Review: The evolution of “pick up”
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
Although many books, such as “The Mystery Method” by Mystery, “The Game” by Neil Strauss, and “The Natural” by Richard La Ruina, do a decent job of teaching men how to attract women, they are not nearly as useful as this book is for men who want to seduce beautiful women in today’s extremely competitive dating market.Like every other “pick up” book, these books tell men to explicitly portray themselves as alpha males. As a result, nowadays a ton of beta males walk and talk like alpha males in the presence of women. Not surprisingly, the beautiful women who these men repeatedly hit on, very quickly become suspicious of men who explicitly portray themselves as alpha males and learn to use a variety of tricky tests to screen the posers out.This is why most men are actually better off if they don’t explicitly try to present themselves as alpha males as long as they also take care to not present themselves as beta males. This book’s author, Lothario, clearly appreciates this aspect of modern day seduction.He recommends that instead of asking questions, men use their powers of observation and inference to make assumptions about the women they want to talk to and use these assumptions to generate organic and fun conversations with the women. He also repeatedly advises men against explicitly trying to communicate their alpha male or nice guy qualities in their text and email interactions with women.By showing them how to straddle the line between alpha stud and beta dud in their verbal communications and nonverbally imply their alphaness, Lothario helps beta men portray themselves as alpha men without being screened out by beautiful women who can spot other posers from a mile away.This is the reason why I think this book represents the evolution of “pick up”.