Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss
Neil Darrow Strauss, also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter, with both American and Kittitian citizenship. He is best known for his best-selling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, in which he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become a "pick-up artist." He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also writes regularly for The New York Times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth9 March 1969
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm not worried about it because guys will always need to find a way to meet women. Attraction is always the same. You can't help it. You can't disarm that.
All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.
I totally understand all the bad press, ... It's not about the book, but the ideas in it and the way these guys speak. But on the other hand, this is how these guys speak when they're together. So if I wrote a book that was unassailable in that direction, it wouldn't be an honest book ... if a guy was open about his sexual feelings all the time, he would become a total outcast.
Don't even think about it and just do it. If you don't, you'll be regretting it the rest of the weekend.
The modern player is totally under the radar.
I was one of them. I understand what they're going through.
See that girl over there with the pink shirt? ... I think she's, like, the hottest girl in the whole place.
A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.
You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.
It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self
If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.
Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.