Originally from theApproach Alumni forum.
A lot of people have been asking me about attainability lately, and I get the sense that maybe people don’t have quite a good handle on it. I’ll try to clear it up a bit since it is probably the least understood / codified concept in the community but at the same time the most powerful.
The lack of proper attainability game accounts for so many guys not closing the deal it makes my head spin.
Firstly, attainability is NOT “Let the girl know she can get you.”
It has a very specific set of definitions which I’ll get to in a moment.
First, let me tell you where my research on attainability comes from:
1. It comes from my 3+ year development of Natural game in which a basic assumption is that you assume more emotional strength / stability than the girl. What flows from this is the fact that you MUST reassure her in some way as opposed to making her insecure which always has potential to introduce enough doubt to start the ARM (auto-reject) mechanism cycle. The ARM cycle of course will prevent the girl from seeing your value, and cause her to treat you as if you have none.
2. Long talks with a seasoned bisexual female PUA friend of mine, who has fucked more girls than both Sebastian and I put together, I think she got started in middle school or something silly.
She claims to have never failed in converting a seemingly “straight” woman (married, boyfriend, no matter) once she decided she wanted her. She basically broke down her method to me (well it wasn’t really a “method” per se until I codified it and called it “attainability”) It now is the basis of our Attainability component in the VAC system and revolves around the concept of building friendship. Asking my bisexual friend how she fucked all these girls, in one sentence she could answer “I just became their friend”.
3. Crystalization of “High Value Attainability” which came to me in a sensory deprivation tank experience (one of the inner-game / goal reaching things I do, which produces clarity you’ve never experienced - they say 90% of your brainpower is used up processing the input of your five senses - remove the input and you get that 90% back…) I jumped out of the tank and took notes frantically for later review.
VALUE:
So basically, we understand the V component, which is to demonstrate higher value - and in Natural Game we do it by passive demonstration, not active demonstration.
Active demonstration a la Mystery Method flows like “I have to increase my value now, let me tell X story”
Passive demonstration a la Woodhaven Natural Game flows like “Which reminds me of X story. (Whoah she’s gonna LOVE this one!)”
The problem with active demonstration, even though they both involve story X, is that the story is delivered from a need to increase value, which can be sensed by 95% of women, especially attractive ones who are used to that type of thing and see it 20 times a day.
Passive demonstration works fine, and combined with proper focus (Charge the venue, proactively socialize etc…) produces value in spades.
COMPLIANCE:
Compliance is necessary since people need to work for every other thing that is valuable in their lives. Ever had the feeling like “That’s too good to be true” or “That’s such a good deal, it’s gotta be a sham” That is the feeling that comes from the perceived lack of putting work in for something. Compliance lends CREDIBILITY to your value.
Make them work.
ATTAINABILITY:
Attainability is defined three ways. Doing any one of these three will produce proper attainability and allow you to capitalize fully on the value you have built. If you refuse to build attainability you will need to create approximately 10X the value to get the same effect.
1. Respect as a friend.
Does the girl feel like she could be friends with you, regardless if you’re having sex or not? Do you have commonalities, common interests and observations? Can you vibe and make each other laugh?
Use respect as a friend to kill the player vibe, and show her you are willing to stick around after you sex her, or even if you don’t sex her. Ultimatums are for losers. Ironically, respect as a friend will increase the chances of her sleeping with you.
Most hot girls with things going for them screen out players. Guys who say girls love players are sleeping with ugly girls, regardless of what they tell you
2. A girl like me can get a guy like him.
Are you capable of sustaining friendships and relationships with girls of similar characteristics? Demonstrate closeness with other girls. Do your social proof to get this one. If you can’t do real social proof, use implied social proof.
Example - implied social proof:
Her: “What did you do today?”
You: “Oh, it’s a long story. Ok ok.. I have this friend named Jen. And she slept with this guy I know. And the fucking idiot goes around and tells everyone he slept with her…
The girl finds out and shes just devastated, so shes all upset. She calls me up and she wanted me to find out why he opened his big mouth about it.
So i told her she could come over - I was just basically staying home practicing guitar, so she came over and watched… and we talked…
It’s really too bad though, cause she’s such a sweet girl - and she just wanted to know why some guys are like that.
And in the end I really didn’t have a good answer for her. What would you tell her?”
3. Conditional Availability.
This one goes hand in hand with compliance. Let a girl know she can get you by working or meeting some condition. Show that you like something very specific about her that is also non-physical. This is where screening and qualification comes in. You use it to set up challenges.
