The Game

best with the right body language. When you say these lines, you want to have a big smile on your face. If you can, elbow him hard in the chest or slap him on the back hard enough to make him spit up his drink. All this has to be under the guise of being friendly. And then (and this happened to me) tell him, “Fair play, mate,” and offer him your hand. When he reaches to shake your hand, pull away at the last minute. Tool him constantly.
    Also, you can use an AMOG’s work for yourself. He lines ‘em up, you knock ‘em down. This is something I do a lot. I let a guy pick a girl up and increase her buying temperature, then I go in and out-alpha him. I say he’s creepy to the girls, and then remove them from him. The girls are already aroused, so they are still in state based on what the AMOG did. I can do this on maybe 90 percent of sets I approach where a natural AMOG is talking to a girl.
    Have fun.

    —TD

When the reviews of Tyler Durden and Papa’s London workshops hit Cliff’s List, Mystery was outraged. He wasn’t upset about AMOGing. You had to give the pair credit for that. He was upset because Tyler Durden and Papa had set up their own website and rival company. Mystery had called his classroom seminars Social Dynamics. They called their in-field workshops Real Social Dynamics.
    Papa was as robotic about setting up his seduction business as he had been about sarging. He copied Mystery’s model to the letter. Mystery charged six hundred dollars. So did Tyler and Papa. Mystery scheduled his workshops for three nights. So did Tyler and Papa. Mystery started his lessons at 8:30 P.M. and ended them at 2:30 A.M . So did Tyler and Papa.
    Though Tyler Durden and Papa said Mystery gave them permission to run their own workshops, Mystery claimed they used his client list and never asked him. When they exhausted that, they went around and spoke to the Speed Seduction lairs, drumming up business from Ross Jeffries’s disciples. And when Ross began to smell a rat, they started their own lair in each region, beginning with P-L-A-Y (for Player’s Los Angeles Yahoo group) in Southern California.
    Where Mystery limited his workshops to six people, Papa and Tyler Durden packed in dozens. It was sarging anarchy, but they were rolling in money. At nearly every workshop, Papa handpicked a student—even if he happened to be a virgin—and made him a guest instructor at the next workshop. Soon, Papa had his own gang of wings—Jlaix, a San Francisco karaoke champ; Sickboy, a square-jawed New Yorker in the fashion industry; Dreamweaver, a University of California senior and former Mystery student; and even Extramask—that he was flying around to each workshop.
    Despite all this, Mystery continued to let Tyler and Papa stay at his house and pick his brain whenever they were in Toronto. When I asked him why, he answered, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” With a wonderful cliché like that, I assumed he knew what he was doing.
    In the meantime, after seeing Tyler and Papa’s success, two things dawned on the rest of the community. The first was that anybody could run a workshop. It didn’t take any special talent to point two girls out to a guy and say, “Go approach them.” The second was that the demand for seduction schooling was elastic. Guys would throw any amount of money at the problem to solve it.
    Mystery had made a crucial mistake: He didn’t give his students nondisclosure agreements. And now the genie was out of the bottle. One by one, everyone woke up to the notion that all those hours they had spent studying and practicing seduction—more time than they spent with family, school, work, and real-life friends—had more applications than just keeping the prophylactic industry healthy. We were the creators and beneficiaries of a body of knowledge that was light years beyond the rest of the mating world. We had developed an entirely new paradigm of sexual relations—one that gave men the upper hand, or at least the illusion of having the upper hand. There was a market for this.
    Orion, the spazz who had made the Magical Connections videos, started leading daytime workshops in shopping malls and on campuses.
    Next, two PUAs named Harmless and Schematic began advertising their own workshops, which was a surprise to everyone considering that Schematic had only lost his virginity a month beforehand.
    One of the Croatians I had met, Badboy, a charismatic PUA who limped and had only