Monday, January 21, 2008

The Bomb: Understanding Logical Levels vs Sh!t in Your Head.


Here is a very important concept. One of a few crucial ones that is EXTREMELY USEFUL to know and TO APPLY. Like everything on this site it’s meant for those who are serious about their personal transformation.

At the moment you realize that the Matrix loaded your brain with tons of crap - just to make you socially useful and obedient sheep - you are very willing to clean it up.

You feel hurt because the whole system was lying to you and kept you blind. First you want revenge. Later you realize that there is no-one to blame but yourself and you want to become Your Own Master.

You go look for instruments that can help you do that.

Here is a concept that can assist you GREATLY in becoming one.

It will bring your understanding of reality, people in it and your own Self on a new level.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? And it really delivers the promised goods.

It’s known as the NLP Logical Levels (also known as the Logical Levels of Change and the Logical Levels of Thinking).

The word NLP (Neuro linguistic Programming) might call for different reactions among the readers. I am not going to protect or to attack it here. I just say that understanding Levels is a very powerful weapon so let’s adopt it without having much emotion towards its origin.

Are there any to whom it does not sound so simple? “..Neuro? Ohhhh…All those complicated words…”

Well, the choice is as usually all yours.

You can either read this article carefully and apply it or you can consider it “Just toooo-tooo diffucuuuult” and keep living your life like you used to.

One thing to remember though: anyone but you will be then in charge of your Mind.

And as we know by now the key to the Gate of Your Personal Victory is in this question: who is in charge of your mind?

We all were brought up by a whole culture or even few cultures that filled our head with extremely useful information.

Sometimes useful. Sometimes not that useful. Sometimes totally useless.

Like a dogshit on a sidewalk.

Let me dare to guess that there are tons of dogshit filling an average head of an average person.

Unless he is an enlightened individual and was brought up in Tibet or something t like that.

For those who did not grow up among monks and mediations – well, MTV took good care of things. Don’t leave the house. Quick and easy. Here. Magic Pill. Buy. Spend. All for 19.95$. Special offer. This week only…

Anyway, back to the subject.

Understanding Logical Levels is very useful for assisting with a process of Change from an individual, social or organization point of view.

To make it simple and clear lets take a look at this familiar example:

One day guy wakes up and says to himself “My personal life is not good at all. I am going to change it. I am going to have a beautiful girlfriend ASAP.”

So, what’s the first thing he does? He goes to a bar or a club on Friday night.

He enters the bar and looks around. Lost of things are going on.

This is the very first level. Its called Environment.

Everything that surrounds us is our Environment.

That’s what we are reacting to. It can be our work environment, club environment, and home environment…whatever.

Somewhere deep inside this guy is hoping that if he only will show up at the right bar at the right time then somehow that beautiful girl will find him and even start a conversation with him.

Well, he realizes pretty soon that it just DOES NOT HAPPEN.

So after a few drinks he gets enough courage and attempts to start a chat with an attractive girl.

This is the second level. The level of Action.

He is in the environment called “the club” and he undertakes Action called “the approach”.

For the sake of this example lets say that he was not too successful and he goes home alone that night.

After a couple of weeks of going out our guy (and he is a smart guy) starts to notice that there are some guys in a club that are having quite some success with approaching girls.

By now he realized that there is something in his behavior that girls seem to dislike somehow.

So, the next logical level, the third one is Behavior.

He sees some of the guys making out with girls and some even take girls home. Every time he sees it and its mostly the same guys. He discovers so called “naturals”.

Well, he thinks, probably their Behavior is what gets them girls.

He makes friends with a couple of them and asks a few questions. One says “just be yourself”. That does not bring our hero very far since he is “being himself” his whole life and its exactly “being himself” that brought him into this whole situation.

Another “natural” gives him a better advice:“You have to be funny, you have to be relaxed, and you have to learn to become charming.”

It’s a good begin so our guy discovers that in order to have a nice girlfriend he has to learn some skills.

This forth level is called the level of Capabilities.

He learns some funny stories, goes to improvisation workshop and pretty soon he can carry out some pretty long conversations that make girls laugh and even give him some phone numbers.

