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Mystery Method: Indicators of Interest…and how to have “Swagger” (Part 1)


2010
05.04

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One of the critical junctures of Mystery Method is realizing when you’re getting interest…and when you’re not! (So you can either do more of what’s working or change things up to get a different result!)

What is it that gives one person swagger while the another person languishes?

After all nothing is sexier than swagger.

Just like nothing is ickier and less sexy than neediness and lameness.

Mystery, aka Erik von Markovic, hopeless nerd, started out in the second and third catagories.

But he ended up squarely in the world of “swagger” like many of his students, like Neil Strauss, author of the New York times best seller “the Game.”

Here’s the rundown:

I remember talking to Neil Strauss at a little get together that Eben Pagan (Aka David DeAngelo from Double Your Dating) had a few years back in San Deigo – and I made a false presumption with Neil.

I said that he was clearly driven by XYZ (I won’t say what XYZ is at this juncture…maybe sometime later though).

The fact is I was dead wrong, and Neil told me so.

He said “I just want to get laid.”

His eyes were lighted up, but totally sincere and serious.

The plain fact is that’s what he really cares abut and, as he went off with a lovely girl that he met recently online on his arm, I totally “got” what he was up to…

Now Neil most certainly has swagger.

So does Erik.

I’ll outline what’s going on with that and what it has to do with their success in field and how it is that they can help ordinary folks who are just looking to have just a tiny fraction of the success that these two pick-up artists have when it comes to attracting women in nearly any situation in my next blog post…

…But I want to give a sneak preview now because what it boils down to is being able to read the sign of the times.

I’ll leave you with this:

A cop pulls over 5 old ladies put putting down the highway at 23 miles per hour down the highway. As he swaggers up to the vehicle he can see that the four passengers are white faced with fear…

Says to the driver: “Dangerous, driving that slow.”

Driver says, politely: “Oh no dearie, I was going the EXACT speed limit…23. Just like the sign there says!”

The cop chuckles and says: “Oh no, that’s the road name. Route 23. Ok, you can go…”

But then the cop stops and says “One more thing though, your passengers, why are they all so terrified?”

The driver says “Oh it’s ok we just got off of the 119″

It’s all happening,

Mike Long

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The Mystery Method and Neil Strauss


2010
04.10

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Area51Lifestyle and Mike Long decided to investigate the Mystery Method years ago and have been publishing our findings on www.theMysteryMethod.net. I first met Erik Von Markovic aka Mystery, inventor of the Mystery Method, in Los Angeles in the summer of 2004. But we were re-introduced by Neil Strauss, author of the New York Times best seller “the Game.”

(To get a free 34-page video book by Mystery and me, Mike Long click here.)

Here’s the scoop:

Neil Strauss was actually a student of the Mystery Method and I had become friends when I advised him and his business partners during their “Annihilation Method” launch (The name Annihilation Method is actually pulled from “Annihilation Engine” the name of my still upcoming book.)

Frank Kern suggested that we get together with Mystery to see if we could put together a special project. I agreed and though Kern later backed out, Mystery and I ended up proceeding. Since that time Area51Lifestyle has helped thousands of students succeed.

At the time there was very little when it came to Mystery Method Youtube, or really any videos. We began filming in earnest.

Here’s a video that Mystery and me put together with another of his students, Matador:

This video is part 1 of a 2-part series on something that Mystery likes to call “debriefing” where he goes into a sort of analytical mode looking at everything in a “meeting girls” situation from what kind of Mystery Method openers he might have used, or other types of openers, all the way to whether he crashed and burned and why to whether and why he succeeded that night.

Around that time I got the opportunity to go out with Mystery and Neil quite a number of times and I noticed a lot of differences when it came to their “game” but also a lot of similarities.

Neil turned out to be often much more focused than Mystery, though Mystery obviously garnered more attention.

We met up at the Roosevelt hotel one night and hung out poolside. Neil kept constant focus on the girls we met and situations that were popping up.

Mystery sort of zoned out for much of the evening but then still came back into sharp focus when a couple of French girls ended up following us over to the Roosevelt’s diner.

I’ll get to more of the details of this story as well as part 2 of the video above in my next post – including why Neil told me to “go find Jdog”.

It’s all happening,

Mike Long

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Mystery Method Pick-up Analysis (Hidden Camera Video With Mystery Commenting.)


2010
04.05

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Hey there,

Area51Lifestyle.com is the authority on Mystery Method and pick up training, with a library of video training. (Click here for a 34-page video book by Mystery and me on how to pick up.

One of the hallmarks of Mystery Method is the idea of analyzing in field pick up.

Let me explain…

Before Mystery began researching, practicing and instructing others on becoming a pick up artist, most of the training on the subject was theory.

Guys like Ross Jeffries and folks who taught about how to pick up were using Neuro Linguistic Programming and pioneering a lot of the same techniques.

And even after Mystery, guys like David DeAngelo (Eben Pagan) and Neil Strauss, Mystery’s student, would do the same.

But something really special about Mystery Method that was new was Mystery’s focus on field testing.

Here’s the scoop:

When Mystery and I were first starting to work together we had a dinner with Neil Strauss where a guy named Cliff from Cliff’s List also attended.

Cliff told me that in the early days of pick up training nobody was talking about actual field testing.

In fact Cliff told me that Mystery would issue challenges to other guys on the pick up forums like fastseduction to come out with him and prove that their theories actually worked.

Cliff said that he was one of the first people to take up the gauntlet that Mystery threw down and actually go in field with.

He said that almost invariably when folks would go out with Mystery that the result was the same, that they would see Mystery’s ideas worked in application, and not just in theory.

That was one of the reasons that Mystery and I put together training based not just on great ideas, but also on actual hidden camera video of Mystery going in field and doing cold approach pick up.

The result is a sort of accelerated training, almost like the way the Neo learned skills by directly jacking his his mind into a special training machine.

Here’s a video that Mystery and I recorded together where he analyzes a hidden camera video clip of him in field, and explains exactly what he was doing and why:

The thing that’s so valuable about this kind of training is because learning happens in application both physically and visually.

In fact it turns out that NFL players who are paid millions of dollars per year are instructed by their coaches, who are also paid millions each year, to spend as much as 50% or more of their practice time watching video of themselves and of their opponents!

That’s because watching actual video is one of the best ways for the human mind to assimilate new information and put it into practice.

Because of that we assembled a massive library of training videos, not just interviews but also step-by-step demonstration videos and hours of hidden camera video with Mystery, and with many of our students.

Area51Lifestyle has taught hundreds of thousands of guys key lessons on pick up and offers a free 34-page video book by Mystery and me.

It’s all happening,

Mike Long