[quote]batman730 wrote:
I brought this up in another thread tonight.
I honestly believe that genuine game in any area of life is just the happy byproduct of having reached a certain level of self actualization where you honestly know who you are and what you’re about and feel relatively secure in that. I’m not meaning to be trite or to suggest people don’t consciously try to develop life, relationship and interpersonal skills that don’t come naturally to them and simply be “themselves” however lame and ineffective that may be.
I just believe there’s a place of detachment (for lack of a better word) where you’re simply not overly emotionally invested in what other people do or think or what happens around you. This isn’t an over the top, in your face thing. You need people to like and approve of you if you hope to succeed and be happy. There’s just a place where your emotional well being is not tied up in whether this or that individual approves of (or has sex with) you. You take responsibility for yourself and your physical and emotional survival. You evaluate people (including yourself) and situations dispassionately according to your own values and instincts. You are aware of what you bring to the table, both strengths and weaknesses, and you are always actively looking to find ways to improve and bring more. Basically you own all your shit and leave others to own their’s or not.
You simply cannot fake this. You cannot read a book or go to a seminar and then just decide to do it. It takes time and discipline. A person who has had some success with this process will naturally begin to exhibit certain desirable traits and behaviours, some of which tend to be associated with game. They will be good under stress and at ease in unfamiliar or challenging situations. They will seem confident and attractive. They will be their own breed of cat, whatever that may be. These behaviours are, as I said, just a byproduct of this person’s internal way of being. If you find one of these people and try to mimic their traits and behaviours in some sort of a formulaic, paint by numbers system, you MAY become somewhat proficient with diligent practice and begin to reap some of the external rewards (i.e. getting laid).
However I think you will more likely come across as stilted and wooden and your game will likely fall apart when you’re under real stress. Worse, even if you do learn to act like you have game you will miss out on the real benefit of being a genuinely happy, effective internally motivated human being who isn’t jerked this way and that by every current of events or emotions that happen to swirl around them from moment to moment. Women will tend to find this guy attractive because he has real value. If you try to do this so women will be more attracted to you, you have completely missed the point.
TL:DR - Inner peace first, game will follow on it’s own.[/quote]
You are quickly becoming one of my very favorite posters, because every time I read something you’ve written I think “exactly.”
I want the emotional component of my relationships to be like I want the sex part to be: full-on and all in and uninhibited. I want to be able to come running when he calls without wondering if it lowers my perceived value. I don’t want to have to suppress myself and hide my face and be cool. What point has life if you can’t adore someone and be adored in return, despite knowing their shortcomings and having them know yours?
Real game, as described above, is how you “pull” someone worthy of that.
Edited for clarity.