Machine-Gun Mentality
I believe that most men that are out in bars have a bb-gun mentality, that is, they are firing a bunch of bb’s but they aren’t doing any damage. I saw this pattern from a good frined of mine nearly a year ago and told him he needs to adopt shotgun mentality. What he needs to do is mingle around and find that one girl and blow her head off. Thinking about that some more maybe I meant to write find that one girl and have her blow his head off! Simply stated, shotgun mentality means committing to the interaction and taking it as far as you can. It means going for the time-bridge, bounce or SNL.
Before you start any new behavior the first and most imporant thing is to adopt its mindset. The proper mindset is almost always going to precede the behavior. The behavior doesn’t immediately start after adopting the new mindset but you will slowly but surely start to see some changes over time. In fact what you will initially see is shotgun mentality but bb-gun behavior. The behavior doesn’t catch up to the mentality until later.
In addition to shotgun mentality another mindset is machine-gun mentality. I don’t feel that it is necessarily “better” than shotgun but it is certainly a different way of thinking. It is the type of thinking that many naturals adopt. It is similar to bb-gun mentality but the difference is the bullets actually do damage. With shotgun you patiently hunt for your prey and boom you fire your blast but with machine-gun your spread your bullets all over the bar. With machine-gun you go for multiple closes. You might be gaming one girl and then simultaneoulsy you go to the restroom and then #close another girl. This FR by Sinn is an excellent example of machine-gun mentality. Sinn firing machine-gun.
I know a lot of guys that think they are firing a machine-gun but really aren’t. It is something I’ve rarely done and have pretty much always fired shotgun. You will know that you’re firing machine-gun if, for example, you have 2 different girls that want to go home with you that night. I’m talking about two girls that you have sufficiently gamed, are attracted to and that logistically and skill-wise you can pull it off. I especially love that LR by Sinn becaue he says while fucking one girl the other girl was calling and texting his phone like crazy.
One important distinction between shot-gun and machine gun is that with shot-gun you are blasting a target one set at a time. With machine-gun, however, you are gaming multiple women simultaneously and that is the key distinction. Number closing one girl early in the night and then 2 hours later gaming another is not machine-gun mentality. Rather what you did was reload your shotgun. Machine gun mentality is when you’re at a table with one girl while subtlly flirting with another.
When machine-gun mentality is taken too far guys start to steal girls away from their own friends and wings. For example, imagine if two wings have their girls in isolation and are trying to pull both of them to an afterparty. Some guys might take machine-gun too far and in addition to trying to pull their girl home might try to simultaneously spike the BT of their wing’s girl. And no, I don’t mean spike the BT so it will be transferred to the wing. What I mean is turn her on so the wing’s girl will end up wanting to be with him much more than the wing.
All in all I’m not necessarily advising people to adopt machine-gun mentality. I think the vast majority would do best with shotgun. Most importantly is that most guys are still firing bb-guns and even worse is that some guys are just throwing water balloons at girls. A bb-gun might even give you a number but more than likely it is not solid. The message that I’m really trying to say is committ to the interaction. Given everything I’ve written is there something that is “higher” than machine-gun? That is a question for you to ask yourself.
January 16, 2008 at 2:02 pm
One thing that many talk about but don’t emphasize is that every venue should be treated as a HUGE mixed set. Therefore, one should open as many as possible, and then develop what CaptainJack coined “PUA aura” in the sense that everyone will look at the guys who talked to everyone, other schools call it “working the room.”
So go talk to everyone, immediately parade girls from one place to another to warm up adjacent sets. Be seen, be the observed and not the observer.
January 16, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Treating the venue as one huge mixed set is an excellent point. The most important thing of all is to be social and have fun and talk to lots of people. That said we must keep in mind that there is still a fundamental difference between PUA aura and shotgun or machine-gun mentality. PUA aura is bb-gun socializing but if you want to fuck someone then you’re gonna have to eventually committ to an interaction and stick with it for the long haul.