 Welcome back to the 21 convention. I hope everybody had a great lunch. Our next speaker has been supporting the convention since 2008. He is the world's number one pickup artist. Welcome, Adam Lyons. Awesome. Hey guys, it's good to be back. I like it in Orlando. I know the 21 convention sort of like traveled around and being sort of everywhere. Orlando feels like home. It's like this is where it started. Got a lot of new faces. There's so many people here that I sort of haven't seen before, which is really cool. I want to talk a little bit before I get going. I've got a pretty fun talk for you guys. We're going to be covering something. It's one of those topics that's like a staple in the pickup community. It's like everyone knows it and yet no one actually knows how to use it or how it works. So I kind of want to just bring that up a bit and sort of explain to you a number of different ways to use this really powerful technique. But before I get into that, I kind of want to explain about getting an idea of kind of like the kind of people that we've got around us and the kind of people that you guys are. So very quickly before I start, how many of you guys are like a very would consider yourself sort of like amateurs? You're like new to this. You want to get good? Just a show of hands. Two, three, four, five, six, a few of you. Okay. And now how many of you would say you're sort of quite proficient at this? You've been doing this for a while and you're pretty good. Raise your hands. So, okay, so that's that's much less. One guy's like, I'm not sure. I'm in between. I'm kind of, I'm kind of, you know, depends who you compare me with. He's like, you know, if you compare me to somebody who's really bad, I'm good. You can pay me somebody who's really good. I'm bad. Okay, that's that's where he is. Okay, cool. First of all, I like to think about where did we come from? What, you know, why, why do we suck? Why, why were we not very good? And I've got a lot of theories about this and we're going to be looking into that a little bit. One of the big ones is I think I can pinpoint the exact moment my game started dropping. I came from a really interesting background. So I'm going to share this with you. I've never shared this before. It's a funny thing. In my local layer, it became like a funny thing to talk about like Adam's background. They'd be like, when it first came out, everyone's like, oh my God, really? They're your parents? I'll be like, yeah. And they're like, man, it's crazy. My, my mom was a stripper and my dad was a, like a croupier for Playboy Casino. And so they were, they were my parents and everyone's like, oh my God, you came from that background. You needed to learn games like you're the one, you know, you're bringing foundation, pulling it all together and showing everybody how it should be done. You learned the game and you went back to where it was. And I'm pretty sure I would have been a natural, pretty sure a long time ago, I think I would have been a natural, but I know when it happened. I can exactly pinpoint what happened. There I am going out at school, hanging out with all of my classmates at school, sort of like little Adam. And as I'm hanging out there, I see this girl and we start floating. Now, this is like, you know, eight-year-old floating or whatever. It's not real floating. It's kind of like you look at each other, you smile at each other, she smiles at you, you giggle, you look away from each other. It's that kind of like silly little floating, you know? We were before the stage of handing each other notes in class and probably just before the stage of telling our friends to tell the other we liked each other, but we'd gone past the point where we hated each other and we're hitting each other. You know, it was like that kind of stage. And so, I'm there and I finally get the courage to go up to this girl and sort of tell her what I think about, tell her that I like her. And there's like a little old me, maybe I was 9, 10, whatever, but I was only a little. And I go up to her and I'm like, hey, I just want to say like I really like you and I wonder if you want to go to the school dance. And all her friends are with her and they look at me and they go, no. She wouldn't want to go and dance. Why would she want to dance with you? She's much better than you are. And that was the start of the end of my ability to observe what was going on. Because what happens is I learnt that when a girl is attracted to me, when a girl is showing me a sign of interest, actually it means she doesn't want me. And that takes shape in the rest of my life. So you can now fast forward 15 years from that point and now I'm sort of like, you know, 23 and I see a girl in the bar and she looks at me and she smiles and she looks away. And I learn, oh, she's waiting to, you know, to let me down. She's going to make me look bad. She's going to make a fool of me. I better not talk to her. That's what I learnt. That was like my process of growing up. And then it took coming to game to realize that actually that isn't necessarily true. What happened in the past was she had bad friends. There were social groups