Archive for May, 2007

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

How your internal state affects your social success

Your internal state plays a much bigger role in your social success and specifically in your success with the opposite sex. For men this can be very, very problematic. Let me give an example. When you are not feeling good, maybe depressed, maybe lonely or frustrated…you can still drive your car. You get in, start [...]

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Laughing sessions as a meditation from Rasada

Tonight I attended my first ever laughing meditation run by my friend Rasada Goldblatt. The laughing meditation is a interesting and unusual way to to reconnect to self. While we did different laughing exercises I realised the moment I start thinking something in my past or something in my future – I would not laughing [...]

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Neil Strauss interviewed on The View

Neil Strauss is a Los Angeles-based author and journalist who writes for The New York Times and Rolling Stone, where he is a contributing editor. He is well-known for his best-selling book The Game. Here’s an excellent interview with him on a American day time talk show The View from back in 2005. Very interesting [...]

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Dating Lessons from Borat

You may or may not have seen this clip before. Borat has certainly entered the mainstream with the hit movie from 2006. Borat in his usual casual style introduces the topic and explains in a bewildered manner how American women will not get married unless you date them first. Apparently where comes from, in Kazakhstan, [...]

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Mystery interview on Conan O'Brien

Mystery aka Erik Von Markovik, is a pioneer of the seduction community, and a main character in the non-fiction book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, by Neil Strauss. Mystery has been a prolific contributor to the online forums and published several books mostly in ebook format. After the release of Neil [...]

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Tony Robbins interview on Larry King Live

A great interview with Anthony Robbins on Larry King Live from December 2006. They discussed why new year resolutions often don’t work out. And went into depth about some basics around human motivation and effecting change in your life. I really like how Tony links his theories on change back to physiological and biological changes. [...]

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Really bad Powerpoint is worse with really bad Speaking

I am by no means an expert public speaker but I am on my way to becoming one. Why do I say make this statement that sounds slightly arrogant? In fact it’s not arrogant at all it is me brimming with self-confidence because I know that I am learning and practising the basics. The fundamentals [...]

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

How to get a women's phone number in 2 minutes

On Tuesday I went to the traffic department to pick-up my new drivers license. As fellow South Africans will know – this is a nightmare. The whole system is so messed up because of computer glitches and government bureaucracies and bungling…’nuff said.
Anyway while waiting in the queue I see this woman reading a Danielle Steel [...]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Leykis 101 – No Means No!

Now this is a Leykis rule which I think everybody can 100% agree with. It’s important to keep in mind that this rule is especially important with the rise of violent crimes against women. Many men are not able to express themselves and have a warped sense of reality i.e. they want to believe in [...]

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Interracial dating advice from Asian Playboy

Many people think I am Asian and in many cases I just go with it. Discussing racial issues in South Africa often leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because I grew up toward the end of Apartheid. So I saw the end of a great evil and growing up in a very isolated community [...]