Just some thoughts on negs. A lot of people take neg to mean saying something negative to a girl, which is understandable because "neg" sounds like a shortening of "negative". On reading what Mystery wrote about negs I get a very different understanding. I'm sure you are all familiar with the concept of value, DLVs (demonstrations of lower value) are to be avoided, while DHVs demonstrations of higher value) are the way to go. If you approach a girl and start paying her compliments and buying her drinks that is a DLV. She'll enjoy the attention, but she'll know that she can do better. If you can avoid that kind of behaviour and DHV then she'll slowly begin to suspect that you are actually of higher value and can do better than her, which will make you very interesting to her. Value can be lost a lot quicker than it can be gained.

My understanding of Negs is that they are actually a very subtle mechanism to fast forward to being higher value. Let's take an example - "Nice nails, are they real?". The first half of the sentence, "nice nails", is a deliberate DLV. You paid her a compliment, thus rapidly pidgeon holing yourself into the lower category. The second half of the sentence, "are they real", is a massive and sudden reversal. It's not actually rude, but it's something that a guy trying to pay a compliment would never say. For a split second she'll subconciously label you as lower value before suddenly realising that she'd made the wrong assessment. She judges you as lower value then reverses that judgement (and the opposite of lower value is higher value).

This is a shortcut through the phase where your value is ambiguous. Instead of her slowly coming to realise your highter value you take a shortcut into lower value then flip it around into higher value.

Does this sound right to you?