I’ve never heard this before. But Eric Weber wrote “How to Pick Up Girls”. If you’ve read Neil Strauss’ The Game – Style’s plan was to meet all the gurus, learn all of their skills, and then take over the world. So this was reading books, going to seminars and conventions, taking bootcamps, and finally participating in the adventure with Mystery. Eric Weber may have been his white whale. He didn’t meet him until after his journey.
They call him a nerd, but he Patrice O’Neal doesn’t agree with tone of the Eric. (but it’s from 1975 – pre AIDS, pre stalking laws, pre restraining orders – per Patrice O’Neal)
Eric says, as part of how to do a street pick up, “You’ve got to be cool”
Patrice says there’s this balance between confidence and humble. But the key game point that I want to mention happens around the ~14:00 minute mark.
Patrice – “She wants to be a ho..adventurous. [Ed. Edited for posterity] “Long as they feel like it’s not their fault, that they went home, went to the hotel… You have to make it feel like someone else”
So @ 15:59 Patrice goes out to the street with a microphone and attempts to run some of these Weber lines. The pick up is hilarious. (And stay on for Dane Cook’s take on it)
-Archie