Back to Basics: Hook Questions, the New Stuff.
Getting Back to Basics.
The best are not those who perform the sporadic ‘amazing’, it’s those who execute the basics better than anyone else who are in
a league of their own.
Hey everyone.
It’s been a while. Reason: been hitting it up back home in Australia. And guess what, they don’t have a whole lot of internet here.
Even where I am staying.
And, I’ve been neck deep training instructors and tuning up the natural superconference. Very productive. But right now it’s time to get back to basics.
I’ve spent some time at grass roots level again this week, both as a spectator at a lair meeting…
…and giving an RSD free workshop.
Doing program 6 nights a week and travelling from city to city only hanging with the best I tend to forget that mindset of the average community guy, where he’s coming from and what he needs.
When we as instructors are trying to focus on improving and innovating the latest stuff it’s only really applicable to the best.
While it inspires salivation to those who are ready for it, for the average community guy its waaaaaaaaaaaay over their heads.
But we take this stuff ridiculously seriously and it is the ultimate passion and the backbone of our lifestyle.
So, I hereby present a nuRSD guide for the beginner. Something you can digest right here and now, go out and use that will
orient you in line with the new school mind-set-ologies that were getting massive success with.
This is geared towards a total newbie. And for the more advanced, give it a go. Your ability to replicate the basics consistently will provide the foundations for you to springboard towards the more spectacular highlights this community has to offer.
FIRST OF ALL.
Expression not impression. When preparing to head out bear in mind that you don’t care what anyone thinks of you. Truth is they really don’t even bring you into consideration while they are obsessing over their own image projection.
But it is essential to put massive stock in the way you express yourself. Both fashionably and hygienically.
If you don’t play by the overarching social rules of the social world you simply aren’t in the game. For example, don’t smell and don’t stray more than two standard deviations from the fashion norms of the environment and the context you are in.
For example, don’t dress yourself in a way that’s outside your peer’s reality.
In fact, you can be as good as you want at anything, but if who you are and what you do isn’t in their reality then they simply will not include you in it.
Hygiene is essential. You can have a million dollar outfit, but any ungodly smell with fix your wagon before you have even set out.
You know you would think this is obvious, but I have seen countless guys oblivious to their dandruff, body odour, dirty fingernails, greasy hair, yellow teeth, bad breath and treatable acne.
All of these things are total quick, cheap fixes. No excuses not to have them covered. Furthermore get in the gym. As a man, your brain with trip-the-fuck-out if you are not engaging in some physical activity.
It will not only make you feel like a million bucks because you are taking action but you will revel in the testosterone and endorphin releases.
So, with the very obtainable pre-requisites out of the way: onto the scene.
Think new RSD think emotional communication, think inner game.
Good inner game naturally results from plenty of social and life experiences. Best way to do this of your own accord is to immerse yourself in and embrace life.
You have so many experiences in life that you truly develop harmony with the fact that you are the only common denominator.
Your focus turns to you: you are internally centred.
But if you have never been out, to those to whom this article is directed here’s a shortcut.
Social day deluxe:
In prep talk to everyone, enjoy the banter not for the content but rather the emotions that are shared. Don’t discriminate with people. Give the expression to young old, male female, attractive and repulsive.
Don’t discriminate. If you do, then when you get to that girl of any value you will place far greater value on her than anyone else.
You will find yourself involuntarily communicating massive creepy-assed outcome dependence.
Don’t discriminate. People don’t have types. Your ideal ‘type’ is some ego construct that you perceive will complete you as a
person. Yuk. “Get a real mindsets.”
People compliment you. Appreciate everyone. Like ice cream, it’s all good, you can appreciate all of them, but some flavours you will favour over others.
If I hear one more guy tell me he didn’t close because he thought the girl wasn’t his type, because he really didn’t want to risk losing the girl by escalating the interaction I’m going to be more pissed about it than I was to begin with. These folk are
essentially eunuchs.
I can just see it now, the girls all exited, she finally finds a guy willing to approach, willing to take pride in the way he presents himself to the world, a guy who’s on his path, only to be bitterly disappointed as he didn’t actually have the balls to close the deal.
She is left to thumb wrestle the little boy in the canoe.
(BTW I recently found out that mum reads this blog: hi mum!)
