Shit, that's an interesting idea. Appreciate it as always, Daniel. Let me finish the product, think about it some more, pitch the idea to my mastermind group, and then get back to you.

Just hit 300 posts, what a fucking crazy year and a half it's been.

I look back on when I started getting into this shit in January 2014, reading through all my earlier posts, I'm thankful for everything. Thankful for all the experiences, even the painful ones. It was all worth it.

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How will your product be different than say, Jason Capital's "Social God System"? Or his "Status" product? The dating advice industry is saturated with the same hyped up content with cheesy marketing IMHO.

I'm not trying to hate. Just wanna throw out my 2 cents.

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Great question, I'm glad you asked! (sounds like someone else is on Team Capital...)

Both the product and my personal brand will be different from Jason Capital's.

Status is a multi-thousand dollar program for people who are advanced and have already gone through a bunch of different products.

My program is designed for absolute beginners. The first portion of it, Modules 1-3, focus on the the weakest part of a beginner's game: verbals. Status doesn't do that.

The whole program is designed to progress a beginner to the advanced level as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

It's basically what I would've taught myself if I went back in time to day 1, and would basically shorten the almost 2 years of learning to a quarter of that time.

Social God, once again, is also not a beginner product. It's a standalone product for dudes who've already been in the game awhile.

My program utilizes social circle game as a tool to help the beginner progress MUCH MORE RAPIDLY than if he were to go out and cold approach 5 million times.

Think about naturals. They don't cold approach. How do they get good?

They get all their experience through a TON of social circle interaction. That shit is a lot better (and faster) in terms of education and progression than cold approach is.

The thing is, the market doesn't have many products teaching social circle game. Almost all of it is pick-up based. Which is also why there are still millions of dudes quitting early and getting scared off. More social circle game material is not only needed, but crucial for the market. When I think about the guys I'm going to teach and lead, I'm not picturing them running around for the first 6 months creeping girls out left and right. I'm picturing them building up a badass social circle, and getting as much social experience through that as possible.

It's way healthier and more holistic of a learning experience than the fear, anxiety, and rejection associated with starting off in cold approach.

My personal brand will also be different from JC's.

I appeal to a different market. He's a good looking white guy. I'm an Asian that's made it in a white world.

I can connect with and understand problems from other minorities better.

I can sell my transformation hero story better. You should see pics from the pre-game era of my life. Lol.

Yes, there is a lot of saturation of products, but not a lot of saturation of PRODUCTS THAT PRODUCE RESULTS.

If there were, there'd be a lot more happy dudes in the world and less people trolling this forum. I've got an education degree, whatever the hell that means. I've got a ton of teaching experience. I've studied JC's methods to see how they are so effective at actually getting results for the customers as opposed to just getting money.

That's why I'm so excited about my program. People lives WILL change.

Yeah, dat's about it. Glad you asked.

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Okay, this is going to be the plan. I'm going to finish writing the entire book... halfway through module 9 right now, almost done.

Then I'm going to go through and edit the whole thing, change fonts, add relevant pictures and shit.

Then I'm going to take the first 3 modules, edit it for release on it's own. Make a video sales letter for it. Do all the implementation for it. Make a squeeze page. Built the email list with this product.

Then the next 4 modules. Release this product through the email list.

Then the 4 modules after that. Same.

Each of the 3 volumes will increase the customer in skill level and game level until he should be swimming in it by the end.

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Good shit man. It sounds like you have done more market research than I thought. I've met too many guys that find out it's not that hard to get laid after all and then just go out and try to get rich. We don't need more of those guys.

I actually agree with a lot of that. For the record, I'm not at all Team Capital. He's the lesser of many evils but I don't identify with him.

At the end of the day, social capital trumps cold approach ability any day. Ideally a guy should meet every girl through SC.

I like where you are heading with things. Pick up needs to die out

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Thanks, boss. Appreciate it.

