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A reader writes in with the following question:
"Hi Chase,
You are one of the best writers on the web about this topic. I am mainly sending this to thank you, and [because] I have something else to also ask, I will get right down to it. You obviously live a type of life that is not the typical 9-5. Society frowns upon it, but you seem to be embrace it. I would also love to do what you do, but I have this fear that I will fail. There is also all the pressure from family and friends to follow a traditional path.
So, Chase, please tell me: How do manage to stay unorthodox and happy?
Your student for life,
It's a good question. I know plenty of people on both the "orthodox" and the "unorthodox" side of things who claim to be "happy", yet whose actions and behaviors betray a deep lack of satisfaction with their lives.
I think most people are lost, and looking, or have given up looking, and meanwhile resent the pressures that others put upon them - whether they kowtow to those pressures, or they struggle against them.
And the people putting those pressures upon them are just as lost and unsatisfied as those they press down on.
This cycle of confusion and dissatisfaction seems to be an inherent quality of human life, and has been down through the ages. One of the things I set out to do a long while ago, though, and seduction was something that fell under the umbrella of this, was not have to worry about this like other people did.
When we are children, we don't trouble ourselves with the search for happiness or the search for a path, because it is always within our grasps. If we can just find the time to play with that new toy, or watch our favorite movie again, or go running in the woods, or swimming in the pond, or roughhousing with our friends, we'll feel satisfied and at peace.
As we come into our teenage years and the winds of change whoosh in, suddenly we begin to compete: for sex, for status, for recognition, for acceptance. When we grow older, the field of competition broadens: wealth, career, achievements.
We lose ourselves in the pursuit of these things that are supposed to give us meaning, but never are able to completely find it. Others from outside of ourselves put their beliefs on us; what we should do, how we should live our lives.
Usually they do so in our best interests; they really do just want to see us happy and successful.
Sometimes they do so because they need to convince themselves they're on the right path; if they can only make more people believe, then perhaps the doubt they feel inside will recede.
Somewhere in all of this, we begin to long for a way to get back that youthful contentedness we felt much of the time as children, and that left us forever at sexual maturation.
This "searching for a path" leads people to bury themselves in their careers or businesses, to obsess over their families, or to become devout religious devotees.
But still, for the majority, satisfaction with their lives remains fleeting.
Accepting "Separateness" and the Need to Belong
Because I grew up without friends, and identifying myself as a rebel not just against society, but against everybody, I've long viewed myself as someone who stood somewhat apart. Yet, I also recognized that I needed people, and a large part of me yearned for acceptance from "society" too. In my teenage years, I was constantly doing things that made people react in awe of me in public, while in private I remained desperate and alone.
Eventually I realized that this "aloneness" was not unique to me, but that everyone felt it, and I also realized that a lot of the appeal I had and the reason I was able to magnetize the people around me - even the ones who were themselves magnetic - was because I was, in some ways, the embodiment of embracing that aloneness, conquering it, and succeeding in spite of it.
There was a lot of power in that realization for me. I began to see
that I could appeal to and speak to the heart of almost anyone
I spent any time with, because I saw their aloneness in ways that other
people did not; we all put up a façade of being happy, of belonging
perfectly to a group, of knowing what it is we want, but nobody really belongs to anything, and even the most fanatic
believers are more often than not simply trying to convince themselves
more than anybody else.
I could meet the most amazing people, and be impressed by their successes but not intimidated by them, because behind it I saw that same separateness and aloneness and yearning for acceptance and recognition and belonging that every other human being is born with. It's often hidden under wraps and layers of confidence and success and beauty and power, but it's always there, gnawing away at the core, hoping that no one will notice it while at the same time hoping that someone will.
Once I realized this, I realized it was something that I simply needed to make my peace with, not fight against or look for a way around. You will always be apart. And you will always want to have the acceptance of those around you, and will always want more of that acceptance... unless you give up the quest for acceptance, and become bitter, but in my mind that's a much worse way to live.
Life is a struggle to belong that is never fully achieved by anyone.
Knocking Maslow Out of the Park
I always felt like the conventional path of sitting in an office grinding away in front of a computer screen was not for me. I've long had a more creative bent, but I didn't have any specific arts I excelled in. And, because I was so sensitive as a youth and, as a reaction to what I perceived as weakness, rebelled against that sensitivity, adopting a "tough guy" persona, I've always been loathe to consider myself an "artist", which to me sounds like sensitivity, weakness, and emotionalism wrapped up into one... horrifying. It wasn't how I've ever wanted to be seen.
I was an "artist" without an art; a rebel against society, and one without a cause. I was just rebelling and pushing away for the sake of not becoming another drone; I greatly feared disappearing into the obscurity of the usual and mundane.
But to stand apart as a human being that longs for acceptance means you're fighting the tide, and you can't win fighting the tide... eventually you get pulled out to sea and drown. The secret is to swim across the tide, instead of with it or against it.
In "The Purpose of Life from a Practical Point of View", I talked about recognizing that your biological imperatives will take command of you whether you want them to or not, if you try to ignore them. Your deep, old motivations will subvert your higher, grander purposes if you don't tend to them first, and they will sabotage your nobler endeavors at every turn.
Thus, in approaching my life, I've approached it from the standpoint of "take care of Maslow."
What is it your subconscious needs to feel safe and secure, so that it stays in restful slumber instead of trying to seize control of your life from your conscious mind? Every time you have some great goal or ambition that you then talk yourself out of, that's your subconscious mind influencing your conscious thoughts and steering it another way.
For me, I identified several key needs:
Comfort: not freezing, or boiling, or feeling underfed
Women: having absolute abundance and knowing not just that I could get sex whenever I wanted it, but that I could secure top-caliber girlfriend-quality girls and get a girlfriend who checked off all my ideals more or less whenever I wanted this; also reproduction, and knowing that I had successful children of sound background and breeding
Safety: having the knowledge that I could disable attackers and win in a fight in almost any reasonable situation; also knowing how to talk my way out or at least intimidate my way out of most tense situations without having to risk injury or death in combat
Wealth: having the financial resources to do anything I wanted or needed to do, and to help those I care about to do anything they want or need to do
Contribution: feeling like I'd affected the lives of as many people as possible in as strongly positive a way as possible; that I'd improved people's mindsets, their confidence in their abilities to bring whatever they want into their lives, and the general efficiency and effectiveness of the world in building and growing and achieving
Comfort's easy, at least in any developed country.
Women I have handled, and while this was once the most pressing concern of my life, now that it's handled I no longer worry about it.
Safety I need work on - I feel confident enough that I'm at least not going to die in most fights, but I still feel somewhat intimidated when I'm being challenged by sufficiently taller, more muscular men, and I still feel intimidated around people brandishing weapons at me, which means I'm not quite there yet and I'm lacking in sufficient combat training / experience. However, I'm infrequently in these dangerous situations, so this isn't a very pressing need just yet (though it still IS important - it's one of those things that isn't important until you need it, and then it's the MOST important thing in the world), and others take precedence over it.
Wealth is the biggest one for me now - I spend the largest amount of
my time studying business creation, wealth development, marketing,
development, and the like, and trying to figure out why X thing I'm
doing isn't working, or why Y thing I'm doing suddenly mysteriously is.