It’s incongruent of you not to escalate. What will happen in light of this is no more call backs, flakes and totally loss of attraction due to your lack of self trust and sense of entitlement.
So before you’re even in the club, dressed neat and smelling good you should have already spoken to plenty of people in your day. You don’t talk to them for them, you talk to them for you, to celebrate yourself, to stretch your emotional legs so to speak.
This is particularly important as you hit the club. Taxi driver, parking chode, store clerk selling you gum, bouncer, line folk, door chick, barkeep and promo girl.
To still be inside of your head after this roster of checkpoints then there is a serious problem.
‘But Alex’ I hear you say, I’m a chode victim, I’m worse than everyone.
‘Shut the fuck up’ I retort.
**argument ends**
Objectively identify that your subconscious is preventing you from moving away from your old secure reality, its holding you into place like adhesive. While sticky, it’s nothing that some applied pressure can’t overcome.
Do you want to get good at this? Yep. Detach and grow. Like a seed falling from a tree. Tough to leave the secure ‘home zone’ you will have feelings of vulnerability initially as you wonder whether you are going to make it.
You will take root and begin to sprout you will commence the formation of your own new reality. Eventually it will be strong enough that it will magnetically draw people into your reality. Some people call this having a magnetic personality.
You become the pillar.
So with that mindset objectively comprehended, your internal centred-ness increases like a computer game ‘level up’ you enter the trenches.
In field every man starts equal.
AT THE BEGGINGING OF ANY EVENT EVERY MAN STARTS EQUAL.
Michael Jordan is not better than the average rookie.
Until he gets the ball in his hands.
His game statistics start at zero just like every other player’s at the start of a game. Just like you at the start of the night. It’s not until MJ gets the ball in his hands that he begins to dictate the direction of the game.
It’s not until you take responsibility for your experience that night that it becomes a productive worthwhile night.
That said, even if you don’t make a move, you take responsibility. You take the credit of chode.
At the beginning of the night, if you even think you might possibly hesitate look around at one of the chodes in the club. Remind yourself why you are better than this chode, remind yourself that you took action and remind yourself that this is the reason why
you are entitled to glory.
First set. Hottest girl you see. This is a warm up set. Can’t expect it to hook right? May as well do it with a self perceived challenge. Nothing to lose, everything to gain. Any result at all is a massive windfall.
The purpose of the exercise is to walk up and offer value. A simple rule to follow is ‘no questions’. Involve people in what you are doing, do not try and engage them. Involving implies that you have your shit going on, attempting to engage implies detracting from their time and energy.
How, as a newbie, can you do this? Talk stories, talk about what you did today talk about your idiosyncratic intentions. But remember that if these idiosyncrasies are beyond your recipient’s reality it won’t register.
For example, a beyond reality idiosyncratic topic is graphic self imposed sex instances. Inside reality idiosyncratic topic might be the world vision child you adopted.
Talk about abstract things. Stories and hypothetical situations. You will find that while in social mood after a day of priming that these sorts of value offering topics will pop into your head instantaneously on a moment by moment basis.
On the approach.
Get yourself feeling good. Think ‘snap’ and bring on an energetic feeling in yourself. A good way to generate this is to bob your knees, clap your hands and force a smile. The forced smile will then become and natural smile as you realise how stupid it must
look.
Try it now.
Feels good huh? Good state is always at your fingertips.
Now, for the purpose of this article, for those guys who literally have zero social experience or calibration I’m going to give you a tried and tested verbal frame work to defibrillate your social life.
And while the verbal delivery itself is very simple the forces at play behind it serve a multitude of purposes.
Good game is a combination of inner game (your state and strength of reality), outer game social skill sets (logistical manoeuvres) and experience (social intuition and calibration).
I have outlined some basic ways of thinking about things and an exercise to get good state, I will outline a social structure to follow that doesn’t require an Oracle level of social insight to understand and execute instantly.
With a breaking rapport tonality your opening line is any one of the following:
Are you guys smart?
Are you guys savvy?
Are you guys insightful?
Do you guys have wisdom?
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
This opener is called a hook question. Opinion openers are dead to me. Thanks VH1.
The idea of a hook question is to seeking out someone of value to bounce an idea off. If they aren’t smart no worries and no loss. Instant move on.
