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Teachable moment from Neil Strauss' The Game by Razor X on 31 Jul, 2010 22:54
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I stumbled across some excerpts from Neil Strauss' The Game about the makeover he received from the people who were teaching him how to become a pickup artist:
"You're going to have to shave your head," he said as he looked at me.
"No thanks. What if I have a strange-shaped skull, or weird marks on my head like my dad?"
"Look at you. You're wearing glasses because your vision sucks. You have a hat on to cover a huge bald spot. You're ghostly white. And you look like you haven't seen the inside of a gym since grade school. You're doing well because you're smart and you're a fast learner. But looks count, too. You're Style, so start being Style. Just snap: shave your head, get Lasik, join a gym."
Notice that he didn't say, "Get a hair transplant" or "Get a toupee."
Moments later at the barbershop:
... Mystery sat me in a chair, told Marko to instruct the barber to remove my tumbleweeds, and then supervised the procedure to make sure the barber shaved down to the skull.
"Balding is not a choice, but bald is a choice," he said.
....
When the barber finished, I looked in the mirror and saw a chemo patient staring back at me.
"It looks good," Mystery said. "Let's see if there's a tanning salon around here. We'll have you looking like a thug in no time."
....
My first thought when I was shaven-headed and tan was: What took me so long? I looked much better. I had transformed from a 5 to a 6.5 on the attractiveness scale ....
For further reading, go to:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ibpvw3wALXcC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=Neil+Strauss+shave&source=bl&ots=Z45IZv2uQI&sig=EWF72hw56DdtDxNunxKAiOE5RC0&hl=en&ei=dtZUTMv5K8KC8gbCxeRI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
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#1 by D.A.L.U.I. on 01 Aug, 2010 06:46
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"Tumbleweeds" great, has all the right mental images.
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#2 by Tyler on 03 Aug, 2010 08:20
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That's a very cool and inspiring chapter in that book that can show how quickly someone can make a transformation into a confident person in a matter of days.
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#3 by PBurke on 04 Aug, 2010 01:03
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that whole book was good!