Changed the focus of my plan. I'm now taking the first 3 modules, editting it, and preparing it for release. Going to finish modules 9-11 afterwards. I'm PSYCHED. I get to take a break from writing, and now the biggest task is to figure out how to make a good Video Sales Letter. A lot of them look very similar, so I'm gong to dissect a bunch, transcribe them, note why each part is included in there in terms of sales / marketing purposes, and then outline a plan for my own.

Also, filmed a quick video for you all today, it contains a technique I use that pretty much never fails to attract women.

If you're a bauss and want to learn how to do that, go ahead and check it out.

If you don't want more women in your life, don't.

Up to you.

https://youtu.be/xHj0paXkEX8

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SUP boss.

You're looking pimpin' today.

A curious run-in happened today.

I was walking through some event on my way to teach, and who stops me but Alyssa (AB girl), the cutie from the lab I taught last semester.

If you don't remember, here are the cliff notes:

She was in my lab, always stayed after. Showed signs of interest.
I helped her study a bit, she repayed me in dining hall meals.
At one of our study sessions, we kissed.
We studied together more.
We ate together more, we kissed again.
Then she left for the summer. Hadn't talked to her since she left in MAY. Holy shit.

She stops me, and I give her a big old hug. I tell her we have to catch up, and she's super excited. I tell her I can't talk, thought, I have to run and teach.

Afterwards, I text her:
Yo. We must catch up

Her:
Haha yes. Glad you texted me because for some reason your number was deleted out of my phone
I'm always in the library still so maybe I'll see you there, I'm surprised I haven't yet

Me:
Word word I'll hit you up if I'm librarying

Her:
*thumbs up emoticon*

Goddamn this girl is cute. Whatever. Not gonna try anything cuz Amanda, etc. etc.

I've been more lackluster with the Amanda thing, we haven't been hanging out, haven't been talking much the last day and a half. She's always tired, studying, and not really investing into this relationship. I asked for it, though, obviously.

I'm interested in hanging out with Alyssa and all, but I've got to promise myself not to do anything physical with her. If Amanda found out she would be CRUSHED.

This is dangerous territory.

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I go on the first run in 2 weeks, on account of a shitload of writing.

IT FEELS AMAZING.

Get back, Amanda texts me for tango.

Her:
Hey hot stuff! Tango tonight?

Me:
Hey there! There is still a lesson tonight, right? Might be one of the last ones

Her:
I think believe there is a lesson

Me:
Word, I'll see you there

Her:
Yay!

We go, and tango is a fun time. I self amuse a bit, everyone laughs. Amanda and I dance a couple songs.

Afterwards we walk back towards the cars, I walk her to her car. We chat a bit, but it's not overly intimate.

At her car, we joke around and flirt a bit.

It seems a bit unsure whether she's leaving or not, she seems to be waiting for the hug or something. I'm just leaning back. She comes in for the hug, we hug for like 10 seconds or so. She asks, "everything good in the neighborhood?" I reply, "yeah, and you?" She nods.

Then talk a bit more, then I hug her and kiss her on the forehead and tell her to have a good night and peace out.

I get to Hot Wok Cafe, and am eating and editing when Allison calls me. She meets me at Hot Wok Cafe. This girl is awesome, we always get into fun, laughing conversations. And she's beautiful. She's probably my best friend here in Fort Collins.

Amanda texts me, "I am going to be studying in my lab tonight. You are more than welcome to join."

Me:
I'm eating right now, and might or might not meet some people at road 34 for a little bit. I'll call you if I'm headed your way.

Her:
Sounds bueno. Que disfrutes

Jesse calls and shows up. We all three chat about shit. I tell them about Aneela, Allysa, and Amanda. Why do they all start with A's?

Allison and I jointly complain about relationships where all the other person wants to do is chill and maybe watch a movie together (or study). Where's the adventure? Where's the romance? WHERE'S THE LIFE?

They ask about Alyssa. Allison predicts that we are going to study, flirt, and that I'll start thinking, hey here's a super cute girl that's fun and interesting, and wants to hang out, and wants to do cool things together. Then I'll start comparing her to Amanda. It's dangerous, and I agree.

