52 Books In 52 Weeks Challenge (+FR's)

How many hours a day will you be reading to acheive this goal?

Good goal for new years. Mine is 10 lays not Bc i want to get laid but Bc i want to make myself attractive and get it as a result of self growth.

This past year I read over 25 and two things helped a lot is using audio books and bought the Kindle hdx which I could carry on every bus and train ride. Also reading at night when after taking a nap helps me .

7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a must read!

Make sure to add in some fiction here and there to spice up your love life. The Fountainhead is one to throw in there for sure. If I think of any other fiction books I'll add them. 

I'm rereading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. I just bought Shogun off Amazon I'll be hitting that up next 

it just depends. Some books are longer than others. 

I read about a third of Covey's book today while traveling. Pretty damn good so far. Very applicable and it relates closely to Tolle's work without being so "transcendental". 

Ill write up up an outline and some brief thoughts tomorrow when I'm more well rested.  

definitely gonna add the fountainhead to my list. I've heard sex at dawn is quite good. Might read 50 shades of gray for the lulz. Mastery by George Leonard is next on my list.

That's funny you've only read the first third of the book, that's when it starts getting good. 

What's Sex at Dawn about? Mastery was alright. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. 

Add:

The Education of Millionaires

Monsters and Magical Sticks

Hypnosis for Beginners 

I've got a few more when I think of them I'll add them 

The Fountainhead will be one of the most formative books you ever read. It will get you back in touch with your hero 

Sex at Dawn is one of those everyone is biologically wired to fuck all the time books. Jeffy liked it. Here's the synopsis from Amazon:

Some what similar to Sperm Wars by Robin a Baker which is a great read. 

Cool definitely going to have to take a look 

If you want to read an extremely motivational book, read The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. Its the story of a Polish Cavalry officer in WWII who was captured by the Soviets and sent to a Siberian slave labor camp. He escapes with a few others and they walk 5000 miles across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and the Himilayan mountains to India. Crazy good story.

Another interesting one is Sex, Lies and Handwriting by Michelle Dresbold. It's about criminal profiling using handwriting.

I'm halfway into the Ultramind Solution and it's fucking awesome so far. Got Anna Karenina lined up next, and then The Psychology of Selling.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is probably the best book I read last year. A ridiculous amount of insights into how the world works.

Cool I'll add some of those to my list. I'm gonna finish 7 Habits tomorrow. I'll do a write up on my main takeaways but if you haven't read this book, DO IT. Even an extensive write up would do this book no justice. 2014 is going to be an extremely productive year because of what I'm learning here alone. 

YES. All Malcolm Gladwell is gold. I've read most of his stuff, Tipping Point was probably my favourite. I reckon you guys would enjoy it the most because it relates more to success than psychology. 

Damn Zach I'm going to have to read that one 

Damn, I literally just saw that book at the bookstore and almost got it. Maybe I should have... I opted for 7 Habits instead.

Manwhore, as far as fiction have you read any Terry Goodkind?  Wizard's First Rule is one of my favs since I was a kid.

Naw don't know who that is. When it comes to fiction I was always a fan of Ann Rice, Stephen King, Dean Kooch, Tom Clancy, and I read the Game of Thrones series up until about five years ago when I just couldn't get through the fourth one.

So here's my main takeaways from 7 Habits:

- Make a mission statement of who you want to be and live your life in accordance with these values.

this is how you ultimately become congruent.  You live your life according to principles instead of being reactive to others around you. 

- first, you are dependent. Seek to become independent, and ultimately interdependent.

How many of you still depend on girls for all your pleasure? Parents for money? Friends for fun? Alcohol for adventure? Learn to trust yourself and generate positive emotions. Once you have mastered that, then seek to work with others for mutually beneficial relationships. 

- Have short-term and long-term goals written down. Also, plan your week with the goals you must accomplish.

the key here is priority. Rank everything in your week relative to what MUST be done first. Don't mindlessly check off things and become robotic. 

