Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Building a Social Circle

One of the most fulfilling things about the Charima Arts Method is the ability to use it in all aspects of your life. An important step in becoming a confidant high value male is building a strong social circle.

Guys have a weird homophobic fear of talking to other guys unless they are rooting for a sports team together or at the same occupation. Over and over clients are reluctant to approach a lone guy or group of guys at a bar. I simply encourage them to do it without a lot of tips or explanation. What they find is it is very easy. Most guys, who are not already talking to a woman, are very open to talking with you. They want to look cool so they certainly don’t seem friendly. However, if you approach them the same as you would a woman, with a nice warm vibe, you will find they are actually really happy to talk to you.

My only suggestion on talking to guys is mention women in the first couple minutes of the conversation. If you do this they will know you are not gay and trying to hit on them, and what group of guys doesn’t want to talk about the hot women in the bar? Instant conversation!

Once you connect with more guys in your everyday life start getting their phone numbers and invite them to do things with you. Believe me, once you number close a strange guy and see how non-homosexual it feels, it will be easy.

Start developing things in your life you enjoy doing and then start inviting men and platonic women every time you do these things. It may be slow at first but more and more your invitations will start being accepted and you will start getting invitations of your own. My rule here is NEVER if you can help it, turn down an invitation. That is a sure way to not get another invite. Even if you can only make a brief appearance do so. It will show you are a social guy who will show up if someone invites you.

Build your life into an interesting adventure with lots of hobbies, sports, or outings. It will make you happier and more confident, then start including other people as well. This will ensure if you are trying to build a good social circle you will have a life that is attractive to other to be a part of.

Two other tips: first, if you have a nice house or apartment, start throwing house parties! This is a great way to get people to know you and build your social proof. Second, don’t spend every night sarging! Take time to spend dating and going out with the large list of phone numbers you get while living your life and the times you do go out to the bars. The other nights spend going out with friends. If you want to do an approach or two, great, introduce your non-community friends to new women. They will definitely want to hang out with you then!

My thought I want to leave you with. If guys are going out sarging every night when do they have time to go out with all the women they meet? I found I could barely go out once a week without having too many women to call and juggle on all of my other free nights. Makes me wonder a bit about the community guys I see out at the bar every night. I think it is a good thing to go out sarging once a week and then the rest of the week go out with the women you are dating and your friends the rest of the nights. Don’t have a bunch of women to date yet? Go out with friends and do some approaches here and there the other nights. That way you can practice meeting new people and introducing them to your group. Merge sets, and introduce your friends to new people.

I think the best advice I can give a lot of guys in the community on building a strong social network is don’t give up your non-community friends. Build those relationships stronger. Also stop talking game 24/7!!!! Try having normal conversations and making non-community friends.

Good luck, here is a goal; invite at least one stranger who is a guy out to do something this week. You will find it is easier than you think!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was funny when I read this cuz I found exactly that....especially cuz I dress metrosexual, guys can be put off so I quickly have to give a strong masculine vibe and talk about chicks. Or else they get all weirded out. Little do they know who they are talking to. Heh heh.

Question: So does the same apply to mixed sets, I presume? Do you have to be lower key about it so that the guys aren't put off that you're really there to find out if you can game their chicks.

Anonymous said...

Agree 100%. It's nice just to go out and have fun with your friends. Have a life. When you DO meet a hot babe, what are you going to tell them you do in your spare time? Study PU?

Mitesh said...

Amen

Charlie Brown said...

I’ve already tried to talk to strange guys in clubs. It’s cool and fun to meet new guys, but when you already have a lot of friends and you don’t even have time to see them all regularly, adding new AFCs to my social circle not really that important. But being able to recognize people when you walk in a venue is surely a great asset. I wouldn’t mind befriending a couple naturals though. I’ve been close to too few in my life.

Anonymous said...

How do you reinitiate conversations with people you have already done intial getting-to-know-you talk/questions? If i haven't done anything interesting since we talked yesterday, i've always waited for the other person to come up with a conversation topic after the "hey. whats up."

Anonymous said...

"Once you connect with more guys in your everyday life start getting their phone numbers and invite them to do things with you. Believe me, once you number close a strange guy and see how non-homosexual it feels, it will be easy."

It's OK Dan, there's no shame it, plenty of people are like that these days.
So tell us about the first time you had feelings for a boy...
xxx G.

Anonymous said...

Man, this blog keeps getting better and better. It's my main reading on the internet these days, and I look foward to every entry like a snow globe wrapped in a little wooden box with ribbons or the UPS man delivering my new violin.

Anonymous said...

I'm always looking for people who can add to my enjoyment of life. IE. If a guy can surf, snowboard, plays some kind of activity I'm interested in, drinks!, etc. He could be fun to get to know and hang out with once in a while.

On reinitiating conversations... It took me a while before I believed this, but people who are friends just have non-sequitor conversations sometimes. Have you ever noticed you start talking about the most random of things with your friends? It's something we all do, just talk about whatever is on your mind. (Paris Hilton getting arrested for DUI. hah)

Resilient said...

One of the biggest challenges I'm finding is not talking pick-up with my community friends. We have a naturally tendency to always discuss pick-up or in between open criticism between sets and I think that kills the vibe.

I'm working on talking business and hobbies with them, but it ain't easy when women are always our default topic. I agree on the social circle drill. Invite others out to events, and then introduce friends to friends as the Alpha Nice guy, which will have higher long term social pay offs when people begin to take notice of the charisma!

Try mingling with the people who are playing shuffle, darts, and pool.. they will be happy an outsider noticed them and can introduce you into their social circle if you're real cool with them.

Non-sarging in sarging venues totally takes the social anxiety pressure off and a lot more enjoyable in own's skin.