Allison tells me she KNEW this would happen. I would get back together with Amanda, and I'd find out it was just like it always was, dull and boring. I agree. Even as I was fighting to get it back, I KNEW this would be the result. I asked for it.

I'm just going to work on my life, make my life AMAZING, make myself happy, and best case scenario I can influence her to change her for the better.

I'll study with Alyssa, but I'm not going to escalate or progress physically in any manner.

I'm just losing interest in Amanda. Every time I think about her I get a feeling of a little bit of pain because I'm disappointed that she's not the one, not who I wish she was, not putting in the effort, and not doing anything exciting.

So I pretty much don't think about her. Just focus on my business shit.

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FUCK YES Volume I is done.

Get excited dudes.

The writing is all done. After editing, Volume I (Modules 1-3) is 72 pages of pure value.

Now all the work is going to be implementation. I'm so FUCKING excited.

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Tonight made me gargantuan ego even gargantuan-er.

I start work on website and VSL implementation, and then head out to meet Aneela for food at 6:30. We meet at Thai Pepper. I didn't want her thinking she would get the gift of my cock, so I invited Jesse and Javi along. Maybe I can pawn her off on one of them. Javi brings his roommate, Karlee.

Karlee has some weird facial tics, but is a cool girl nonetheless. We chat, bullshit, and I self amuse despite some of them being awkward as shit. I order a 4/5 out of spiciness and it almost kills me. I'm sweating my ass of and chugging Thai Ice Tea trying to finish my noodles, and Jesse is laughing his ass off.

Eventually Karlee gets invited to the hike that I organized on Sunday. It's basically me, Javi, Jesse, Karlee, Jasmine, and Cassandra so far. A good crowd.

After that, I drive Jesse and I up to old town.

We are walking and suddenly a girl that knew us both, Fran, waves at us from inside a bar. She comes out, greets us, and I see that she's with two other girls. I ask her if we can join her for a bit, and she says of course. We sit and chat. Immediately I tell them about the time Jesse fell off a mountain lol. He starts recounting that story.

Natalie and Rachel, the other two girls, pay rapt attention. When Jesse goes up to get a drink, I text him that the blonde one (Natalie) is into him and to try to extract a number. I tell him to talk to her about running (she was wearing a running shirt) and to exchange numbers based on going running together.

He gets back, and Natalie starts telling us about her Ironman Triathlon (badass!) It eventually comes out that she has a bf. Oh well. Jesse and I peace out to Blind Pig, where I knew my favorite band was playing.

I had texted a bunch of girls, and 3 of them said they were meeting us out.

At Blind Pig, Amanda starts snapchatting me. I'm busy texting all of Jesse's Tinder matches, trolling the shit out of all of them. I snapchat Amanda the results, and she's thoroughly enjoying it. I'm cracking myself up. I eventually sense that one of the girls is down, and I set up a date with her, getting the number and everything, off Tinder. You're welcome, Jesse.

He tells me he doesn't know how I do it. I'm the troll king, that's how.

Amanda tells me she's fed up with working weekends.

Jesse and I start talking about last weekend, and how he sensed that Lauren was into me, and flirting with me right in front of her boy toy. He tells me that that boy toy had made some comment about that to him. Lol. She was hot, he noted brilliantly.

Ali, the Panamanian girl, arrives. She brings a tall good looking brunette, Taylor. We greet them. Christina, the Spaniard, arrives, trailing a host of girls and dudes. Mikayla, her roommate, and her bf Sasha arrives. Kate, another friend of Ali, arrives. Ian, one of my homies, arrives.

Sasha is a hilarious bro. I must hang out with him more. We joke around hilariously, and it pumps my state through the roof. I get up and start dancing on my own. Soon enough everyone stands up and joins.

Taylor, the tall brunette, starts coming over, touching me, and talking to me. I just keep dancing and singing. I'm interacting with everyone, it's a good time. Taylor starts grabbing my arm and telling me they're going to bar hop, and that I should come with them. I ask her where. She says she doesn't know, and that she just wants to dance.

