Project Rockstar - Cumulative Threads - Page 22

Optimistic1212 · #**211** (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 05:22 PM

Back to work.. eating LondonHunk's food throughout the day. Gym at lunch then salsa in the evening.

Then head for some daygame in Covent Garden/Leicester square while waiting for my next salsa lesson. Suddenly, out of the blue, this girl comes up to me:

'Do you smoke? Give me a cigarette?' I'm a non-smoker so I say something along the lines of...

'No... but thats pretty rude. Where are your manners? You should ask politely.' With a smile on my face. She smiles and we start chatting. I notice she's a little tipsy and she's out a male friend and they invite me out with them.

We head out to a bar nearby and the guy is up for chatting to random girls (and is quite natural at it). His friend is great at trying to blow sets up in style, with the delusion of matchmaking... very entertaining mix. She had a habit of something along the lines of:

'You're both single right. (Target and me). You should get together!' etc etc. Amusing

I facebook closed one of the girls (damn was she cute and fiesty). I was doing a few cold readings. And she was VERY competitive. Teased her on it. I tried to number close but she went for facebook instead. Maybe I should try a new way of number closing as I keep getting this... I wonder if its lack of attraction or the way that I go about asking for it. Hmmm. Will try a new way and see what happens.

Enjoyable random night... I was able to build more of a rapport with the help of Sebastian Drake's talk.

I was thinking late at night how productive my day was:

1 hour in morning eating breakfast, showering and measuring food (productive)
7 hours working (I'm quitting soon so its productive in that I get paid!)
1 hour gym during lunch (my muscles are getting huge.. talk about pulling out the big guns... ok not yet but its getting there)
30 mins doing hobby (productive)
30 mins doing day game (productive)
2 hours socialising with strangers (productive)
2 hours commuting but listening to PUA related stuff (so still productive)
8 hours sleep (Sleep is a necessity! Not for Mr M though.)
1 hour blogging/eating before sleep (Productive)
= 23 hours

So 1 hour 'wasted or unknown' and this was my day off! That's pretty damn productive.

Now to keep it up and make my time more efficient. I'd hate to think what my pre-rockstar efficiency was. Nowhere near the lifestyle I have now. Make the most out of your time and do lot let yourself slack!

Anyway, time for sleep.

Optimistic

black_swan · #**212** (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 06:14 PM

Day 29 – Sunday , Sebastian Drake

Once again, Sunday lectures continue to be my favorite day of the week with our excellent guest stars. Sebastian Drake gave us a custom talk, essentially running a Q&A session while hitting some major points that I’m sure most PU students ask. What I like about Sebastian is that he keeps fluff to a minimum and answers questions by giving you a clear set of directions on what to do. How to carry yourself like an elite man? Stand up straight, shoulders back, keep your head up and parallel to the ground, start dressing like an elite man would. That’s just an example, but he answers many complex questions just as clearly.

His stance on inner game is that the best results come from achieving and doing, and less from reading affirmations backwards and forwards. I think both can help. If I spent 100% of my time achieving (closing 10s, making money, being successful) I might find myself incomplete, and at the same time sitting in my room and practicing inner game all day might be as ineffective. I’m not sure what the optimal ratio of reading studying versus doing is just yet. Anyone find the optimal balance for improvement?
Went to dinner with Sebastian, Mr M, Dr Yen and some younger members of the game. I realized that they all had very strong identities and experiences; I can see the magnetic personalities they’ve built through game and just improving themselves. They aren’t dominating or overly loud, just comfortable and confident in who they are. They didn’t notice, but people at other tables in the restaurant would lose interest in their conversations and be leaning over to listen as one of the instructors was telling a story. At times, I was pounding the table with laughter.

When Sebastian is answering a technical question about the game he gets to the heart of the question quickly and answers it well. One of the Rockstars asked, “I find myself getting bored with girls quickly, how do you maintain longer relationships?” Relationship management is a big topic in itself; probably larger than seduction. Sebastian answers (I can see the action points flying before my eyes) “Get the girl doing and being a part of what you’re excited about in your life. Don’t compartmentalize your life into excited hobbies and girlfriend or else you will find yourself getting bored quickly.” I just finished reading the One Minute Entrepreneur (OME) which I recommend along with the One Minute CEO. In OME, the author recommends incorporating your spouse in some part of the business as well.

