Neil Strauss
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"Neil Darrow Strauss", also known by the pen names "Style" and "Chris Powles", is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter, with both American and Saint Kitts and Nevis/Kittitian citizenship. He is best known for his best-selling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, in which he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become a "pick-up artist." He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also writes regularly for The New York Times.

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I totally understand all the bad press, ... It's not about the book, but the ideas in it and the way these guys speak. But on the other hand, this is how these guys speak when they're together. So if I wrote a book that was unassailable in that direction, it wouldn't be an honest book ... if a guy was open about his sexual feelings all the time, he would become a total outcast.

The first night we go out, the students will walk in and crash and burn because they don't have a clue yet. The second day is more about the students and they'll go and do openers and do OK, and the third day is kind of fun. On the third day, they actually start to have some success. People forget how petrified men are to talk to women they don't know.

Don't even think about it and just do it. If you don't, you'll be regretting it the rest of the weekend.

See that girl over there with the pink shirt? ... I think she's, like, the hottest girl in the whole place.

I was one of them. I understand what they're going through.

It's almost like this men's self-help movement.

I'm not worried about it because guys will always need to find a way to meet women. Attraction is always the same. You can't help it. You can't disarm that.

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

You may have missed your window because now she's with a guy. But go and approach her anyway. It's a two set.