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Who has had more of an impact on your Life?
Neil "Style" Strauss  43%  [ 18 ]
Erik Von "Mystery" Markovik  57%  [ 24 ]
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:12 am 
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monumental works include:
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)
Rules of the Game (2007)
Stylelife Academy (first ever Online School of Attraction)

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Epic proportions include:
The Venusian Arts Handbook (2005)
The Mystery Method: How To Get Beautiful Women into Bed; St. Martin's Press (2007)
Revelation (2008)
Vh1 The Pick-up Artist Season 1, Season 2
www.venusianarts.com


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:55 am 
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Thats a really hard question. If you strip it down its Eric as he brought Neil into the game, but Neil brought me into the game (not personally, through his book).
I would have to say unless I did digging myself I wouldnt have found out about this without Neil, I dont have pay tv so The PUA doesnt affect me.
So its a tricky question... once I read the game I would then say Eric.

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mattjacks and i are of the same opinion, except that i know that the answer is erik, and it's with a K just so you know ;)

without him, the community would be nowhere near where it is today, not saying that it is anywhere good, but still, it got me in so alls good. besides, i relate more to mystery so ... 8)


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but then when it comes to who I admire more, Neil...

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Whoo... lol
I gotta say Mystery's still the best though...
He brought Neil to the game, and then turned him into Style...

So I gotta say Mystery's still the "MVPUA" :D

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*sigh*
You missed Wayne.
And Tyler.
And Zan.
And Zig.
And Kris...

Basically all the really good guys. ^_^

Don't get me wrong, Mystery and Style have their place, but neither is the final authority on pick-up and neither has been particularly influential in my life. If anything, Juggler's "Conversational Jujitsu" has affected my game far more than anything written by any other pick-up artist. And to be honest, a lot of books outside of pick-up have made me much better in this art. Zig Ziggler's sales books have had a huge influence on me. How to Make Friends and Influence People has had a huge influence on me.

You can't boil down an art to the two guys who got the most famous for it. That's like saying that Bach and Mozart represent everything you'll ever need to know about Classical era music. You're missing Gluck, Dussek, Clementi... So many great artists because you focus your study entirely on the two whose names are best known.

My vote is for "neither."

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I vote neither. The only thing that either of them did for me was introduce me to the community and that was The Game. But honestly Neil didn't impact my life, I just realised there were people as interested in becoming better with women as me and then I learned it all on my own.

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I voted mystery, his M3 model (along with a few other things) are genious. While i dont stick to them 100%, I dont think anyone can deny that they are great things to have knowlage of.

However, if this wasnt a vote and i had more options it would be a damn close call between a few people.
Vin Decarlo
Carlos Xuma
and a few of the people on here (wont names names, they will all blush :P)

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I honestly think that Mystery has in many ways caused more harm than good. If he hadn't come up with the stuff he did, then other people probably would have and they might not have even fooled themselves into thinking that they had positive intentions like he did. If people were just honest about the fact that the stuff he teaches is completely manipulative and dehumanizing, then less people would support it and the community would probably be a less creepy place.

I know you're shaking your fist at me and telling your screen that I don't know what I'm talking about, but perhaps you haven't really given this any thought. Perhaps you haven't really been learning how to connect with women and love them and love yourself. If you take a good look around, you'll notice that all the guys that people really respect because of their values always end up leaving the community because they get disillusioned and start hating the fact that it's so manipulative and creepy and so few people actually love women.

JSmooth almost left and he's incredibly sought after and respected as a teacher because of his positive perspectives and values. I almost left because of the same things. Tyler Durdan is basically out. Sean Messenger and Johnny Soporno have told me that they don't really consider themselves part of the community because they don't agree with the people that want to learn how to manipulate women into sleeping with them using lines and not actually loving them and making real connections with them. Adam Lyons doesn't consider himself a pickup artist. The list goes on and on and on and on.

As far as the M3 model goes. It's bullshit. Plain and simple.
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The M3 model is bullshit. Even people that use it can't do it that way. I'm sorry if you think you do, but you're kidding yourself.

You can't attract someone without first establishing a certain level of comfort, nor can you successfully display attraction for them without that comfort and most people wouldn't want to because they don't feel safe being so open. Eye contact is a form of seduction and it often comes before anything else even though M3 says it comes last.

The whole thing is just silly because no real interaction, nor any manipulative pickup that any PUA does can be that clearly structured. You can try all you like, but that's just not how human interaction works. You're constantly throwing in little bits of seduction and attraction mixed in with establishing comfort. The whole thing advances a a fairly even pace on all three fronts.

If you think I'm full of shit, then you obviously take everything that Mystery says for granted and don't bother to open your eyes and think for yourself about the interactions you are having with people. If that's the case, then you're probably not learning anything, you're just becoming more robotic and practiced, making you even less human. Next time you talk to someone think about everything you are doing and you'll notice that if they aren't comfortable you can't even begin to attract them, thus making the whole thing bullshit.
If you're still sitting there pissed off and upset that I've shaken your world, then maybe that's a sign that you need to re-evaluate things. You wouldn't be so angry if you didn't see some truth in it. If you thought I was completely wrong, then you would just laugh and call me silly. If you're angry though, that's a sign that you need to do some serious introspective evaluating.

