The truth review

norwegiandoggo · 2025-05-27T10:20:07+00:00

Yeah it's an amazing book and emphasizes the importance of good mental health as the foundation for everything.

Just having a bunch of sex won't cure an underlying feeling of inadequacy.

Fantastic-Life-2024 · 2025-05-27T11:54:27+00:00

I've read it just for entertainment really because I've never had the need to do this.

I am reading a book now called CAD which virtually has been wiped from existence which is similar to the premise.

I actually am interested in PUA because its very applicable to every aspect of life.

I've always seen it like a Shakespearean tragedy where things are great and then it goes all downhill.

Gaming was nothing I was interested in I've always preferred having women around for longer periods of time. You have to also know that the kind of people who engaged in this behaviour are built different.

I believe that you attract the person you are. I am calm relaxed person and I draw women to me that are really good women.

Relating to a large amount of women is going to expose you to crazy individuals who may ruin your life. PUA is essentially self help and broken people are drawn to it.

With that caveat in mind then you can decide whether its something you want to pursue.

Western-Month-3877 · 2025-05-27T13:31:34+00:00

if there is any the point of gaming

I’ve read it, too. Even before the book came out it’s pretty much well known there’s a dark side of the game.

But it’s just like almost everything else whenever you’re too deep in the rabbit hole. Like if you joined a religious institution, or politics, or music/movie industry, and even sports.

FriendlyWrenChilling · 2025-05-28T04:41:39+00:00

I have experience with this problem first hand. In fact, it was so traumatizing that I adapted my whole style of pickup so that I maintained my ability to find and maintain healthy relationships. What this meant for me was that I had to pull ideas from philosophy, the mainstream, pickup and spirituality together to form a holistic view of what pickup can offer.

Ofc, in this tramutation, I am not really sure that I am still teaching pickup. My style is not geared towards quick sex and hookups. Primarily I just took the ideas in pickup that generates attraction.

The problem happens when you realize that materialistic things like sex or increasing your body count don't make you happy or fulfilled. Especially with the death and destrction you leave behind you. A symphathethic person will just go "what kind of evil I just did?" with a bit of reflection.

Pickup is fine if you transmute it like how I did. You can say its an evolution into more conscious and fulfilling way to practice pickup. Internal wounds play a role in creating constant fractured relationships, but the real problem is not being able to appreciate and love your partner despite all their flaws.

I have 4 articles indexed under "relationship skills" and those will help you resolve this morality crisis of yours.

Lonely_Computer_2058 · 2025-05-27T14:57:14+00:00

Haven’t read this but I’ve been thinking about this lately.

I’m a very introspective guy and I do things like read philosophy for fun.

This wasn’t exactly good with women so I just acted lighter and masked this part of myself.

It was easy to pick up girls but I feel like I destroyed a part of myself. Every once in a while I meet women who I don’t have to hide myself and it makes me realize this this is really what I want.

Not completely related to what you’re saying, but exploring what I want in a relationship and meeting women who can meet that makes me less willing to settle for “meh” relationships.

ThatDarnSmell · 2025-05-27T17:39:12+00:00

The Truth was easily the best of the PUA era books I read and I probably read over a dozen. It was more Neil Strauss and less "Style." People get suckered into the PUA cult and forget that most of the "gurus" are just nerds who were really good at self and internet marketing to guys online with low esteem. Strauss was an outlier, though, as he was an established best-selling author even before The Game.

Even when I was in college and first read MM and The Game, I could sense a high level of bullshit. The scene was extremely cult-ish with everyone dressing similarly, talking in the same coded language, treating the "gurus" like deities and guys transforming their identity into a fake "alpha" persona that they thought would be optimized for dating

Either_Sundae6099 · 2025-05-27T20:26:42+00:00

Whilst I enjoyed "The Game" and "The Truth". I think its more for the fringe maniacs of the seduction community.

I may be wrong, but I don't believe the average user of this sub is out gaming 8 hours a day for 2 years solid, which what the "Guru's" seem to do, have done.

So whilst I agree, that obsession with Game and Seduction can corrupt a persons soul, I do not believe that implementing some Game on weekends and doing a bit of inner game work through out the week, is quite what Strauss/Style was doing.

I do think if you are looking for an excuse not to take action though, then yes "The Truth" is a good excuse to sit on your butt and do fuck all.

epimpstyle · 2025-05-27T14:23:55+00:00

This is a kind of "too much of something is as bad as too little"

It's like someone who becomes a World Champion in MMA for example, but their extreme training causes severe physical injuries, or they neglect all other aspects of their life. It's only their fault because they didn't know when to stop, but you will hear them saying later that "MMA is a bad thing"...

However, if someone faces these kinds of issues, it doesn't mean everyone will experience the exact same problems, it's unique to their personal life and experiences.

becomesharp · 2025-05-27T19:17:19+00:00

Keep in mind that less than a year after publishing this book, Neil got divorced. So take it with a grain of salt.

pre_nerf_infestor · 2025-05-30T06:36:51+00:00

there are some truths that don't make sense except to people who have lived it. Neil Strauss couldn't have written The Truth before The Game. To me the point of learning seduction is to learn that you don't need it, but I would have never had this realization without trying to learn it first, you know?

Title	The truth review
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Date	May 27, 2025 9:37 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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