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Video: Mind Control In Action

By Derek Rake

Derren Brown is an illusionist who frequently uses mind control and hypnosis techniques in his stage and TV shows. His debut performance in 2000, “Derren Brown: Mind Control” quickly established him as one of the preeminent illusionist and mentalist in the world with a tour-de-force display of cognitive psychology, auto-suggestion, cold reading and advanced hypnosis techniques such as fractionation.

Watch this video where he induced “temporary amnesia” on random strangers he met on the train using some rather powerful conversational hypnosis techniques –

(Disclaimer: we are not affiliated with nor endorsed by Derren Brown in any way. Copyright and trademarks belong to Derren Brown and his company. All legalese aside: we love Derren because he’s pretty awesome!)

There’s plenty to take away from this video, but for today we are going to highlight two particular mind control techniques that Derren used to great effect in the video:- Anchoring and Pattern Interrupts.

Anchoring

Jordan Hill’s legendary Manipulation Black Book is now available for free as part of the Shogun Method Mobile Pluspack

Notice that in each instance, Derren had placed multiple anchors on the subject which he then finally triggered by tapping the subject in between the eyes.

It’s quite obvious where the influence is: Jordan Hill’s classic Manipulation Black Book!

I’ve talked at length about anchoring (and classical conditioning) here in a previous Insider’s Guide so I won’t go into the details in today, but this shows just how effective (and covert!) anchoring is, and you MUST, must always place anchors on a woman when talking to her. The key is to make it as natural as possible, or you’ll creep her out (why are you touching my inner thighs??).

Pattern Interrupt

Pattern Interrupt is the core of the Strawberry Fields routine inside the Dark Rake or the classic Three Souls routine inside Dark Rapport. If you use a “big enough” Pattern Interrupt then you will cause a woman to forget what she is talking about (important when she’s dominating and you’re losing control of the conversation), and you can redirect her consciousness to where you want it to go. Pretty powerful stuff.

Let’s get a discussion going on how to use a combination of these two techniques to build rapport with a woman and control her mind. When have you used these tactics, and how effective were they?

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Derek Rake’s Story

By Derek Rake

about-derek-rake

From my work here at DerekRakeHQ (and the blogs and magazines that you have read), you may think that I’ve always been one of the world’s biggest authority on mind control attraction while in fact I was the total opposite.

You see, back when I was in my mid 20’s, I was just a regular guy with a job as a computer programmer in a mid-sized company. I made pretty good money, I drove an Acura, and I was renting a nice one-bedroom apartment in Chicago overlooking the lake. While I was not handsome by any standard, I was what most women would agree to be moderately decent looking. Also, I made sure that I was in shape by working out regularly, and I had smart, clean clothes on me, all the time.

And despite all this, everywhere I go, no women would hardly ever take a second look.

OK, it’s embarrassing for me to admit this to you now, but when it came to women, I was a complete and utter disaster. In fact, I would only be half joking if I would tell you that my dating life was as dry as Fred Flintstone’s feet.

As you can imagine, it was extremely frustrating because whenever I am attracted to a woman, she was never attracted to me in return. Now looking back, I could understand why this was so because whenever I would meet a beautiful girl, I would totally freeze up, or worse, start fidgeting uncontrollably and nervously.

Even since I was a kid, I had always been awkward socially, and I found small talk to be especially tiresome and excruciating. I was painfully insecure.

And for these reasons, as you can imagine, I wasn’t exactly the most popular guy around.

At my workplace, for example, I almost never get invited to drinks after office hours. And women in the office usually avoided me like a plague because they didn’t want to feel uncomfortable.

I found that they even had a joke name for me which they had called me behind my back, and it was “Derek McFly”. Yes, they nicknamed me after George McFly. You know, the ugly, eccentric, socially-awkward loser from the movie Back To The Future.

They nicknamed me after this nerd

They nicknamed me after this nerd

Yes, it was that bad.

I Thought I Was Destined To Be Lonely Forever

So for a very long time, I had fully resigned myself to the fact that I was destined to be alone forever. And so when Brandy, the new girl in the marketing department gave me her number, I completely transformed into a nervous wreck.

