Week 8 – Saturday

Saturday's seminar was let by The Don. It was pretty much a review of attraction. The things that did stand out was his way of splitting attraction into Disqualification + DHVs. I noticed his style focused a lot on disqualification, with much of it being self-deprecation based (from Big Business's 10 types of disqualification). It wasn't as well categorized as Big Business's seminar, but then again, Big Business has been working on splitting up disqualification for the purposes of making a seminar all about it.

There wasn't too much new material, so didn't learn too much on the theory side. The in-field was a much better venue, and one we used during Future's BC when he was in LA a while back. I helped students get into sets, opened 1-2 sets (need to open more…), but the reason I wasn't opening was because I found it difficult to find the median between being assigned to follow a student around, and going to talk to girls myself. Every time I saw girls that I would open, I would send the set in. Need to talk to Mr. M about how he goes about handling this balance. By 1AM, when the students were more on their own, there weren't really any girls I could pick out that I was interested in. Boo…

The in-field turned out to be tremendously helpful for me though, as I got to see Mr. M up close with a few sets. After seeing so many instructors, Mr. M really is my best model in terms of subcommunications and general persona in set. I've tried the high-energy explosion of Big Business and Future, but I get caught in it, and it hurts my sexual intent. In the sets that have gone really well over the past few weeks, I have more or less taken on the style of Mr. M… that is, rapport based and lower energy, but sexually charged and with aggressive subcommunications.

It was great getting to see it in action from the man himself again, and this was by far the most useful part about this weekends bootcamp. It's something I can take to set as a model for what I do… I'll be writing a separate post on this later.