Well right here he starts to see the positive results of his previous actions and his beliefs about what he can do start to change.

Beliefs are the next, the fifth logical level.


His success gets bigger and bigger.

It starts to be a kind of upward spiral where his successes from the past just feed his confidence. He makes other friends, he goes out to cooler places, and he wears different cloths.

After a few years of living this life he finds a picture of himself. There he is just before he started his journey. Nerdy glasses, polo shirt with his company logo on it, pleasing smile.

He can not recognize himself.

Was it really him?

He can not even identify himself with that person on the picture.

He remembers some old thoughts and ideas about himself that he held at that time and they all are SOOO weird and distant.

They do not belong to him anymore. They belong to that old identity.

So, Identity is the next, the sixths logical level.

Our guy is a totally different person now.

Did you ever think of what it REALLY means when someone says that he or she is totally other person now?

It means that their identity, the way they view themselves has changed.

There is only one level left above Identity.

The sevenths and the highest logical level is called Spirituality.

If our hero chooses to adopt a Buddhist point of view on the world and follow it that would happen on this level.

Not many people ever go there.

Spirituality requires an answer on the most important question of existence: What am I part of?

What is leading me spiritually? What’s my vision of this universe and of the whole existence?

You see, its tough stuff. For big and strong boys and girls.

The rest of people just take whatever society and parents fed them.

That’s how the whole logical level pyramid looks like:

You probably understand by now that each higher level determines completely what happens on all the levels below.

Pay attention to the fact that changes on the lower levels require less effort to make than changes on higher levels. But the results are also less impacting.

If our example guy would go to an NLP master or hypnotherapist like Neil Struss (aka Style) did in his famous book “The Game” then he would get new strong identity installed.

Style went to Steve P who is one of the best in this field.

Steve P learned his trade from many different sources including Indian shamans and so he might have even connected Style with his Higher Self and Universal sources of energy and that in turn would dramatically change Style’s results infield and in life in general.

Because changes on the level of Spirituality and Identity are the most powerful ones and automatically bring incredible changes in Beliefs.

Beliefs in turn increase Capabilities which in turn inspire great Actions. And this is in fact exactly what happened to Style.

He got two months of hypnotherapy and NLP with two best masters and walked away as a really empowered person.

His Identity had changed completely.

Go read The Game for details.

So how to use all the above? Simple.

Internalize the structure.

Realize that everything you do or any problem you have can be seen from the Logical Levels point of view.

Determine where it belongs to.

Is it on Capabilities level? Is it your beliefs that keep you away from achieving your goal?

Notice that Ego is a construction protecting your Identity. So whenever Ego is involved you can be sure that the real issue lies with the way you are seeing yourself.

Remember that your Identity is fluid and in constant development.

Remember the expression “I could never recognize myself from that time” expression.

You can change. There is no “Oh, that’s just the way I am” thing.

Not if you REALLY want to change.

You can create yourself as a sculptor creates a work of art.

And pay a visit to Spirituality level from time to time. Experiment with different belief systems.

Try to find one that will resonate the most with your heart.

Discard what society or any other sources told you if you do not feel any REAL emotional heart connection with it.

Remember that ideally you should have an alignment on all levels.

It means you walk your talk.

If you want to have 3 girlfriends at the same time (environment) and to be happy and fulfilled and honest with yourself then make sure that you are practicing religion or spiritual belief that allows you to do that.

But better first let your heart to find a spiritual belief or religion and then align your life with it.

This approach from top to button works sooooo much better….

Good luck on your journey.

DJKC

Monday, January 14, 2008

Knowledge Spread vs. Willpower


Interesting question is being asked by some serious players I know.

It’s being asked already for a while and I would like to give a personal opinion answer on it. Like you see sometimes in the movies: “This film is not reflecting an official point of view of the X government. Its strictly personal opinion”.

So, first, whets the question? Here it is: “With all this seduction-related knowledge spread through the internet, books, seminars, workshops, etc – the knowledge which is sacred gotten by a few by blood sweat and tears – get into everyone’s hands and so all the efforts are for nothing. ‘cause everyone will be able to pickup models after knowing how – to stuff.