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Rye,
i totally see your point of view, i agree with you. I dont use mystery stuff hardly at all.
However, I feel the reason his stuff is damn good is because its a frame. It helps guys who have no clue start, gives them a solid idea of what to do when and it works.
Dont get me wrong, i dont agree with manipulating women at all but dont you think something that gives complete no hopers the confidence to get started and then evolve to something amazing is a good thing?

While long term it isnt good, short term it does great things and then people like you can help them evolve to something better....

If you take a step back from the M3 model what is it basically teaching guys to do.
A stages, be fun, exciting etc etc
C stages, make a solid and deep connection.
S stages, basically, pulling the trigger.
For many guys this is a simple thing they can remember and will keep them on track.

Again i totally see what your saying, i just think calling something you dont agree with bullshit is a little unfair when you think of all the people it has helped. I know a few guys who started on MM (i am talking 110% MM nothing else) who are now some of the best guys i know, with great morals and good people who enrich the lives of the men and women they come into contact with. Without mystery these people would have stayed shy etc. Do you honestly think looking at it like that is bad!

Madals


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:03 pm 
At first I said Style... but then I remembered watching this video, and thought, oh yeah.

{The Mystery interview begins at 1:30}






p.s. I know its Erik... it was a typo. :D


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:20 pm 
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The M3 model is bullshit. Even people that use it can't do it that way. I'm sorry if you think you do, but you're kidding yourself.

You can't attract someone without first establishing a certain level of comfort, nor can you successfully display attraction for them without that comfort and most people wouldn't want to because they don't feel safe being so open. Eye contact is a form of seduction and it often comes before anything else even though M3 says it comes last.

The whole thing is just silly because no real interaction, nor any manipulative pickup that any PUA does can be that clearly structured. You can try all you like, but that's just not how human interaction works. You're constantly throwing in little bits of seduction and attraction mixed in with establishing comfort. The whole thing advances a a fairly even pace on all three fronts.

If you think I'm full of shit, then you obviously take everything that Mystery says for granted and don't bother to open your eyes and think for yourself about the interactions you are having with people. If that's the case, then you're probably not learning anything, you're just becoming more robotic and practiced, making you even less human. Next time you talk to someone think about everything you are doing and you'll notice that if they aren't comfortable you can't even begin to attract them, thus making the whole thing bullshit.

If you're still sitting there pissed off and upset that I've shaken your world, then maybe that's a sign that you need to re-evaluate things. You wouldn't be so angry if you didn't see some truth in it. If you thought I was completely wrong, then you would just laugh and call me silly. If you're angry though, that's a sign that you need to do some serious introspective evaluating.

For you to keep mentioning "If you think I'm full of shit" and "if your still pissed off at me; shaking fist" makes me think you're trying to provoke someone to answer you in an angry manner? If that's your motive, then try and elaborate your point clearer.

As for me... I had game WAY before any of this shit came out... but I will give Mystery his kudos in that he (along with the guys he worked with) "structed" courtship. No man can say they've done this. Its no easy task. The Mystery Method, hands down, explains the proper way to meet and attract people period. Not just women. Foward and Backward Merging groups together should be taught in ALL college sociology classes. It is not just pickup I'm talking about... this is social dynamics. He is a MPUA for the simple fact that he makes his living off of this... not because of women.


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I'm not saying it doesn't work. Anything you believe in enough will work because it gives you that sense of confidence and that's what makes those guys so attractive. The thing is the theories behind it are totally untrue. Guys will buy into it, but if you break it down using actual psychology and examining how interactions really work, then it's bullshit.

Now, if he were to have labelled it like you did Madals; the "Be fun stage", "make a solid connection stage" and "escalate sexually stage", then it would pass examination. He didn't call it that though and it's misleading and causes people to act creepy and think weird and creepy things about how people really function.

I think that if people were to start learning stuff based upon a model that broke stuff down with a structure, but didn't damage them as people, then even if I couldn't get behind it, I could at least not think that it is harmful. I don't have a problem with people needing "training wheels", I just think that those training wheels shouldn't teach them how to be creepy assholes. It takes a long time to unlearn all the fucked up stuff that people learn from the Mystery Method. That's WHY Mystery doesn't teach it anymore!

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Do you honestly think its that harmful tho Rye?
Like me you must know its helped a hell of a lot of guys who are now, like i said, moral great GOOD men.

And isnt how i interpriteded it how everyone reads it? isnt it blatently clear thats what he is saying. :?
Maybe its just me, i just cant imagine people being at a stage they follow it letter by letter.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:52 pm 
I can see where Rye is getting at, but just like The Mystery Method book states, it was created to be geared towards HB10s. The whole M3 Model focuses on women who think their shit don't stink. It is geared towards women who go to clubs just to get guys to buy them drinks. It is geared towards women who are percieved as bitches. Most of these women (unconsciously now), are somewhat manipulative. How do I know? Well I go to the clubs in downtown san diego every weekend, and there they are! Sure "negs" and all that crap can seem to be harmful, but they do justify the means. And the means is exceptionally beautiful women. Is The Mystery Method machiavellian? Damn straight. But so are porn stars, strippers, and super models. :roll:


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