 Personal Development and Pickup Artists
Has anyone else noticed similarities between Steve's stuff and the work of pickup artists / dating gurus? I think wanting to understand attraction and relationships is another cause of people becoming interested in personal development (albeit they have a slightly different goal).
(Note: Please don't bash the morality of pickup artists, that's not the point of this thread.)
While sharing tons of similar concepts, two I found interesting are:
1) Intention-Manifestation and the Reticular Activating System: Both groups understand the importance of focusing on the positive and ignoring the negative (except to learn from). Most pickup artists encourage you to have the belief that all women are into you. By having this belief, your brain starts to find evidence of it in your interactions - this is an example of the reticular activating system (Steve covers this in podcast #16).
2) Polyphasic Sleep: In the book "The Game", a NY Times bestseller by Neil Strauss, Neil talks about how he and a friend tried to become polyphasic sleepers (but eventually failed in the last stages). The moment I read that part, I was reminded of Steve's experience with polyphasic sleep.
Personally, I'm interested in both pickup and personal development - a situation I doubt many others are in (from the fact that there seems to be a disconnect between the two groups). I think it's interesting how two separate groups reached a lot of the same conclusions for different reasons.  |