NewMingle gets it. I'm glad you're one of the few that actually understands what Mystery is trying to teach these guys. That it's not about trickery.

Women get approached by men all the time. They have quick defenses that can test a guy. 99% of men fail these tests and the women brush them off without getting a chance to know them. A lot of what you see on the show is just the attraction stage. A way for the man to get around those quick defenses and get a chance to show the women who they really are. Mysteries actual model is broken down into 3 stages....the Attraction Stage, Comfort Building Stage, and Seduction Stage. Each one of the stages is broken down into another set of 3. There's A1 A2 A3, C1 C2 C3, and S1 S2 S3. I won't go into all of those. The basic concept of the approach and attraction phase is to put the man and woman at equal levels. By approaching a woman, a man already has lower value. He's approaching her, essentially saying she's worth a lot. The point of the neg is to make her feel like she's lost value in your eyes. Thus, it's turned and the man's value is higher. She chases him to regain the value, he returns the interest and they're equal now. Then comes the comfort building stage.

Mystery is a self proclaimed nerd. He played dungeons and dragons. He also considers himself a late bloomer since he didn't lose his virginity until the age of 21. He got tired of not having success with woman, so night after night for 10 years, he went to the city (I believe it was Toronto. I know he's from Canada) and approached women. Over time he learned what worked and what didn't until he came up with a system that he calls The Mystery Method. This is what he teaches the men on the show. Mystery is actually a magician. That's how he originally got away with wearing the things he does and that's how he originally opened sets was by offering to do magic tricks for them. Now, he's so good at it, he can still wear whatever he wants and it doesn't affect his "game" in regards to picking up women.

Dressing outragiously like he does is what Mystery calls peacocking. His version of it goes that a male peacock speads his plummage of feathers to attract a mate. The bright feathers make the peacock more visible to predators, but it's a chance the peacock takes in order to attract a mate, thus making it more attractive to the female. In humans terms, it gets you noticed and it makes you more attractive that your brave enough to wear it in public despite the criticism you might receive. I understand Mystery's thinking on that one, but I don't agree with it. Mainly due to the fact that if you actually look at a peacocks feathers, the design makes it look like a bunch of eyes. It's actually a defense mechanism to scare away predators. Although, I guess if you saw Mystery and didn't know who he was, you'd stay away from him too.

I know this post is kind of long so I'll end it with this. Mystery's real name is Erik von Markovik if you want to look into him and The Mystery Method a bit more. He also wrote a book entitled The Mystery Method: How To Get Beautiful Women Into Bed that breaks down his method, including a lot of things you don't see in the show. Another recommended read is The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society Of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss. The book takes you through Neil's journey of being the lovable loser (like the guys on the show) to meeting Mystery to becoming the worlds 2nd greatest pickup artist (only Mystery is better). I like The Game because it not only allows you to see how Mystery's material can change a mans life so drastically, but it also gives you a lot of information on Mystery. It allows you to see him as Erik the person instead of Mystery the pickup artist.