Lots of useful direct answers. Time to take action.

black_swan · #**213** (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 07:08 PM

Day 30 – Monday, Rest Day

Started reading a book on the Dalai Lama, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Never Eat Alone (American book, kind of hard to find here in London), Eckman’s Facial Activation Coding System. Which by the way, something I just discovered, you really only need to get his METTS and SETTS program and his book on Emotions Revealed if you want to learn how to read people’s micro-expressions. FACS is a 500 page tomb which is for poor research assistants who have to numerically categorize digital stills from experiments. Thank god, I was about to spend a few months working through FACS until I realized that.

I’m not sure if it has been announced yet, by Mr M is going to have the Rockstars contribute to a pretty big project for Lovesystems. Keep watching this thread because the details will be released soon. I can say that working on this will improve our game and expertise on specific skill sets. We are developing our PU identities here boys. After meeting countless instructors who are at the top of their game I know that each person has a unique strength and it’s interesting to see it happen in field. Up to the intermediate stage, students are generally following a pre existing model that works, and as you get more advanced your natural inclination (and IMHO, duty to the community) is to push the envelop and develop new technology that works.

Think back to the days when there was no community. Just inklings of newsgroups. There were a handful of people experimenting independently and occasionally sharing what they learned. Based on the growth of the community in the past 10 years, can you imagine how strong the base of seduction of knowledge will be in 10 years? I foresee everyone knowing about the game in future. The seduction community won’t be a strange secret society. It’ll be known as self-help. There will be PU magazines (I have no interest in selling a magazine, but I think that someone should do this) with the latest strategies and it will appear along side Men’s Health and GQ.

The question won’t be: Do you know about the Game? That’ll be a given, like do you know about body building. The question will be: how good is your game?

PS. Geez I did go off on a slight tangent and yes, I can see the future.

prizefighter · #**214** (**permalink**) 08-06-2008, 06:07 AM

Sebastian Drake is a legend. I really am inspired and awed by this guy. He has a really cool vibe about him and we will hopefully get to spend some more time with him on the project. Rather than sitting us down and talking at us he took the approach of an unscripted chat so we could really ask him anything.

Whenever i learn something from an instructor i understand and interpret it in my own way and then apply it in a way that suits my identity:-

If i was to ever go for a coffee with a girl i would always buy them. I feel this is my duty. Maybe its the english gentlemen ingrained inside me.

But look at this example,

You are at the counter you both order your coffees,

Assistant: Thats 4 pound please
You: You got these?
HB: Yeah, sure

Something so simple. So cheap. Only £2 of hers. Has a powerful effect. Women have a way of rationalising things (especially covering their asses to look good to their friends) so she will rationalise this as her really liking you as she has invested (not necessarily monetry) in you. I think this will work particularly well on a smoking hot 9 or 10 who is used to guys buying her things. I'm going to try this. I mean, what have i got to lose, i go for a coffee with a 10 and its free.

Abundance mentality. It won't make you come accross as cheap as i thought it would before Sebastian explained the logic behind it.

High variance=High risk

So many guys blow themselves out of sets they have already 'won'. Once you are on the home straight there is no need to do crazy shit!!!!!!!!!!!

Seb has got a slow, sexy, fluid movement about him.

He showed us how to use this in set. I agreed that this is brilliant once the set is hooked but wasn't sure about it when opening. He then showed us how easy it actually was. Shweet!!!

Also, rather than looking over your shoulders, move your body to look. And never scan the room, looking around you over your shoulders. Remember, you are the most important person in the room. Why do you care what everyone else is doing??

We have been taught a lot of topics but one thing we haven't got to yet is maintaining relationships. Obviously this is a very large topic so we just covered a few points. I feel i will be seeing salsa girl on a regular basis and wanted some advice on how to avoid getting bored. I get bored very easily. He gave some good advice about integrating them in the fun things you do and pushing things sexually. At the moment my fun things are Project Rockstar and boxing. Hmm, shall i take her out to game girls with me or practise my boxing on her?? lol She is really cool anyway, so i don't think i will get bored with this one in a hurry...

Stay safe

Prizefighter

Starlight · #**215** (**permalink**) 08-06-2008, 04:45 PM

Got back to London today. Immediate waves of depression washed over Soul and I upon clearing customs...the tree-trunk thighs of Brits have replaced the bronze skin, platinum hair and pastel blue eyes of Swedes. Before leaving Soul and I went to the Royal Palace where his girl from last night works. She looked hot in the Royal outfit and let us in for free (Game opens doors...literally). We are both anti-tourists though and left soon after.

