Cold Reading Summary (C14): Practice Out Loud

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When practicing cold reading, do it alone and do it out loud.

This works well with cold reading because unlike other methods of communication (such as giving a speech) you don’t need to be looking your target in the eye. 

In fact, cold reading often works better when you aren’t looking them in the eye. Instead, look off to the side, as if you are reading what’s in their mind.

In reality, you use this time to search your own mind, so you can deliver the blurred reality - projecting what you know to be true from your own thoughts as theirs.

After you have done a good deal of journaling in various situations, you will start to notice others in those situations in real-life. When you do, go home and practice your pacing statements, i.e, echo to them what they are thinking.

For example, if you see a friend looking at a cute girl, your opening could be:

I know what you’re thinking. You’re looking at that cute girl, and you’re thinking that she’d never go for a guy like you.

From there, practice expanding the statement as much as you can. Every time you do this you will get better and better. Speak it out loud, and as you do, fully imagine how you would feel in the same situation.

After you have paced their thoughts, practice adding in things that are true about them (and you) in the present - the way they talk to others, how they have handled difficult situations, etc. 

Remember, the cause-effect statements don’t have to be built on logic.

Finally, deliver the angel statement. Make it as long and as detailed as possible.

The ultimate aspiration for almost everyone is to do something worthwhile and fantastic which will get them recognition, validation, and social status. 

The desire to attain higher social status, often associated with increased wealth (food) and opportunities for relationships, is hardwired in all of us. Even those that say they don’t want it, usually do.

Here is an example structure:

Because of X, you will do great things. And those great things will help many people. And because you are going to help many people, you will get plenty of social status. And that social status will get you all kinds of sex and love and money and meaningful relationships.

You can repeat this simple structure with as many causes as you want. 

Now you have gone from writing to speaking. Soon you will be ready to do it in real-time on a real target.

I can tell you think your life sucks: You know this because you agree that life is difficult for the same reasons they do.

But you can do certain things: You tell them things they must agree are true.

These things will cause you to do better things: Cause effect generator.

Those better things will lead to massive social status: Cause effect generator and universal human desire.

That social status will get you massive amounts of sex and money: This is instinctively programmed into all of us.

Therefore, that thing you want now but can’t get, you’ll easily get someday: Pacing, cause effect, instinctive triggers.

Saying the above is basically a good pep talk. The power of cold reading occurs when you add in uniqueness. 

You must include something about them personally that allows their future success to occur, such as a personality trait and/or skillset.

Here’s an example:

I can see something about you. You can do X, and that is unique. Very few people can do X like you can do X. Because of that, you will have a very bright future. And that will get you tons of social proof, sex and money.

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