// October 22nd, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Lifestyle
If you perform a Google search for Men’s Dating Advice you will get an abundance of results all with varying opinions and strategies for how to perform better with the opposite sex. But how do you know that the advice being given is any good, or even that it won’t make you even worse than you already are? The good news is I’ve sifted through the hundreds of blogs out there and presented you with the Top 3 Bloggers in the Dating Industry so you don’t have to.
The reason I’ve chosen these three guys is because I know the advice they give is good due to me attracting girls in similar ways to what they teach. So you can rest assured that what they teach is good. Without further ado…
Rob Judge – Date Hotter Girls
Rob Judge is a writer and dating instructor in New York City. Themes that resonate in both his teaching and writing are masculinity, genuineness, rational self-interest, and general awesomeness.
These days he splits his time between nerd activities like writing, reading, and jogging and awesome activities like aggressive dating, aggressive teaching, and aggressive aggressiveness.
On a rainy day, you can find him sipping coffee while writing dating articles or bizarre fiction in a Starbucks near you.
To examine what exactly that choice means, consider the last time you didn’t approach an attractive woman. What stopped you? Regardless of your reason or excuse, you don’t know anything for sure. Whether she looked busy, looked like she might have a boyfriend, or she just looked mean…or maybe you felt you didn’t look appropriate, knew the right line, or had enough “field experience.” Regardless, you’re only guessing. You’re living in fantasy.
Admit it: you cannot tell yourself with certainty that anything your fear made you believe is true or not. You’re not living your life in reality. You’re literally living a lie—and that lie will keep you in a lonely, isolated fantasy land until you die if you don’t realize it.
So realize it right now: you have a choice. That choice is whether you’re committed to truth, or imprisoned by the fantasies in your head.
By now, most red-blooded men would be chanting, “I’m going to live in reality, damn it!” without really knowing what that entails. Living in a reality means accepting the truth for what it is: you’ll get some girls, get rejected by others, and everything in between. More importantly, you’ll earn the private truth of every approach you make—whether it only last 2 seconds or an entire lifetime.
You’ll learn the truth about her, the truth about you, the truth about you and her together—or apart. A unique truth is waiting for you with every girl you approach, but you have to be man enough to accept it, to want it, to crave it. You have to “LOVE putting YOUR face in front of a super hot girl and not knowing how the chips may fall.”
You may fail. You may succeed. But you’ll get the truth, every time.
A selection of Rob’s best blog posts:
Adam Lyons – Attraction Explained
Voted least likely to ever get a girlfriend in school by his classmates aged 15. Adam Lyons decided to try his best to improve his love life be trying to become more attractive, and understand the psychology of why we get attracted to others. For 11 years he went by largely unsuccessful falling into a couple of relationships and spending most of the time completely perplexed by the opposite sex.
In the Summer of 2006 one of his best friends handed him a copy of a book called “the game” by Neil Strauss, with the words; “Read this book, you’ll take to it like a duck to water” Since then Adam has become known as one of the worlds leading authorities on attraction.
In short we learn the fear through a number of negative experiences and then reinforce them by not doing anything about it. The bodies natural reaction towards a fearful situation is the feeling we associate with approach anxiety or the fear of the approach. The way to overcome this is to reverse the learning.
All of the common problems detailed above can be directly related to either “magical thinking” in the form of a false belief that failure is almost certain due to some form of connection to a previous situation that failed. Or pure fear learnt and reinforced by not approaching. These are both forms of self fulfilled prophecy i.e. Unless you actively do something to fix it they will continue to support themselves. The good news is that this problem is far from unfixable.
The bad news is that it does take time. The easiest way to fix this is to actually go out and meet new people. The problem is that when you do this, any negative experience you receive is likely to reinforce the previous attitude or fear you had before. As I’ve mentioned before one of the easiest ways to get around this is to simply meet people for the sake of meeting people.
Most of us are actually more than happy to talk to other people, especially on boring long journeys, or when waiting in a long queue. Get used to talking to absolutely everybody, male or female, young and old. This should help you generate a great deal of positive responses to your approaches and help curb some of those negative connections.
A selection of Adam’s best video blogs
Bobby Rio – TSB Magazine
Bobby Rio is one of the founders of TSB Magazine. He tends to write about what is on his mind so you’ll find a mix of self development, social dynamics and dating articles/experiences on his website.
He went from being afraid of talking to women through trail and error to being able to approach and attract them naturally with ease.
I remember when I was first learning how to talk to women, I was deathly afraid of small talk. All of my mentors had warned me not to get stuck in boring small talk. So I steered clear of it.
Because of my reluctance to make small talk with women, I would instead, have long, intense deep conversations with them. Which almost always ended up with me in the friend zone.
I would create way too much rapport with women, and I would be completely afraid to break it. This continually lead to me wasting hours talking to a girl, without ever creating one drop of sexual desire.
After watching a bunch of my more ‘natural’ friends talk to women, I began to notice something that caught my attention. The friends of mine who were successful with women, were almost always using small talk to create attraction.
Except their small talk was anything but boring. It was fun, amusing, flirtatious, and exciting. And the women were eating it up.
Yes, these guys had mastered the art of small talk.
A selection of Bobby’s best blog posts