- Increase your circle of influence by providing win/win situations. 

Seek to provide mutual benefit. If one party is losing, there's a good chance the relationship will change for the worse in the future. 

- Make deposits into the emotional bank.

View all your social transactions as deposits and withdrawals. If you are frequently depositing good energy into relationships that's good. Withdrawals are bad. It is essentially taking advantage of people. Once you build up your bank account with people you will have room to make withdrawals because you have built trust and comfort.

I'll edit this post some time in the future. I will also be making a mission statement and posting it here soon. I think it would be pretty cool if some other guys did it and started living with more principle and see how it affects their lives. Let me know if you have any questions about what I posted above, and I HIGHLY recommend you check out this book. I will be returning to it several times this year, it's that good. 

^^Word. I'm just starting the book. I'll do it with you as I get farther along lol. I'm honestly a little disappointed with myself for not picking this one up earlier.

Yeah, I heard about it YEARS AGO. Good thing I'm only 21 and I've decided to start reading more proactively NOW.

Just finished it today.  I'm gonna skip Mastery for now. Gonna start Way of the Superior Man by David Deida tomorrow. I've read it before but I feel it will relate nicely with some of the principles in 7 Habits.

A lot of "Way of the Superior  Man" feels like filler and non-essential but he more you understand women and reread this book, there are countless gems:

"You have probably met a woman who seemed fantastic, only to discover she has some emotional weirdness that you don't really want to deal with. She seemed incredibly sexy, but also a bit bonkers" or crazy, saying one thing one moment and another the next. You have probably also met some very reasonable and trustworthy women who don't seem to constantly change their mind and, in fact, with whom you could have good conversa- tions that don't end up frustrating you. Although you may love these women and enjoy spending time with them, they don't arouse your passion as much as the women whose words you wouldn't trust to remain true for an afternoon, but who move their body in a way that drives you wild.

Alright fellas, finished this “The Way of the Superior Man” on my flight from Atlanta to Dallas last night. This book is REALLY good. I recommend it for any guys that wanna step their energy, polarity, and sex game.

I'm gonna briefly go over some notes that will let you guys get a glimpse of the knowledge Deida divulges and hopefully encourage you to pick this one up. It is FREE on the internet in PDF format. Just Google it :)

Alright, lets crank into it:

- Open your chest and shoulders. Physiology has a major effect on attraction and expression. Good posture is key.

- Never change your mind to please a woman. You know deep down what's right. Changing your mind for a woman will make her doubt your decision making and she will think less of you as a man.

- Do everything for love. “Leave people better off than they were before they met you.”

- Don't get lost in tasks and “doing”. Stop for a second and breathe. Take a second to enjoy life and meditate.

- Stop hoping for your women to get easier. Women are creatures of emotion. They are like the ocean, always changing. You must be the ship.

- If your woman is mad, do not change her mind. Change her emotions. Tickle her. Pick her up and run around. Wrestle with her. Fuck her passionately.

- Your woman will never stop testing you. Accept this fact. Do not react to her.

- Women are NOT liars. Women rarely mean what they say. Look for the context in what she says, much more important.

- Tolerating women often leads to resenting them. Be thankful for feminine energy. Bask in it. Be happy in the presence of women. Observe the way they move, speak, smell, smile, etc. Women are beautiful.

- Don't force the woman to make any decision. Anniversary scenario: Note: “Pack your bags. We're going away for the weekend. Everything is taken care of...” >>>>> “What do you wanna do for our anniversary babe?”

- Do not be ashamed to love women. By your parents, by feminists, by society. Be fully aware and unabashed in your attraction for the feminine. Make it known, physically and verbally how much you love women. YOU ARE A MAN.

- You will often want more than one woman. This is natural. Act on this as you see fit but remember, physical release (ejaculating) is a fleeting sensation. Relationships can be vastly more satisfying.

- Choose a woman who chooses you. You are only punishing yourself when you want to be with a woman more than she wants to be with you.

