The Art of Seduction

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I have spent more than 50,000 dollars in the pursuit of understanding psychology and sales and persuasion and Personal Development. This book is brilliant, well written, very informative, and lays out a very powerful truth that you can use. But, I don't want you to take my word for it. I'll prove it to you.A 1985 University of Michigan Study found that people make a decision within the first 5 seconds about whether or not they are interested. People file people in three forms. Yes, Maybe, Or No. In the form of seduction, when you're going to choose your victim, choose the woman who shows some interest in you, and/or who matches what you can give them. The goal of these techniques is to turn a yes into action, a maybe into a yes, and a no into a maybe. When you understand where you are with the person you're talking to, you can decide if the work you have to do to get the person is worth it.Approach Indirectly: This is a controversial one. If you go on PUAHATE or listen to Direct Gamers, they mock indirect game as stupid, saying that a woman knows that you're interested in them when you're approaching. People know that they're being sold to when someone randomly approaches them and starts talking about a topic. Now, what we know is that people can't resist what they can't detect. Keeping someone off balanced and uncertain creates just the amount of doubt needed for a woman to allow herself to be led through a process and hear a man out longer than she would. Go up and tell someone you want to change their mind about something and watch them shut down. Go up and tell someone you want to sell them something and watch them shut down. Indirect approaches create the best environment for seduction. I was into a direct approach for awhile, but, the more I studied influence and persuasion, the more I couldn't resist the studies that found approaching indirectly was the better form.Send Mixed Signals: This is a matter of Pushing and Pulling, Going Hot and Cold, having been on the opposite end of this, I know how it makes a person feel. There's ethical ways of doing this. Fractionating mood was proven in 1996 in a University of Missouri study, proving the ability to make people more charitable. A professor gave people paper's back for their finals, some people got A's, some got C's, then he went and looked at his book and said, he made a mistake, and randomly changed some people from A's to C's, and from C's to A's. When they left the room they were asked to volunteer. The people who didn't get a grade change signed up to volunteer for an hour on average. The people whose grades were raised volunteered 2.3 hours. the people whose grades were lowered volunteered 3.1 hours. Fractionating expectations, altering moods, through mixed signals will create a more pliable and reactive person.Appear To Be An Object Of Desire: Social Proofing is a scientifically verifiable method, with more studies than would be worth writing about.Create a Need: This is where people start talking about the immorality of this book. But really we can do simple things, back handed compliments, teasing, and correcting (calling someone out on their actions).Insinuation: From flirting to joking, indirect suggestion has been used as a powerful tool for orators since as far back as the bible, and used with great appeal in William Shakespeare's Ceasar.Enter Their Spirit: Let's be honest, the technique of being an Ideal Lover is important. Form a strong bond on the things that you connect with. Mirroring creates rapport and intense feelings of connection. People like people that are more like themselves. Jane marries James, Paul marries Paula, Carol marries Carl, yes, similarities create attraction.The science is clear. You want to dominate in a seductive world, you must throw away the concept of moral, or immoral, and you must seek instead to understand that we are all manipulators. Some of us just do it better than others. Once you accept that truth and you hold yourself as a person of value, you'll be able to move people to act as you want them to, without guilt, shame, or anger. Be reasonable, be kind, and you will get great results.

Greene's "The Art of Seduction" is a self-indulgent, marginally sadistic, and not-to-be-underestimated tome on the art of (sexual, social, & political) seduction. If you are expecting this book to be a trivial and inconsequential read - you are likely to be disappointed - as Greene thoroughly reviews all things seductive: the types of seducer (nine characters), the kinds of people most prone to seduction (18 characters), and, perhaps most importantly, the seductive process (24 maneuvers). This book, however, shouldn't be regarded as a seduction `how to' manual, but rather an illustration of successful seduction via the profiling of many of history's most successful seducers, e.g. Cleopatra, JFK, and Errol Flynn, among many others.Greene initiates his discussion of the nine types of seducers by asserting - encouragingly, no less - that everyone is capable of seduction - it isn't a mystical skill reserved for the genetically well-endowed - but more an effort to identify what is inherently seductive about one's character then developing that quality within oneself. At least one - and likely more than one - of the nine types of seducers will speak to something seductive about your character, whether it be a naturally exuberant sexual energy (Siren), infectious adoration of the opposite sex (Rake), idealistic view on love (Ideal Lover), androgynous image (Dandy), uncommon spontaneity and openness (Natural), cool self-sufficiency (Coquette), ability to socially please (Charmer), unusual confidence (Charismatic), or the ability to cloak oneself in heavenly mystery (Star). Greene presents each character in the context of a well-known historical or fictional figure(s), the characteristic behavior of the respective type of seducer, followed by any potential dangers associated with each type of seducer. If you do not identify with any of the foregone seducer-types, however, one should - at a minimum - root out (or minimize) the one trait that all other anti-seductive traits stem from: insecurity. Although there are key differences among each of the nine types of seducers, it is imperative that the character you adopt - and develop - not deviate from seduction first principles: tact, style, and attention to detail.The crux of the book is Greene's discussion of the 24 seductive maneuvers - too many to list and describe herein - albeit a couple warrant mention. First, "Choose the Right Victim", should be obvious since the `wrong' victim makes the entire seduction a pointless exercise. One should aim to identify victims "whom you can fill a void, who see in you something exotic." Another notable maneuver, "Master the Art of Insinuation", is a mechanism for preventing the victim from growing defensive - you drop elusive hints or ideas that, ideally, present themselves to the victim as their own ideas well-after they are insinuated. And most importantly, everything to be insinuated should be suggestive."The Art of Seduction" could, of course, be used to indulge and cultivate our basest and most unseemly of tendencies - and probably has - but in a throwback to Greene's other formidable work, "The 48 Laws of Power", this book affords one the knowledge and tools to seduce when necessary, that is, to exercise a power that comes from knowledge.

This book covers all about the skill of seduction so throughly and so elegantly. I enjoyed reading it page by page. Thank you Robert Greene.