Taylor, Kate (an English girl), and Ali come over and tell me that I should come with them. They have no clue where to, though. Ian is trying to hit on Taylor, but she is having none of it.

My self amusement muscle is ridiculously strong, and everyone in the bar is giving me props.

I lead the 3 girls out into the street, and we walk to Tony's. Along the way, an Asian dude is talking with his bros. He's pointing to me, and telling his bros, yo, I want to party with this guy. I'm not even on his level. Peep dat game. Dudes all over and checking me out, walking around with 3 hot girls. Taylor keeps taking my arm to walk arm in arm with me.

I lead them to Tony's. They do that stupid thing where all 3 go to the bathroom together. Girls are so dumb.

I sit at the bar, open my phone, and immediately start jotting down notes for my VSL. I'm literally insane. Literally a non-stop machine.

In the middle of that, this super cute girl Caitlin from a class that I taught comes up, shows off her new haircut, and hugs me. She is animatedly talking to me and shit, introduces her friends, and the other 3 come back and Caitlin peaces out. Ali is like, "we leave you for one minute..."

I agree, I tell her, they're just all over me I can't keep them away. Lol

We go upstairs. I'm chiling with the three girls, they keep trying to buy me drinks but I keep telling them I don't drink anymore. A dude greets me, I vaguely recognize him. He's from running club, Brad. Ok, I spit with him awhile. Go back to talking with the girls. I get an idea, I'll make Brad's night.

I bring him over and introduce him to the group like a bauss. He starts talking to Kate, I talk with Taylor. I tell Taylor I sense sparks flying. She tells me Kate has bf. Dawwwwwwwwww

She asks me if I'm dating anyone. I tell her I am, I'm sorry hahahahahahahaha

She backtracks like, oh no, I was gonna tell you we should wing each other. hahahahahahaha

Ok yeah, girl. I tell her I'll still wing for her, point out a dude and I'll bring him over. She looks around, says there's no one at least 6'4", and has high standards. Ugh.

I switch positions, manipulate the group so that Brad is talking to Taylor, and talk to Ali and Kate. Ali and I talk about her new boy toy. Then I talk to Kate about her boy toy. They ask me about my love life. I show them pics of Amanda and I, and give Kate a very brief synopsis of our break up and get back together adventure.

Taylor and Brad seem to be doing alright, there's a little bit of chemistry. I tell the other two to give it a couple minutes.

We then peace out, Brad doesn't come with. They apparently exchanged numbers, great. Along the way Ali mentions she wants to walk like me, like a model lol.

The girls are pretty shitfaced by now, and entering annoying mode. Ali steals my jacket and wears it cuz she's cold. I tell them I'm gonna hit it at a crosswalk. Taylor grabs my arm and pleads me to stay. Lol

I tell them I have to go, I'm meeting a friend in the morning. It's the truth, as I'm meeting Cassandra at 9 at the farmer's market for a run.

They peace out, and I drive home to write you guys this report.

Analysis, none. Lol I love it. If I was single, I'm not sure I would've hooked up with Taylor. Probably would've, it looked easy. Caitlin is probably ripe for the picking, too. That girl was way cuter before she massacred her hair and went all emo hippie.

Social circle game is insane, guys. I'm going to organize more shit. I put in a tiny bit of effort and get this much out of it? Crazy.

My social influence in this town is bonkers. I can literally never walk through old town without running into someone.

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Saturday

I've been rewarding myself with more social interaction, and yesterday was awesome.

In the morning, I ran with Cassandra. We met at the farmer's market, and then ran for about an hour, talking the whole time. She told me a crazy story about how she dated this guy for a week, they told each other they loved each other, and then a week later he dumped her. LOL

She's pretty messed up over this, so I just listen and empathize.

She invites me to lunch after. I initiate more physical contact, but it's mostly friendly stuff. She starts showing me more interest, touching me and flirting. We do lunch, she hints afterwards as I leave that we should go out at night.

