What Game Really Is
You probably have often heard this infamous phrase: “Man, that guy has game!”
What does that mean? How is it that one guy “Has game” and the next guys doesn’t? What does it really imply to even have game? What sort of a mystical power is this? What the f*ck is game anyway?
Let me strip it down to its basic components for ya!
We say a guy “Has game” when he is pretty good at attracting women to himself. The good old 80/20 rule applies here. 20% of men probably have game and the other 80% sort of fall into various categories of having little to no game.
Regardless of whether a guy learned to be good attracting women through the seduction community or just happened to be naturally good at it, he possesses certain ingredients.
In fact, to make it really simple: Let’s say this dude is a “Natural.” He’s never heard of the “Seduction Community” nor does he care about it. He is just good with women. He has game.
Well, here is what game really is broken down to 3 components:
***ATTITUDE***
(The balls factor)
This means having big balls, taking chances, and having some alpha-male characteristics. That means he is confident and has maybe an edge of cockiness even perhaps. It’s best summed up in the word Attitude. (Not attitude problem, but just an aura that the guy has high self-esteem.)
***SOCIAL CALIBRATION & SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE***
In the business, we call it “Calibration.” It’s Knowing what to say, and WHEN to say it! It’s Having an intuitive understanding of the type of women you’re talking to, and the circumstances you’re in.
Men who are players have some intuitive understanding of social dynamics. They know when to push and when to pull back a bit, they know are able to gauge their target demographic. It also means having a good nose for knowing when to go for the close because she is ready…..
I’ve met guys who have male-bimbos who were good at attracting certain type of women, only because they intuitively understood their target demographic (which happened to be other airhead females, but they’re good at working that target audience.)
*** Ability to Be INTERESTING and APPEALING on some level***
Whether it’s through humor, great storytelling, or intriguing conversations, the guy is able to create interest on some level. This includes guys who are not even very intelligent, but they’re still able to tell idiotic stories of their exploits that engage their target demographic. (Picture the drunken idiot fraternity boy here.)
Most naturals seem to be pretty good storytellers. Even if they grew up in a small town and had the plain small town American experience, they’re still are good at conveying it.
You have to be interesting as a person on some level and story telling is one of those ways. Whether you’re an intellectual or a stereotypical jock, you have to be able to convey that on some level.
That’s all Game is. When you hear someone say, “That guy has game,” he basically has some attitude/confidence, is interesting and is able to calibrate well because he has social intelligence.
That’s it!
The riddle is solved!
Guess we can all go home now and resume our normal lives. If it’s that simple, why is it difficult for some guys to get it? Or rather, why don’t some guys ever improve significantly?
That’s because each of the main 3 points can take time to develop and there are a lot of nuances to be learned within each of the aforementioned areas.
I shared this little insight with my buddy Jay, and he was very adamant about me mentioning that just because someone possesses these 3 qualities, does not mean they can go and pick up women everywhere and anywhere.
He has a point. I can see how the post would be misconstrued. This post is merely drawing an outline. It’s a bird’s eye view, a macro description of the entire process. It’s not an end-all, be-all solution, but rather a broad roadmap.
Guys who are good and do well consistently have learned what their demographic is and what environments they do best in. (I suppose this’d fall under calibration anyway. There will be an important future blog entry about target demographics, something nobody in the community is talking about.)
* Learning your environment:
Some guys are great at the bar/night club scene but don’t like approaching much during normal every day hours. Then there are guys who just hate bars/clubs and they don’t do well in bars and nightclubs. Yet, they’ve done consistently well for themselves despite not being bar people.
Others have learned to meet girls effectively working their social circle scene. Some had jobs or careers that were conducive to meeting women, doormen, bartenders, bouncers, DJs, club promoters and etc.
Some guys have learned to do really well meeting women online.
Despite where and how they meet women, these guys excel at these areas. This post is not about pickup artists. It’s about men who attract women on some level and do well for themselves.
This blog entry is designed to provide you with a [very general] roadmap of sorts to allow you to see where you need to make improvements. Maybe you want to date multiple women or maybe you want a good girlfriend whom you are attracted to physically and personality wise. Be honest with yourself and your sticking points.
Troubleshooting:
If you’re stuck and not getting decent results, you’re probably lacking in one of these areas.
* Lack of attitude/confidence
Ok, so you have learned some openers, some routines, and are able to get the conversation started but you lack balls. You are too caught up in what other people (including women) may think of you. You are held back by too much fear and hesitation. Or you could display needy and supplicating behavior, which are usual symptoms of a low self-image if you dig deep enough.
* Lack of Calibration
Maybe you don’t have that much fear or hesitation, but you just haven’t improved your social intelligence. Man, the seduction community is full of such guys. You say the wrong thing at the wrong time. You apply tactics when there is no need for tactics and you try to be alpha when there is no need to prove yourself.
