DYD Mastery Recap, Day One --By Thundercat

He also went into a great many marketing concepts, and shared his own personal philosophy about how to be successful, that being that success is the idea that you're helping other people become more successful. This is evident in how he structures his seminars with guest speakers, most of which have their own philosophy and products to sell on the subject of dating and seduction. He's basically being extremely generous by sharing his large client base with other businessmen in exchange for content. This is important, because it makes a clear distinction between DYD and other Seduction and Dating systems, that distinction being that DYD is NOT a complete system of Seduction, Dating, or Pick-Up, rather, it is an all-encompassing philosophy behind male/female interaction and self-improvement in life. This is one of the reasons Double Your Dating is so interesting in terms of seduction study, because it presents you with EVERY type of information that's out there, and allows you to choose what you want to learn.

This can be a good and a bad thing. David D's own system doesn't extend much past the "cocky/funny" philosophy of interacting with women. But at the same time, it's that philosophy that is the foundation for a great many other methods that are out there. The good part is that by David DeAngelo incorporating other people with different methods and philosophy into his seminar, he helps make up for the shortcomings in his method. However, because he does that, DYD has no "concrete" structure per say, and some of the guest speaker's own philosophies and tactics can contradict what David teaches.

The first guest speaker of the seminar was the elusive David X, the Canadian Pick-Up Superstar associated with Cliff of "Cliff's List" and the "Be Relentless" philosophy.

When I first met David X, I was quite surprised by the man I saw. He is not what you would expect of a typical "Dating Guru." He's short, he's fat, he's got beady eyes, a large gap in his teeth, and he smells a bit like sour cigars. In fact, due to his appearance, your first reaction to him might be "There is no way in hell this guy can be a pick-up artist!"

But then you talk to the guy, and you start to get a sense of what he's about. David X is a guy who is not held back by the concept of "social niceties." In fact, he's quite brutally honest and in your face with things. He has the belief that he's an awesome guy, that all women love him, love sex, and by default, love sex with him (lol) . In fact, his whole method can be summed up in two words:

Be Fearless.

David X says that the one common denominator amongst men who aren't getting laid is a fear of women. This is a fear instilled by society, by family, by women, and by other men. It's an irrational fear that does not exist. Part of this fear comes from the fact that most men don't know what they want – in women and in life!

One of David X's biggest insights was the concept that "If you can't think for yourself, you think for someone else." This was a very profound thing to say, in my opinion, because it deals with David DeAngelo's concept of projection. Basically, this means that whenever you allow fear to control your thoughts (and buy into the values and ideas that society forces upon you of the way men have to treat and interact with women), you project those fear-controlled thoughts onto other people, even though that may not be what those people are thinking.

For instance, say you see a woman with lovely, large, beautiful breasts. You want to comment on them, but you don't because it's considered "rude." However, what if the woman spent a lot of money on getting those big fake breasts, and she's proud of them and insecure about her looks? What if a compliment on her boobs is just the thing she wants to have, and will fall all over the first man who will give it to her? See the distinction? By being honest with your thoughts and feelings, you could very well get what you want instead of deciding for yourself what the woman is going to respond to. One thing he liked to point out was: If you can't understand women, why are you trying to think for them?