After watching VH1’s The Pick-up Artist, I decided to go back and take a look at the Mystery Method seduction model which Mystery created in the early days of the seduction community. One of the main facets of the Mystery Method is the use of routines or canned material as a tool for attracting women. One of things that I have been moving away from, along with the rest of the seduction community, is the reliance on routine based game. Most pick-up artists are now using what is called natural game.
Natural game is supposed to be the opposite of routine based game because you are not using scripted or memorized material. However, I’m not sure that this is really the case. I’ve thought a lot about the pros and cons of each strategy and have come to the conclusion that the two really are not that different.
Lately, I’ve been praising my own efforts for using natural game but have noticed that even though I use my own stuff, they are still routines.
When I first started doing a ton of approaches last year, I was basically a fumbling mess with a few instances of witty genius. But, through my own trial and error process, I subconsciously kept those witty lines that worked and tossed out the things that didn’t work. So, as I progressed, I was able to refine my character based on the things that have worked well in the past.
Have you ever observed a natural or a very charismatic person? If you hang around these types of people long enough, you’ll begin to notice that they have certain patterns, certain phrases and certain stories that they say again and again. It’s not that these people purposely wrote out these stories to use in social context, they simply just figured out what works and what doesn’t through their own trial and error. They are not so much naturals as they are pick-up artists with their own routines.
So, what is the point of this whole thing? There is something to be learned and that is that as much as we think using routines is cheesy, it is still a necessary aspect of attraction. The difference is that the material should be your own, so that it is congruent with your own personality.
What are your thoughts on using routines?
