Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-05-27
Books mentioned on The Truth About Women & Relationships - Neil Strauss, World's #1 Pickup Artist
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Game
The Game by Neil Strauss is an infamous investigative memoir chronicling the author's immersion into the secretive, highly structured subculture of professional pickup artists and the psychological dynamics of dating.
Discussed“The interesting thing about apps I find so fascinating, I met one of the this what I met one of the co-founders of Tinder reached out to me, and he says, you know, part of the reason we started this app was because I read The Game, and I thought, oh, that's so much work.”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Game
“So the first book obviously not the first book I think it's my it's my third or fourth. But The Game was probably the most infamous one which is me trying to figure out dating and being in this world of and and being fascinated by this world of these pickup artists and the all the social implications of that”
Own book Emergency
“meaning that by the way in between those I did a book which feels like tragically relevant now called emergency which is really about learning some the other skill of survival.”