A large chunk of my close friends nowadays are self-made
multimillionaires, and when I'm looking for friends these days the
question is, "Is this person successful at business, and someone I can
take lessons away from in that arena and take as a source of
inspiration?" I'm not where I want to be, but I'm chipping away at it,
I'm pretty dogged, and
I'll keep at it until the nut is cracked or I grow old and die.
Contribution I feel like I'm doing okay with - more people than I can count or keep track of at this point have reached out to me in some way or another to let me know that this site has changed their lives. There's still a lot more I can do here though as well - this site reaches fewer than a million people a month, and there are a lot more ways to impact people than mindset changes and enhancements in their dating and social lives (although these may be among the most meaningful changes to people, at least on a personal level).
You can boil ANYONE'S objectives down to SOMETHING in Maslow's hierarchy. Most people are ACTUALLY in search of some manner of the "ESTEEM" level of Maslow's pyramid:
Most women trying to look pretty and net high caliber men are chasing esteem
Most men trying to get rich and look powerful are chasing esteem
Most people talking about how they don't care what anyone thinks are chasing esteem
Most people acting defiant and rebellious and talking about how THEIR groups of outsiders don't need "the system" and are superior to it are chasing esteem
I don't think it's possible to truly separate oneself from this need to chase esteem in one form or another. Everyone needs to be respected for what he is... without this, we wilt.
For me, I view "finding your path" as really more an identification of what your most pressing needs are on the hierarchy... and then, systematically addressing them to as full satisfaction as you possibly can.
The above detailing of addressing Maslow's hierarchy and the making of peace with the need to always be chasing acceptance is necessary for understanding how you can lead an unorthodox life without snapping under the pressure of it.
Before we talk about that though, I think it's worth paying homage to the Everyman.
Praise for the Everyman
Most men are going to follow the beaten path.
They're going to do the things that have been laid out before them for society. If you grow up in the Western world, that probably means high school, that probably means college, and that probably means some kind of a corporate job after. Entrepreneurship and freelance work are becoming more common; we might actually be shifting toward a society where these become predominant forms of employment somewhere down the road again, just like they have been for most of human history (you used to just own your own smithy, or butcher shop, or carpenter shop, or farm, rather than work for a megacorporation), but for now working for someone else's conglomerate is the norm.
Most men date various women and play the field until somewhere between 25 and 45, and then they settle down and have one or two or three or four children.
They buy a house, and a nice car.
They may have an affair or two, or maybe they stay loyal the entire
Maybe they get divorced; maybe they stay together until death do them part.
They grow old, they retire, they smile at their grandchildren running around and feel hopeful for the next generation, and then they die.
There's nothing wrong with any of this, and plenty right with much of it.
And it's worth noting that even if you're OFF the beaten path, you're STILL going to do most of this stuff. It simply is more or less well oriented with what people inherently want to do, and are inclined to do.
Civilization itself is built on the shoulders of Everymen. It's the Inventors and the Innovators and the Entrepreneurs and the Visionaries who blaze the trail and build the megacorporations the Everymen work for and support and keep oiled and running; but it's those Everymen who do the maintenance and keep the lights on and stop the machine from breaking.
Without the Everyman - same as without the Inventors and the Innovators and the Entrepreneurs and the Visionaries - society as we know it ceases to exist, and grinds to a halt.
While he may not have as prominent a profile as the (generally rarer and more risk-oriented) men in those other groups, his role is every bit as necessary - or perhaps even more so.
Without Inventors and the Innovators and the Entrepreneurs and the Visionaries, society could still chug on in stasis, if not in growth, on the work of Everymen alone.
Without the Everyman, though, Inventors would have no one to use or manufacture their inventions; Innovators would have no one to innovate for; Entrepreneurs would have nobody to buy their products or work in their factories; and Visionaries would have no masses to rally and no souls to uplift.
The Everyman following the beaten path is the glue that makes it all stick together - so here's some praise for the Everyman.
Leaving the Usual Path
Embarking on a journey off the beaten path is difficult, and far fewer undertake it simply because of that difficulty.
Most who do try it eventually re-converge with the beaten path, either as semi-successful individuals being brought back into the fold at a higher status position than they'd left at, or as those who'd tried and failed and now will go back and pick things up more or less where they left them off.
A select few get off the beaten path and stay off the beaten path, and these are generally either the individuals who find success and feel at home forging their own paths, or the individuals who simply are incapable of following the usual path in the first place.
The first group consists of those who find their callings doing something creative or different because they like it or have stumbled into it, and the second group consists of those who find their callings doing something creative or different because they have no choice - they can't cut it in the world of the Everyman.
I'm in the first group - I fit just fine in the 9-to-5 world, and though it never felt quite perfect to me, and I never quite felt like I was living up to my potential, I could've stayed there and made it work well enough and done okay for myself and still led an all right life... if still one that always would've left me wondering, "What if?"
Among my friends from the first group and the second group, I notice that my first group friends have a much higher likelihood of returning to the conventional path at some point, but also a higher likelihood of making it big business-wise via the unconventional path. My second group friends don't ever go conventional, usually, and tend not to be so financially successful, but they usually lead more outrageous lifestyles with a higher number of crazy adventures and much higher lay counts, if not necessarily always the same caliber of women as my first group friends.
Where Societal Pressure Comes From
Most people think that others put pressure on you to do this or to do that when you start diverging from the norm because they're pushing their own insecurities onto you and/or they can't handle the cognitive dissonance that results from the challenge to their beliefs.
But that's not always it.
Most people start pressuring you either because:
They have some vested interest in seeing you succeed, and they think that you doing what they're telling you to do is your best shot at success, or
They like giving advice, see themselves as wiser / more insightful / more knowledgeable than you, and genuinely think they can help steer you "toward the light" if you'll only just listen to them
Unless he's a salesman or a con artist, nobody pressures you because he's trying to get something from you for himself... he does it because he thinks he's going to make your life better if you listen to him.
You can sometimes have the people who desperately want and need you
to agree with and conform to what they believe, because their beliefs
are unstable and they have doubt in them and some part of them thinks
you might be right, but these people usually won't persist at trying to
change your mind - usually they'll come by, unload a diatribe or two at
you, and then get out, feeling better for having "pointed out the flaws
in your reasoning."
That's the first thing to understand: all the pressure you get from people who are fixtures in your life usually comes with the best of intentions (as stifled as it can make you feel).
The second thing to understand is this: people who are pressuring you are trying to fulfill THEIR Maslow's hierarchies.
Parents will always pressure you to take a more conservative path than you probably want to take yourself. That's because while you've invested a lot of time in turning yourself into whomever you now are, your parents have invested even MORE in you - not only have they devoted their time to raising you and training you (and you don't remember all that time they spent wiping your behind or dealing with your temper tantrums when you were a toddler, or your emotional outbursts or moody door slamming and sulking when you were a teen), but they've also invested probably a great deal of their income to raising you, and most likely have held the jobs they've held in large part just to give you the opportunity they've given you.
So when you want to run off and do something crazy that they don't understand... panic can set in. Holy shenanigans, what is my son DOING?! I've just spend the past 22 years feeding him, raising him, protecting him, and sheltering him, and now he's going to run out and throw his life away on THAT???!