Deep down I felt that she was totally out of my league and I thought she was trying to pull a fast one on me because I was convinced that there was no chance in hell that she would even be remotely interested. Yes, that was how low my self-esteem was… I kid you not.

forever-aloneI thought she was really pretty with her straight brunette locks and dark hazel eyes… and I would do anything to have her as my girlfriend… anything. She was so perfect… a ten out of ten, no doubt about that.

The best thing about her was that she didn’t treat me like a social leper like the others. She would come sit next to me in the office pantry during lunch because being the social misfit I was, I would be usually be eating all my myself.

She was so nice to me that I finally managed to convince myself that she liked me for real, and I then mustered enough courage to ask her out on a date on a Saturday night. To my surprise, she agreed (yay!), and I went all out to make sure that she had a good time. Champagne, candlelight dinner, expensive roses, limo rides, you name it.

We had one heck of a time. But except for the thirty seconds when she let me held her hand while we crossed the road, she showed me no signs at all on how she felt for me.

At the end of the date, as I walked her out of the limo to her door, I awkwardly tried to give her a goodnight kiss. As I tried to press my lips against hers, she turned her face away in disgust, and my heart sank.

The worse part was that when I saw her at the office on Monday, she seemed to have turned really cold towards me.

brandy-mason

When we met briefly at the office pantry in the morning, I asked her what would be the best time to meet again, but she kinda avoided the question. She then told me that she was in a rush, and she asked me to text her if I needed to tell her anything important before she hurried away with her coffee. 🙁

As you can imagine, I was so nervous and confused that over the next few hours, I had sent her some seven texts and left her three voice mails. And guess what, she never replied.

(Looking back, it’s kinda ironic because if I used the Deep Connection Builder routine inside the Shogun Sequences Handbook, all this wouldn’t have happened.)

And It Just Got A Little Worse…

Over the week, I was starting to see her less and less, and I could feel that she was trying to avoid me.

I guess I should’ve gotten the hint that she was losing interest in me, but stubbornly I refused to give up the dream of having her as my girlfriend. Instead I spent most of my waking hours wrecking my brain trying to figure out something to salvage the situation and get her swinging back into my arms again.

And yet… I was getting absolutely nowhere. Soon, I turned into this complete train wreck of a human being as a result of the emotional hell ride that I was going through. As a result, my work suffered greatly… I was just so unmotivated to do anything.

Depressed, I started to call in sick, and stayed in bed for days. And when I did turn up at work, I turned up late. I was lethargic, lifeless and unproductive… I couldn’t even bear to look at myself in the mirror.

I guess you can say that I had lost my mojo.

And when I missed a couple of important deadlines at work, my 55 year old boss Duncan summoned me into his room and breathed fire in my face. He told me that if I didn’t buck up, I would be out of a job in two weeks.

Shocked, I limped out of his room with my head hung low. For the rest of that day, I tried my best to sober up… I knew I needed to put the disastrous “Brandy” episode behind me, and get my life back in order again because my job was the only thing I’ve got going for me in my life at that time. And getting fired would really as good as putting the final nail in my coffin.

So the next day I dragged myself out of bed at 6am, gave myself a short pep talk in the mirror, took a nice, warm bath, dressed myself up in my best work attire, and drove to the office.

I arrived at 7.15, and since it was so early, I was surprised to see that Duncan was already in. His room was lit up but the blinds were down and so I couldn’t see him. But I was sure he was there, because I could hear him talking to someone. Perhaps he was on the phone, I had thought.

Desperate to get back into Duncan’s good books, I made my way to his room, wanting to beg for a second chance. I couldn’t remember what I was thinking when I forgot to knock before I opened the door…

…then, right there, in that moment, I saw it.

Duncan was sitting behind his desk with his hair slightly messed up and a couple of his shirt buttons undone. A young woman was sitting on his lap and kissing him passionately while his hands hungrily fondled her hair, neck and breasts.

I was completely stunned, and I stood there unable to move for some time which felt like eternity. They were so engrossed with the act that it took them a good couple of seconds before they saw me at the door with my jaws wide open.

And when woman turned around, I finally saw who she was.

It was Brandy.

My Redemption!

As Brandy’s eyes landed on me, her face turned to shock and horror. And she started yelling at me to get out, that I should have “respected their privacy” and that I had “no right to barge into anyone’s room like that”.

