How I started

Let's have a frank dialogue (more of a monologue - Ed) about getting started in The Game.

For most people nowadays, the introduction to the community would be through Neil Strauss' The Game. More than just an entertaining read, The Game gave readers a glimpse of what was possible with women and provided something of a guidestone with which savvy readers could use to scour the web to dig deeper into the seduction secrets of the community.

Is that a good way to start? Possibly not. Very likely all The Game did was provide a massive customer base for The Mystery Method corp.

(Which by the way isn't even run by Mystery anymore - Savoy kicked him out for breaking contract/cheated him of his company (depending on which side you support) and Mystery now runs Venusian Arts)


Anyway back when I started, the community didn't have a best-selling book and wasn't as mainstream as it is now. So I was pretty much stuck with the most accessible (i.e had the most marketting) system at the time - David Deangelo's Double your Dating.

Is it a good starter?

Quite possibly.

Within its pages, DYD provided solid bite-sized chunks of information that if you applied to your interactions with women would cause your success to explode through the roof. This was especially true for the AFC me two years ago who had as much experience with women as a fish does with exploring Mars.

This is as the main doctrine of DYD, cocky-funny (C&F), is a simple to apply and says all the right things about you. There is no need to understand complex social value systems and rapport principles - just tease the heck out of your target while not being a wussbag and she'll respond nicely.

Another good bit is that it has a decent balance of both inner game and outer game elements. Even now when I have access to a lot more material I periodically check the DYD. Overall a good eye opener and introduction to the world of seduction.

However, DYD cannot and should not be relied on as the end-all product for learning seduction. Cocky-funny works yes, but you CAN use too much of it as I did in my intial education since I lacked calibration. Furthermore DYD assumes that you know how to escalate and your target would be receptive to you just based on the attraction spikes generated by you being cocky funny.

Definitely not comprehensive.

I'll post tomorrow about how I wish I could have started by recommending what I think are the essential and basic reading materials.