Next.
Ask another girl.
As you turn away, obviously indifferent to her value as a woman your value becomes apparent much the same way as a take away works.
No chance of a blow out. You are safe. No excuses. Get in field.
For the more experienced if you were to get a non-response or negative answer to any of the above you can respond with a simple ‘good enough’.
B: Are you guys smarter than a fifth grader?
G: Nope
B: Good enough…(plow on)
Usually though you will get a dubious positive response. Then ask another hook question.
Are you guys smart?
If you already have one yes, you will most likely get another.
This is a compliance ladder in and of itself. Also, with both compliant response the girl is investing in giving you smart/smarter than a fifth grader response.
As opposed to a classic opinion opener you will not trip any sort of classic game radars in girls nor will you be coming from a pace of lower value in need of an opinion, you are essentially qualifying right off the bat.
Make note that in any interaction you set the frame in the first ten seconds.
So, with a positive high value frame established, follow by asking a simple opinion opener. For example’s sake:
1. Do guys who drink out of a straws look gay?
2. Do you know where parliament house is?
3. Do you think my hair matches my shoes?
4. How many times should a guy date a girl before sleeping with her?
5. What’s a better job, lawyer or Viking?
6. Who lies more, insomniacs or chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers?
7. Is Brad Pitt dating Angelina Jolie for love or for status?
If you aren’t new to the community you know the value of opinion openers. Simple and engaging. Anything on the front of, or
might be found on the front of a gossip magazine works well.
Thing is, in light of her compliance to the original qualifying questions she is likely to enthusiastically respond. Great, you’ve hooked.
If she doesn’t give a good and enthusiastic answer tease her on her girly anti-smartness with examples such as…
“You’re a fucking dumb slut, get a real chromosome.”
Haha, just joking don’t say that.
Seriously:
a. Hold on, I thought you were smart!
b. Dammit, why aren’t any of you girls smarter than a fifth grader, damned schools.
c. Too much drinking for you guys tonight, intuition is compromised.
d. I should charge your parents babysitter rates to chat with you guys.
Then maybe they don’t reply, next’em, preserve state.
Then maybe they fall back into your frame, give yourself credit for good plowing.
They will most likely give a perfectly smart logical response. Just like any opinion opener. But we all know that logic is the arch nemesis of emotions. Time for an immediate emotional spike. Emotional spikes correspond with above numbered opinion openers.
1. No, thing is I’m trying to look gay to score free drinks tonight!
2. Oh cool, we have a big game of capture the flag planned for after tonight’s bar session.
3. No this hair, **point to groin** I’m pretty slick on my feet, (Self entertainment) haha no I’m kidding, I’m fashionably ‘special’.
4. Oh, ok.
5. Cos as a Viking I can pillage plunder and conquer, but come to think of it lawyer is the same, it just requires study.
6. Did you know a lot of prostitutes have chronic fatigue syndrome?
7. You know probably neither, she’s pretty hot.
All the continued responses are examples of unpredictable thread chopping. These are emotional spikes, these are attractive.
These are examples of deliberate illogicality. Remember, disengage the logical brain and the emotional brain sparks up.
Not only is it deliberate illogicality, it is self entertaining. The sort of things that you might say to make yourself laugh.
The golden rule of natural game: “whatever you feel, she’s feels.”
Furthermore, when you borderline inappropriately reframe the situation you are more than likely to draw a playful shit test challenge. Breese past it and confirm your frame.
High value = attraction.
After these structural opening guides all you need is ANY story to segue into and you have yourself a set. Where you take it from
there is up to you. Just don’t prematurely eject-ulate.
I hate it when that happens. D:
Involve the group with something along the lines of…
“You guys are all sisters aren’t you!”
(Statement, they are reacting to you, cold read, self entertainment)
They will answer.
You continue…
“Haha No! I meant nuns, suppressed promiscuity !”
More thread Iron Chef-ery.
To get a number?
“Hey I have to go…but we should be emotionally close friends.”
There you go.
In short these are core mindsets combined with a basic verbal structure should be pre-product/bootcamp exposure to get you started in field.
And in understanding the mechanics behind the methods you go into field like a gun that has just been cocked.