Hearing this, my confusion soon turned into seething anger as my body started shaking with uncontrollable rage. And I ran out feeling deeply disgusted, slamming the door behind me.

Feeling sick to my stomach, I dashed to the bathroom and went into a stall. There, I sat on the toilet bowl and cried quietly for more than an hour, feeling really sorry for myself.

My self-esteem had indeed hit rock bottom, and man, I tell ya, I never felt so down in my whole life.

And I was disappointed not because Brandy preferred some old, fat, balding jerk over me. I was angry at myself for always screwing things up again and again. And I just couldn’t seem to break this endless cycle of pain, frustration and heartbreak.

quit-emailI then decided that enough was enough. I knew that I could not go through the rest of my life like this. And I became insanely determined to get this attraction thing handled… or I would die trying.

I told myself that I would never let failure with women imprison me again.

That night, I wrote a quick, courteous email to Duncan to tell him that I quit, and I started Googling for answers.

I typed in things like “how to meet women” and “how to make a woman fall in love with me” only to find stuff which is related to what’s known as the “seduction” or “pickup” community.

After spending some time learning some of those “Pickup Artist” stuff, I felt really turned off. Not only because they sounded really cheesy and childish, I was not the kind who would go to smoky bars and night clubs just to hit on women. One night stands with strangers were not what I was looking for.

PUA Stuff Didn’t Cut It For Me

Pickup Artist (PUA) techniques might work for some, but not me simply because my problems with women were really deep-rooted.

Your friendly neighborhood pickup artist

Your friendly neighborhood pickup artist

I had desired something deeper, something more meaningful (and maybe somewhat sinister even!)… in short, I wanted to be able to control any woman’s mind, thoughts and feelings. I wanted women to completely surrender to me, fall in love, and obey all my wishes.

And most of all, I never wanted to feel powerless with women again.

As you can see now, what I desired was way beyond what the mainstream “seduction” community could ever give me. And while most guys in my position would probably go buy the latest Pickup Artist ebooks, I went to an underground source called the Darknet.

And if you’ve not heard about the Darknet, this was where whistle-blower sites like Wikileaks and online black markets like Silk Road originally came from. Here’s Darknet’s Wikipedia entry.

As you can imagine, all kinds of dubious characters could be found lurking within the Darknet. But it was also the place where forbidden knowledge about mind control was being shared behind closed communities.

Turning To The Dark Side

I was fortunate to gain access to one such community in the Darknet dubbed the MKDELTA – named after the notorious covert mind control program masterminded by the government back in the 70’s.

The members of the MKDELTA community shared insider techniques about how to covertly control human behavior but I was only interested in one thing: how to use mind control to attract women.

The stuff that I discovered inside the MKDELTA group really blew my mind… and it was nothing that I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And you know what, this stuff is 1,000 times more hardcore than the PUA garden variety.

turning-dark

Turning “to the dark side” was the best thing I’ve done for myself

Members of the MKDELTA group knew how to guard their secrets only too well… because the truth was that the less people found out about their tactics, the better it would be for them in the know.

During the three years I was in the group I completely immersed myself in mind control techniques…

…and this was when I truly turned to the dark side.

I ended up formulating a step-by-step method on how to use stealthy mind control techniques on women and generate raw, almost animalistic attraction to me. You might have already seen this if you have access to the Dark Rapport program.

As for MKDELTA, some of its members have migrated here in DerekRakeHQ (currently hosted here) where we continue to innovate with the latest “Generation 2.0” mind control attraction techniques. It’s simply mindblowing how far we have come as a group.

After having coached more than 10,000 men, I am convinced that “going Dark” is the best way to gain an upper hand in dating and attracting women. In this day and age, if you don’t have “dark” techniques like hypnosis, mind control and specific tactics like Boyfriend Destroyers then you’ll get absolutely killed by those who do (i.e. those following the Derek Rake style of seduction). Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Anchoring + Classical Conditioning: An Advanced Seducer’s Technique

By Derek Rake

Anchor this girl!

