Thursday, May 1, 2008
Progress
Ok guys, sorry i haven't I haven't been posting but I've been pretty busy with school lately and really I haven't done much sarging to post about. I have however progressed quite a ways to some of my goals and especially in expanding my social circle. I wanted to take a minute and post about that exact social circle and the project I've been working on reversing your preselection or your "street cred" in high school.
In grade 10 I was super popular, I knew almost everyone in my grade and hung out with all the grade twelves. However I was also a major AFC and when I started dating on the older girls I simply hung around her constantly and therefore losing all the social connections I made when arriving, and of course we broke up. It's come to the point where two weeks ago I had two friends that I hung around with. Since I started really trying to turn my social life around it has gone a a bit better but I don't want to have connections with the higher end high school people as well.Now, I've been studying Edward Bernays (Big PR man back in the 1900's) and some of his techniques gave me inspiration in this project. What he would do to help sell a product or some other idea is create a social event linking that product to something that was popular in that time. This gave me the idea of holding my own small poker tournament at my house on a weekend. Poker is really big right now and in my school the kids all play it (betting underneath the table of course) at lunch. I would host the event, throw in some free drinks set the buy in to fifty dollars for an eight person tournament and bam, I got a big popular event linked to me. Now, whether this will work or not of course I can't be certain until I try it out but i will keep you posted.
Also I will be moving a block away from the best day game location in my city at the end of the month so expect FR's to fly out starting then!
One question, does anybody have any pointers or suggested reading material on being funny? I heard Double Your Dating was good but I don't want to buy something before I know what I'm going to get.
Thanks guys, I'm out.
-Shadow5a
In grade 10 I was super popular, I knew almost everyone in my grade and hung out with all the grade twelves. However I was also a major AFC and when I started dating on the older girls I simply hung around her constantly and therefore losing all the social connections I made when arriving, and of course we broke up. It's come to the point where two weeks ago I had two friends that I hung around with. Since I started really trying to turn my social life around it has gone a a bit better but I don't want to have connections with the higher end high school people as well.Now, I've been studying Edward Bernays (Big PR man back in the 1900's) and some of his techniques gave me inspiration in this project. What he would do to help sell a product or some other idea is create a social event linking that product to something that was popular in that time. This gave me the idea of holding my own small poker tournament at my house on a weekend. Poker is really big right now and in my school the kids all play it (betting underneath the table of course) at lunch. I would host the event, throw in some free drinks set the buy in to fifty dollars for an eight person tournament and bam, I got a big popular event linked to me. Now, whether this will work or not of course I can't be certain until I try it out but i will keep you posted.
Also I will be moving a block away from the best day game location in my city at the end of the month so expect FR's to fly out starting then!
One question, does anybody have any pointers or suggested reading material on being funny? I heard Double Your Dating was good but I don't want to buy something before I know what I'm going to get.
Thanks guys, I'm out.
-Shadow5a
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