So all the efforts to learn are also in vain because everyone knows it and does it. Even worse: chicks know it too. So they can easily spot the one who tries to use the knowledge. Endless crash&burn as a result. Is all this stuff not dangerous and threatening to those who want to learn the game?”

Here is my answer: I am not worried about it even for a split sec.

Why? Because: think about it. Think really hard.

First: how many people are able to admit to themselves that they actually SUCK in this area of life?

Very-very few.

The vast majority is reading or watching this stuff whenever it comes up on TV or internet article or a seminar with their ego full blown and alert:

"Me? NOOOOOOOO! I am a fucking pimp. Well, I don’t have a girlfriend or I have that bitchy little drama queen as a girlfriend but its only because I am busy with other IMPORTANT things in my life right now.

I am such a pimp that when I REALLY will have time and when I want it – I will just come out and get supermodel for myself in no time..."

To confront ego you need to have a very strong motivation. How many people you know that have a super strong motivation? Particularly in something that society at large is frowning upon?

Second: social programming kicks in.

It says that you only have a cool girlfriend when you are successful in your job/study/career.

When you are a good sheep.

Then nice girl will appear in your life as a bonus.

Inevitably as a salary rise.

One beautiful evening… oh, yeah, and don’t forget to wear that new Gucci cologne and those D&G sunglasses.

Otherwise she might not recognize you.

And keep drinking Heineken beer ‘because all those chicks from their TV ad choose guys who do…

Here I have to disappoint you. No fucking thing will happen.

None. Whatsoever.

The society programming road ends at your computer monitor watching internet porn.

And many people are going to live very unsatisfied lives just because they believe in what the Matrix has to say.

And were too comfortable to go find truth for them. Go read my article "The Matrix. Open Your Eyes" to find out more about the power of society programming.

Anyway, I am not writing this to cheer them up.

I am writing this to tell us (REAL PLAYERS) that there is NO DANGER in that knowledge spread. None. Whatsoever.

Sо, my small tribe, lets look little further: out of hundred people who started on this journey – how many will get their ass away from the monitor and get on he street?

Let’s be optimistic and say 75%.

How many will really approach?

How many from those who approach will survive the pain of hard rejections which are inevitable? Not one or two but HUNDREDS of rejections.

Rejection by a supermodel does not hurt that bad when you look and behave like a computer nerd and you know she is out of your league but how about ugly and fat war pigs (Mystery term).

Ladies, please, here no offense is meant. I know perfectly well that it’s all about heart and personality.

No pain intended. They will all discover it.

Let them first go for those shiny vain bitches. Then they will learn the lesson and probably come back to you. No worries. Just visit a fitness club once in a while.J

So, lets go on: now after all those rejections – how many of those left are ready to take a hard look at themselves and to realize that ITS THEM WHO CAUSED THE REJECDTIONS.

Girls had for the biggest part nothing to do with that. This realization is a BIGGY. And how many of those who WILL realize it – will actually go and change those things in themselves?

You see where I am going with this?

What a tiny little microscopic percent of those who had an access to the Knowledge is left by now?

What did the others do with that knowledge? The same what they did with the most of knowledge that comes their way – they entertained themselves with it for a few days/ months and then throw it away.

Along with the first edition of playstation and their cassette player.

Now, about chicks reading into all those pickup tactics and knowing that you are a player – I am totally cool with that too.

You cant use in a 1000th time an opinion opener of who lies more or some other stuff you got from the net. Someone created this opener and it played its role and now its time to make up your own. It’s all crunches anyway.

Go improvise.

Or go sit home in your little cozy comfort zone and blame the rest of the world for using the same opener.

It’s all about your coolness and your general vibe anyway. That will bring you chicks. Nothing else. Plus well developed social skills. That’s it. The whole package.

Those who developed this stuff you are using now or reading about – paid for it with their time, humiliation, tears, hundreds of nights in clubs and streets.

They got together a valuable recourse which can save some time and effort. But not that much that you can call it a magic pill.

There are plenty of descriptions of how to drive a Formula 1 car on the internet.

Can you drive one well after reading it? Do you know anyone who can?

Or does it require tons of experience, courage and will power – to learn to drive such a beast? By now you know the answer.

