#60: Like a sponge
Anyone I could shack up to, anyone I could study, any book I could read…to the Miss Wrong’s out there I was becoming an dangerous force to be reckoned with.
Things were now completely different after my epiphany and I was seeing situations in whole new ways. I kind of felt like Roddy Piper in They Live whenever he put the sunglasses on and saw right through the propaganda, hidden messages and fake humans. I no longer saw things how people wanted them to be, I saw them for what they were.
Over the coming months and years I would become a sponge. I studied successful men I knew. I analyzed the dates of friends and coworkers and could pick out nearly everything right and wrong they did. If a girl was dicking around my friend, I would see right through her (you’ll hear some of these stories coming up). It was just too bad that they couldn’t.
I read material about the feminization of men and books such as “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men” by Christina Hoff Sommers. Other books and materials came from the world of pickup artists such as David DeAngelo, Mystery and many more, learning what “really” turned women on and the psychology behind it all. I read books intended for women on how to game men such as “The Rules” so I could identify these tactics and reverse them. I studied psychology books along with body language. I learned more about how to identify a lie and discreetly interrogate such people to get the truth.
The owners looked at me like I was nuts, but I reserved tables in private areas just for myself at nightclubs and spent my time drinking and watching the people interact with one another and who left the place with who. Most surprising lesson was that the guy a woman came in with wasn’t always the guy she left with. I saw for myself that there was a definite difference between a man who knows what he’s doing with women and a man who does not.
I studied sexual psychology and finally accepted that women loved sex just as much as men (sometimes even more) and often just want to get laid with no strings attached too. After a good while, I got into genetics and the study of sexual psychology and evolution. It is shocking just how much of our actions we try to rationalize when in reality it’s our genes telling us to play our parts out. Men and women are always in search of the superior genes of one another and this is a big reason people fall in and out of love all the time. Love is truly the biggest illusion and rationalization of all to justify our primary mission: to survive and pass down our genes.
All of this would be forthcoming in the future, but we must go back to the current point of the story as I was beginning my education.
In “The Mystery Method,” Mystery stated something loosely based off of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs that there are three vital areas that a person must focus on in order to fulfill their purpose in life - health, wealth and love. It was quite apparent that I didn’t have love in my life, and I had been stuck at the same dead-end $10-an-hour job for years at this point. I had been an overweight blob up until I decided to do something about it.
So how was my weight loss coming along?
name Says:
June 9th, 2008 at 12:43 am
I’ve struggled with weight my whole life. I know how to lose weight, but I can’t stand the constant hunger so I gain it back within a few months.
You should post a list of all of the useful books you read. They sound interesting.
The Dateable Dork Says:
June 11th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I love people-watching too, but I’ve never done it to the extent that you have. I could probably learn a lot from it, as I’m sure you did. Ever see any girls at the nightclubs who threw a drink in guy’s face? I’ve always wanted to witness one of those! Hahaha.