Day 41 - Keychain

Hey guys! Today we had a talk from London_Hunk on comfort game. I rocked up at his place only to see Virgo...we always bump into each other when we're out sarging (his recent 40-day daily-sarge challenge coincided with Rockstar so we were out a lot!). Little did I know that he's an NLP expert training for his Master's Practitioner qualification!



I've read a little on NLP in the past and have applied various of its mindsets and techniques to my life. So it was really fantastic to have Virgo give the full picture as well as relate it to Game. He basically condensed the whole 'Introduction to NLP' course into a single talk - amazing. Chatting to him afterwards, I am amazed by his motivation and energy for self-improvement. He works an insane job and has so many crazy projects/interests on the go that my mind boggles how he fits it in! Much respect.

At these Rockstar talks, often I learn just as much in other's individual chats with the speakers after their talk. I can usually be found hanging from the ceiling, Spiderman-style, trying to eavesdrop on these conversations!

Blackswan asked very insightful questions about how to apply NLP to learning and retention of knowledge etc... Awesome tips from Virgo about allowing/trusting that all experience is stored in the subconscious. One of Virgo's areas of expertise is in the whole area of practically applying this principle.

I asked a little about how Speed Seduction fits into NLP (and learned that is based on two main principles: 'an emotion felt from a memory is the same as an emotion felt from a present experience' and anchoring. In other words, Ross conjures up an emotion by leading the subject through a memory - perhaps a fun experience on a rollercoaster. This puts the subject in a positive emotional state, which the SS practitioner can then anchor to himself).

London_Hunk's talk was excellent. The others have summarised the full content very well, but I'd love to go into some of my personal highlights.

1) London_Hunk gave an excellent breakdown of 12 techniques to use in comfort. His ideas on cold reading were especially good!

2) His emphasis on genuinely caring about people. According to London_Hunk, yes you can use techniques to 'game' comfort, but it's a whole other level when you actually begin to care about people. You can ask the 'Interview' questions and have it come off great if you really care and are interested. I've been watching RSD's Foundations course (which is awesome btw) and a lot of this dovetails.

3) The way I see it, London_Hunk's main focus is on non-game issues - he's into building a great lifestyle with health, wealth and relationships all at peak. So when he talks about game, he always comes at it from a 'life application' angle. Yes, he knows all the standard game subject matter and includes it, but he regularly disappears down non-game tangents which end up being very useful indeed.

Great stuff.

Laters,

Keys