Tyler Durden told me that 95% of people who come to his seduction seminars and workshops will quit within a year.

My own experience indicated even higher percentage.

It’s never crowded on an extra mile. Many will start running marathon – very few will ever cross the finish line.

So if you are still there and I mean going out and implementing stuff you learned – then you belong to a selected club.

A club of a few. Welcome.

DJKC

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Where to Begin?

“Awareness itself creates momentum”. Steven Covey


It seems like many people are REALLY confused about where to begin their improvement.

Its like: “Yeah, my life is quite ok in general…but this thing with women … I don’t know…it kind of sucks… I did my study well, my salary is rising I should get some better chick, I mean I do all like I was told… but it just somehow does not happen…”

Well, here is the news: its a BIG TIME LIE.

It will never “just happen” to you.

Society programming has fucked you up.

As it did with 99.99999% of population.

How about this message: “Be a good sheep and things you deserve will come to you“.

Nope, not with women, buddy. To find out in detail about social programming, the Matrix and how all that work in our modern society read my previous article The Matrix (Part1 & 2).

So lets assume that now you identified your blind spot.

You want a better girlfriend. Or you just wantto date many women. Or you want to become a serial polygamist.

Its all entirely up to you and you are totally entitled to that.

Next the question comes: where to begin?

You might go Google some dating related words and get literally thousands of websites. And they all promise "instant cure". Or a "unique-3 days-seminar-workshop cure". Or "buy-my-e-book cure".

They ALL have testimonials and all those testimonials are there to tell you: yes, this is The Magic Pill. Stop and shop by us. Do not go further.

So after 2 or 3 of such sites you get confused and start asking around and checking some forums. After a while you might land on a company name that gives supposedly good seminars/workshops …and your friend’s friend took it…and it was ok.

So you go pay a couple of thousands of dollars just to find out that is was…well...it was... entertaining… but not really your thing.

This is the way it goes with lots of people.

Here I want to give you a way that I think is smart and fool proof enough.

After years of being in field (read: going out and interacting with tons of women in all kind of social environments), dating many of them, giving workshops and seminars on the subject, reading everything under the sun I think this might help you in finding your own path.


So here it is: how do you begin.

First step: make a decision to act.

Make a decision to keep going even when the path will become difficult. I take it as a given that you decided to really go for it.

To do whatever it takes to get some positive changes done.

The general rule is that the more efforts you put in something the better results you get. It sounds really simple but if you put mediocre effort in something you will get mediocre result. Unless you happened to be extremely gifted in that particular area.

But even for the most gifted people big success means 5%talent and 95% persistence and work.

Here is the question for you to answer to YOURSELF: how hard do you want it?

Second step: decide what you want to achieve in this area of your life.

Your goal may change once you will get to know yourself better. That’s totally fine.

I was very perfectionistic and set very high goals for myself from the very beginning. My goals have changed few times since then. Every time to become even bigger.

What seemed to me to be huge goal initially - became quite ordinary after a couple of years and I realized that I can go further and do bigger things.

Again, its very personal.

For some people just leaving their house and entering a club is already a huge victory.

I know someone who took a year just to overcome major social anxiety. He was simply terrified to enter a disco or a crowded bar. Leave alone to talk to someone there.

He is one of the best guys I know who now is really good with women and dating. And he feels totally at home in any club. But it took him a year first just to be able NOT to run away.

So you see it’s personal. Its BIG if its big FOR YOU.


Step three is to identify where you are right now.

Assess your position, your recourses, your strengths and weaknesses.

You do not know them all, there are plenty of blind spots and ego-protected constructions but don’t worry about it too much right now.

Just do what you can. Check a few different personal development programs.

Personally I found Tony Robbins’ and Brian Tracy’ materials to be very helpful in doing it.

Get them and follow them meticulously.

That means putting aside all other things and really listening to what these guys have to say, doing the exercises, taking a notebook and making notes. Put 1 hour a day into it. Do it for 21 day (this is how long some of Tony Robbins programs are – you do it like 1 cd per day for 21 day).

This will create a positive momentum in your life.

After a month or so and may be even after a week or two you will have a raw assessment of where you stand and what your stronger/weaker sides are.

