Great point. Well said.

Law 25: Re-Create Yourself

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

Law 17 does make brief mention of “Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit. Yet most men do not realize this power. They prefer the comforts of routine, of giving in to the animal nature that has them repeating the same compulsive actions time and time again. They do this because it requires no effort, and because they mistakenly believe that if they do not unsettle others, they will be left alone. Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initiative on his side. You sometimes need to strike without warning, to make others tremble when they least expect it.” You should have quoted this context rather than quote the chapter summary, and your point is better suited by law 25.

I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a ’64 Impala

I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I could get with Leoshi
Cause she don’t know me but yo she’s really fine
You know I see her all the time
Everywhere I go, and even in my dreams
I can scheme of ways to make her mine
Cause I know she’s livin phat
Her boyfriend’s tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that

If you speak a few words iin another language and the foreign person you’re speaking to looks at your weird you default out of familiarity to your native language…

But the more you perservere, the more you come to recognize the patterns and the reactions are just that…reactions from girls: shit-tests, surprise, etc…

Many reactions to my game surprise me. In some cases, girls I’m gaming try to out-game me…

I had a girl I’m gaming totally try to flip the switch on me today…at our dance class, she turned me down, then got up with some AFC.

Rather than being upset, I grabbed the hottest chick in the place…then grabbed girl I’m gaming’s friend. I don’t know why or what the girl’s game was…to make me beg, to shit-test, to embarrass me to get hand….

But the old me..would have defaulted to a “Hey, what’s wrong?” or tried harder to win her approval or get her to agree.

It felt awkward for me to walk away. But the result was interesting.

Girl who was gaming me…suddenly posted a photo of me dancing with her friend.

Hamster is spinning.

When you game, you get all sorts of reactions. The default position is to go back to nice guy AFC if the girl gets upset.

But if you look at the girl’s reaction as girl game…it only means it’s game on.

Also, after gaming hot girl, she flaked on me with a lame text about not feeling well 3 hours before our meet up.

I had spent time with this girl, chatting, dancing, email. It was cocky-funny, but aloof and always tight. She still flaked.

The old AFC me would have said “hope you feel better….”

New me waited 3 hours before replying, then 5 minutes after the agreed upon meeting time I replied with “Oh. Just got this. If we meet up again ur buying”

She replied 1 hour later playing along with “ok i will let you know when I’ve saved up enough in my piggy bank” a lame attempt to recover and a game-message that she’ll contact me when she’s back in town.

It feels uncomfortable pushing back, pushing, pulling, and teasing.

But after a while, it becomes more natural.