How " Curb Your Enthusiasm" helps your game.

As many people know, both CJ and myself are big fans of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as we find larry David's particular brand of asshole behavior hysterical. He also reminds both of us of Shaft except way more of an asshole.

Onto how this applies to game. As many people have no doubt read here or on CJ's blog. We believe that the number one rule of pick-up is to ignore anything that doesn't help you. However this can lead to uncomfortable silences if you don't know what to do while ignoring something.

I'll list a few of your options while ignoring things.

1. Talk louder than what's being said or done. This is an active frame control technique. Meaning that you are actively trying to shift the attention of the interaction off of what you don't want and onto your own conversational threads by simply being louder. This can come off as try hard.

2. Act like you didn't hear what was being said. This on can be highly effective. You just act as if you didn't hear what the girls just said and continue doing your thing.

3. The Larry David. The LD is a combination of entirely ignoring what the other person just said and changing the subject to something completely different. The best example comes in the pilot episode of the show where Larry is being talked to about a friend's dead someone( Mother?) and instead of answering the questions of what he was doing and what took him so long, he asks if they can believe his gum only costs 79 cents. The essence of an LD.

So when ignoring things, it can be greatly helpful to remember our bald friend Larry David and change the subject to something non-sensical.

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