Neil Strauss

Though some of NLP’s advocates (including certain magicians) make great claims as to its power to control others, the truth is that it’s much more effective for your own self-improvement. The books by Richard Bandler and John Grinder may be the bedrock of NLP, but Introducing NLP is the place to go for not just a primer on the concepts, but also enough in-depth knowledge to put the key ones...

In the book, psychology professor Cialdini examines the shortcuts that people use to make decisions, then distills the tactics of persuasion to six key psychological principles. And five of them (if not six sometimes) come into play in textbook game. Although it’s a book about MARKETING, understanding these make all the difference in making the leap from interest to attraction. Also...

The importance of reading books on evolution, like this diverse, engaging, and wide-ranging one, is that suddenly some of the attraction principles that seem counter-intuitive become logical and the techniques that are criticized become timeless truths of human nature. Most importantly, if the Game is played by understanding social rules, then it helps to know how, when, and why they were...

Too many of us have no idea what goes on inside our own heads. We don’t understand the childhood behavior patterns that solidified into our emotions, our passions, our frustrations, our needs, our thought patterns, and why we sometimes act the way we do. And even when we do understand these things, we often find it difficult to change them. One of the best books on this subject is Mastering...

This classic tome collects and analyzes some of history’s greatest seducers and seductions, and provides a great framework for understanding the types of seducers, seducees, and techniques used. Where The Game and pickup artistry tend to focus on walking up to strangers and creating attraction in the least amount of time, the Art of Seduction stretches the timeframe out and explores long-term,...

Despite what they may say, women do not actually look for confidence in a man. Confidence can easily be faked. What they look for is self-esteem. And, in fact, the journey many men are on is not just about finding women, but finding unshakeable self-esteem that derives from within (not from the opinions or responses of others)—and this is the book that basically defined the modern idea of...

That was supposed to be 30 minutes, but time has flown and it's 70 minutes in. I should have used Freedom. Thank you all, for the great questions. I hope you read the excerpt of the book, rather than reading my attempted explanations of what it's about. I believe that we are designed to learn best through story-telling, through metaphor, rather than through direct information and bulleted...

Thanks for the intro, Erik. I'll be here at 10 a.m. PST tomorrow (Thursday). Thanks to @eriktorenberg and @tferriss for turning me on to PH. I'm up for answering any questions on anything I've done or you are trying to do. If you really want to light me up, tell me where you are stuck and I will do my best to point you in the direction of unstuck. And if you want to be real cool, add a...