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Dear Doc,
Ah long time since my last post in your thread. OK here's one:
I'm thinking about re-using the mall exercise you gave me back in November to combat a resurgence of my AA. Any modifications you think I should make to it to make it more effective at this point in time?
The most important part of the excersize is to do it all in a rapid fire fashion. Thats why I suggest such high numbers... find yourself one of the busiest area's you can and just go for it... with no time to even think inbetween.
Open/Cut, Open/Cut, Open/Cut
When you do it right you should be able to get 500 opens done in only an hour or 2... remember your not trying to close, or even move into A2 in this excersize.
Part one your just opening, nt even transitioning to anything, this gets you into "the groove" of opening your mouth and letting words come out to strangers.
Then part to you open, then get in 1 compliment and 2 questions, in any order. This will get you used to transitioning. A Compliment is just 1 twist from being a Neg, and with 2-3 questions you can direct a conversation... This gets you past that sometimes akward "What do I do now" phase right after you throw out an opener... it trains you to transition naturally (Which in a full sarge will naturally allow you to hook)
Example of a phase to convo:
PUA: Hi!
Person: Hi...
PUA: Do you have the time?
Person: Sure it's 3:30
PUA: Thanks! Say thats a great watch! Where did you get it?
Person: It was a gift from my Grandmother
PUA: Awesome! Thanks for the time!
Cut!
now in a regular sarge even with that very opener and questions you would have the chance to open all sorts of threads (Watches, Family, Gifts, etc)... but for this excersize we cut, so that we can do this over and over and over and build a new pattern right there that very day!
It's like running a race, this excersize teaches you to get out of the blocks... after we get good at that... then we'll worry about the rest of the race.