Texts me throughout the day trying to get me to go out and dance with her. I end up not going. She's ending with her texts with XO, darling. That flirt.

I head back after a solid meal and do some work.

Amanda invites me to carve pumpkins after work.

She heads over at around 6 with a bunch of supplies, and we have lots of fun eating pizza, watching Better Off Ted, and carving pumpkins. After pumpkin carving, we're both just sitting on the couch, waiting for something to happen.

I ask her what her plans are, she says she should go study biochem.

Then she excitedly asks me if I want to watch Walking Dead. I say sure, here, or my room? She says whichever.

I take us to my room, we put on Walking Dead, and cuddle on my bed under the covers.

We watch a couple episodes, and then start making out. Things start getting hot and heavy.

I pull back, look at her, and whisper, "God you are beautiful"

We continue to make out. She starts touching my chest and abs. I take off my sweatshirt. We continue making out to the sounds of zombies and people dying in the background lol.

I take my shirt off. She starts playing with my nipples and kissing my neck. I'm breathing heavy.

I touch her lower back under her sweatshirt and shirt. We make out more. I scoot back, and she takes off her sweatshirt and shirt, leaving her in a cute pink bra and jeans.

We cuddle more. Kiss some more. I'm touching her stomach, shoulders, chest, everywhere but her actual boobs, but I'm teasing her close to them. She reaches to take her bra off.

I stop her... "wait, are you sure?" She nods. Takes it off.

We cuddle some more. I start sucking on and playing with her ta tas. They're absolutely perfect. I'm on cloud 9, this girl is an absolute physical specimen. One they should freeze and display in a museum or some shit.

She starts touching my legs. I put her hands on my butt. She roams her hands, and starts skimming over my erection.

We stop for awhile, she seems to be getting into a poor mood. I ask her if things are okay, she says she's not sure.

She turns around and we spoon for a bit. I start massaging her back. She starts getting turned on again. I start kissing her lower back, and touching her stomach and boobs from behind. She reaches around, touches my butt, puts her hands in my pants, and starts giving me a handjob for the first time.

A little bit more of this, and then again she starts getting a negative reaction.

She's worried that she's disrespecting my roommate, who she's convinced can hear us (she can't).

I get her water and sour patch kids. We end up talking a little bit, and then she suggests a walk. We head to Behavioral Sciences, and she's telling me how she still gets a negative emotional reaction whenever we escalate. The guilt and shame are a lot less (good), but she's asking herself what the heck she's doing, telling herself that she's making a mistake running back to the guy that dumped her, etc. etc.

I use some mental judo, empathize, and then flip her mood around.

We start having fun, she starts laughing, and then we get into an amazing, deep conversation. I'm telling her maybe we should go, she's telling me, but this is such a good conversation.

We talk till 3 in the morning. She's in this, she just still gets those reactions. We resolve to fix things and to spend more time / communication together.

That's the end of the night. Overall very good, very productive. YESH!

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Sunday was a fucking FANTASTIC day.

People gather at my place to go for a hike in Rocky Mountain National Park.

I drive 6 people in my minivan (gangsta!) to meet 4 more up in Estes Park. The group consists of:

Me- badass gangsta that organized the whole thing

Jasmine- Beautiful girl from Turkey, grad student that I met through Mark (MC bro). Haven't hung out with her much so don't know too much about her. She's got a cool vibe though.

Christina- The Spaniard. Hilarious and also gorgeous. Always joking around and goofing off with me.

Craig- Quieter dude but still funny I met at softball.

Jesse- Let's hope he doesn't fall off a mountain this time. He actually went up earlier, at like 4 am, into the park and when he met us he had done 17 miles already. What a fucking bauss. He was gonna call it, but we convince him to hike another 9 with us. Animal.

Cassandra (Casey)- Cutie that is continuously showing me more and more signals of interest. Beautiful, beautiful girl, into running, spirituality, and music.

Javi- My lifting buddy, it's his birthday today! We all resolve to buy him drinks / food after.