The fewer siblings you have, the more extreme the effect; if you're coming from a 10-person family, you probably haven't dealt with a whole heck of a lot of familial pressure, unless perhaps if you're the firstborn; but if you're an only child, you're likely dealing with mountains of it... because it's not like they can just replace you if you check out of life, get yourself killed, or receive a failing grade.
To you, it feels like your life is your life, and that's it, but to your folks, it feels like everything they've been working for for their entire lives is now riding on you.
Understandably, that can make them a little stressed out if they don't understand what you're doing or why you're doing it. If they're in their 50s or 60s or older, they can't exactly just go out and redo the whole "raising my successor" thing.
That's it. They've got you. You're their one shot... you're all they've got.
Depending on the kind of society you live in, you can also get this
pressure from other family members, or from society at large. Even in
very independent cultures, there's still pressure to conform to one
norm or another - e.g., even in America, "land of the free", a business
like Girls Chase is still relatively taboo. I'm not going to tell
someone I've just met I run a dating advice company. In fact, there are
plenty of people I've known for years who have no idea what I do...
some of the closest people to me have no idea what I do. Call me Don
Amante - I never tell, and they soon learn after entering my life not
to ask. Life is far less dramatic for all of us this way.
Easing Into the Unorthodox
If you're the type who doesn't work well in the orthodoxy at all, you don't need my advice on breaking out of it... you've probably lived outside of it your entire life.
If you're more somewhere in the borderlands like I am, though, and getting out of the orthodoxy wasn't always a guarantee, you'll usually do a little bit better easing into it than not.
I've always been a pretty fear-based person. I spent much of the first half of my life not talking to people out of fear of social rejection, after all... no friends. No dates.
My life since has largely been defined by what fears I was focused on tackling and overcoming, but always in measurable doses. The times I've had immense pressure that I wasn't ready for placed upon my shoulders almost broke me - they left me far stronger once I'd recovered, and while probably it's worth having a few "almost broke you" situations at one point or another in life, simply due to the damage they do to momentum and the long recovery time they usually require you don't want to be constantly living in a place where you're seesawing between almost being broken and then spending time in recovery. A few of these instances build enough mental toughness to last a lifetime.
So, I'd recommend you ease your way slowly into the unorthodox, in measurable doses.
My first real business was this one - I started doing some coaching in 2007, and launched Girls Chase as a website in 2008. I dabbled in doing private coaching on my own for a few years before I ever left the corporate world, and I did some work for one of the other prominent pickup companies at the time.
I also had more experienced business partners in many different ventures at different stages - we really started coaching in earnest at GC because another coach in the industry (now a friend) approached me about a joint venture in 2009; subsequent businesses I was in were with cofounders who'd had experience with 6- and 7-figure startups. I felt pretty unconfident about doing business without more experienced partners, until I reached enough experience under my belt that I realized all my more "experienced" partners actually had much poorer business acumen than I did.
Likewise with traveling the world. I started traveling in small doses - a few international trips for a week or two every year - years before I decided to make the plunge of pulling up stakes and moving overseas. And when I finally did make that plunge, I had rafts of invitations from friends to come stay at their places in various countries for as long as I liked, so at no point did I need to "do things on my own." I quickly realized too that the easiest way to navigate whatever country I was in was to get a local girlfriend, which I had no trouble doing on a very rapid timescale, and that made things very smooth - any time I had any problem, either my local friends or my local girlfriends could translate, get me the hookup I'd never have known about in a million years on my own, or whatnot.
Ease into things in measurable doses.
And look for friends who've already been there - in business; in seduction; in travel - and get them to help you out. Makes things much, much easier.
Dealing with Familial Pressure
The top three worries your parents have?
- Are you going to be safe
- What are you going to do for money
- When are you going to give us grandchildren
So long as you can sit down with your folks and address these three concerns and let them know that, hey, don't worry, I WILL focus on that, but first I've GOT to do this thing - so long as they know that this is a priority for you and you're not ignoring it or forgetting about it or marginalizing it - you'll usually be able to put them at ease enough that though they may grumble, they'll by and large not interfere while you go out and chase down your dreams.
Conviction is also very necessary. If your father asks you, "What are you doing?" and you mumble out an answer, he's going to straighten you out and make sure you get your behind back on the normal path.
If, conversely, he asks you this, and you respond with a, "Look, I understand that you and Mom are concerned for me, and you SHOULD be, I'm your only son, and you've got a lot riding on me, and I recognize that responsibility and I'm NOT shirking it, but I've GOT to [whatever you've got to do] - if I don't, I'll spend the rest of my life regretting it. I've just got to. I'm not putting off my career forever. I'm not going to go be some lonely old bachelor forgotten by the world sitting in a wicker chair in some poor village of a backwater country, stuttering on about how the world is a cruel place. I'm going out to chase down my dreams, and if it doesn't work out, I can always [whatever your backup plan is for returning to the mainstream world]. Grad school isn't going anywhere, and the corporate world won't fall apart without me if I'm gone for a few years."
Dealing with Societal Pressure
The biggest piece of advice here?
Keep your mouth shut.
People are judging you because you're a playboy? WHY do they know you're a playboy?
People are judging you because you run XYZ business? WHY do they know you run that business?
People are judging you because you're traveling the world instead of settling down? HOW do they know you're doing that?
We're living in the age of transparency right now, or the age of the "global village", or whatever gobbledygook catchphrase you want to call it, and largely thanks to social media, everybody is into everybody's business like they all live in a rural farm town together.
I grew up in a rural / suburban farm town, with cows and corn and
nosy neighbors. The reason I LEFT was because I couldn't stand it.
Unless you want to be like everybody else, that's not the place for you.
People's noses being in your business is good for precisely one thing: keeping you in line.
Are you on Facebook? Why? To "stay in touch with people"? Because "everybody's on Facebook"?
How many of the people you TRULY need to be in touch with would you
have no access to without the aid of social media?
If everybody jumped off a bridge, would you jump? Your father probably asked you this tired old tripe, but it's no less true just because it's been overused into oblivion. The only reason Facebook exists is so that modern women can accumulate more orbiters and satisfy their curiosity about you without having to actually MEET you.
Same with things like Instagram, or chat message programs. I don't use any of these things, and it doesn't hurt me with women one bit. In fact, my results with women SKYROCKETED once I got off them.
Am I on Facebook? Nope. Looks like you'll just have to give me your phone number instead.
And, you can wonder about how mysterious it is that this mystery man who hasn't heard of Facebook or Instagram yet has appeared out of nowhere, made an impression on you, then vanished again into the dark of night, and the only way you have at your fingertips to find out more about him is to MEET UP WITH HIM IN PERSON.
Guess you'll just have to meet me (and sleep with me) instead of cyberstalking me until your curiosity is sated.
Societal pressure is easy, unless you're legitimately living in a small town (in which case, you're not really off the beaten path anyway!).
Just keep your mouth shut, and don't go spastic sharing your life
all over the Internet.
Setting Straight or Pruning the People Around You
I'm very careful about whom I have around me. Friends, girlfriends, business partners, confidantes. Everybody. Anyone whom you lend your ear to you also lend your heart and your mind to.
You'll sometimes have people close to you trying to steer you in directions you don't want to go. Again, this is usually out of "good intentions", but you must shut this down or, if the person won't stop (and you don't agree that there's good sense behind her pushing), you need to hit the "eject" button.
