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# Basics of The Dating Game – An Introduction
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<p>I got this email:</p>
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<p><em><strong>Being new to using game, I am at a point where I have a lot of information but a lot seems advanced. I was hoping you could write an article on things as a step by step process to make progress in learning game. Or at least point me to something that is a concise process to help me learn game.</strong></em></p>
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<p>It inspired me.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve decided that starting January Second, I&rsquo;m going to throw up weekly posts on Game Basics.&nbsp; It&rsquo;ll probably be a two month thing, or so and each post will end with a challenge to get you out there and practicing.&nbsp; I can see how the information that a lot of us throw out there can be very advanced and a bit challenging, so hopefully these posts will give you some direction and a starting point.&nbsp; I would suggest that you&nbsp;buy a copy of Bang&nbsp;before then and thumb through it, as it will help you immensely between now and then.</p>
<p>As an added bonus, I&rsquo;m going to go through the challenges with you and report in on my status, and I want you all to feel free to anonymously comment (or be a man and comment with your name) on your progress!</p>
<p>With all of that said and done, let&rsquo;s begin!</p>
<h2>Basics of The Game &ndash; Inner Game</h2>
<p>One of the hardest parts of The Game is getting your&nbsp;<em>Inner Game</em>&nbsp;on lock.&nbsp; When you first start your adventures in the Red Pill lifestyle, you will be excited and ready for anything.&nbsp; As your first night of approaches wears on, however, you will find yourself&nbsp;quickly disillusioned, feeling that you have been cheated and that this &ldquo;game&rdquo; bullshit isn&rsquo;t all it&rsquo;s cracked up to be.</p>
<p>For guys like&nbsp;and myself, it all seems so easy.&nbsp; We want it, we go out and get it.&nbsp; Supposedly, you know all the things we know (or so we say) &ndash; so why isn&rsquo;t it working for you?</p>
<p>What you&rsquo;re having, in that moment you&rsquo;re giving up, is a crisis of&nbsp;<em>inner game</em>&nbsp;&ndash; and the answers to all of your questions is a shockingly simple one.</p>
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<p>I remember my inner game crisis.&nbsp; I had been doing the game thing for not very long, and had bagged a grand total of one chick using advice from my friend and was just starting to get on my own two feet with this game thing.&nbsp; I tell you what, I could number close like a champ, but my conversion rates were abysmal.&nbsp; Every 20 phone numbers resulted in &lt;1 bang, according to my calculations.</p>
<p>So there I was, sitting at a bar alone like a chump, drinking my beer and thinking about giving up all of this game bullshit.&nbsp; Behind me was an 8-top, nothing but college girls, giggling and laughing and drinking.&nbsp; I watched two gym-rat betas walk up to the table boldly (I was impressed) and immediately offer to buy shots. I laughed to myself, knowing it wouldn&rsquo;t work.</p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">"8 Chicks! Bro! That's like... 6 Chicks Each!"</p>
<p><em>The moment you buy them drinks you go from being a man to being an ATM</em>, I thought, watching them drop about $50 (I figure $5ish per shot, 8 girls, 2 guys = 10 people) on shots and take them with the table.&nbsp; They stayed with the girls and tried to flirt for a grand total of five minutes, during which they were ignored.&nbsp; It dawned on me that, lacking any real game, these guys decided to buy shots as a way into the table&rsquo;s social circle and then shot-gun the table, figuring they had each a 25% chance of taking a girl home.</p>
<p><em>Shotgunning the table wont work because, even if two girls&nbsp;</em>want<em>&nbsp;to break off from the group (which none of them do), the other 6 will cock block relentlessly.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>Naturally, the two guys got shut down and they walked away.&nbsp; A few minutes later, one of them came back and said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to try this again!&rdquo; (his actual opening line) and then proceeded to buy them all shots ($50&nbsp;<em>again</em>&nbsp;because he brought his buddy back to do a shot with him).&nbsp; The buddy left after the shot, and chump drink-buying beta literally worked his way around the table, hitting on each girl until finally settling for shamelessly macking the&nbsp;fat one.</p>
<p>Eventually he asked her to separate from the group and she declined saying, &ldquo;I have a boyfriend.&rdquo;</p>
<p>At this point another girl chimed in and said, I shit you not, &ldquo;Yeah, we all have boyfriends.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The women excused themselves from the table, having decided it was time to leave the bar after this awkward moment.&nbsp; As they walked out an (obvious) alpha, who was sitting at a table with another guy, grabbed the hottest girl (IMO) by the wrist as she walked by.&nbsp; They had hushed conversation for a grand total of half a minute, during which he escalated kino, before she finally&nbsp;<em>sat on his fucking lap</em>&nbsp;and gave him her number.</p>
<p>Boom.</p>
<p>She spent another five minutes sitting in his lap and flirting before her friends finally dragged her away.</p>
<p>You know what I realized watching that guy?</p>
<p><em>I knew all of the right steps.&nbsp; I knew every move to make.</em></p>
<p>My problem wasn&rsquo;t that I didn&rsquo;t know how to game girls.&nbsp; My problem, one I suspect a lot of you share, was that I would get rejected by a girl and instead of seeing rejection as a stepping stone, I reacted negatively and let it affect my mindset.&nbsp; I had a problem with my Inner Game.&nbsp; I didn&rsquo;t&nbsp;<strong>believe&nbsp;</strong>that I was an Alpha, so I didn&rsquo;t act the part and my game suffered.</p>
<p>The first&nbsp;<strong>Basic Game Principle &ndash;&nbsp;</strong>INNER GAME.</p>
<p>Until the next post on basics hits the blog in Januray, I want you to spend the next two weeks working on your&nbsp;<em>Inner Game</em>.&nbsp; Yes a lot of the stuff we discuss is a bit more advanced or in depth, but realize that if you understand what you&rsquo;re reading, then you can apply what you know.</p>
<h1>Goals</h1>
<p>Your goals for the next two (right? Two-ish) weeks are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open&nbsp;<em>at least</em>&nbsp;15 sets.</li>
<li>Get&nbsp;<em>at least</em>&nbsp;5 phone numbers.</li>
<li>Change your eating habits to be healthier (I&rsquo;ll be going paleo)</li>
<li>Begin working out every week (3x a week, if you need a number).</li>
</ol>
<p>Those are all perfectly reasonable, especially with New Years parties coming up.&nbsp; Post your results on the next Basics of The Game post.</p>