I wanted to post that video from the marketing guru Seth Godin. That presentation is about his latest book Linchpin (how to drive you career and create a remarkable future).

Obviously, it is not about PU... but it's about quieting our damn lizard brain in our general life. Godin argues that what is important is shipping it. It's easy to have ideas, easy to think but what matters is if you're able to ship it. Of course, the lizard brain creates frictions and prevent you from realizing your idea.

I think it can be related to AA, how our lizard brain urges us to stay in the confort zone and how it prevents us, in the very end, from finishing what we started.

http://vimeo.com/5895898

Some ideas applied to PU:
- Trash at the beginning: it is better to fail at the beginning of your journey than failing when you get close to your goal. The more you trash at the beginning, the less you'll trash when you're about to succeed. Trashing at the beginning is cheap, trashing when you get close to your goals is hard.
- The lizard brain is hungry, scared, selfish and horny. How am I gonna survive? How am I getting kids? It is only looking for a comfort zone, everytime you're ready to change the status quo, the lizard brain sabotage everything: I'm going to be ridiculous... they'll laugh at me... The lizard brain is responsible for AA.
- People learning PU wants to change the status quo, but most of us spend more time reading and writing about it (take me for example) than doing it. The closer we are from doing it, the higher the resistance of the lizard brain is. We need to pull even harder when we have this last minute AA.
- We have all a HUGE list of excuses to not take action thanks to our lizard brain.
- At the beginning, we have a lot of discussions with our lizard brain... we THINK a lot... but once we get over it... we're all in.
Let's not forget:
LIZARD BRAIN = INSECURITY, FEAR, NEEDYNESS, APPROACH ANXIETY...

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I have made a deal with myself that I do an opening in every public arena I enter. This can be a casino, bar, club, whatever.

Once you read about how the brain works you realize that this is the only way to move forward. Build the neural connections and reinforce/expand them by practice.

Last week I was at a performance of the 4&5th symphony of Beethoven. Not exactly the place to pickup women as the average age is well above 50 at these things (don't know why because listening to a Beethoven symphony played by an orchestra is awesome!). After the show there where about 3 young women I could approach. Almost didn't do it but just as we where leaving I noticed one standing next to her parents while the parents where talking to some other old people.

Switched of the fear (or ignored it probably) and opened: "So, you're also here to bring down the average age... etc".

She turned to me and we had a nice conversation. Turned out she was dragged there by her parents. Her dad looked at me like I was stealing something from him

I didn't move forward to kino escalation and such but it did reinforce the network I am creating in my brain and I am certain she enjoyed the conversation as much as I did.