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Can you clarify why even if negs are to make her think less of herself, is a bad thing or says something about your self esteem? I just dont read it that way so maybe you can clarify
Sure, the way I see it, if you feel like you need to tear a girl's self esteem down, in order for her to be on your level, you can't think much of yourself. I don't generally see emotionally healthy people engage in that sort of behavior.
This establishes the following as I read it
1. She's too good for me
2. I'll make her feel worse about herself
3. Maybe after that, she'll be tricked into thinking she's on my level
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True. But that's what I think is the basis of MM. You're hitting on the really hot girls. The 9's and 10's. I know you've written how it's almost impossible for guys to consistently game 1-2 points above their looks level and I agree.
So the purpose of MM, as I've seen it, was to compensate.
Yes. But does that actually compensate? I don't think it does. It's entirely missing the point. "Negging" through her "bitch shield" isn't going to get you any closer to sleeping with her. If she has this "bitch shield" it's because she's already not into you. If the other things that may help(like social status and pre-selection) hasn't resulted in no "bitch shield", negging sure as hell won't.
Mystery describes her blatant outward hostility to you as an obstacle to overcome.
Let me ask you, since you've maybe gone about this differently than me. Have you ever had a girl be aggressively dismissive of you, and you turn that around?
I have seen it happen. Once. In my whole life.
I just don't like teaching things that basically never work.
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To be more interesting, more preselected, more socially proofed than a 6 if you were a 6.
And those parts, I can agree with. They can help. As I said, he gets some things right. It's just that so much is wrong, I can't suggest anyone follow it. I was able to read MM and learn several highly useful things. Most guys take all or most of it, and that's usually disastrous.
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That the tactics, and intrigue is used to secretly get her to chase you, something that even good natural game wouldnt be able to do. When I first read MM, I was 19, and I just did simple stuff and got laid. But I'd be stuck with women out of my league, older chicks (around 25). But when I tried out routines and stuff like the cube, I found that I was hooking up with women who before my natural game wasn't getting me. I remember doing all the magic, cold read shit and seeing the women who brushed me off for being younger, get more interested and dtf. And whenever I see a guy in game get a woman who is really out of his league, it's been through using the intrigue based stuff.
I've always done cold reads, but I'm wondering if the reason the intrigue based stuff worked for you, was because up until that point you were trying to have logical conversations? I can see how routines made to stimulate emotions could then be more effective. Certainly when she has a better time and feels connected to you, your results will go up. If routines can get you there, then they'd be effective.
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You pawn girls, use social proof to appear cooler than you really are. Can a 6 get a 9 with Hi and some good conversation? But if the same 6 gets some 7's and 8's into him, or at least appearing into him while he's saying some bs story, the 6 is in a better place to approach that 9.
Yes, I'd agree with this. Even to the point where I would say that I expect a 6 could probably be sure of netting at least a few 9s per year by doing this(bad ROI IMO, but besides the point). But you're highlighting the good parts, that most guys seem to ignore. I will agree, Mystery actually does stress social proof a lot. But I don't see most MM users doing a lot of that.
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I think this may be a version thing. Lovedrop added a lot of stuff to the teaching, because Mystery was bad at it. Sub communication was emphasised heavily. And tonality. Tbh, I dont think I've ever seen a PU company emphasize it as much as they did. I think LD was better at explaining the non routine stuff which Mystery brushed past. Yes, Mystery by himself teaches like a robot. But the stuff after VAH was much more grounded. LD had several audio tracks just talking about sub communications and vibing.
I can't say, as I read MM when it was basically hot of the presses. So long ago I actually owned a physical book. It does sound like it changed a lot. My version is only 219 pages, including a very long appendix.
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K, so I just found the new one you're talking about.
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Join a gym get a trainer, workout, eat well, and get into shape. This one is huge
Dowah? My old version literally
mocks going to the gym.
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Be emotionally expressive with your face. As with vocal tonality,many students have a problem with overly-blank facial expres-sions.
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Mystery’s game has been unfortunately mischaracterized by his pioneering use of peacocking, negs, and canned material. The new book reveals our practical emphasis on vibe, delivery, humor, microcalibration, and value switches.
Ok, so it actually sounds like the MM coaches saw most of the same problems with MM that I did, and specifically added sections to fix all of those problems.
I wonder how many guys doing MM, are reading original MM(like I did) and how many are reading VA MM? Because the VA MM, seems vastly better than the weird stuff I read. I'm now genuinely curious which one is mostly read by people. Because I'm suspecting that this newer version would not produce the same results as the one I read all those years ago.
I'm going to try to actually read this thing in the next few days.