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What is The Game lifestyle? How did Neil Strauss learn about and get involved with this lifestyle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Game<\/em>, lifestyle is an important element of being a true PUA. The Game lifestyle isn’t just about picking up women, but it is about being a certain type of person who lives a glamorous life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Getting Too Deep in the Game<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By this point, Style was far beyond merely observing the community for his writing assignment\u2014he was a full-fledged member and a well-respected pickup artist (PUA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was enjoying his new powers\u2014especially after so many years of feeling completely inadequate around women. But the better Style got at the game, the more automatic his interactions with women became. Learning to seduce<\/em> women didn\u2019t teach Style how to connect<\/em> with them. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, Style got an unexpected visit from his college friend, Dustin, who had always been comfortable, confident, and successful at picking up women\u2014but now, Dustin informed Style that he was living in a yeshiva and abiding by a vow of celibacy. Dustin had recently realized that he\u2019d been basing his self-worth on his success with women<\/a>, so he turned to a life of God. Dustin had come to ask Style\u2019s forgiveness for glamorizing a corrupt womanizing The Game <\/em>lifestyle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Style didn\u2019t see Dustin\u2019s lifestyle or the seduction game in general as corrupt. Style argued that the game hadn\u2019t just helped him pickup women, but it also had made him a better person<\/strong>: He\u2019d begun exercising, improved his diet, become more confident, and learned how to interact with people<\/a> more effectively.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dustin didn\u2019t disagree, but he wasn\u2019t convinced. He simply said he\u2019d always be there if Style needed him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not long after, Style got a postcard from Dustin, dubbing him with the Hebrew name Tuvia. The postcard explained that the name meant that Style was driven to seek out good things in life, but sometimes got caught in bad things in the process<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style Shifts From Learning Game to Creating a Lifestyle<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With his article on the seduction community and his new assignment to interview Tom Cruise, Neil was reclaiming some of his old life\u2014but he was keeping one foot firmly planted in the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style Shifts His Focus to Inner Game<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Neil couldn\u2019t have gotten a better assignment: Tom Cruise was a model for the seduction community. He was effortlessly confident\u2014a quintessential AMOG<\/a>. In fact, most of the men in the community studied Cruise\u2019s characters to improve their body language<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the film Magnolia<\/em>, Cruise even played Frank T.J. Mackey, a seduction guru that Ross Jeffries<\/a> claims to have inspired. However, Cruise told Neil that his character was not inspired by anyone in particular; rather, Cruise and the director, Paul Thomas Anderson, had developed Mackey\u2019s character. (Shortform note: In the movie, Mackey instructs his seduction students to \u201crespect the cock\u201d and \u201ctame the cunt,\u201d while a banner that says \u201cSeduce and Destroy\u201d hangs behind him.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cruise lamented that a guru like the fictional Mackey could seduce men into thinking that seduction tactics are the best way to approach women and initiate relationships.<\/strong> To Neil, it felt reminiscent of how Dustin had warned him about the corruption of the seduction The Game <\/em>lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil stayed silent, but, internally, he pushed back against the attack on his community. Neil didn\u2019t see anything wrong with learning the game; how was learning the game of seduction any different from studying and practicing other skills, such as writing or driving a car?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, Neil was getting tired of regurgitating the same lines for every pickup. He wanted to be authentic<\/a> and he wanted that to be enough to attract women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Neil talked to Cruise, he found Cruise to be centered, grounded, and comfortable with who he was. Cruise also encouraged Neil to embrace himself. Cruise was inadvertently helping Neil gain the inner game\u2014confidence and self-worth\u2014that he\u2019d been missing.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Game Is About Lifestyle<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For Style\u2019s birthday, his friends in the community threw him a party at a Hollywood club. Between friends, PUAs, and former lovers, about 300 people showed up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style dominated the club all night. People were constantly pulling him aside to talk to him, and women were handing him their phone numbers\u2014and he hadn\u2019t recited a single line of game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style realized that he\u2019d been too myopic: He and the other sargers had been focusing on mastering the game simply to pick up women at clubs. But, the real purpose of the game was in creating a lifestyle that was interesting, exciting, and fulfilling. Men with that lifestyle exuded confidence and vibrancy that naturally attracted women.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style was ready to graduate from sarging<\/a> and build this The Game<\/em> lifestyle. He decided it was time for him and Mystery to create Project Hollywood<\/a>, the seduction headquarters Mystery had described when he came out of the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In the years after this book’s publication, Neil was treated for sex addiction<\/a>, among other mental and emotional conditions. While in rehab for this addiction, a doctor told him that his years in the seduction game had deeply ingrained his dysfunctional behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After receiving treatment, Neil got married in 2013 (not to Lisa) and had a son. In 2015, he published another book about his recovery from the seduction community, titled The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships<\/em>. He no longer leads seminars on seduction techniques, but rather on how to be happier<\/a> and more confident.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Game <\/em>lifestyle is about partying and glamour. By integrating himself into The Game<\/em> lifestyle, Neil Strauss believed he was making himself into a more interesting person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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