Being Great

[tsalagi]

As the techno beat bumps from the large speakers, I watch my set get blown out. One of my friends, a brazilian with an accent and a pure natural, inserts himself and suddenly the attention is off of me. And I can't get it back. It's not that I did anything wrong. I opened, DHVed, negged, false took away, and played it completely by the book, with my own little flair and humor. Yet nothing I can do will save this set.

So it got me thinking.

What does it mean to be great? Sure, closing all the time is fantastic, but just because someone can close several times doesn't make them good, it just means their buying temperature is high enough for the women. I am no longer impressed with the average Joe that is making out with a girl at a club, because usually they just get lucky.

Now the question becomes this: what can you do to become great? Having solid game is fantastic, but it will not make you a true PUA, it just means you can follow directions and flip the switches. The following list is my opinion, and I would love yours as well.

1. Social Proof- The ugliest guys in the club had 3 girls around them, guaranteed. Why? Their game was sucky. I know this because I listened in. It was because they knew the bartenders, the bouncers, the DJ, and half the people in the club. Hell, they may not have even known them, but they acted like it. They were pulling solid 8s and 9s. Also, my natural brazillian friend got 3 k closes in 1 hour, and went home with some russian girls.... just because he knew them!

2. An utter lack of fear-It goes with inner game, but the guys with the hottest chicks had balls. I saw one go up, grab a girls ass, get slapped, and then do it to her friend. Her friend found it funny, and 2 minutes later they were making out. This is one of my problems, especially being new here in VA, is I want to make sure I am nice to people, but when I go out to club, I need to lose the fear, and be able to blown out set after set.

3. A sick, sick ability to cold read- It is the easiest thing to do, and these AFCs were doing it as openers. One guy said, and I quote, "By looking at your body language, you had a long day at work, and you want to have some fun but you dont want to get hit on constantly all night". I saw them leaving together later on. It is the easiest thing to do, but inserting it into sets is difficult. Any 10 year old could do it in isolation, but during open sets, it gets tougher.

Hopefully this helps at least 1 person. Develop these traits, and add them to your current game, and maybe you wont blow the set like I did.

Good luck.

Tsalagi.