going on. Her friends were jealous or whatever the reason was. But that literally was one of about a thousand things that stopped me from potentially being the natural. Like I may have been able to be. And my argument about game, I don't think everyone's like natural is not natural. I don't think there's such a thing as a natural. I think we're all naturals. I think inside every single one of you, you have the ability to be good. Just get an idea. Who here agrees with that? Who here thinks actually inside them, raise your hands high so I can see. That's like the whole room, right? Every single one of us does believe that. And like, this is a really big point. And I hate the guys that are sort of like, oh, you know, I studied this natural or whatever or this natural is really good. You know, we're all good. Just some of us have different problems in our past. We have issues and we don't see things necessarily the way they should be. Perception is a very important part of reality. It's a very important part of game. Today, I'm going to be teaching you a little bit of voodoo mumbo jumbo stuff. I'm going to show you how to fuck with reality a little bit. So I want you guys to pay attention to what's going on. Not just what I'm saying, but the way I'm saying it. Because we're going to be revisiting some of what I'm talking about and showing you that actually what's going on up here might be a little bit more than meets the eye. And there will be people that don't see it. There will be people that are like, no, there's nothing going on there. But they're just not really focusing on actually what's going on behind the words in the subtle subcommunication. If you think about it, the majority of communication isn't done by the actual words. It's done by the subtle, nonverbal communication that we use. And I'm going to start getting you guys to maybe wake up to some of the verbal subcommunication we use. Not the nonverbal stuff, but the verbal subcommunication, which is also going on. So we're going to be revisiting that. It's going to get a bit complicated, but try and bear with me and hope you guys understand. Before I go on, just out of interest, obviously we've spoken about guys that are shy and sort of like a little bit unconfident, which is definitely where I was. Standing up on stage was something that was always going to be scary for me. I always liked the idea of being up on stage. I remember as a kid, I wanted to sort of like do public speaking, but I was always scared of doing it. And I forced myself to do public speaking classes as a kid. And so I'd get up there on stage. I remember being really scared, and it was only the more I did it, the better I got at it. And games, the same thing. When I first came up with the idea of doing game, it was very scary. The idea of talking to someone I've never met before, talking to a girl, that's a very scary process. And yet, the more I did it, the easier it got. So again, just a question. How many of you here are scared of approaching still? How many of you is that a problem for? Raise your hand. That's a very small number, right? There's a few of you guys. Some of you are still scared. Okay. The more you do it, that lessens, but it never really goes away. As a complete set of everything, how many of you would be okay coming up on stage? Sorry, how many of you would be scared about the concept of coming up on stage and giving a public speaking talk? Raise your hand if the idea of standing up on stage scares you. Just... No one. That's awesome. Now everyone's hands are going up. One, two... Anyone else? Raise your hands high, guys, so we can see one, two, three. Yeah, right. All right, cool. Let's just get an idea. Cool. So what's really fascinating is a lot of you guys would be a lot more comfortable coming up on stage than you would actually going out and meeting girls and talking to girls, which is ironic, because one of the biggest fears that people tend to have is actually public speaking and going up on stage. So all of these things you can get rid of by practice. The more you do something, the better you get. But being armed with the correct tools for practice helps. You guys see what I'm saying there? Having the correct tool when you go out in practice ensures that you've got a much higher success rate than if you went out there alone. Imagine going to fight a war and someone said, all right, Son, are you ready? Here's your little pea shooter here, your catapult. You're going to go with that. Everyone else has got AK-47s. But you've got good spirit, good heart, I believe in you. No, they're setting you up for failure. If you've got the right tools before you go out there, you've got a good chance of success. Now, having said that, the situations that you're going to be meeting, they don't require actual physical tools. They require verbal tools. And so during this talk, we're going to be talking about the power of qualification and how qualification can actually empower you in a number of different situations to bypass situations and problems that you may be having and also how to use it to refine the work that you're doing. Now, let's start off with...