Anchoring is a technique based on what’s known in the psychology circles as “Pavlovian response” discovered by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. In his experiment, Pavlov offered his dog (“Bruno”) some food and rang a bell at the same time. When Bruno saw the food, he started to salivate. Pavlov then repeated this process for a couple of days, always getting Bruno to salivate when near the food. Then after two weeks, Pavlov rang a bell without offering Bruno any food. As soon as Bruno heard the bell, he started salivating.

As you will see, this is what known now as Classical (or “Pavlovian”) Conditioning. What Pavlov did was to program a conditioned response (i.e. bell ring ➔ food) which would create a desired reaction (salivation), although the “reward” (food) is not offered!

You will now understand why this is useful in the context of women and attraction:- you can condition her to give her positive responses to you even in the absence of a reward. I’ll show you how to do this, step-by-step, in this Insider’s Guide today.

Now some may take offense that I am equating a woman to a dog, but it’s true. Your goal as a seducer is to get her to salivate just by thinking about you. You want to always keep her on an emotional high, and always feel great when she is with you (and by extension, unhappy when you are not around). Of course, even for the most seasoned pro, this can be difficult to do.

Anchoring Her Emotions

Here’s the key to attract a woman and make her addicted to you: you will need to create a positive Pavlovian response when she is with you, and this means that you must be able to create positive emotions within her even when there’s no reason (for her) to be feel happy.

This is where you use this Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) technique called anchoring. Technically, it refers to associating an internal response (for example, happy feelings) with an external trigger so that the response can be quickly re-accessed. This may sound too cryptic, and so here’s an example on how you can use the technique in real life.

Every time you see a woman smile, laugh, or just feel good because of anything that you have said or done for her, I want you to touch her in one of these places:-

  • Hand
  • Elbow
  • Shoulder
  • Lower arm
  • Upper arm

When you touch her at one of those specific places, say this: “That feels great.” (Note the emphasis on the word “great”.) What you want to do is to make your action as covert as possible, and you don’t want her to consciously feel that you’re touching her. Additionally, you’re also subtly reinforcing the positive feeling with your words (since if you keep saying it feels great, then it has got to feel great!).

Listen:- you must repeat this routine for three times or more. For reasons that I won’t go into in this Insider’s Guide, an anchor is set when you’ve touched her at the same place (and associating the touch with the same feeling) for at least three times. I don’t know why this is so, but it has been proven again and again as reported to me by our clients who use the White Horse Sequence (in the Shogun Sequences Handbook) and members of the MKDELTA group.

Now when you touch her again at the same place (with the same motion and pressure), you will trigger off the same feeling of excitement and happiness she experienced when you first “installed” the anchor in her. In other words, you have conditioned her to respond just like how Pavlov made Bruno salivate.

For a guide on Advanced Anchoring and Mirroring, get the Dark Rapport addon program.

Multi-Anchor Attack

Some of my advanced students can plant covert anchors for different feelings all over the woman’s body:- for example, laughter on the lower arm, excitement on the back, romance on the knee and sexual excitement on the shoulders. The possibilities are endless.

Of course, you can also place “negative” anchors if that helps your cause. For example, a particular client even installed an anchor on a woman which would make her feel sick at the thought of her boyfriend. You can see how devastating this can be this “negative anchor” is combined with our classical Boyfriend Destroyer techniques – the boyfriend would really stand no chance at all.

A word of caution: there’s a danger in overusing your anchors because she can get desensitized if you trigger them off too much, too often. A good rule of thumb:- use a particular anchor only two to three times before you “replant” the anchor with some more (actual) feelings of happiness and excitement (or dissatisfaction in the case of Boyfriend Destroyers).

A final tip: anchors are best planted early on in a conversation (the rapport building phase as per your Seduction On Steroids attraction roadmap) – when she’s on an emotional high and you’re making her feeling attractive. Inevitably, this feeling of excitement will cease (which is natural in any conversation) and her enthusiasm will start to droop. When this happens, trigger off an anchor and she’ll be back feeling excited and attracted to you again!

Now go test this technique out today and report back – post your comments below.

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How Can I Get Her Into My House… And Into My Room?