Come back to the same program after 9-10 months and do it again.

It will give you a very good idea of where you are heading.

The general rule here is again to trust your heart and find one program that FEELS good doing and then stick with it. Take your time; spend a week or two looking for one.

If you can’t find one that you really like – just start somewhere. Do not worry about finding the right one too much.

Just start somewhere.

Once you made an assessment of yourself you will see much better where you stand right now.


Step four is to look for a right mentor to help you.

What I mean here by mentor: it can be a person or a company. Or both.

Lets look at a person first.

It can be someone you know. It can be someone you don’t know.

When I started out I went to people I knew who were good with women and started to ask them questions.

Mostly if those people are naturals (people who just HAPPENED to have a gift of being good with women) you will most probably hear something like: oh, just be yourself and its going to be all right.

That’s the advice you mostly will get from those naturals.

Very frustrating because just as they were “themselves” their whole life with great results in this area – you also were “yourself” with NO or very few results.

Don’t be discouraged by their answer. Go hang out with them. See how they behave, what they do. Do not attach too much meaning to it.

Those guys might give you some valuable insights. And they might as well not give any and only make you more confused.

You will tend to behave as they behave and to say what they say.

But you might not get results they get.

And it’s totally cool too.

See, the point here is that you are moving out of your comfort zone, trying different behavior patterns.

Your mind starts to concentrate on things you previously never thought of.

It starts to search for clues and insights.

You become a social scientist of a sort. Its fun.

And as we all know whatever you concentrate your attention at in your life – starts to grow and increase.

Go with as many different people as you can find.

Take anything they have to offer and be grateful for it.

Important note: try to offer then something of value first. From helping to build their website (if you are any good at it) to buying them a dinner/beer/VIP ticket to the coolest party/whatever…

You can go two ways here: first build a good connection, help them with something and then to ask for assistance or just walk up and ask. It’s up to you.

Personally I preferred to do it right away.

I found that the coolest guys live in a world of abundance and are pretty much willing to help if you are direct, honest and humble.

And those who look strange at you and say some nonsense – its ok too.

Don’t take it personally, just go on.

You will also see how your ego will behave.

It’s not as easy as it sounds – just walk up to a stranger or even someone you know and say something along the lines: “Hey man, I noticed you are really good with women. I feel like I ‘m a bit behind… could you give me some tips? Let me buy you a drink…”

The knowledge of YOURSELF you get from this process of looking for a mentor is priceless.

Lets look at the possibility of finding a company that may help you.

A company that gives seminars or workshops or both.

There are SOOO many of them.

And they all claim to be The One and Only.

And there are very few who will really help.

You should look for one that really resonates with your understanding of the world, your beliefs and values.

How you do that?

You will have to do some research of your own. May be get their materials somehow and see what they teach on their seminars. May be get their e-books and learn a few basic ideas.

Don’t trust any testimonials ‘because they all say the same thing.

Pay attention to the instructor-student ratio.

Biggest players on the market have most of the time 4-5 and more students per one instructor (sometimes 10+).

It’s virtually impossible to give any value to the student with such a ratio.

You going to wander around in a club totally on your own or watch a couple of approaches that instructor does.

Its good to see stuff done by others but the most important part (what you are actually paying for) is that you have to do it yourself afterwards.

And there will be no-one watching and correcting you since the instructor has 8-9 other guys to observe.

When I take students out into the field I take 1 person with 2 instructors.

Most other times its 1 coach – 1 student.

Its 100% personal attention and giving value.

We also take 2 students with 2 instructors particularly when going to teach them club game.

That’s the lowest and the best ratio.

It’s the highest result and attention rate.

And it’s really personal. That’s what I love about it.

Giving the most personal attention possible and seeing results right before my eyes.

If you want to learn much more than a bunch of tricks to manipulate others into believing that you are someone esle...

If you want really serious results that require some good inner effort...

If you want to undergo an inner shift...

If you want to really FEEL that you are BECOMING GOOD...

If you want that inner change and that vibe that so called “naturals” possess – then you may come to us.

Whatever you are going to choose – let your heart guide you on your way.

Following the steps I outlined above will get you moving in a right direction.

Good luck on your journey!


DJKC