Before someone finally figured out that one could sell eBooks on the Internet, being a PUA was really a rather underground thing. It was like Japanese tentacle porn on the Usenet. Limited exposure to a few obscure discussion boards and websites (like for example fastseduction.com), but a very dedicated and passionate following that constantly worked on introducing new angles and methods to the collective toolkit.
Now this book is 11 years old, but I decided to pick it up anyway and it’s one of the best books I’ve read for a long time.
Internet procrastination became a real problem, to me and probably to many other people spending a lot of time in front of a computer. Dozens of online news site, social networks, and social news sites (not forget about email) are very popular and at the same time can be very addictive. I’m not a person [...]
I’m a strong atheist and scientist and therefore I am totally suspicious of anything which looks or sounds like religion or “spiritual fluff”. In that regard, it’s a wonder I even touched a book with a subtitle such as “A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire”. But anyway, being [...]
History has known many famous teams. Be it Pierre and Marie Curie who changed physics almost 100 years ago, a bunch of daredevil friends who shared cigarettes in the trenches of the great wars of the last century (while maybe later going together to Norway to blow up Nazi bunkers), the A-Team who helped those in need of help while being chased by the military police, up to present day football teams like the FC Barcelona, gangs of corporate lawyer vultures and adventurers like Team Zissou from “The Life Aquatic”, which I will use as an example throughout this article.
Social intelligence is a concept with political connotations. A concept which may appear to redefine or downplay the importance of intelligence in the traditional sense. I do not agree with this kind of feelgood thinking about the hard realities of life. Having said that, intelligence is but one of the requirements for society to function [...]
Everybody knows a little bit about body language .. knowledge such as “70% of all communication is non-verbal” or “avoiding eye contact is a sign of weakness“. However, I felt like I wanted to know more about body language; I wanted to learn how to make a good impression on other people and how to [...]