A cup of coffee later and it was time to catch a flight. I am bloody knackered from the weekend so this post is not going to be my finest hour. Upcoming highlights are:

Rockstars collectively teaching a Workshop in two days (I'm well prepared after this weekend)

Rockstars helping Sheriff run his London bootcamp this coming weekend.

Big news that we'll be helping Mr M develop a hot new Love Systems product. More on this soon

Getting back in the gym, launching my online business, filming Day Game video in-field for a video compilation...hell there is a thousand things going on and I love it...still texting with my Swedish lady-friends whilst waiting for the Tube back towards home

black_swan · #**216** (**permalink**) 08-06-2008, 07:21 PM

Day 31 – Wednesday, Sheriff
Starlight calls me up in the morning (2pm) and tells me he is doing some filming and wants to do know if I’ll do some day game. I haven’t seen him since he got back from Stockholm. His confidence and approach have improved massively. He is a machine. Vercetti and Starlight tell me about the crazy hot girls there and some of their adventures… I wish I had gone as well, but now Stockholm is on the top of my list of places to visit. Before I got into game I used to hear that it doesn’t matter where you are there will be hot girls. That may be true to some degree, but it sounds a helluvalot more fun when 9s and 10s regularly roam the streets.

Reminds me of the marathon runners who go up into the mountains to do high-altitude training. It makes you stronger when they race at sea level.

Sheriff came in and gave us a great talk on instructing students (which we will be doing tomorrow). I started having flashbacks from my boot camp and remembering the anxiety I felt when I first entered the clubs. Remembering the shock when my recent ex-girlfriend of 2 years shows up at my bootcamp! I’m cringing at the thought of it, yet it seems like ages ago.

Instructing students is definitely a separate skill from being good at pick up. It’s the same thing as the college professors who are terrible teachers, but geniuses in their field of research. I may be biased, however all the instructors I’ve met so far have been good teachers and great in-field … we rockstars really are lucky bastards.

Sheriff did a great job of breaking down how to interact with students and give them the most value. Put yourself in the frame of a beginning student… and remember their motivations, feelings and anxiety. With that in mind, it not only reminds me of my earlier sticking points, but also gives me a vision of how I would like to instruct in-field. Don’t overload them with information. Notice the positive and negative. Mental note: mention DYD (On Being a Man) Stop asking for permission. How to wing students. How to demo.

Paladin · #**217** (**permalink**) 08-07-2008, 01:24 AM

So after a weekend in Stockholm where everyone was getting laid like mad, 5.0 manages to pull his back sleeping on the airplane. He is bedridden and can’t take us into the field, so we head over to his sweet apartment to chat about Seb Drake, Stockholm and storytelling. I would love to say there was a ton of new storytelling for me, but there really wasn’t. I have been at so many LS bootcamps that I have heard this talk before. It’s always good to refresh and I did learn one really good thing. Every story needs a beginning middle and an end. I often forget this and let my stories meander. It was a really good chance for me to bounce my Shane-game ideas off of someone else and I know now that he is acquiring the L Word and going to study it with as much ferver as I do.

After the meeting, my fellow Rockstars and I headed off to Camden for a drink and maybe some trouble. There were no girls there so we Keychain headed off the central London looking for targets and I just spent some time with PrizeFighter and Optimistic. I really like both of these guys and my current busy schedule has kept me from spending as much time with them as I would like. It was cool.

Of course I’ve forgotten that I went over to London_Hunk’s for my personal weigh-in first. I have dropped 3ish kg, 2 inches off my weight and 2% bodyfat in three weeks. I am pretty damn proud. It really is all that walking I do every day with day game. I feel more walking energy. I have had problems walking far in the past, but now I can walk for miles. It’s a really great feeling. I still have a lot of ground to cover and now that I’m moving this weekend. I have to sort out a new gym and deal with that issue. Hopefully, I can join my new university’s gym before the school year starts.

Paladin · #**218** (**permalink**) 08-07-2008, 02:03 AM

Sheriff was the first instructor I approach coached for, but it was really a bird out of the nest thing. I never had any official training or instruction in the art. I just kind of fell into it. I guess with five years of professional teaching experience and a moderate skill level with women, Sheriff knew I could figure it out.

