It's advice I've used myself and have given others, but I was just ponderingwhyit works.

Here's an example of what I mean:

You're at a bar, you see a cute girl, and you're a few drinks in. You're nervous on the inside, but you want to gather the courage to strike up a conversation. You remember the old adage "fake it till you make it". You think of the coolest persona you can imagine. Maybe James Bond, Hitch, anybody who, i your mind, would just walk over, smile, and introduce themselves to that girl. You take a sip, walk over faking confidence, and strike up a conversation. This happens to be the time it actually works. You guys have chemistry, have a good talk, and if you're lucky, go continue the night elsewhere.

You feel like an imposter at first. Did you somehow trick this woman by pretending to be someone you justknowyou aren't? But it worked, so you keep it up.

But the reason it works is, pretending or not, you can't just become someone else. You thought of those words to say. You walked over confidently with a smile. You led the conversation. You turned her on. It was all you. It was just a part of you that you didn't realize was there. You aren't really pretending to be someone you aren't, you're just allowing that side of yourself to finally flourish.

Anyway, that's enough verbal diarrhea for now. Thoughts? Anyone been there before? Do you think "fake it till you make it" is real, or just a bogus platitude?

A woman has already made up her mind on whether or not to sleep with you within 1 minute of meeting you. Just don't be autistic and you're good.

This is literally how sociopaths get laid so much more than usual. To them, they're literally talking to Skyrim NPCs and clicking through a dialogue tree to get what they want. Then they get a lifetime of practice pushing different buttons and figuring out what options work and which ones don't. For women, they just to pretend to be dominant and polish their act enough times that women start to buy it.

It takes years of workshopping different personalities and more than a little bit of a psychopathic attitude towards other people to pull all that off.

damn.

Boyo, there is NO fake-it-till-you-make for height or race, imagine a 5'4" Indian thinking he's gonna fake it till he makes it one day....


This reminds me of that experiment where rats would press a button and food or water would be made available to them, then the researchers adjusted the parameters so that sometimes food/water would appear and sometimes it didn't, and then they adjusted it so that food/water would never appear...

the rats went crazy.... It's the same type of mental breakdown that gambling addicts experience....


Imagine some poor 5'4" ****** actually believing that "faking" it will somehow convince women to let him clap them cheeks... boyo is just setting himself up for a mental breakdown...

It depends. If you fake a personality then you can become that person if you want

Faking your identity/job title/net worth, etc. might be a bit complicated if you want something longer than a few hours of fun

Yeah, I mean more of the personality part, not flat out lying about your accomplishments. I mean, I'm sure it can work, but only if your main goal is to be a short term fucboi.

That's the hardest part for a lot of guys. Can be normal when in a normal setting, but when trying to romantically initiate with someone they're attracted to, they get all nervous and lose frame. James Bond would never lose frame.

It's all about practice and getting over being overly nervous about rejection. For someone who starts out with a decent fear of rejection (most guys do when young brahs), simply getting reps in will help make ya care a lot less.

Then that oozes out of you as increased confidence, which is an attractive trait.

As a 5'9 man, I don't care.

I have empathy. What I don't have is patience for dudes who do nothing but complain. Nobody wants to hear that chit.

I discovered this when I was a kid actually. If I thought I was james bond, everyone around me thought I was cooler.

No I never wondered

Women want status

Tricking them is obviously the right path