Your goal today is to be so cool that she doesn't want you to leave.

What 'success' with women looks like is left up to the reader Strauss asserts that 'The Prize' for completing the 30 days is: 'The company of quality women, the envy of your peers, the lifestyle you deserve.' The Rules are here to tell you at what point in your seduction routine you should deploy a magic trick for an optimal 'demonstration of value'-the value demonstrated presumably being monetary, what with all those quarters you'll be pulling out from behind unsuspecting women's ears. Should readers complete all of the readings and 'missions' they're tasked with over 30 days, Strauss promises his faithful acolytes both self-betterment and significantly improved odds at access to women and their affections. The Stylelife Challenge is part self-help, part tactical guide to hornily approaching strangers, and part fun little worksheet.

The core of RoTG is a 30-day challenge, called the 'Stylelife Challenge,' because 'Style' is Strauss's pickup artist nickname/alter ego/presumably his AIM username at the time. With that in mind, here are some things Rules of the Game actually is: a time capsule, an RPG and strategy guide, a bog-standard self-help book, a pro-magician propaganda document, a catalyst for the incel community, and a short story collection. Though the putative goal of the Rules is to help the reader pick up, succeed with, or otherwise achieve women, the book doesn't have much to say about women as anything other than an endgame. Despite being a sequel to his classic pickup artist text The Game, Neil Strauss's Rules of the Game isn't really a book about sex, dating, or relationships.

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