Diagrammatically it would look like this:
Don’t forget to give her a chance to invest in you.
Attraction is not something you do for her, she has to do it herself. So stop trying.
Hook questions have hit the streets.
Opinion openers are dead.
nuRSD, Helping you to sleep soundly at night.
x o x
Alexander~,
Saad
&
Ryan (Ryan~, Yahyah, Sparky_PUA, Malcom X, Yahyah Jones Bitch)
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May 20th, 2008 at 5:55 am
yeah baby, another glorious one
May 20th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Nice choice of song.
That’s a wicked guide for the whole nuRSD thing, wish I had it a couple of months ago.
Also something cool to resort to when trusty old brain goes into shutdown mode.
get it in ya
peace dude
May 20th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Great, I’ll apply this stuff this weekend.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:21 am
You know that MJ stopped playing basketball like 5 years ago, right?! Use LeBron James in your next example =)
Good post! Always good to go through the fundamentals. It’s funny how I’m getting a different kind of value from posts like this after bootcamp. It’s so clear what you’re talking about, because I can truly relate what you write to real experiences.
Keep em coming!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Thanks Alex,
Amazing stuff.. was lacking something like that for me. I’m doing a lot of field before my bootcamp.. so this information is very valuable.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:30 am
awesome post. this goes very much with my style. =) thanks man! also thanks for the facebook add yo. Keep rockin.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:35 am
“Attraction is not something you do for her, she has to do it herself. So stop trying.”
Awesome. Gold. 5 stars. Cookies and cupcakes.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Wooop, i’m the first.
Quality as always Treas. Yes, although post Blueprint timez most of us have been focusing on the inner mechanics, one cannot discard the outer that brought us so much success to this point.
I find as i go deeper into the rabbit hole that i want to just rely on inner. Maybe one day when i become Yoda, but for now i’m still a Jedi!
Hawkz v Lions must be soon too
J
May 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I take a Bootcamp
May 20th, 2008 at 9:19 am
All outer game things since MM are still based on those fundamental principles. I like the breakdown of this though, and it seems stripped down to the core concepts of outer game. This is like MM without any extras, making you rely on your own charms. I’m not so sure opinion questions are dead as openers though. I lose maybee 1 in 100 sets because of “Hey guys, quick question”, so I still use them. One thing I should mention though is using emotional openers. What do you think of these?
EX: I roll up to a set, and they are three cute lil birdies. They are having an “I can’t believe you let her do xyz” conversation. I parrot the subject matter, and get a prompt “FUCK YOU, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE!!!”. A totally emotional response. Having read Deida the same day, I reply with [HUGE HUGS TO TARGET] “Thats OK, I LOVE YOU!” {totally emotional reply}. Target replies with “OH MY GOD, I LOVE YOU TOO”, and [Huge hugs me back]. Her girlfriends pull her out of my arms and spirit her away.
Food for thought.
Cheers, the groundraven!
May 20th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Awesome blog post. Once a month isn’t enough!
May 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Ahhhhhh, outer game extravaganza!
NYC Times deluxe
May 20th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Outer Game Glorious Extravaganza…well done science
May 20th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Good article and jacket Alex, will there be a part two with concepts like plowing, Handling groups?
May 20th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Very good stuff. Keep the outer game coming!
Ares
May 20th, 2008 at 11:07 am
2!
May 20th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I’m liking the idea of asking 2 simple low compliance hook questions, building that ‘yes’ ladder, before the opinion opener. Rather than the opinion opener right off the bat, which agreed can come across as too gamely obvious, plus requires a larger compliance due to it requiring more investment.
Cool very good thinking.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Really good stuff.
I don’t really pay or care for the real specifics of conversation but in saying that I can see this working very well.
Nice article.
Props.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Great stuff. Really hit home with me.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Good to have you back Alex.. Article is brilliant and a very good reminder of the important basics..!
May 20th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Nice article my dear friend! An advanced look at the basics. Makes a nice change!
May 20th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
This is like Foundations scrunched up into a glorious piece of work
May 20th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
“Are you guys sisters?”
WAY better than what came to my brain in the moment a few weeks back and got me blown out hard by the UG:
“Tell me you are mother/daughter!”
