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Female Pick Up Artist (FPUA)
…VERY GOOD LOOKING, and so you can get all the men you want, or if you’re ugly no amount of “game” will give you Brad Pitt or any other hot men. This simple concept doesnt sink in the female brain because the female brain has 6 billion neurons less than the male brain. Thats why men look only for the esterior in females, and thats why females dont need to learn any “game” to attract men. If she looks good, she attracts men, if she doesnt, she bet…
Worldwide Lair List
…want to improve their seduction skills. The emphasis is on actually meeting up and practicing for real, rather than being yet another Internet forum. We run a mixture of formal and less formal meetings and currently have over 500 members. Contact The Megamale Aberystwyth Lair PUAs in Aberystwyth and Mid-Wales Contact Xiphias Warwick University Lair Tightly knit group of active PUAs interested in self improvement in the area of dating and rela…
Social Ecosystem
Quick Definition: The circle of social connections that a person has relatively to his peers and his larger geographical context and each element of the system interacts with one another to create an interdependent ecosystem. Full Definition: A healthy social ecosystem includes your family, relatives, people you are about and love. Not everyone has these things, and not everyone that has a social ecosystem has a healthy, growing relationship wi…
Social Cue
Quick Definition: Signals that are given, usually consciously during a social interaction, that communicate a person’s thoughts or expected actions at certain intervals of a group’s activity. Full Definition: Social cues help us understand other people better and facilitate non-verbal communication. A well known social cue, for example, is to introduce new members to existing group members. Thus, Mystery’s “Introduce me….
Social Pressure
Quick Definition: The pressure one feels to behave in a certain way based on society and other people’s expectations. Full Definition: Being able to take, manage, and redirect social pressure is the key to becoming a master of social dynamics. In many ways, becoming a pickup artist is about not conforming to the expectations and limiting beliefs of society, but rather acting in a way that is most conducive to seducing women. Whenever soci…
Social Trees
…rule once you have chosen a full close . In these circles, maintain friendships until they become sticky and pick the best girl of the bunch. Braddock on Social Circle Game Part -1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Usage: Notice the different social trees that exist in this club based on everyone’s interactions with each other. Related Terms: Social Connector, Value Connector, Social Dead-End, Social Circle, Social…
Social Kinetic Energy
AKA Social Kinetic Momentum; Social Kinetic Energy Momentum Quick Definition: The level of social interactivity within a person’s life or a particular location, environment, or community. Full Definition: Positive social kinetic energy refers to human interactions that boost a PUA’s state or makes him feel good. Negative social kinetic energy does the reverse; it takes energy away and makes the person feel negative. The exact percep…
Social Hierarchy
Quick Definition: The explicit or implicit hierarchical structure of society, where a person’s position is usually based on their social connections, money, or status. Full Definition: As a tribal species, we form hierarchies in order to function and survive as a group. At any moment in time, there is a functioning hierarchy in play. Though we live in a free world (in America, for the most part), social classes still exist. (For example, the ec…
Social Alignment
Quick Definition: When two or more people align and ally based on a sharing of their core values and goals, for the purpose of increasing their chances of success. Full Definition: PUAs socially align by creating “projects” where they live together, or “lairs” that host group meetings and guest speakers. In this sense, the group of PUAs can help each other learn new techniques, share their experiences, and go out and win…
Social Circle Mastery Review
se are just concepts for you to use, and I believe that a good friend is a good friend no matter what is perceived “social value” is. Who is it designed for and what is covered? This product requires you to invest 6 months to strategically put yourself in a position to have a lifestyle that brings you more quality friends, and greater access to high class hot babes. It requires you to sacrifice short term opportunities with women by c…
Social Exchange Propensity
Quick Definition: The overall likelihood and flow of energy within a particular venue that encourages strangers to get to know one another. Full Definition: Lately, I have noticed a subtle and influential energy in every venue. As PUAs, we follow the “vibe” and go towards the energy of the group that is most likely to give us interest and attention. Our environment has a significant effect on the mass behavior of people that walk th…
Social Butterfly
Quick Definition: A person who enjoys socializing with many different people, and usually has become good at meeting new people. Full Definition: Social Butterfly describes any person that can “warm up” a room in different situations. A salesman, a politician, an attractive and outgoing woman, and a friendly old grandma can all be social butterflies. The essential similarity between butterflies is their ease at flying from one socia…
Social Capital