A good response when you start getting pressure to follow a more conformist path, I've found:
"Hey, you know, the world has tons and tons of people following the beaten path of 'go out, get a good job, sit in an office, and climb the corporate ladder.' It's a great path, it's solid, it's respectable, and it's relatively reliable. But you know what? It's not for me, I'm miserable doing it, and the world doesn't need another corporate suit. The world needs me to take a shot at greatness - maybe I don't make it and fail, but even then, I've done my part, because the great successes are built on top of mountains of failures. This simply is the path I must tread."
What this does is this takes people who are thinking "I can change him!" and forces them to realize, "No, I CANNOT change him - this is a deeply held conviction, the change I'm trying to force him into is going to make him unhappy, and changing his mind is a futile, wasted effort."
At that point, that person can decide if she wants to be a part of your life, accept you, and encourage you to chase down your dreams, or if she needs to part ways with you and seek someone living a more conventional lifestyle than yours.
Is Unorthodox the Life for You?
This is something I cannot answer for you.
When I sit and look around - it's pretty odd I've ended up where I've ended up. None of the things I have in my life are things that were on my radar pretty much ever until they actually happened:
I didn't know I'd learn to get good with girls until one day I decided I was going to go out and talk to random women until I was good with girls.
I didn't start traveling until one day a friend asked me if I'd be down to join him on a trip to the other side of the globe and I thought it'd be good for my personal development to say "yes."
I didn't have any interest in ever running a business until people started writing to me asking me to train them, and a guy I'd never spoken to before approached me and asked me to go into business with him.
I was born a big scaredy-cat, and I'm slow to change or take on new objectives. I'll say "yes" to opportunities that I think will be good for me, but I don't enjoy them, and once my willpower runs out I need to stop and take a break, which my go-go-go friends never understand because they're having the times of their lives doing all this crazy stuff.
But they're the only friends I can have. Other scaredy-cats like me don't confront their fears... they wallow in them. But that just leads to never throwing off those fears, and forever being stuck in a place where you're left to wonder, "What if?"
Had things gone a little differently in my life, maybe I would've led a more conventional existence.
But I think not.
Despite the fear, at least in me, there was always an insatiable curiosity there - to push the boundaries, to get out and explore, to see what else life had to offer beyond doing the same exact thing everybody else was doing.
Because hey - you live a few decades, you grow old, and you die, right?
So why's it so important to do the same goddamn thing everybody ELSE is doing before they all die?
I don't know about you, but me? I'm going to go out and do all those
things I think sound even remotely
interesting. Because when I'm an old man sitting in a wheelchair with a
bib and a drool cup, reminiscing about times long since past, I want to
be able to say, "I led one hell of a life, I did," and smile a gnarly,
wrinkly, wry old man smile at the pretty young nurse nearby.
Chase Amante
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satiation through response
Hey chase!
super article. Especially the point about keeping your mouth shut. One you know about but always need a reminder. Very very important if you want to be a maverick ;). But theres a point i would like your opinion on. It struck to me when read about the cybersatiation part. You have stressed again again the importance of sleeping with girls to get better with them . But what is also important is the hunger to sleep with them. Most of the guys like me are satiated with the responses that girls give . As in there are always 5 or 7 girls in my life which bounce around me and love my company to the extent they would sleep with me. But this creates a feel good factor of temporary satiation which kills my intent at the moment when physical escalation is needed. ( though i fret about it later and am all disappointed.) an article about keeping your intent at the moment so much so that the inner hunger that drives the game would be pretty interesting. What is that goes in the mind of a true seducer at the time of going for the kill? is he lusting over the night to come or is he still not overwhelmed by the situation? my question is because we always here every guy good with girls saying ' oh it just happened i didnt do anything ' the girl just came and fell on my johnson!!:D)
Quit thoughts
Hey chase
Vey inspiring article. I have also been through some rough times in my life, times that I wasn't sure I was going to make it. But through those times I have become a better man, I myself have not noticed the changes but people around me or people I have not seen in a while notice and comment how much I have changed. I want to some day open up my own business and am currently in school trying to fulfil those dreams. He one thing that I have noticed is that I become very stressed out over things that are challenging especially with my school work/ job/ social balancing. It seems I am quick to obsess over a way out but I want to finish school but at the same time I'm not sure if I want to follow "societies guidelines". I was curious if you had any advice on following through challenging situations because as previously stated I have gone through some rough times but I uncomciously pushed through and followed through. It seems differerent when I am the one trying to decide what to do with my life compared to me knowing what I have to do to accomplish something. For example if I want to squat 300 pounds I have to work on my form then take baby steps progressively stepping up the weight till I reach 300 pounds all the while monitoring my diet and stretching.. Easy right! But with life I find it's hard to compare. I go to school take the necessary courses then hat get a price of paper. There's nothing set in stone and i know that sounds kinda naive of me to state the obvious but I constantly wonder if I am making the right decision. Or if I want to quit just because I find the class hard. It's difficult for me to see my pregression as compared to something like weightlifting.
Ps. I also do not have Facebook or any social media outlets I find they will only distract me and consume my time which will keep me from reaching my goals.
Long time reader
Chase's life view on marriage
Hey Chase,
Great article! I really like the advice on keeping your mouth shut. I've doing self development for some time and I keep catching myself telling people about my traveling plans and future business ventures that I'm working on. I feel like I'm bragging because my plans are so awesome and as of today I plan on giving people a vague/generalized answer when they ask me about my future plans. I also like to tell you that I admire you a whole lot. I can tell from your articles how well educated you are and the vast amount of knowledge you carry. In the last year I've been doing crazy amounts of self development and my views of life have changed dramatically. Most of your views are pretty well alined to mine and I want see what you think of marriage. I know that if I were to get married it wouldn't be until the age of 35-45. Ever since I was a boy I wanted of follow that "orthodox" path you mentioned and this last year I've realized that it's definitely not for me. I'm not sure how I feel about marriage anymore; it was something I always wanted but now I'm questioning myself. Right now I like the idea of having multiple long-term girlfriends (2 to 4) that would be like my wifes and adopt several underprivileged kids and raise them with the help of my GFs. Please tell me how you feel about marriage, what age you would consider it and anything else you'd like to add about your thoughts on the topic. Whatever you say will not necessarily change my views but I have a really open mind and I'll like to know what someone like you thinks about it.
Thanks in advance my friend,
getting started and my recent success
Hey Chase,
Nice article. It's similar to the comment i made on "Whats the Difference between a Lover and a Loser? article about dealing with failure and setbacks. You said that you'll do a post on failure and setbacks. Ok so Thanks Chase. I just completed the newbie assignment and it was ok. Not too hard but not too easy either. I saw a reply to edd on (getting started on your article,"We Are Not Having Sex Tonight: What Happens When You Dont) about you and the girlschase team working on a "Getting Started Category" for the site on making it easier to get started and improve our lives. I've posted a comment on "How to Use a Wingwoman to Pickup Truckloads of Girls" article, and yeah i think thats the main thing that is going to get some of your readers, including myself on to effectively using these articles. There is a lot of things on here now and thats great. However it's difficult to know how to go about from easiest to hardest in learning this seduction procedure. So a getting started addition to the site is greatly appreciated. I Have a question though:
1) Persons have told me that i sound a little too demanding over text on a screen. Do you get that impression when i make a request and how do i not seem too demanding to people to do this or that for me without raising there alarm bells? Just by reading this comment from me, is it too demanding of me to ask that you write an article? And how do us readers not be over dominant to people and end up wearing them out.
