The three students get caught in disbelief as their past ideas about only good-looking guys get hot women is destroyed. They see the unattractive instructors attract women before their eyes. On the first night out, the two instructors blow the students’ minds away. Mystery and Sinn instruct Style and two other students on what to expect at the workshop. Mystery is accompanied with friend and fellow instructor, Sinn. After reading tid-bits of pick-up skills online from a “lair” (an online gathering place where guys learn how to attract women), Style meets up with Mystery at a workshop. Strauss goes by the name of “Style” as he learns pick-up skills with guys like Extramask, Juggler, and WideFace from pioneers in the field like Mystery and Ross Jeffries.

The PUAs ability to fine-tune their skills, rapidly adapt to situations, use routines, and maintain a high awareness of present social dynamics put the majority of people that learn communication skills to shame.Įach PUA (character) in The Game has a nickname that reflects his personality or has a strange story behind its origin. Though they don’t refer to the skills as “communication skills”, the many pick-up artists throughout The Game are extremely competent in reading a woman’s body language, keeping her interested, and having great conversations. You follow his exciting tales as he starts out as a shy, passive, and introverted writer for The New York Times who within two years becomes one of the world’s greatest pick-up artists (PUAs).Ī pick-up artist is a man who goes out and attracts women with his tremendous communication skills.

Author Neil Strauss takes you through his life-changing transformation from geek to woman-magnet. This is a book review of Neil Strauss’ The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.

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