Last night we really went through the fundamentals of the process. He broke down different elements of the process and really helped me get to the next level. He covered how to deal with different types of students and different challenges we might face in the field. I really want to make instructing a part of my life, so this was really great. I can’t wait to put everything he taught us into practice tonight at our Rockstar Gives Back bootcamp.

Starlight picked all of the students, so I really have no idea what they will be like. Now that he’s worked on his own first bootcamp, I’m sure he has a sense of things and I have complete faith in him. The truth is that you can never really tell what someone is like based on just and email or two, so it’s really all up in the air. For me, it will be interesting to work with pure LoveSystems again. It’s been a while. As you know I’ve really been developing Shane-game, which I think is about to blow up the London scene. I know that Sheriff, Sasha, and Vercetti are all going to study it based on my recomendtion. Believe me it’s worth it.

Sheriff covered how to teach opening and transitioning last night and I think it’s going to be really tight. Afterwards, I went out for a drink with him, Vercetti and BeeBaller. Now I’ve met BB a couple of times in the past, but I honeslty never really talked to him. I didn’t give him the greatest of thin-slices. We had a long talk last night and he is really a nice dude. We talked a lot about some of our mutual friends and our pickup theories. He was really interested in Shane-game and the whole Organic Seduction concept. I am well pleased. I had to rush to catch my train.

Yet again I was too sweaty and stinky, as Vercetti was kind enough to point out. It’s really all a matter of the weather and how far I have to travel. I sweated on almost ten different occasions after leaving for London last night. The tube was so crowded and hot. Grrr. My rapport building is really increasing though. I had a lovely chat with an old man for 6minutes on the tube. He was wearing a copper magnetic bracelet and I asked him all about it. I found out about all of his trips around the world, his profession and his opinion on unconventional medicine. He really opened up and shook my hand when he left. Shane talks about whatever she wants.

Oh ya. Before that on the train up to Guildford I started working on my Tao of Shane. I got into super Shane-state and wrote a badass text to my Ten. She texted me back a few hours later and said she would love to see me, but only as friends. I know she is just testing me. The old Paladin would have crumbled or texted back that he has enough friends. Sorry. I can’t believe I just wrote that in the 3rd person. But really, for a moment I was really upset. Then I remembered what Seb Drake the genius taught me. I got Soul to help me craft a nonchalant text back and I retook the frame. Honestly, in Shane-state my abundance mentality is really clear. I might post my mantra/breakdown of Shane later. For now it resides on my phone.

Optimistic1212 · #**219** (**permalink**) 08-07-2008, 03:41 AM

Met with 5.0 to go over storytelling. Storytelling gives emotional progression, it engages people and imparts information about yourself without directly saying it.

BASICS
Use your own stories and tell the story in your own words. That way you can't get it wrong.
Be outside your head.
Don't pretend to be someone your not

Stages of stories
Attraction stories should be engaging/funny (to grap their attention) and short (so avoid any interupts).
Comfort stories should be more emotive

Structure
Beginning - Story setup
Middle - Main chunk
End - Wrap up

Get the idea of your stories in bullet points to understand the idea and practise, practise, practise. Try out new humour bits and see what works and what doesn't.

Vocal
Vary pitch and make it exciting
Vary tonality
Vary tempo and leave pauses
Announciate properly

Emotion

Bid vidid emotional descriptions. Know what your going to say and relieve the experience.

Bragging
Don't want to directly brag but give information about yourself indirectly. If you are showing a good point directly, throw disclaimers to avoid bragging to distribute the value of the story: You know when yoh have days when everything seems to click and you're.. XYZ

Great theory 5.0 and gave me a lot to work on.

Optimistic

Keychain · #**220** (**permalink**) 08-07-2008, 07:25 AM

Day 32 - Keychain

Hey guys, so excited about the Rockstar Gives Back Bootcamp tonight. 6 Rockstars, 6 students and...Sheriff! Starlight has done the selecting, and he's a great reader of people so can't wait to see who he's brought along...

Last night we had a two hour talk with Sheriff about the basics of instructing. Full of funny anecdotes and really deep principles, I was scribbling in my notebook furiously! It's the little one-liners on mindset that he drops that are the really golden. What a cool guy. He's such an experienced and popular instructor, he's even got his own action figure complete with DHV six-shooters, a chamber for every attraction switch:

Game 2.0, baby.

Laters,

Keys