An article on failure would be great, yeah and help remind us to keeping pushing in the time of doubt would be great for your readers. And i just have to tell you that your chase framing and push-pull has been giving me some success. I've tried your examples and made up some similar to yours. It makes girls now chase me harder from the beginning of the interaction. Im a newbie and its going to be hard but im sure ill get more successful as time goes by and ill be sure to let you know about it. Also, im planning to purchase your programs on sale but right now im short on cash. Hopefully when your relationship book comes out then ill get everything same time. Please to shout ricardus for me. i havent seen him on here but i know he is doing the phone coaching. so now im just going to keep pushing.
Thanks for your help, Troy!
Detaching from a Girl
Hey Chase,
How do you isolate a girl that you fell in love in, who you moved to slow, didn't hit escalation windows, etc. within a social circle? And when I mean social circle, a girl that you are forced to see everyday, such as having the same class, work, etc.
There's this one girl who I've like for a very long time in my class and after reading your articles, I wasn't the "shopping guy you talked about, nor did I supplicate to her. We're really good friends, and in a social environment she acts all happy, goofy, comes up to me first and acts like I'm her boyfriend (touches me, hugs me, etc), but when I try to ask her out, she kindly gives me excuses, and even if I try to persist, she still refuses.
I read your articles on how to ask a girl out and reactions vs. results, so I came to the conclusion that she just wants me as a friend. I still do love her, but its causing some serious emotional troubles on my half, and I want to slowly isolate her. I'm meeting other girls as well, but I just can't seem to get my mind off of this particular girl.
So I guess my question is, how do you slowly isolate a girl you love who doesn't have any interest in you as a lover/boyfriend, when you are forced to see her everyday? And how do you refuse her attempts to keep you around (gives you hugs, etc), without making it seem obvious?
This came out to be a lot longer than I expected, haha. I love and appreciate the work you do, and I'll continue to follow your material, and hopefully one day I'll be good and happy with women as much as you are.
Competitive nature and college game
Chase thought this was brilliant. I felt like I could relate to so much of this article and see much of it as parallel to my own life.
I grew up afraid and anxious as a child like you. I had to conquer my fears (of big things but small ridiculous things too; fear of heights as well as fear of movie theaters to give a few examples), and actively embarked against whatever I feared living by the ideal that if I can't do it, I must do it and that I would have to work up to it until I could one day do the impossible (now possible) deed.
I spend a few hours every day reading and I always want to be more, learn more, progress more, and be further and further ahead than the rest of the pack. I am fiercely competitive and wonder how you think competitiveness and competitive nature falls into play relative to this article.
Also do you think it can be or should be depressing to know too much? I relate often to fictional characters of this nature that have found out too much and lose some ability that they once had to relate to the everyman (from a casual angle but also from the angle that they can't help the other person who doesn't know or understand something that they do).
Chase I had a few questions about gaming in college that maybe you could help with.
I have been running many street approaches essentially for the first time because this is my second year of college and majority of last year I was in a relationship. I would usually only do slow approaches because fast approaches did not theoretically seem effortless enough to me, but then, a few weeks ago I realized that I should fast approach, that I was being afraid of it. And I worked at it and pretty much killed any AA I had after doing a lot of approaches on street walking.
1. I've killed my AA of fast walking approach completely but now am at a point where I am like trying to figure out how many is too many. I tried your 8 approaches 4 times a week and in addition to this also continued with slow approaches in select spots of mine at school, in class, and at gym (my favorite :) ). And it gets to be too many girls Chase! You probably know who Paul Janka is, my situation at school is a lot like that. I like Janka, and something that he would say is that I can make meeting like 8 girls a day having sex a few times a day because my sex drive is really high. Mine isn't quite that high, and so was wondering what you think is a good number of approaches or the ideal way to proceed forward for someone in my situation with pretty girls everywhere around him?
2. My second question is off of my first, and that is in a university setting do I risk running into the same girl twice or having say a girl notice me with a different girl or other risky things/ potentially disastrous things happening if I approach too much. I have a school of 20000 roughly in California, and many are commuters so yeah I'm wary of that you can say.
3. I haven't had sex with any sorority girls yet and wonder if this might be something I should tread in carefully or if there is anything important I should keep in mind. Also, if I slept with a couple of sisters would that be dangerous or something that I would need to be worried about.
Essentially I think all these questions stem from the fact that while there are lots of pretty girls at my university, it is a closed environment and I will see the same people over again and whether or not that may or may not be a problem.
This ended up plenty long but thanks once again for your time Chase
thanks for taking that unconventional path ;)
Too much approaching No problem
I was thumbing through the comments just now Gem and I think I might be able to help you out. Dude its sounds like you and me have a similar problem and that is the fear of rocking the boat. I to this day need to get over that fear. If you want to be successful your going to make someone unhappy for whatever reasons and that really isn't your problem (as long as your doing so in an ethical manner). You have to learn to rock the boat and be okay with it. I'm going to recommend you watch these two short videos and implement the mindsets that this guy shares. He's quite an inspirational guy and one of Australia's top dating coaches, these two short videos answered for me the same questions your asking. Check em out!
Hey chase, great article. I
Hey chase, great article. I was wondering if you could do a post on vibe/character archetypes. I'm a pretty quiet person, and I've been working on developing eye contact flirting and presence to make up for it. I'm trying to develop and intense, quiet character that draws people in with intrigue, without me having to expend much visible energy. I don't care for the type of magnetism that comes with being a great conversationalist(though I am working on this some), I'm more interested in attracting attention with a simple vibe or aura that says"I'm hiding something,but you're going to have to dig for it." Is there a particular actor or movie I could watch to get a feel for this? I'm trying to figure out how I should carry myself and interact with people. I would really love to see a comprehensive analysis of different "characters"such as the one I've described that you can assume for yourself.
about SAFETY:
That's one great of an article. I should say that you are changing many people lives but you probably already know it.
You just remind me when you talk about SAFTEY: ("having the knowledge that I could disable attackers and win in a fight in almost any reasonable situation; also knowing how to talk my way out or at least intimidate my way out of most tense situations without having to risk injury or death in combat")
I'm not that big size man, actually quite slim person. Anyway, I noticed some interesting fact about it. When you are just start at understanding the society act, you DO get people who threaten your life, but that's just for propose of money or quick fame jump.
Because you still submissive person (at least as I was back then), these life threaten events end safety because you flow with what they want from you naturally.
But then, when you get develop with girls (and with society act too), these life threaten events occurs less frequent (because you express more confidence and people prefer deal with submissive persons with is easier). But, when they do it's usually really dangerous situations:
I have been in these kind of situation before and after I get progressed with girls and when it happens now, I REALLY fear that something will happen. I actually understand that I don't know how to act to these events, socially speaking. I normally thought that I need to implement SOCIAL PRESSURE in situations that some male trying to get fame on your account. But it's just backfire because it's just force the person even more to save face.
I know you deal with martial arts, but I don't have time to do this yet (as well as I don't want to be beaten from double my size muscular males while training).