- Women don't want to be the number one priority in your life. Soldier going to war metaphor: A soldier hugs his woman. He knows he must leave and possibly die for the greater good of humanity. He will not change his mind because he is sure of his purpose.

- Own your darkest desires. Fuck your woman like you will never see her again. Feel through her body. Take her forcefully. Ravish her with no regard. Lose yourself in fuck.

- Expand your stomach when you breathe. Clear your mind. Take in the world around you.

- If you were to die right now, what would you be doing? Would you be lost in the monotony of your mind? Would you be present to the moment?

- You are responsible for the intimacy in your relationship. Do not become the “sensitive man” and give her “space”. You are denouncing your masculinity and therefore your woman will look down on you.

- Take control of your life. Finances, health, women, etc. All of these things depend upon you and only you.

There ya go. Hope you got something out of that.

Deida also goes over certain techniques for breathing that will improve your overall presence during your day, as well as sex. He explains how you can ejaculate “up your spine” and have a whole body orgasm. I'm currently experimenting with this. I'll keep you guys posted.

******Field Report*******

After reading this book, I was psyched to head home and see good friends. I was in an amazing state and was ready to take on the night. I quickly showered and invited over one of my primary girls. She said she would be there shortly. I get dressed and hear a knock on the door. “Here we go...”, I think to myself, while opening the door. My friend is standing there with a flask of tequila and he's ready to pregame. Fuck.

Oh well, I oblige to kill time. We take a couple of shots and I start feeling good. That tingly, alert sensation starts to take over. More friends come over and drink. FINALLY, this little sex kitten shows up and she looks fucking adorable. She's the only girl in the room and everyone clearly is taking notice. She looks pretty pissed because she was assuming we would fuck right away. All good things in time ;)

We all chat for a bit while I think of ways to subtly kick them out. I take her to my room and give her a Christmas present. A scarf I bought her in Venezuela. Its her favorite color. She “loves it”. Bonus points for me. She immediately puts it on and starts checking herself out in the bathroom. I turn her around and lightly push her into the wall, and start making out with her, intermittently nibbling on her soft neck. “I want you,” she moans softly. I pull away with a “I fucking know” smirk on my face. Sometimes it's good to build these things up and make the girl wait.

We drink some more in the living room. It's almost 11 pm now. “It's getting pretty late!” I exclaim. One of my buddies who's more socially savvy, gets the hint. They leave for the bars. “I'll meet you there.” My girl heads to the bathroom and I clean my apartment a bit.

I walk in my room and she's standing there in full lingerie. She looks scrumptious and she knows it. I'm going to take her and she knows it. I grab her forcefully by the his and kiss her hard. I pick her up and she wraps her sexy, long legs around my lower back. I get hard. Really hard. I carefully throw her on the bed and start railing her. She screams and moans in ecstasy. This goes on for what feels like hours. I am completely present and focusing solely on her breathing and her naked, quivering body. She whispers hot nothings into my ear. “I missed you.”

Finally, after a long powerful session of wild sex, I cum all over her body. She needs time to process what just happened. She lays on the bed for 20 minutes, unable to move. Her faint panting fills the room. A very calm and relaxing sound. She recollects herself and hastily gets dressed. We go out and celebrate a friend's 22nd birthday.

Later, at the bar I see a girl I put on the backburner while I was out of the country. We have a “competition” roleplay going on about who can beat who in foosball. I flirt with her for a couple minutes, leaning in and out of her ear methodically. She has “anime eyes”. I say I'm going to the bar to get quarters. My primary stops me on the way there.

“Who the fuck is that?”
“A friend.”
“She looks like she wants to fuck you!”
“Ok.”

LOL women

I grab some quarters at the bar and head back to our table. I take quite a long time since the bar is packed. I see my primary but not the other girl. My girl quickly says “That girl said she loved my scarf. I was like thanks! G-Money gave it to me.” Fuck haha. Apparently she got a little deflated and left shortly after. I'm still texting her and it's still on but this cockblocking was annoying. I wanted to go 2 for 2 last night and missed out on the opportunity.