By Derek Rake

“My question has to do with this girl that I proposed to several months ago. She said she was dating somebody else that time, though. She’s the kind of girl who loves to give excuses each time I ask her out. However, there’s this one thing that I love about her: she tries to call me over the phone every single day. I eventually proposed my love to her and she responded normally. I constantly try to get her into my house, but she always has an excuse not to or doesn’t show up. I don’t know what’s going on.” – Joe B. from Trent, TX

Derek Rake’s Answer:-

If your dates were getting refused, you shouldn’t have proposed. That’s the same as reaching for her sensitive parts after she brushes away a kissing attempt. It’s just far too fast. Keep things gradual.

Women, like cats, get scared away by fast movements, so take things step by step while getting to know her more. The same goes for actually meeting up with her, too.

Before meeting a girl for your date, call her up to make sure she actually shows up. If she doesn’t and you do, she will get a massive hold on you. However, if you find out whether the date is or or not – or cancel it prior to showing up – you can still save yourself.

(This is important since human relationships depend on a power see-saw. The more power she has inside, the less power you will have. And this means that you will look less attractive to her in the end.)

The trick to this is to call her around an hour before the day and say, “Hi, something’s up so I’m running a bit late and won’t get there before 5.30” (or 15 minutes post-agreed time anyway).

If she says “Alright”, you’re great since that showed her how extremely busy you are. Plus, you will know for sure that she will be there. And, if she had plans of ditching you, she will need to mention it now. She might come up with an excuse, but it would be much better for you to get a canceled date instead of getting stood up. Try it. 🙂

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How Can I Be Dominant And Not Pushy At The Same Time?

By Derek Rake

“I’ve met a few great women that I want to consider who aren’t exactly 10s, but 8s and 9s. I’m not the greatest looking guy out there, but I’m not too shabby, either. There’s this one girl I particularly like. I feel connected to her on various levels. What would be a great way to mention I want to spend more time with her without looking pushy or forcing her into it?” – Jimmie P. from Anaheim, CA

Derek Rake’s Answer:-

Make the first move and use what you have learned in your actions. This alone can put you miles ahead of other men when it comes to women. To be honest, just ask for more dates.

Asking her “Hi, I want to spend more time with you”, though, would be a death sentence, so avoid doing this, no matter what. If you say that, you’re basically revealing that you want to spend a lot of time with her because you’re needy (even if you think this isn’t the case).

So, talk about a great adventure you’re about to go on and invite her to go. Then, schedule several more dates as each idea comes to you. Don’t talk about it directly, though, or you will scare her away.

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If A Woman Doesn’t Find Me Attractive, Will She Still Sleep With Me?

By Derek Rake

“If a woman doesn’t find me attractive, will she still sleep with me?” – Jayden G. from Seattle, WA

Derek Rake’s Answer:-

Yup. It’s known as the game of objection. But there is no way I’m allowed to speak about it in this short answer. It’s something we could get into trouble for by talking about it and MKDELTA group members will be extra pissed at me because of it. Email me if you want to know more… you know where to find me.

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How Can I Win Her Over From Somebody Else?

By Derek Rake

“I know this girl and I like her a lot. She reciprocates my feelings. She told me herself. We began talking around two weeks ago, then on Saturday, she began talking to someone else out of the blue.

I get jealous quite easily, but keep it to myself – is this a smart move? Also, what should I do if I want her to talk to me more? I like her a whole lot and want her to reciprocate the same amount of feelings.” – Curtis H. from Pavo, GA

Derek Rake’s Answer:-

I need you to accept the fact that you can’t always get the girl that you want. And you should know that she is allowed to talk to other people without it meaning anything. As a matter of fact, if she talks to you less, things will be much better for you. This is why:

When something is around all of the time, it loses its value. Like with your family, you take their unconditional love for granted because they are always there to talk to or see.

However, when something is only there every now and then, it becomes exciting and valuable, like an amusement park. You only ride roller coasters several times a year (a bit more, if you’re anything like me – an addict).

And since you don’t spend a lot of time there, it becomes an exciting and rare experience for you to cherish. The same goes for people that you see. Colleagues are taken for granted, while super model-like girls with huge tits that walk past only once in a while become valuable. Extremely valuable.

So don’t aim to be the guy she talks to more. Aim to be the guy who gets to sleep with her first instead because he is the one she will end up getting into a relationship with. I’m not sure why it works this way, exactly. (I have personal suspicions, but they’d at least fill up a whole book.) It simply does.