I thought about some self-defense tools, but gun is too much of a hassle and other tools like teaser or self-defense spray will probably just look weak if anyone see it.
So I just have idea for future article for your article list: "How to deal with life threaten situation that originate for gain status, social technique to deflect it" (not robbery or something like that).
Thank you.
Thank you
This is the most important article I've ever read on GC. Thank you, Chase.
Good article
Hey Chase, great article. It's always nice to read the thoughts of someone else who has a similar outlook on life, it's nice to know that there
are people out there who see things in more or less the same light.
Life really is crazy when you take a minute to sit back and actually consider.
We have this one life and yet so many people choose to spend that life doing what everybody else is doing, just because... that's what everybody else is doing. People do this without taking into respect what they themselves as
individuals really want and seek and what makes them or will make them truely happy in life.
I really believe that when it comes down to it that whilst we as humans function at the base level on equal wiring because of our pure anamalistic nature, but as concious human beings with complex and advanced brains and reasoning we do seek different things, based upon both internal and external variables of past present and future. Such seemingly small events in life can cause us to seek, think and behave in different ways, and whilst genetics obviously play a large role, we are largely products of our environment. The fact that we can be shaped so much both internally and externally is one of the most beautiful things which truely allow us to be unique, individual and human.
But of course too many choose not to embrace their own uniqueness in desire and outlook at the expense of happiness and freedom. These people seemingly unaware of the matrix that they operate inside.
Whilst I think the hierarchy diagram that you used to illustrate what we all seek in life is true in essence, I think it is important to consider the degrees to which people seek these certain things ie: wealth, women, comfort, material etc etc. Not everybody wants or perhaps even needs these elementary fundamental aspects of life in equal proportions and amounts, as an effect of our our true human nature.
But that's just the thing. The black and white, yes or no driven society and it's blueprint usually doesn't take into account or allow for different degrees. In many ways its a one size fit all system, which I believe saps happiness and freedom from us by not considering our unique nature and individual tendencies.
In short, it fails us as individual human beings in place for the prolification of our species as a whole and the continuation of what is actually a pretty effective society in which we operate.
So it's a funny one, whilst society does give us a good arena in which to
operate, if taken too seriously can have adverse effect on our levels of contentment, happiness, ability to improve, achievement, success and understanding. It really can inhibit our individuality and potential.
I guess the key is to reap the benefits that a effective social blueprint and arena can offer, whilst maintaining yourself on the periphery of its rules and traditions
to ensure that you take all the good parts and receive all the rewards but suffer none of the restrictions.
Which leads me to the conclusion that it is all about a good balance at the end of the day.
Chase, what are your thoughts on the following
A) If everybody stopped following the blueprint of society and started following their own dreams what would happen to the world? I would guess society would fall apart and it would actually have negative effects on everyone. As unfortunate as it is Chase, I believe that people like me and you need the rest of the world to be in check to allow us to operate.
B) To allow people to accept your liberal and 'dreamer' like stance on the world it is necessary for you to have something very attractive and fundamental about yourself so that people see the rewards of a life lived differently. How do you go about developing that Charisma?
C) Do you believe that girls who have a similar outlook on life and society would be the ones most compatible for men like us? Such a shame they are few and far between :(
Thanks :)
A society where freelance and entrepreneurship is more common
Fascinating article, Chase. More balanced than other articles or books out there on similar matters that do a poor job of taking into account the perspective of people pressuring you.
The adaptive nature of society is an interesting discussion. I, for one, would prefer one where part-time jobs are more common, granting people an option of spending more time in creative and entrepreneurial endeavors. If more people would take on freelance or entrepreneurship, corporations would not be expanding as fast as they do now, and that could perhaps lead to an economy composed of many small companies, or corporations operating as a conglomerate of smaller, more dynamic companies, preserving some of the entrepreneurial mindset. More in line with the way it's been throughout history, perhaps.
i really love this post.
i really love this post. There are some questions in my mind
1) is it better ro leave the house if you are living with your parents?
2) doing the things that are interesting to me do not make money, and i am really afraid to perform them. what to do?
3) what is wrong with settling down except not to be able to see around?
Hello. Your latest articles
Your latest articles leave me thinking about and analyzing a lot of things that happened to me and trying to find a path.
I was shopping today with my sister for 8 hours. To extend my wardrobe, hers and just look around. And in malls you usually encounter a lot of people even though you dont talk to 99% of them. It got me thinking that no matter how fashionable I will look there is still this personality aspect. I was fairly well dressed and girls of my age checked me out, passed me very closely and slowly, stopped talking when I was sitting down.
Basically, every person is a book. My book has great cover, but shitty content for life as it is. It keeps getting me how personality is the most important thing you can have. I dont want to start with how each traits affect your life as it is. I mean like your past success makes you confident, how your desirability of your dreams makes you driven and goal oriented...
I used to work as a financial consultant, you set meetings with clients, talk about how it works and how can you help them and such. I like the job as it was but communication with people was hard. And our manager told us, how many people who quit always say "I am not the type of person for this job." And this is how I feel about life.
One more example: Yes, I want to meet a great girl, that is why I am here. My view has completely changed thanks to you guys who write here. So I force myself to talk to people more, to girls, to watch my nonverbals, fix my style, be more "in the society". But there is always some situation, some moment that makes me feel - I am not the right person for doing this, it is making me feel bad. I push as hard as I can but at some point I just go back to my comfort zone, reanalyze whole work and realize nothing really changed. I mean personality-wise. It is like I went on a vacation to Italy. Bam and I am back here now. The lack of successes and wins in this area of my life makes me feel horrible and I live in this "seasons" - happy - sad - happier - horrible - ok - happy - normal - sad - super sad. You get the idea.
My question after all this text may be weird, but because you know a lot about psychology... Would it be better for me to find something that completely exhausts my mental energy? Like doing advanced math for an hour a day? I see I am creating things that are not there by analyzing situations in my life. And I dont do that if I am really exhausted and I wonder if it would make me less misserable. Because like the "loser vs lover" article... I am a lover by exterior. But I am loser as a person. I have cover, I look like something I am not. And knowing this puts me down every 3 or 4 months after my hard work not going anywhere near of my little goal, that one little step. I can not achieve my goal if I cant even step up the first stair.
Please Chase just call me
Please Chase just call me Rob.
A couple questions on value.
You talk about how your very selective of your friends and that you only wish to befriend high caliber people that bring high caliber value to your life. I noticed (and read) that you own the habits that your friends own, my friends a year ago were substance abusing hedonists that truly believed they were destined to mediocrity because of their situation (that they put themselves in but won't take responsibility for). Basically unaccomplished other than a decent lay here and there and winning a fight they picked for no reason to prove how "gangster" they were/Thug life wanna be's. Super negative environment to surround yourself in. I extricated them completely from my life and now am extremely picky of whom I surround myself with to the point I really don't hang around anyone but my parents and girls I meet/go on dates with. 10 months later It would be nice to have a friend other than my mom and dad to share a common goal of pick up (note: my dad doesn't share a common goal of pickup with me) with and I need someone better than me at pickup to learn from but in a city of 30,000 I feel like I'm one of the only guys doing daygame, thus making it extremely hard to find someone doing what I'm doing.
