Improving Your Game

From the Times of London:

‘Love,” sings Amy Winehouse, “is a losing game.” Neil Strauss – author of the absurdly popular pick-up bible, The Game – begs to differ. In fact, given five minutes to work his magic with Winehouse, he would prove his point by taking her phone number. Don’t believe him? Ask Britney Spears or Pamela Anderson, both of whom yielded their digits to this unremarkable looking Los Angeles writer.

Strauss’s status as one of the world’s greatest pickup artists (or PUA) is a recent one. The Game, published in 2005, recounts his entry into a secretive group of PUAs called the “seduction community”. While among these men, Strauss, who is 5ft 6in tall and bald, learnt techniques and counter-intuitive wisdom that would allow him, in a matter of months, to develop from an unattractive social klutz to the community’s most successful member.

Improve your game:

– Make yourself seem unavailable

– Be a peacock – wear something flashy

– Send out a ‘neg’ – a negative remark will pique her interest

– Make time your ally – have somewhere else to be

– Don’t sink to their level – always stand tall around women

– If you don’t have the patience for a whole book, the internet offers many sites with tips on the art of love, click here for some of our favourite chat-up lines

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