"The most important thing you need to know is that you don't know shit. What you see, what you hear nothing is what it seems."
Al Pacino
~The Recruit
Cold reading is great, it is a very useful tool in PU arsenal, everyone that has been in the comunity for a while, now the defenition of cold reading. But what many guys don't know (altough I can't see why) is that cold reading is a "false" routine, it's a made up situation.
What do you do when you cold read, you say truisms that are already out there, created by society, stuff like be adventurous / fun / fashionable /... cold reading exploits that, so for everyone that feels like knowing how to cold read gives you pshycic ability, to get to know the girl and everything about her past & future in 5 minutes, without her saying a word, only nodding... guess what guys this is just a magic trick that women love and are amused by, but still those cold reads are only half of the way to get laid. For really knowing the girl, we have a little thing called qualification, which imo is underrated a lot, cause everyone fears qualification'll get them into friendzone and I'm not saying qualify every single time (why would you qualify if you're doing SNL, that's stupid), but if you see the girl as your next potencial GF then you better get to know her. But anyway back to cold reads...
My point is that: Don't ever believe that everything that shines is gold and everything that smells bad is crap

When someone tells you something if he can't back it up 100%, there is no proof that what he is saying is solid.
Sinn once said:
"Cold reading is one step away from saying You wake up when the sun is up and you go to bed when the moon is up, aaaaa, clever isn't it."
I found that to be very true and here's the video that proofs it

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