My question is
1. How do I go about finding a mentor in a small city? My first guess would be find a forum online with members registered in my city. Or find people that are good a night game and put them on to day game (since most people aren't aware its possible to day game). Suggestions please.
And kind of related.
2. You talk about having friends that are multimillionaires. I really admire that you have built yourself to have so much value that you can befriend people of such success and value. How does a not successfully rich yet aspiring person, like yourself befriend successful multimillionaires and have them want to actually spend time with you to share their wisdom. I know you do it by dumping your value that you offer on to them but don't multimillionaires already have all the value they could possibly want? What makes you different then the average chump trying to get chummy with these people to be in their presence (I guess most people want to just be seen in their presence rather than soak up and share wisdom/build a real connection, but I want to hear it in your own words)
3. How do you assess what value you offer to other people? For example I feel like I have value to offer but don't know exactly what that may be.
What kind of value are most people looking for/how do you know what kind of value they want?
Sorry for the protracted comment (you seem to get quite a lot, but I presume its better than reading some long comment of some guys story of one girl and how to get her back, I cringe when I read those) and always appreciate your wisdom.
By far my favorite article
By far my favorite article Chase.
Really brought me back to my life of pre pick-up, and really had me feeling nostalgic there for a minute ;)
Maslow's hierarchy of needs eh? Ever since my senior year of high school, I've been living my life to become self-actualized.
Any reason you're learning to fight so well these days Chase? I imagine you have fitness sorted and you're against fighting for the sake of trying to boost your reputation - are you finding it's just an interest to pursue these days? I can respect that.
Great Article!
Hi Chase.
Another great article (just like the one on the Purpose of Life from a Practical Point of View)!
I wish that getting advice on bettering oneself in order to improve the choices one has with the ladies was far from taboo. I hide my screen whenever I read your articles from public view because I am afraid of what others may think. I wish I could share you site with your site with other people so that they may grow and be happy.
Your articles are not just about getting better with the ladies and realizing that a man has an abundance of choice (most men would rather capitulate to scarcity). I do live in an area of with a severe shortage of available ladies (it's the small towns you were referring to!). So, until I am able to move, I am improving other aspects of my life, such as fashion, getting a sexy walk, bodybuilding, finding a purpose in life, and in general learning to be happier than I ever had been.
I guess everyone just wants you to be on the same level of misery as they are so that when they fail to make it, they can look comparatively at where you are and feel less bad about themselves.
I may suck with the ladies, but that comes mainly from just lack of an available dating pool. At least in the other areas of life that you mentioned, I am doing fairly well. In large part, this is thanks to your advice. And, in case you are wondering, I have the ability to defend myself and respond with lethal force if necessary. (Yes, I have a CCW permit.)
Chase Amante
You sir in the section entitled 'Accepting "Separateness" and the Need to Belong' have put into words, feelings I could only describe in parts.
It's really nice to see someone out there who understands
-Santa Claus
Hey Chase, When u say that
Hey Chase,
When u say that most girls don't go to bars and clubs are you including girls from cities like New York and Los Angeles?because when i was in those cities every girl I met talked about going to a club/bar on the weekend,or some wild party,rarely did i hear a girl say im just going to read a book and call a friend this weekend.But i guess its possible that they wouldn't reveal such information to somebody they don't know really well.The vibe in these cities makes it feel like everybody is going out on weekends.
This article above really written at just the write time,as I have been thinking a lot about this subject lately.I would really like to be location independent,it's a big goal of mine.I find it interesting that your living in Asia.Are you living there because of the low cost of living,and because you don't have to deal with westernized women there?What are the benefits?
Also where im at now it's about to get really cold,and in your location article you mentioned that people tend to settle down in relationships when the whether is cold outside.Also in a smaller town where there is less distractions,I would think that would make people more prone to getting into a relationship..So what do you think is the best way to use these differences to your advantage ,if you want to get into a relationship with a girl?In other words,because there are probably more lonely girls that live in cold climates where there isn't a lot one can do outside,should you still disqualify yourself as a boyfriend,even though the girl would be more willing to get into a relationship with you quicker?
How many articles does your site has?
Dear Chase,
Mind if I ask you how many articles does your site has? It seems endless.....Do you have 1000?
Which One is Your First Article?
Dear Chase,
I am also wondering which one is your first article? Like the first article on your website when it first established?
I am just really curious and want to read your first article.
What to say..
What to say, I have no idea..
After I read it, I felt that this is the one I have been searching for a long time..
You are great chase.. !
Thank you.
So far, learned ton of things here, but this the the
Best ever article.
Chase can you explain some
Chase can you explain some ways to create an "us vs them mentality" ,especially with your family.Sometimes my family and close friends feel like its "me vrs them",and i want to change this..What are some things I can say to change their perception of me in this area?
Self-actualization vs. an unconventional life
Hi Chase,
I really like this article - it addresses some lifestyle and social questions that I'd had in my mind for a while.
But I noticed that you didn't seem to address the top level of Maslow's hierarchy much in this article - comfort, women, safety, wealth, and contribution all fall into the lower levels.
Creativity, as far as I can tell, comes from having done the SAME thing a BILLION times, and then finally discovering that there's a better way to do it. It's of course the backbone of the work of scientists, for instance. And great seducers, too, I guess - I think that's why so many people love how refreshingly original and insightful your site is, including myself.
And if you start trying to become a great scientist when you're 25 or 30, plenty of other guys will have started when they were 15 or 20 or even much younger, and if they continue to work hard, they'll stay ahead, exceeding you in the second level of Maslow's hierarchy as well as the first. You generally don't HAVE time to run off and do something crazy if you want to successfully compete there.
Those guys have focused their entire lives on the "office desk" jobs of academia (or art or acting or whatever), but I think they're the ones who will succeed in the top level of Maslow, and it's only through succeeding in the top level that they'll be able to find success in the second level - their career - as well.
I know that in business it's probably OK to take a bit longer and do other things before starting business, and that plenty of successful guys started quite late in life. But even there, when I've read about the top guys in business, pretty much all of them had an entrepreneurial streak when they were young (possibly from growing up in difficult conditions), or parents that strongly valued entrepreneurship. So even in business it seems that it would be hard to compete with someone who's been thinking HARD about this stuff since they were 10 if you start when you're 25, say.
I should say a little bit about myself so you know where I'm coming from. I've spent a lot of my life so far developing a career as a scientist. From the point of view of becoming a scientist, I've followed a largely "conventional" path. Most of what I described above is from personal experience - the people around me who spent their youths and beyond exploring life and following more unconventional paths are less successful now than those of us who started focused and stayed focused.
Of course, the relatively small (compared to unconventional lifestyles) travel and social experience I've built up over the years has been very fulfilling (actually it only became truly fulfilling since I found your site), and I'm sure I would have become burnt out and unhappy if it had been completely not present, or present but unfulfilling. What I'm saying is that the more I increase that experience from small to large, e.g. the more time I take to run off and explore the world, the less likely I am to fulfill my top level of Maslow, and as a result, probably my second level as well.
By the way, people with less conventional paths in science, art, etc. often receive more media attention than those with more conventional paths - they're much more interesting to write and read about. But they're often not the top, most creative people in their fields.