Uhhhhhh hahaha
Great article
May 20th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Ring Ring Ring… Banana Phone….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vWm47yPLGc&feature=related
May 20th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
whoa mate…
now I know why you were up all night building that snazzy diagram… wicked stuff as always.
you really get to the core of things.
T
May 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Nerds! Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
Good stuff mate, thanks for reminding the basics of the basics.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Wicked article! I’m going into free insane value overload!
May 20th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
this is great, looking forward to my bootcamp with you on june 6-8, see you in chicago
May 20th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Pretty interesting, but very incongruent to me at this point.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Thanks for the article man. I love how easy you make it. I just gotta get it into my head and then out of my mouth in field. Will let you know how it goes.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Ill see you in 2 weeks……In CHI TOWN!!!!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
powerful insight to nuRSD man. niice.
*two thumbs up*
May 20th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Excellent job, mate. Lovin’ this
May 20th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
This is the new shit!
Hook questions > opinion openers
Happy to see the blog updated!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Feed the kids, boss.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Im not quite understanding the graph at the end. Teach me bro! ;D
May 21st, 2008 at 5:15 am
Glorious.
.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
That’s right Mate. These boys need to…
Harden the F&#K UP!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y
Chopper!
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Beginners guide to debauchery..but expression leads to creativity which leads to mastery which leads to random topics of glory which leads to….who cares liquid drama exclusive!!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Werd, great post… really straightened me out!
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
This comment is completely gonna rock your boat!
Why ask questions at all, when you can make cool statements, or just be totally amazed by her dress, without ever admitting it’s a compliment. “No-no, that wasn’t anything NEAR a compliment!”
May 24th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Yow, now I can send this shit to my newbie friends who don’t grasp the mindsets of RSD.
WOooooooooo fun times and fun tools to self amuse with.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Omg. Alex i field tested this opener method and…it is POWERFULL. Example: Just Yesterday, i did the strawopener.
HB walks by, i totally check her out. She sees me blatantly checking out her awesome body and looks at me curiously. I roll up and in VERY rapport breaking mode I sneer: Are you smart? etc. etc. Like you said it immediately establishes a dominant/submissive frame,but to an idiotic degree. After EVERY question i asked, like for example:
ME: Where you from. (notice there’s no question mark, i don’t ask i demand statements)
HB: Im from XXX, is that ok with you?
ME: So do you have any other piercings except that one?
HB: No no no! is that ok with you?
me thinks: what the hell..she’s practically eating out of my hand, i’ve had that before but never this fast and to this degree. and it wasn’t just with this girl but with others as well!! Throw out this opener in sexual woo-state and inevitably glory times will ensue.
So….THANK YOU ALEX :d :d ROCK ON MY BOY
May 25th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
This glorious fucking awesome! I’m gonna try this! Bless you, Alex
May 25th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Loved this post about “back to basic”.
Michael Jordan practice every day to hit the basket, Fedor Emilianenko (MMA champ) practice his takedowns every fuckin day, this is so very KEY if you want to get good at any skill.
Thanks for the reminder!
Keep posting man, you rock!
May 26th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Just stumbled on to your blog…fucking nice!
Keep it up!
July 20th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I find this blog very interesting, i will be here everyday till now. Greetings
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
I love this. I’m definitively a complete beginner, and what I find hard is approaches and openers. I’m hopelessly over-analytical (being a software engineer and all, and a particularly geeky one at that) and shaking free of it is very hard – “step by step” guides are great “training wheels” to take away the excuses for not doing anything.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Man! I will use this to get myself outta KJ Chode mode!
September 14th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Hey, thanks Alex. I like to see basic stuff like this. Reading about advanced stuff all the time dosen’t really help me, since i’m still a newb. Kewl.
September 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
simply goodness
September 17th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Alex you rock dude, I’m having trouble keeping up with all the stuff you write
September 24th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
good site frwxei
September 30th, 2008 at 2:21 am
All theories and falacies. You.are.stangnant. Rise again.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
You sexy aussie, quality stuff as always.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:03 am
dude, it was awesome
April 24th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Brillant, Alex!
I’m from Brazil, and you’ve helped me so much! Thanks man
May 11th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Alexxxxx, fantastic post mate.
Representing us Aussie’s! I like I like
Keep up the good work, your posts are always insightful and helpful.
Thanks