I fucked my primary girl after the bar again. It was another long, passionate session. This is what time away from sex does to people. They revert back into an almost animalistic, primitive state. It's an amazing scenario. My goal is to make all of my interactions in 2014 more close to this particular one. Two people, mutually enjoying each other to their full extent. Opening themselves up and allowing themselves to be taken. Your job as a man is to be the taker. The one who unapologeticlly takes what he sees in front of him.

^^Fuck yeah! haha! Nice!

I love ur stories to read!

Fckign awesome what you have acomplished and done so far!

keep it up!

G, are you screening for threesomes?

this is one area where my game is lacking. I need to start shaping my interactions to make threesomes happen. 

Started reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthiny Bourdain yesterday. Pretty short book about the restaurant biz. He has a particularly interesting writing style.

I encourage all of the guys in this thread to take the 30 minutes out of your day to do this. Lets mutually grow and improve. There is no time like the present.

Here it is:

I'm gonna jump on board this challange with you G. I finished "Sometimes the Magic Works" by Terry Brooks this week and I'm halfway through 7 Habits.

If I may critique your mission statement, It's pretty long... and those are things saying how to accomplish your mission. Try to boil it down to one sentence

Cool, thanks for the input. I'll take a closer look and tweak it as necessary.  

Glad you're joining the challenge! 

Hey G-Money take a look at this:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230333

Pretty good article. I agree with a lot of the things he's saying.

Especially the mindset most people come from when goal setting. They feel like a failure when they don't hit their projected metrics.

I'll start implementing some more systems based, and process oriented beliefs. i.e. Read 50 pages a day or 400 pages a week. Instead of, read 52 books by the end of this year.

^ Yeah that's a perfect example 

Here's my mission statement:

I will live a life of EXCELLENCE in everything I do, to the best of my ability, and bring that excellence into the lives of the people around me.

thanks man, looking forward to that write up!

Good point. I actually thought of that, but thought it sounded weird to write "I am living a life of excellence" or "I have"  That sounded like an affirmation to me. It should simply be a statement of purpose that defines what it is. Perhaps "To live a life of excellence..."

Thanks a bunch for that Jaba :) I can feel the difference on a gut level.. feels more like, "YEP, that's me. It's what I am." Heheh cool.

Depending on whos ideas you believe some say writing the date you want to accomplish your goal helps, also adding the word now at tge end. The idea is if you don't it leaves room for you to back out or have a exit instead of doing. Muhammad ali was said to understand this concept, it starts with a iam and everything behind is what one usually believes regardless if its negative or positive. I am the greatest before anyone knew I was. I think it helps if you have some level of confidence because it becomes a legend you live if not its just wishful thinking. Using I as you speak in certain context allows you to claim responsibility for yourself. We all have anxiety with women. That statement is incorrect not everyone and it allows you to deflect responsibility.

"She looks like she wants to fuck you!"  

Also most of my girls just know that I'm a guy who sometimes likes girls two at a time. Again, its about owning it, unashamed. Because of the way I am I seem to attract and naturally end up with girls who are at least bi-curious. If a girl finds out I've had a threesome or threesomes, they're not surprised.

Word I'll keep that in mind.

I've been struggling to finish this book. Gonna try to knock it out soon. I'm mining bullshit rationalizations when I can definitely make time. 

Week 1: Sometimes the Magic Works by Terry brooks

Week 2: No Plot? No problem! by Chris Baty

Week 3: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Week 4: I'm currently reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

**LAY REPORT**

So I'm doing some work here on my laptop and this girl texts me. Pretty cute, 7. Met her about a month ago and just been keeping it warm.

Her: So I may be going to (bar district) tonighttt

Me: You. On bar district? Sounds like trouble ;)

Her: Alwayyyysss ;)

Me: I'm busy but I may meet you for a drink or four

Her: Just let me know. It's a rare thing to see Sydney on (bar district) these days, it should be good.