You learn about negs and misapply them. You neg an archetype of woman when you should be complimenting her, and you compliment a type of woman whom you should be telling to fuck off. (Not in those exact words, however.)
* Not interesting or appealing
You are just not that interesting to be talk to. There is no appeal or lure to draw them to ya. This has nothing to do with physical attraction. It’s about personality. Maybe you have a great personality but you haven’t learn to convey that personality properly, or maybe you freeze up around women and then you can’t display your cool personality (which brings up the first issue: lack of attitude and overwhelmed by fear.)
Start working on the areas you need improvements on. At the end of the day, one thing is for sure: A guy who possesses the ingredients will do OK for himself. This isn’t about becoming a PUA, hitting on 5000 women a day, or bragging to your friends about your number-closes and other retarded community dogma.
It’s that the Man who:
1. Has Balls and confidence,
2. Possesses social intelligence and calibration,
3. and is Interesting as a person/human being
will attract his fair share of females. This is despite race, hair, color, ethnicity, height, flashy clothes, religion, and other superficial differences.
Next time you see some random guy in your town, neighborhood or social circles who seems to do well with women, take a closer look and you’ll see that he possesses the aforementioned components. Perhaps you may be at a house party and you notice one guy who seems to have the women attracted to him.
Others will say, “Dude, that guy has game…..” but won’t be able to express why or how.
Having read this post, You will know exactly why.
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Comment by Stephen Nash on 2 October 2008:
Love that Cam Teone. One of the few who walks the walk.
Comment by Acuity on 2 October 2008:
This post is gold, especially the part about lack of calibration. So many PUAs or PUA-wannabes are so uncalibrated in social situations, using the excuse of “I don’t give a fuck what others think” to justify acting like a social retard.
I’m not great by any stretch of the imagination, but sometimes I think that the whole “community” needs to take a breath of fresh air.
Comment by Rake Voltaire on 4 October 2008:
Good post. However you have left out the aspect of being being able to create sexual desire. Everything you have mentioned is true but those qualities will only create rapport and moderate short term influence. Rapport is important as all forms of persuasion are founded in the aura of rapport and connection. They will not create sexual attraction in and of themselves.
However the ability to arouse a woman’s sexuality seems to come from one of 2 vehicles. One is looks. Good looking males are always sought for sex by females whether they can tell a good story or not.
The other is communicating to the subconscious part of a woman’s mind using metaphors and indirect language, trancery, etc.
In his book The Art of Seduction, Robert Greene refers to a number of seducer archetypes. For the average pua seducer the Demonic Rake is worth pondering. The demonic rake can be incredibly ugly, yet seduce the most beautiful women through the use seduction language that captivates the emotions and accelerates a woman’s desire for sex. NLP, Conversational hypnosis, In10se’s Octoberman, Speed Seduction and JD Fuentes Sexual Key are powerful and valid resources for the serious and career seductionist.
RV
Comment by Brad on 7 October 2008:
I especially liked the part where you talked about the guy knowing his “demographics”.
Some guys have “game”… but it’s only in certain situations.
I’d call it their “bread and butter”, a specific type of woman that they know that they can ALWAYS have success with.
In other words, a guy might have “game” pulling 19 year old women… yet gets SLAUGHTERED by the 30 year old women… even though he’s 30+ himself.
In one instance, he’s the man… the other, he’s a douche… lol
Comment by Cameron Teone on 8 October 2008:
In response to creating sexual desire:
Being confident, having an attitude or an edge of cockiness does create sexual desire. It’s not the only way, but it is one way.
If I were going to write a more detailed article, I would have included “Exuding sexuality” under a subcategory. This is done through sub-communication and flirtatious behavior. My list hit 3 general key points and conveying sexuality would fall under “Attitude.” Having an aura of confidence does wonders in creating attraction and growing some balls does wonders in conveying sexuality.
Being a sexual being, and conveying sexuality is certainly important. Real life Example: (In the proper context), physically picking up a woman and lifting her into the air sub-communicates far higher levels of sexuality in 10 seconds than does an inordinate amount of time spent trying to lay NLP patterns.
Certainly, every man is free for himself to study what he wants, whether it’s NLP, conversational hypnosis, and so forth. Part of my goal as a teacher is to simplify the steps for my clients and save them from having to spend years studying such things that they don’t really need. Robert Green’s “Art of seduction” is an interesting read and probably cool if you have nothing better to do in your life. It’s not something I’d recommend to my clients to improve their skills with women. Again, it’s my intention to help men avoid confusion and delving into oblivion from reading such works.
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To Brad:
You’re correct and in that a lot of guys have tailored an approach to hit certain demographic.
The topic of “Demographic” is an important one and I have written an article entirely on that topic. I’ll be posting it soon enough.
Cameron
Comment by How To Get A Girlfriend on 20 May 2009:
Actually, I have to disagree with you here.
It seems like it’s more 95/5 instead of 80/20.
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