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I had a recently experience where I met a bunch of guys who are in “the game” or “seduction community“. Some of them had a ton of experience, some were just starting out, various people were in the middle.

Regardless of the level of experience the people were at, I noticed one disturbing trend in some members of this group.

Now I want to be clear about what I am about to talk about: I am not saying this to criticize or judge the people – I only want to pick out the behavior and illustrate it as something that I dislike. Onward.

The trait that I was disturbed by was when someone talked to me like they were an expert. Like they had it all figured out and that they were imparting their wisdom down to me, as if they had discovered the Holy Grail and they were giving me the priviledge of hearing them.

Now, truth be told, I probably have been guilty of this before too. Again, I’m not saying this to judge someone.

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I recently mentioned how I went through some of my old posts and saw that the tone of some of my posts came across as arrogance (which was definitely not what I was going for in posting).

Which brings me to the question: What separates arrogance from playful cockiness?

Some of the things I said that were off putting were along the lines of, “Of course I succeeded – why wouldn’t I?” or “… and then I did this to her and then I did this to her…” Things like that. Now, I’m exagerating it a bit for the purpose of this discussion, but some of it really did sound that obnoxious and I was totally unaware how it came across as I was writing it.

What made it arrogant was that I was kind of implying that I am flawless and that everything comes easy to me. I think that playful cockiness is about expectations, whereas arrogance is about beliefs about one’s self. Arrogance has a feeling of “I am better than you” whereas cockiness has a feeling of “I expect great things and I’m not ashamed to say it.”

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Edge – Reflecting Over My Journal Entries

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One of the advantages in journaling my experiences as I learn to improve my skills with women is that I can reflect back on what I’ve written. Today I went through some of my older entries and cleaned up the tone and presentation a bit. See, I believe that this blog’s value to others comes [...]

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