Her: I think they're actually seeling tickets. I'll put you on the VIP list.

So I'm focused on work and a little high right now so I'm just gonna chill. Though I'd throw this up and see if you cheeky motherfuckers have any good responses.

So I finished up my work and decided to text her back. Pretty standard stuff here. Not trying to overgame, blah, blah, blah.

Me: Perfect wear something cute so we match

Her: Guess I'll go home and change out of my jammies

Me: Lol where you at

Her: ...I just told you, changing...

Her: Ha! Gotcha. I'm about to head to (bar district)

At this point I did what any sane man in my situation would do. Played a couple games of FIFA, drank some whiskey and beer, and then headed down about an hour later.

I get to the bar and I meet up with four or five of my buddies. I see my girl at the table next to us. We make eye contact for a second but I just keep bullshitting with my buddies and having fun. After some time, I pull out some quarters and walk over to her. I bring up the playful role play we had going on about me kicking her ass in foosball. She's down to play and it's definitely on. The sexual tension is strong with this one. She keeps referring to me trying to roofie her and shit which I find quite hilarious. Instead of freezing up and actin glike a pussy I run with it and amplify what she's saying, taking it even further. She's cracking up at this point and asking me if i want a shot. I'm waiting on money from my freelance jobs so i was drinking water all night. Of course I accept.

We get some Vegas bombs with her and two of her friends ($3.25 in Texas, woot woot that cost of living). I introduce myself to the friends and start asking them questions. We bullshit for a while and then I tell her it's time for an ass kicking. End up beating her 5-3 and I'm pretty relentless but I keep it light and playful. I didn't wanna introduce some crazy competitive vibe for no reason. We hug after the game and she starts getting all touchy feely. At this point, I'm feeling very good about this interaction so I pull out some Julien shit from his new video. We makeout and I pull back and say she's a horrible kisser. She ACKNOWLEDGES THIS (she was actually pretty good) AND APOLOGIZES AND FALLS INTO THE FRAME LOL. She then asks me to help her practice. I tell her I don't know if there's much hope for her. I'm stacking the "whatever the fuck julien said" in his video and cutting her threads off. At one point she said something I didn't like so I was like, "I can't talk to you anymore." and start to back turn. She pulls me back and starts begging for my validation. Goddamn. This stuff is powerful if you use it correctly.

By this point she's basically eating out of the palm of my hand. I tell her I have some "girly vodka" back at my place that I can't drink. She tells her friends she's leaving with me and we all say our goodbyes. Say peace to my friends and we walk to my place. Once we're there, we take a shot of this vodka and I tell her I'll be right back. Throw my primary girl's pillow off my bed and put her toothbrush and bobby pins in a random place lol. Come back out and it's on. We "watch a movie". Which basically consists of us mouth raping each other before I finally suggest we go to my room. Very little LMR here, probably because she invested so much. She had a nice body overall and she definitely knew how to fuck. I make her cum a couple of times pretty hard and we fall asleep. Wake up at 6:30 am and it's Bangtown, USA again.

I had to wake up early to finish some work so i get her up and her friend comes to scoop her up. This girl is pretty cool and may be worth keeping around just as something fun and simple. I'm gonna talk to her later about expectations and how I definitely don't want anything serious right now. I'm sure she'll be down.

Important thing to note as well, this was a number I've been keeping warm for about 6 weeks. The longest I've gone from the initial meet to texting and fucking has been 6 MONTHS. Anything is possible guys, if you have the right frame. This means being fun and persistent while also being NON-NEEDY. That's biggest thing. Don't get butthurt when you can't get these girls out. There's this crazy thing called hundreds of other girls in your near vicinity.

Happy Wednesday everybody!

Excellent dude. Sounds like a slam dunk. It's pretty unusual, at least in my experience, to go that long between meeting and bedding.

Yeah, I agree it's unusual. Mostly because you have to rely on yourself to stoke that flame for a long time without seeing any immediate benefits. It also makes for some of the best interactions when you do finally get them out though.