I am dubious about hypnosis because the confidence induced from hypnosis is fake. Real core confidence comes from putting yourself in uncomfortable situations time and time again.

it may work for you if you are easily influenced.

You can't put PUA in the same category as things like astrology. You can explain game techniques (and why they work) with biology. The same cannot be said of astrology.

Hypnosis is fake. It's a gimmick, like peacocking to give yourself fake confidence to hide behind. Why use a placebo when you can have the real thing?

Hypnosis isn't fake in the least. It's backed by neuroscience, not pseudoscience. The mental images are real to your subconsciousness and it creates the same neuron paths in your physical brain (aka habits) that you would get from actually doing the thing that you are inducing.

The same reason visualization works. It's just another form of mental conditioning. Things like subliminal messages, being raised by parents, watching movies, and living life in general all get imprinted on your brain the same way.

I bet you didn't realize that your brain actually thinks you really observed people being murdered in those scary movies. That's where the nightmares come from. Traumatized. - movies don't exist in nature and we haven't evolved mechanisms to differentiate.

Be careful though, since most of it is untested, incredibly powerful, and changes your brain chemistry too quickly in synthetic ways. It fucks with your DNA and increases the chances of birth defects in your children.

For the sake of argument, let's pretend that hypnosis is real. Even then, your confidence is still fake. Without the hypnosis, you would be too shy to approach. Not to mention the fact that hypnosis means allowing some dude's voice completely control you. Contol your own mind, don't be a bitch. And no, it's not the same as me watching PUA videos at all. I don't lull myself into a sleep like state while listen to Julien talking in a soft mesmerising voice. I take the good bits and ignore the rest.

Paul McKenna's TV show is a joke. It's even worse than that Jon Edward guy. If you need a placebo like hypnosis to feel confident, your game is weak. There's no substitute for hard work. Stop trying to find magic pills and shortcuts.

For the sake of argument, let's pretend that hypnosis is real. Even then, your confidence is still fake. Without the hypnosis, you would be too shy to approach. Not to mention the fact that hypnosis means allowing some dude's voice completely control you. Contol your own mind, don't be a bitch. And no, it's not the same as me watching PUA videos at all. I don't lull myself into a sleep like state while listening to Julien talking in a soft mesmerising voice. I take the good bits and ignore the rest.

Paul McKenna's TV show is a joke. It's even worse than that Jon Edward guy. If you need a placebo like hypnosis to feel confident, your game is weak. There's no substitute for hard work. Stop trying to find magic pills and shortcuts.

Press the down arrow and a countdown timer will appear. Set the timer for 5 minutes. Ok for the next 5 minutes I want you to clear your mind and don’t think of anything. Do you remember the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man scene from Ghostbusters? This will be similar to that. Remember you are consciously not supposed to be thinking anything during these 5 minutes. If your mind pops up thoughts regardless of your will: just observe whatever pops up like a second person is talking to you.

Do this now before you continue reading for the best effect.

What just happened was while you were trying not to think, thoughts were popping up. Then as you were observing them (without trying to actually think yourself) you most likely got swept up in the train of thought and began thinking with whatever topic was coming up in your head. A few times you might have realized you weren’t supposed to be thinking then stopped yourself and began observing the thoughts again.
What’s going on here? Well I am here to inform you that most of the time your mind and actions are out of your control. You just experience several types of awareness. When you cleared your mind and it was silent, you were fully in control. That was the real you, your conscious self.
It’s the mind that transcends the physical body. It’s the thing that separates us from animals, or robots. Then these thoughts popped up into your mind. You did not think these thoughts, it’s like they came out of nowhere, or maybe you felt like you thought those thoughts. You didn’t because you know at the beginning of the exercise your mind should have been clear for the full 5 minutes. What happened is the neuron network in your physical brain took over.
That was the second stage of awareness; you became a slave to your neuron path. It just took over your thoughts without your control. I told you to observe when this happens. You experienced more self-awareness because you were able to separate your real thoughts from the ones born from the neuron paths in your brain.
You just discovered your humanity. Even if it was brief because most likely you weren’t able to observe the thoughts for the full 5 minutes. At some point I’m sure you got swept up in them and began thinking along with whatever topic your mind was jabbering on about. This happened even though you told yourself that you would just be the observer at the beginning of this exercise.
That last part (being swept up and thinking with the thoughts that popped up in your mind) is the awareness state that most people live their entire lives in. So when you look at someone their actions are just a manifestation of whatever habits they’ve built up over their lives. Like a robot with a software program of if-then statements, but people call them habits.
In software programing in order to make the program run you use rules. One rule is called an if-then statement. Like: if a person types the t on the keyboard then display a t on the screen.
The point of that last experiment was to make you aware of the thoughts that appear in your head that are technically not your own conscious creations. The ones that just “popped up”, those are the thoughts that will attempt to prevent you from forming new habits.
Staying in the state of human awareness 24/7 is not the purpose of this book. The purpose of this book is to get you a work from home job. What I am going to do is teach you a method of controlling the content of those automatic pop up thoughts.

The pop up thoughts is what's in your conditioned brain btw. Your intellect is the thing that can observe that stuff. This is the difference between humans vs computers/animals. They don't have an intellect.