In fact, I'd say that the people who knock Maslow out of the park, including the top level, i.e. achieve both creativity and esteem - are the ones who first master the conventional path, which can take decades of concentrated work, then later in life (e.g. in their 30's or 40's) start branching out. The ones who don't or clumsily branch out later in life are still satisfied in the top level of Maslow, but possibly less satisfied in the second level - esteem - than they would ideally like, e.g. they earn the respect of colleagues or fellow artists, but perhaps not so much of the world at large.
So...after all that, my question is: if you want to become an Innovator, i.e. succeed in a creative field, and satisfy all of your Maslow needs, wouldn't it be best to largely follow the conventional path first, and only after you've achieved success in that consider more unconventional paths? In other words, doesn't the stock phrase "you have to succeed when you're young" have some truth in it?
I hope this doesn't come across as me trying to impose my current beliefs on you. I'm ambivalent about some parts of what I wrote. I'd like to hear the perspective of someone who has lived a different lifestyle than I have, and seen more of the world than I have.
The M
Everymen and Mavericks
Thanks for the reply, Chase! Very interesting - I never thought about the different skills that an unconventional life would require. I like stable success, but within the conventional path I've always had maverick tendencies, and they've brought me great success in ways that I wouldn't have had otherwise. So I think it's always good to have elements of both.
Either way, fundamentals like charisma, warmth, body language, etc. are very helpful, so it's good to spend time on those for life stuff, too. :)
The M
King Mentality
Chase i read one of your articles on spazzatura and the law of least effort, and you had these catagories. Jester, Peasant, King, and Unknown. I would love to know more on having a king type mentality. Maybe you could do an article about it? Or elaborate in response to my comment?
Don't know how I should approach
Chase, there's very cute girl I've seen a few times at my job, which is a supermarket. I read your store pick up article and I was thinking of just opening with, I think you're cute, are you single, or Ill tell her ill be honest with her and tell her I think shes cute and I want to get to know her, then right after that ill introduce myself get the number and leave. I just feel its too fast and she might be overwhelmed, but I remember you saying no to conversations that are long.
Tell me how that sounds?
I also would like to know what would you do if you worked at a supermarket and saw a cute girl? How would you approach her?
Could you give me a brief conversation example of your interaction, just so I can get an idea?
So the overview is this,
1. How does the stuff I said ill say to the girl sound?
2. Can you please give me a scenario of what chase amante would do if he were in my shoes, and worked at a supermarket then spotted a cute girl he wanted to approach how would he do it?
3. Can you please give me a brief conversation example of what you would say, so I can have an idea?
4. I passed by the girl, and we were very far from each other, then I turned around to look at her, and as soon as I looked are eyes locked for a second before we entered are aisles, thing is she was already looking at me before I looked at her, as soon as I looked at her, her eyes were right on me, no head turn or anything.
I just wanted to know was this a sign to approach? Might sound dumb, but I read your comment on how what a beginner thinks is obvious interest, isn't.
Was her looking at me first from far away show an obvious sign of attraction?
5. I didn't go to her because I thought I'd be chasing, tell me if I should of just did it anyway?
6. Last question, I can approach, but can't be direct, im so nervous about customers thinking im hitting on them and taking it the wrong way so I don't get to the juicy questions, ill approach with light convo, just cant pull tbe trigger.
How can I grab my balls and stop worrying so much about these negative outcomes? What do I have to think to just approach for dates and stop being so nervous?
Thanks Chase, I respect you so much man.
The Setting Of Precedent!!!
Hi Chase,great article.However there is a topic that you haven't laid much emphasis on which is "Precedent".You always talk about it but I don't really understand it.I would like you to write an article in order to broaden mine and other guys perspective on it.Thanks.


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``Derrick and Tyreke took longer to feel this offense,'' the new Kentucky coach said at SEC Media Day today. ``John right now is probably farther along today than they were.''
Time out.
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Harrison, a 26-year-old left-hander, finished with a career-high 14 victories last season.
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Babka is a sweet and delicious yeast cake popular throughout the former Eastern Bloc. While many recipes call for a chocolate filling, this recipe is stuffed with cottage cheese.
- 2 tablespoons margarine
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup flour
- 2 yeast cakes
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1/4 pound margarine
- 1 cup white raisins
- 6 cups flour (stir before measuring)
- 1 cup milk
- 9 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
1. TOPPING: Melt 2 tbs. margarine in a pan. Remove from heat and add 2 tbs. sugar and 1/4 cup flour. Stir with a spoon to combine, then work with your fingers until you achieve a crumb topping. Set aside. Break up yeast in a bowl and mix in 1 tbs. sugar. Combine well until it liquefies. Stir in water. Set aside.
2. Combine margarine with milk and heat to scald. Cool to lukewarm. Use a large bowl to beat egg yolks with sugar and then add the milk mixture. Stir in the salt, raisins and yeast. Add the flour all at once. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Add additional 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of flour and mix it in well with your hand. Knead on a lightly floured surface about 10 minutes. Round up the dough in a greased bowl, turn greased side up. Cover with damp towel and let rise in a warm area approximately 2 1/2 hrs. (bulk will double.) Punch down and let rise 1 1/2 hrs. or until double. Grease 10" tube pan.
3. Punch down dough and place it in tube pan, cover, and let rise for an hour or until double. Brush top with 1 egg yolk beaten with 2 tsp. water. Distribute crumb topping lightly and bake at 300 degrees for 1 1/2 hrs. Cool in pan 10 minutes.
4. COTTAGE CHEESE FILLING FOR BABKA: 1 egg slightly beaten; 1 1/2 cups cottage cheese; 3 tbs. granulated sugar; 1/2 tsp. vanilla; 1 tsp. grated lemon rind; combine all ingredients. When Babka dough has been punched down after the second rising, spread or roll dough into rectangle. Spoon filling along center of dough. Fold dough over filling making ends meet. Place in pan and bake according to Babka directions. Filling should be at room temperature. Fills one Babka.
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@maryar8 6403874 - Babka is a traditional cake popular in Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. There are several versions of babka, one made with fruit filling, the other with chocolate. You can take your pick which version to make! -The editors of RecipeLion
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Babka is not of Polish origin sorry. It is Russian-Jewish origin and you would not fill babka with chocolate anyway!!!
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AUSTIN (AP) - State regulators on Wednesday delayed implementation of electric deregulation until at least Sept. 15 for a stretch of southeast Texas that is served by Entergy Corp.
Electric deregulation is scheduled to start Jan. 1 in most of the state. Deregulation allows consumers to shop around for an electric provider much like they do for a telephone service.
A pilot program operating allows companies to compete for up to 5 percent of the customers, but there has been no interest in the region.
The pilot program will continue in the region through Sept. 15, Entergy spokeswoman Patty Riddlebarger said.
"All the evidence shows that Entergy customers cannot enjoy the benefits of competition by Jan. 1," PUC Chairman Max Yzaguirre said.
The Entergy delay will affect about 340,000 customers in 24 counties of southeast Texas including the cities of Beaumont, Conroe, Huntsville, Orange and Port Arthur.
The 13-state-area Southeastern Reliability Council is the regional electric grid that serves Entergy. Texas law requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve a regional transmission organization for the SERC to qualify as a power region before deregulation can begin, but FERC has yet to establish a regional transmission organization for the Southeastern Reliability Council.
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