"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Was Tyler Durden intentionally made out to be the villain in The Game?

The_Reaper

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Was that some arrangement himself and Style came to, in order to make a better story by having the dramatising effect of the villain (Tyler)?

In Blueprint, Tyler comes across as a very cool guy.

In the Game, he came across as a legitimately borderline sociopath and douchebag par excellence.

I don't know what to make of him.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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The_Reaper said:
Was that some arrangement himself and Style came to, in order to make a better story by having the dramatising effect of the villain (Tyler)?

In Blueprint, Tyler comes across as a very cool guy.

In the Game, he came across as a legitimately borderline sociopath and douchebag par excellence.

I don't know what to make of him.
Well sociopaths do wear a mask, so perhaps what was said of him in 'The Game' (I don't know what was said, I haven't read it) is indeed true.
 

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Stop taking a marketers words for truth. I'd be more concerned about what kind of douchebag Style has to be to write that kind of stuff, than the sh!t HE wrote through HIS POV about a competitor.

Don't get caught up in PUA drama.
 

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Basically, here's what tyler did.

He took a bootcamp with mystery's company "Social Dynamics"

He got good and was mysteries wing for a while.

Then, he went off and started his own company, "Real Social Dynamics"

Now he lives in Hawaii with his hot gf.

You be the judge.
 

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Prozac said:
Stop taking a marketers words for truth. I'd be more concerned about what kind of douchebag Style has to be to write that kind of stuff, than the sh!t HE wrote through HIS POV about a competitor.

Don't get caught up in PUA drama.
Good point. Style did say some douchey things, e.g. about the attractiveness and charisma (or lack thereof) of some of the gurus.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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It's literature, written by someone who has his own ideas and conceptions in his mind. When he writes (or anyone, for that matter), he leaves a lot of his ideology on paper.

So, should you believe mr. Strauss? A little, don't shallow whole. Take it with some salt.
 

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I think most PUA's are douches anyways (so far most PUA'a I met were just a bunch of scrawny geeks who feel on top of the world by acting like dictators because of this new found power).

I am sure there was alot of hatered and jealousy towards Tyler Durdan by Styles because that is what you get when you put geeks with inflated egos under one roof and they all compete with each other to be the top dog.

You should read Nei's other book "Emergency", he actually made himself more of a man in this book then "The Game".
 

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Dante420 said:
Is this book worth getting?
I would say yes, its a fun read. But if youre kind of iffy about spending $25 on it...go to the public library and check it out for free.
 
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