things, all to eventually die. Life will
- end. Ernest Beckert: "The fact that someday we're gonna die leads to a denial of death where we can
- begin to view the world as an arena for heroism. "
- • The ego always wants to kick the next man down so you can show why you're better. Because it's
- always looking for context, it has to show that you're more real/tangible. "1 want to be the best."
- ► It leads to looking your whole life at the surface of things and not the depth. A life of running
- around, trying to figure out who you are, to heal that wound.
- ► But you later realize: "The more personal the wound, the more universal the wound."
- We all have stories: "This happened to me, this is my identity", but look at all these girls who
- like me, the good responses I can generate.
- • The ego is unsustainable because you always have to have reference material to validate it.
- It's a black hole that creates neediness. You need evidence that those old wounds don't matter
- anymore.
- ► Are you shaping your reality from this desperate feeling of lack or are you doing it for the
- sake of right action? To feel the flow of creativity or to deny the unknown?
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- • The now is the only moment there ever is - do not seek happiness in the future, it's now. The way
- that you feel now, this is it.
- ► We're taught from an early age to go to school -> high school -> college -> job -> and when
- we retire is the glory. Like a "deferred life plan". We're always taught to measure/grade
- ourselves and get to the next thing, get to the future .
- ► Once you realize, yes there's a future, but this moment is it, then the concept of time become
- irrelevant. There's no real use for time.
- The Result Is Antl-Cllmatic
- • The result can never be as good as the doing. The now. If happiness is default, there's no difference
- when you get something. It's ail the same thing. Offering value to people is the best thing you could
- ever do.
- Value Givers and Value Takers (Tyler's "Method")
- • Whenever you're operating through the ego and you're trying to get someone to react to you, that is
- taking value. When someone is trying to self-seek by manipulating your reactions, you can sense it.
- ► But when you're authentic and you're just offering value, it's amazing how people will
- respond. Don't make your criteria for success "how they responded". Your only criteria is you
- put yourself out there and were true to yourself, just said what you though in the moment.
- • Whenever you're just trying to add value, that's an attractant. Take value = repellant.
- • The Formula: Everyone is unique, that's their inherent value. And since we have a socially created
- reality we always enjoy interacting with people. But if they're giving you knowledge in order to
- generate reactions, that's not really giving you authentic knowledge/perspective/vibes = no value
- giving.
- Offering Value and Self-Amusement
- • Self-amusement - you say things that'll pump your own state, not like most other guys who are
- thinking "What will she respond to best?" Say things you find funny, even if they're ridiculous. As long
- as what you're doing amuses you.
- • When you're bringing the party, she's interested, when you're trying to wedge your way into her party,
- she's repelled. Emotional state is your full cup. Your centeredness is your value to a woman as a
- man.
- Ego (cont...)
- • Ego starts with the wound at a young age, and you rationalize your identity/uniqueness is that, BUT
- IN REALITY WE ALL HAVE WOUNDS.
- • You have to accept both your good and your bad. Accept that the more personal it is the more
- universal it is, and you have to accept the wound.
- • It's when you can look past the surface/glitz/glamour, look past that and realize that we're all human,
- there's a click that takes place and you become comfortable in your own skin.
- Authenticity
- • Everyone was born fine, happy, but them something happened that moved you away from that. But
- you can re-find that self-esteem.
- • Anything that you think that is bad about you, without self-esteem, is an embarrassment, but when
- you have self-esteem, they're endearing quirks. The self is always coming through.
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