Natasha- Casey's friend. Pretty, but meh in terms of personality.

Dutch- Natasha's friend, don't know him.

Jay- Natasha's friend, don't know him.

Didn't interact with the last two as much.

The car ride up was filled with laughter, Spanish, and good vibes. By the time we get to the trailhead, everyone is already in good rapport with each other.

I LOVE bringing people together and having them like each other. It's so rewarding. Then everyone has a good time and I feel like I'm bringing value to the world.

We take several awesome photos and start hiking.

Jesse, and the Natasha crew go up ahead, as they like to hike faster, while the remaining 6 of us take it easy and continuously goof off the whole way.

I'm chatting in Spanish with Christina, and we mention Amanda. Cassandra ears immediately perk up and she asks who Amanda is. Fortunately Christina keeps talking, I keep engaging with her, and the question is ignored. I'm gonna have to tell this girl that I'm taken, I don't want to lead her on... She just went through a bad heart break, she doesn't need another...

More hiking and goofing off. Everyone is laughing and having a grand time.

Twice, I'm helping people up a rock or down from a log, extending my hand. When Cassandra takes it, afterwards she gives my hand a little squeeze before letting go. How cute.

The trail goes for 4.5 miles up a canyon in the mountains to a place called Sky Pond. When we get there, I'm ecstatic. It's the most beautiful place I've seen in a long time. A blue-green pond surrounded by jagged peaks with a glacier to boot. RMNP / Colorado is the shit.

The last shuttle back to the car leaves at 4:30, and we weren't going to make it back at walking speed. I hand all my bags and shit to Javi, and run the rest of the way back to catch the shuttle. I then drive back to pick everyone up.

Everyone, including myself, is exhausted from the hike. We go to a Nepalese place, 10 at a table, and POUND lamb vindaloo while laughing at the oodles of pictures we took. We toast Javi's birthday, and cheers to new friends coming together and having an amazing time.

Cassandra is outlining all sorts of plans for the group to get back together again, wanting to hike a 14,000 ft mountain, have a scary movie night, and go camping. I'm making plans to have a murder mystery dinner night. Everyone keeps commenting on how AWESOME a day it was.

I drive back, with everyone conked out in the car, and drop everyone back off at my place. We all hug goodbye, and I phone up Amanda (had been intermittently texting her when I had reception).

I shower and meet up to study with her at her lab, and I'm EXHAUSTED. Mountain running at 10,000 ft is TOUGH. She studies, and I'm way too brain dead to do any actual work, so I end up posting the infinite numbers of photos I took up on Facebook. I go over, hug Amanda from behind, and we chat a bit about my hike. I go back to Facebook, and there's 30 notifications. Lol.

Cassandra had liked and commented of several handfuls of photos, and everyone else in the group had posted a bunch of pictures as well. Amanda makes me a tea. I pack up my stuff, come up behind her, and back hug her. We look through her study slides for her exam the next day, joking around and making fun of the professor the whole time.

She's enjoying it and returning the touch warmly.

Afterwards, we pack it up and call it. I head to my bike, and she offers me a ride to my place, even though the bike ride home is literally 1 minute long. I say ok, and in front of my house she puts the car in park and unbuckles her seat belt. Apparently it's make out time.

We make out for awhile, and it's very intimate. She's getting really good at this. She slows it down and teases me, it's making me go crazy. I pull back a little bit, and she says something really hot: "I'm not finished yet." She pulls me back in again.

SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

After more kissing I pull back and tell her that "that was really hot, the way you said that." She smiles and asks, "what?" I answer, "the way you said that you weren't finished yet..."

She smiles that stunning smile again and says, "still not finished," and pulls me back in. Eventually another car pulls in to the cul-de-sac and we say goodbye after some giggles.

I send her a message: "You are way too good at seducing me. Have mercy. Good night"

I fall asleep, and wake up to her message in the morning: "Lulz, you should see what I'm wearing right now. Irresistible"

She's definitely feeling more comfortable with being physical, expressing her sexuality, and I'm accepting that by telling her how sexy I find her, how she's good at kissing and physicality. She's starting to see herself as someone who's good at that stuff, and her self-image is directing her to be more physical and intimate. Good stuff!