It has worked for me dozens of times now. I date someone. She starts seeing someone else. I sleep with her first and we end up together. Or sometimes, I date someone. She starts seeing someone else. They end up having sex first and then they date. (I learn they have sex because she tells me she’s no longer single before we get to have sex.) So aim to escalate things physically as fast as you can.

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How Can I Stop Things From Getting Boring And Burning Out With My Girlfriend?

By Derek Rake

“Recently, I got into a relationship with someone at my college and everything is great. She is my best friend now and we’re escalating a lot faster than I thought possible (we’re both virgins, by the way). Everything is actually so great that I’m afraid our relationship will start to get boring or fall downhill sometime soon.

I’m dedicated in making this work out and I want our relationship to reach its best points, so my question is: do you have any advice on how to keep things extra interesting to prevent things from ever getting boring?” – Alex H. from Chicopee, MA

Derek Rake’s Answer:-

Variety, most of all if your relationship isn’t starting to get boring yet. Remain dominant, as always, but lacking variety is usually what kills the majority of relationships out there. Fortunately, it sounds like you have a relatively new relationship going and the truth is: being virgins makes your entire relationship all the more exciting.

If – or when – you choose to have sex, the mere fact that you are exploring your sexuality like never before will keep the relationship heavy and hot for months on end. Easy. So just relax and stop over-thinking all of this. 🙂

(And if things do begin to get boring, you can just switch your everyday routine up a bit. Take her on a spontaneous vacation. Kiss her somewhere exciting and new. Go out for your dates as opposed to watching movies at home. Provided you keep doing something new and fun, your relationship will not stale out in the near future.)

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How Can I Sexually Arouse My Wife?

By Derek Rake

“After a marriage of 42 years, my wife sleeps in another bedroom. It has been a year since then and we haven’t had sex throughout that time. What can I do? I’m incredibly horny!” – John G. from Gaithersburg, MD

Derek Rake’s Answer:-

I think I’d go nuts after 42 years in a marriage. I have dated my girl for 6 years, but as much as I love her, I just can’t imagine adding on an extra 46 years to that because I think we’d lose the intimacy and passion for one another.

The many clients that I have taught through long-term relationships and marriage all say the exact same thing: after you’ve been married for a long time, you risk losing all of the passion and going back to the friend zone. That can’t be any good.

So, to get out of that, use more of sexual tension and be as dominant as you possibly can. Take full control, lead, and escalate things physically. Use a lot of sensual language and teasing.

Essentially, you have to talk like it’s your first date all over again. Talk with the same passion and fire that you used to have for her and vice versa. Touch her as if for the very first time in bed. This will be surprisingly fun for you two.

This problem’s solution really is that easy as – unless serious details are being left out here – she isn’t ready to have sex because your mind isn’t in its proper place. You are no longer being dominant and have long forgotten about sexual tension.

Bring some foreplay back into the picture, as well as some romance, and you are sure to break that cold streak of yours. If you have any details that might help me help you much better, email me again. 🙂

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How Can I Get A Second Date?

By Derek Rake

“I have trouble getting girls. Every time I talk to a girl, I mention that I would like to talk or see them again, but they never seem to want to. I have no idea if it’s because I’m boring or what. I also know that I lack good and funny conversation skills, by the way.” – Raymond C. Williamsport, PA

Derek Rake’s Answer:-

If you lack good conversation, you will never get a first or a second date with women. Fortunately, “good” conversation is very easy to get: just look into threading. Here are the basics:

1. Whenever she says something, look for threads (sentence parts or subjects that you can talk about). For example, if she says “I was at a friend’s house party last weekend”, the threads would be friend, party and last weekend. Can you see any more? Don’t worry if you can’t since three are more than enough.

2. Pick one of these threads, like “last weekend”.

3. Talk about it. For example, say something like “Yup, last weekend was quite crazy. My friends and I went surfing at the beach.” Bam. “Good” conversation in an instant.

If you put all of this together, your conversation can sound something like this: “I was at a friend’s house party last weekend.” “Last weekend was quite crazy. My friends and I went surfing at the beach.” or “I was at a friend’s house party last weekend.” “What was the party like?”

See? Provided you can talk about a thread or ask about it, you can keep a conversation going forever.

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