Quick Definition: The value in a person’s life (and economics) derived from the degree of social cohesion and connections he has with his community. Full Definition: Entrepreneurs, PR planners, and other jobs where social connections are often used to achieve a business goal use social capital well. They understand the fundamental importance of being the “social glue” and adding value by introducing the right people to each o…
Social Mask
Quick Definition: The innate mask we wear when we are in social situations involving people we do not yet know. Full Definition: As children we do not have social masks. We often interact with other children as we are. Some kids naturally get along and some don’t. Even when they do not, they exist mostly in harmony despite their differences, or play fight until a battle is won and the tension is resolved. As adults, we gain more power. Wi…
Social Proof
Quick Definition: First described in Influence, social proof refers to the increasing perceived value of any particular person within a social setting, usually through explicit or implicit DHVs. Full Definition: Social proof is great for building attraction, value, and lowering bitch shields at any venue or social gathering. Short term social proof refers to the events that happen as soon as a PUA is in a venue (or as Mystery likes to say, “whe…
Social Norms
…0s was the blue suit with the tie. If an engineer wanted to dress in flip flops and jeans, he may not be taken seriously in meetings or, worse yet, be asked to re-dress himself or leave the company. If an older man goes to an 18+ goth club dressed in a cardigan sweater, he may be implicitly breaking the social norms. Interestingly, popular kids in high school and tribal leaders and those in power have higher bandwidth to set, establish, and bend…
Last Minute Resistance (LMR)
…ever sometimes it does come up in one night stands. I NEVER push it if the girl does not want to have sex. Rather we help them through the slight discomfort is there is a lack of trust and comfort. ABCs of Attraction Here are 3 types Advanced Anti-LMR tactics from a lay report that were used on a swimsuit model:
http://www.abcsofattraction.com/blog/advanced-anti-last-minute-resistance-lmr-tactics-by-the-book/
1) Pre-Emptive
“It was important…
Social Context
Quick Definition: The frame or larger picture of a social situation that governs a specific expectation in social rules. Full Definition: Normally, under this situation, how do people respond? What if the situation changed? In the movie City of Gods, the main characters are heavily influenced by the violence in the Favellas that permeate all aspects of their life. In such a situation, guns and shooting become routine and regular life. “P…
Social Stamina
Quick Definition: The ability to withstand long periods of social interactions or the ability to endure tough social situations over a period of time. Full Definition: Alex (RSD) talks about the 4 times rule – if you reopen a girl 4 times she will generally give you the real reason why she’s not talking to you. Whether the issue is a serious conversation, or they just broke up, or something else. Social stamina is different than c…
Social Value
Quick Definition: The inherent and conveyed survival and replication value one has within a given social setting. Full Definition: While a person may have an inherent value, social value is both relative and conveyable to others. This means that a person with innately high social value (good genes, rich, strong social circle) can still experience misfortune, such as someone else dropping a glass of wine on him/her at a particular venue. Other…
Value Connector
Quick Definition: A person with access to specialized or rare resources. Full Definition: Value connectors can be social connectors or dead ends. They do have something that social connectors and dead ends do not have, which is access to exclusive resources. A value connector can be the bouncer at the bar, or the owner of the exclusive beauty salon. The bouncer can be a social connector , or maybe he is just really a loner. In either case…
Social Dead-end
AKA “Dead-end” Quick Definition: A person that possesses a limited social circle, which often leads to a dead end because of the lack of active connections. Full Definition: In theory, everyone can be a social dead end when they move to a new city or new country. Young professionals just getting out of college can also become a dead end given their new environment. Social dead ends are people that have a limited social circle. They…
Social Fluidity
Quick Definition: The ability to adapt to different social situations and navigate social pressure when the full picture of the situation is unclear. Full Definition: Some PUAs only go out during the day. At night, they will often complain about girls being “ADD” and how night game is only for “short term relationships.” Others don’t like clubs and prefer to only date online. Social fluidity refers to the ability f…
Domino Effect
Quick Definition: The process of laying the “hottest” (or perceived to be “highest value”) girl, and then going down the list on slutty social trees, or going for the queen bee in non-slutty social groups. Full Definition: This is an advanced term in the social circle game space. Once you set an anchor into a social circle or develop your own social circle, there is usually a threshold for attraction between the sexes. If your socia…
Social Connector
…the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts…in any situation roughly 80 percent of the ‘work’ will be done by 20 percent of the participants.” In PUA theory, a social connector is someone who has cast a wide social net. He or she has access and connections to many different social groups. We call these groups “trees,…
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