I'm going to tell Cassandra soon that I just want to be friends, although I do like her.

What a fantastic weekend, a lot of good de-stressing and socializing. Really recharged my batteries. It's time to get down to business, and really pound out this VSL, let's get to WORK!

I actually told Amanda on Saturday night about my secret plan to drop out, although I didn't include the details.

I told her that there's a lot she doesn't know about me.

Her immediate question was, are you a drug dealer? LOL

No.

She asks me if I've smoked cigarettes. Nope.

She asks if I've done pot. I tell her I did it like 3-4 times when I first got to Colorado, and haven't done it since. Had the experience, and decided it wasn't really for me.

Have I killed someone? We laugh.

I tell her I've been working on an internet marketing plan and once I hit a certain amount of income I was gonna drop out of graduate school. When I make it I'll show her and tell her.

It's starting to feel really comfortable and close with her, great.

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Things are going well with Amanda. We are contacting each other more, and the vibe is good.

Yesterday after a good day of work I make some Gainz with Javi. My day off last week (skipped Friday's workout) seems to have done wonders for my body, as I went up in weight in 3 of my main lifts without failing. YAS!

I've dissected JC's MWWY video sales letters, and they contain many of the same elements repeated several times. The general format is this:

Hook viewer with the promise of value at the end of the video.
Hype that value with social proof, disqualification, and excessive amounts of future pacing
Add urgency / scarcity

Transition into...

"Hero story"- Sell the transformation story. How I started out (just like you, unhappy, desperate, and alone), then the transformation, complete with failures and challenges, and what it's like now.

Transition into...

Deliver a little bit of the value promised at the beginning of the video

Transition into...

Product pitch
Hyping product with social proof, disqualification, and future pacing
Hyping pieces of the product with the same techniques.
Call to Action

Addressing limiting buying beliefs (money, urgency, one time offers)
Call to Action again

Hint at the value from the beginning of the video
Call to Action again

More social proof for FAQ at the end
Call to action again

^^ It's something along those lines. I'm gonna start writing the transcript for my own, and edit it and watch others' attempts a couple more times and edit it some more. I think I just have to do all the editing on iMovie, which might take awhile. That's fine, hard work doesn't scare me off.

I call Amanda after dinner, we chat a little bit on the phone.

At night, I meet up with Alyssa at the library to study party. We start laughing, joking, and flirting. She's got an amazingly gorgeous smile, and is uber cute. I text with Amanda back and forth a little bit, it's hard to keep my attention on two gorgeous girls at once.

I call it a night around midnight.

Things planned for this week:

Best friend Luke is coming in on Thursday night, we'll probably go to tango at night with Amanda and then out to the bars afterwards. Friday we'll do a small hike and then go out at night. Saturday we'll do another hike.

Amanda invited me to a violin concert Saturday afternoon, so her, Luke, and I will probably go to that.

I organized an event after that on Facebook called "The Mack on Luke Dinner".

Here's the description:

My best friend from high school Luke is coming to visit and he requires mackage. Despite his prominent butt chin, he's really quite a specimen.

Doesn't matter if you're a dude or a girl, just come hit on him. Your goal is to come on strong enough to make him uncomfortable.

The entry fee for this event is 3 compliments to Luke. Lewdness of compliments can range from innocently harmless to horrifyingly uncalled for. I'll lead the charge.

Lulz. Invited 50 people to a Thai restaurant lol. Mostly girls. A couple had already posted, telling me this was hilarious and they were looking forward to it.

Awesome.

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Hannah called last night. I feel bad for this girl, she's the one in New York that I had a 5 year relationship with. We've got amazing chemistry and rapport, and she knows all about Amanda.

She's still calling me and telling me she loves me and misses me and all that. I tell her I miss her back but she doesn't believe me. She keeps future pacing being together and traveling and having adventures and stuff, and I entertain it, but I'm not quite sure it's going to be a reality. She knows the most about my dating coach plan right now.