Here are some quick examples:
-Most of my friends are X. What’s the most X thing you’ve ever done?
-I have such a soft spot for girls who are X. Do you consider yourself X?
-Vulnerability: “Most of the girls I’ve had relationships with haven’t been all that
attractive. People ask me ‘What are you doing seeing that girl? You can do
better’. It’s because they’re generally really fun people who were really nice
to me, really giving. They also took an interest in the things I am passionate
about.”
-”You know most people I meet are hard to connect with, but I feel there’s something about you that’s very genuine.”
-”You have a very down to earth sense of humor. It’s easy to be with you.”
-”You know I meet so many girls who play games. But you don’t have time for that bullshit. You’re so real and genuine… I like that.”
VAC MANIPULATION:
The beauty of the VAC system is it’s nonlinearity. You can fix or improve your situation at any point in your interaction, depending on where your V, A, C values are at. The only other factor you should be aware of is precedence, and for now just realize that the more times you have hurt precedence (she made decisions against your favor, she acted on decsions against your favor, she “socially announced” decisions against your favor) the longer time it will take to reverse it.
If you have V and A, get C.
If you have A and C, get V.
Or in my following example if you have V and C, get massive A:
VAC Manipulation LR:
I was a Boston Nightclub in the fall time on workshop. I was doing a demo on an HB9.2 - (there’s a link to the pic at the bottom of the post if you want an idea of how I scale my ratings) Chick was in a group of about 6 girls and 4 guys.
I go in SitRel, socialize with the group etc, screen quaify, vibe..etc. My VAC at this point is relatively nice and even. (It’s better to have a well rounded VAC than huge deficiencies, as you’ll see in a moment)
Talking for 20 minutes, I decide to get back to our guys - I eject cordially and catch up the guys. About 30 minutes later I see HB talking to another guy.
I find Sebastian, and he somehow convinces me it would be fun to blow the guy out.
I go in, use standard Woodhaven AMOG tactics for Sebastian’s amusement. Normally I would just befriend the guy and slowly sap his value away, but I was in an asshole-ish mood.
Guy straight up walks away from me and the HB.
HB looks at me and exclaims “What did you say to him! Where did he go!”. Ooops.. She was actually being set up with that guy through a common friend.
I have value (walked right up and killed some guy’s game) , I have compliance (she was forced to accept the consequences of my actions), but I have a major attainability problem. A friend would never do something like that.
I grab her number using one of my dirty tricks, and go back to the workshop. (Even though I got the number, it was pretty much bad)
I use an open loop text message. (These ALWAYS work) - no response from HB.
I call her and leave a few messages - no response.
A few weeks later I text her “Simon from american Idol. What’s his last name?” (A common VAC text message / VM that I use)
She texts me back and tells me to leave her alone. She then calls and starts yelling at me.
Convo like this:
HB: “Why are you calling me?”
Me: “Uhh why not, you were the one who gave me your number?”
HB: “You’re not supposed to have my number. You tricked me into giving it to you.”
Me: “Are you THAT gullible that people can trick you into giving your number away?”
HB: “And what did you say to that guy - you made him leave!”
Me: “Don’t blame me if a guy isn’t interested in you, sweetie. It’s not my problem.”
HB: “Don’t EVER call me again.” -click-
Realize NO guys ever talk to this girl like that. They don’t stand up for themselves and they don’t call her on her shit.
Me = Asshole: Value and Compliance = high, Attainability = low
A few weeks go by, and I decide to call her, and fix my attainability as an experiment.
Christmas eve, I call back, surprisingly she answers:
Me: “Hi sweetie, I know I upset you before, but with you know, christmas is coming and everything and I just think we should put the past behind us, and I want you to know there’s no hard feelings.” (Major high value attainability)
HB: “Yeah you know with the holidays right around the corner theres no reason we should be like that, we could maybe start talking and stuff.”
With a line that takes 10 seconds to say, I have built proper attainability and reconstructed my entire VAC with this girl.
Why did this work?
You have to realize that people only emotionally react to those who have higher value than them. HVA presupposes an emotional effect (I know I upset you before).
I then framed it as if we were old friends burying the hatchet and making up. This solves Attainability definition #1 - respect as a friend.
She started calling me on a regular basis, I arranged a meet, handled logistics and full closed her.
We are now still together, and within 3 weeks of the full close she’s in love and tells me so.
Vin