The Pick Up Artist-Gambits Be Gone

Posted by
Cherie Burbach
Aug 21, 2007

In watching The Pick Up Artist I am finding myself intriqued and a bit disappointed. It isn't that the advice Mystery is giving these guys is bad, it's just that I keep thinking:

"Would this work on me?"

Most of the time my answer to that is no. For example, the super secret gambit that Mystery had never shared with anyone until Pradeep won the Goldilocks challenge? No way would I have gotten into that. Neither would any of my girlfriends. I mean, if some guy wants to put his hands on yours upon first meeting you, don't you feel like he's trying a bit too hard? (Ladies????)

The best "trick" a guy ever did to ask me out was when a bartender did some trick with a towel, and as I watched the towel slowly became shaped into the form of a particular body part on men. (Don't make me say it.) He then asked for my friend's lipstick, and wrote his phone number on the towel.

Now, while I say this was an interesting trick - it also didn't work. No way was I picking up some gross bar towel - even if it did have a cute guy's phone number on it. So in the end, he had to ask for my number anyway.

Maybe it's just me, but some of these "gambits" Mystery is teaching are really just tricks that girls will see through. I'm sure he does quite well with the ladies, and I'm sure most of the guys on the show will learn quite a bit from Mystery. (Let's face it tho, even the promo says these guys have zero game.)

I say this - if you're going to ask someone out - can't you do it in a straightforward manner? Does it have to be gambits and openers and storytelling?

Oct 15, 2008 5:15 PM

Guest :

wow, not to comment on the grammar on the comment below...

I think you do have a valid point, but that is because you are thinking of all these things as lines or tricks.

In the end, what is more original, a gambit or just "hi, I'm tom, whats you're name?"

though the gambit and method is not original in that it focuses on given lines and such, it is far more original than the ordinary opener given by shy, incompetent men. Eventually, the method is made to form around your own personality to create you own, unique style.

But none the less, if these things are given as lines and the other aspects are ignored (confidence, body language, tone, situational, etc.), then yea, you are right. No one would fall for them.

That applies for everything. Saying I love you while looking deep into someones eyes just before going to sleep is far different than saying I love you to the same person before work. Same words, different effect and emotion. It's all in execution