Recently I've been tuned in to all things marketing and sales. Commercials, sales pitches from religious fanatics, and everything influence-related. If you're aware of it, it's staggering how much marketing is going on around us. Some of it is good, some of it mediocre.

Whenever I see something AMAZING, I obviously take note.

This commercial is an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E_Wexn46TM

It reminded me of this one as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzTxG6kEwVU

There's something astoundingly emotional about hero stories. They stir up the feels like any other. Check this viral video out, that also has the "hero story" theme... read the description for it as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w

Gonna take note, and try to figure out what it exactly is that makes hero stories so compelling and emotionally stirring. The only thing I've noted is the "just a kid from..." theme. Maybe the audience identifies with the long shot with that statement. The more the audience can identify (that's just like me!), the more of an emotional impact it is, because it triggers the fantasy we all have of becoming someone great and making something amazing out of our lives. Very inspiring, and great for creating the emotion needed for action.

I mean, read this shit, it's AMAZING copy:

People who watch me dance today sometimes assume I've been dancing for many years. I made this video so you could see the awkward body that started just one year ago.

Here's my secret: I practiced everywhere. At bus stops. In line at the grocery store. At work — Using the mouse with my right hand and practicing drills with my left hand. You don't have to train hardcore for years to become a dancer. But you must be willing to practice and you better be hungry.

This isn't a story about dancing, though. It's about having a dream and not knowing how to get there — but starting anyway. Maybe you're a musician dreaming of writing an original song. You're an entrepreneur dying to start your first venture. You're an athlete but you just haven't left the chair yet.

When you watch someone perform, you're seeing them at the top of their game. When they score the winning point or sell their company for millions — you're seeing them in their moment of glory. What you don't see is the thousands of hours of preparation. You don't see the self doubt, the lost sleep, the lonely nights spent working. You don't see the moment they started. The moment they were just like you, wondering how they could ever be good.

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Went to Spanish club yesterday, things are feeling good, exciting, and comfortable at the same time with Amanda.

Afterwards, I gamed like normal. Told her I was going to go eat, and that I'll see her around. She asked if she could join for food. Of course! We hit up Chipotle, we have a great, fun, flirty conversation, and then go to her lab to study. Studying is interspersed with hugs and a bit of making out, before I call it quits around midnight. She offers to drive me home, I tell her she doesn't have to (I literally live like a 3 minute walk from the lab). She says she wants to.

We make out a bit in front of my house, and she heads back to do more work. She's an animal.

Alyssa texted me a bit throughout the night, trying to flirt, I didn't really respond that much.

I've been dissecting down hero stories, and have compiled some notes. Here's some of them:

Audience has to identify with the character at the beginning of the story. "Just a kid from..." is a great example. "Just like you" is another great one.

Audience has to be sold on the character's VISION. You have to be able to FEEL the drive, focus, and purpose of the action the hero takes to achieve his vision.

Look at the genius behind this commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gajZnliFwM

If you didn't know, every shot of a random kid in that commercial is him doing a move that Michael Jordan has done, and that particular move has been shown in documentaries and sports casts over and over and over again. Look at how they get you to both identify with the kid and to feel his VISION.

The audience wants to feel the PULL of that vision.

What also adds substance to the story is the challenges, failures, and setbacks the hero had to endure. These all emphasize the PULL of that vision.

The final component I thought added to the story is the joy and gratitude when the hero finally makes it. He's thankful for all that has happened to get him there. That's the winning moment.

^^ This shit is why I love training montages in movies so much.

Check all the Rocky's. Check some of the old Jackie Chan movies. Check karate kid. Training montages fucking rock because of how they induce the "hero story" effect.

In review:

Audience identifies with hero at the beginning.
-"just a kid from..."
-"just like you"

Audience feels the pull of the VISION
-show drive, focus, and purpose
-overcoming failures, challenges, and setbacks
-gratitude and joy when VISION is achieved

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