In this instance, yes. All the time? No. Very rarely.
I’ve no idea, but I find it doubtful.
You apparently do. Why?
Well, that just could be. Money is a quite well documented way of making this happen - so there’s reason to believe it.
Money. Why not just money?
I don’t want to hijack this thread, but I am one of the resident Defenders of PUA here.
The stuff I felt I got from PUA was mostly just good conversational and social advice, and it’s been useful to me for much more than just finding a girlfriend, or getting laid.
I don’t doubt that there are idiots in this scene, and certainly there are plenty that are full of shit. But for the most part it’s about guys trying to share advice on how to improve themselves. That’s not woo.
They could be made to sign confidentiality agreements. And their secret would be much smaller - how to do the teleportation. On the other hand with one actor their secret would be that the application process was a scam. What’s wrong with assuming that confidentiality agreements would work?
You keep on ignoring all of my other reasons… e.g. why call it a search for an assistant if in fact their role is a volunteer? etc etc.
“Do you think Ross Jeffries can’t genuinely attract gorgeous women”
You find it doubtful that he can genuinely attract gorgeous women?!
But money ($3,000-a-head seminars) came with the fame… also with his clients (promises clients: 'You don’t get laid, I don’t get paid) - do you think when he goes “sarging” with them that the girl is aware that Jeffries has a lot of money? If so why would the girl sleep with the student when Jeffries may be richer?
Why was there a movie character based on him that used similar techniques to him when you think it is just his money that is involved?
Why does he have lots of NLP/hypnotism books that sell well if he can’t “genuinely” attract the women? Surely people would be able to work out that the money is what Jeffries has and that his material allegedly doesn’t work at all…
This is about a geeky guy that transformed due to PUA advice - see the before and after photos:
I think Ross Jeffries is about the only one that relies a lot on techniques similar to hypnosis - I think NLP is a more accurate term.
You keep using those initials without any explanation (is everyone supposed to know what you do, or be ‘into’ everything you are?). I finally googled NLP, and discovered three different disciplines and psychological terms. My guess is you mean Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Soooooo… i spent some time reading up on it. It sounds wonderful. Too wonderful, it turns out. From the (relatively kind) Wikipedia page:
Only she was in on it. She’s the “forced card”.
Your ability to think isn’t very good.
Only if there’s a truly magical form of hypnotism like the one you gullibly believe in.
Enough already.
Books like that sell because people want them to work, not because they do.