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Play to win and Outcome Independence: Paradox?

James D

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Howdy everyone,

Hope everything's going well on your end :)

As I'm patching up loopholes in my game, I've stumbled across an apparent paradox:

Can you play to win and be outcome independent at the same time?

To me, it seems they are mutually exclusive.

Here's how I went about to solve the problem:

Initially, I completely let go of the outcome. I convinced myself that I don't need to get laid.

Of course, it didn't go well at all. I would not push for sex when I had, I wouldn't escalate. At my all time low, I didn't even bother chatting up girls. Had a totally deserved dry spell for 7 months. (broke out of it eventually)

Next, I shifted gears and decided to go all in on my desire to achieve my goal (i.e, get laid)

I then realised that I actually could not go all in with my desire, given that I was too emotionally attached to the outcome. If i succeeded, it would be so awesome but I dreaded failure.

The best guys I've seen in field seem to have the ability to play to win and be unnatttached with the outcome. They might be dissapointed if they zone in on a girl and they don't succeed but it doesn't last that long.

What do you guys think?

Have you experienced the paradox of playing to win and outcome independence?
 

Rakehell

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They’re actually the same in a sense. Playing to win is about pushing it to the limit, trying out new shit, taking it to new heights. Outcome independence isn’t about not trying, it’s about accepting that you tried, and being okay with the outcome you end up with.

You can’t really play to win without some degree of outcome independence, and you can’t truly be outcome independent if you never play to win.

All in all both are about being certain in your actions.

edit: think of a poker player who goes all in. going all in is playing to win, he wants to win big so he bets big. its thrilling, he enjoys the emotions, he recognizes the risk, but he doesn’t care because he’s independent of the outcome. it’d be great to win but he doesn’t have to because trying is fulfilling enough. he’s both outcome independent and playing to win.

you have to enjoy the process more than the end result, if you enjoy the riskyness of playing to win you’ll automatically be outcome independent
 
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ulrich

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Yeah, you seem to have confused a little what these terms mean.

Outcome independence is “I go for what I want but if I don’t get it this time, there will be others”.
It is not “I don’t care to get my objective so I don’t even try”.

Play to win is “I choose risky scenarios because if they pay, the payoff is much better than safe scenarios”.
It is not “I absolutely need to get this or I am a loser”.
 

DoWhatWorks

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The best guys I've seen in field seem to have the ability to play to win and be unnatttached with the outcome.

Great topic that I’ve wrestled with in the past.

@topcat summed it up beautifully with a conversation I had with him before:

“Focus on form

Treat the seduction as you executing and improving on a skill-set.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Stay true to the skill set because long term it’s the only thing that will always get you what you want. Not this particular girl in front of you...

When you internalise this your whole mindset shifts. You focus on the actions not results. I’m reaching a point (not quite there) where I’d rather lose a lay where I had excellent game then gain one where I was sloppy. As long term the former gets more results than the latter.

It become a fun game that you play for the sport.

Like how some people go for runs. They want to beat their record but also just love running

That’s how you stay detached & play to win.
 

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At the same time though I can see how if you’re a really logical person the titles might seem inverse.

It’s best to assume everything seduction related is correlated somehow. For example being “devil may care” is kind of just being both outcome independent and playing to win at the same time.
 
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Alpha13SC

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I can agree with the guys here.

Focus on the process. Nowadays I just want to become better. Challenge myself to do better game, better openers, better replies, etc. The process will bring the results. Improve the process. Better results will come.
 

Stark

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No paradox here,

Your desire: To lay multiple hot girls

You WANT this outcome.

But you don't care about the result of any one interaction

1. Because you talk to many hot girls

&

2. You are applying a process that works universally

When it's guaranteed that you would achieve your goal(lay hot girls), you take the pressure off the interaction with any particular girl.

You come across as relaxed and confident(while being non needy)

That's very attractive to women.

You start getting results faster, and this mindset and behavior snowballs into more lays.

Practical tip: When you're on a date with any particular girl that's your ideal 10, tell yourself "I don't need this particular girl. If I lay her, good. If not, I'll lay someone just as hot or hotter soon"

If you apply this correctly, your game will skyrocket
 

Just a Man

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You focus on the actions not results. I’m reaching a point (not quite there) where I’d rather lose a lay where I had excellent game then gain one where I was sloppy. As long term the former gets more results than the latter.
Fully agree with this. I would add that this also applies if you're looking for quality rather than quantity.
 

West_Indian_Archie

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Howdy everyone,

Hope everything's going well on your end :)

As I'm patching up loopholes in my game, I've stumbled across an apparent paradox:

Can you play to win and be outcome independent at the same time?

To me, it seems they are mutually exclusive.

Here's how I went about to solve the problem:

Initially, I completely let go of the outcome. I convinced myself that I don't need to get laid.

Of course, it didn't go well at all. I would not push for sex when I had, I wouldn't escalate. At my all time low, I didn't even bother chatting up girls. Had a totally deserved dry spell for 7 months. (broke out of it eventually)

Next, I shifted gears and decided to go all in on my desire to achieve my goal (i.e, get laid)

I then realised that I actually could not go all in with my desire, given that I was too emotionally attached to the outcome. If i succeeded, it would be so awesome but I dreaded failure.

The best guys I've seen in field seem to have the ability to play to win and be unnatttached with the outcome. They might be dissapointed if they zone in on a girl and they don't succeed but it doesn't last that long.

What do you guys think?

Have you experienced the paradox of playing to win and outcome independence?

The easy answer is become process oriented.
  • Did I open properly?
  • Did I get her to qualify herself?
  • Did I make her invest?
  • Did I give her good reasons to trust me?
  • Did I break the touch barrier?
  • Did I escalate?
  • Did I pull back when I needed to?

The process works. It's not as linear as we make it sound, but it works. I would not be here if I didn't get 3's and 7's to work back in the day. (damn, this shit really works!).

That said...

You're living in a false reality.

The outcome independence/dependence thing is a logic bomb that rookies should best avoid. There are a bunch of logic bombs that leak into the scene from the blue pill world
  • Looks vs Game
  • Money/Looks/Status vs Game
  • Indirect vs Direct
  • You pay in one way or another, money or time
The Blue Pill - i.e. Society's programming - looks at the world in binary terms, or tits for tats. (like if you have a bunch of tattoos you start attracting tits).

Assortative mating, win or lose. Basically X quality girl will only go with X+ quality guy.

There's no book that "un plugs" you from the Matrix.

Personal Experience does. Every time a guy "punches above his weight class" - the whole idea of "weight class" needs to fall apart.

Acting with intent of fucking a specific girl

There are definitely guys out there that are trying to hook up ASAP. They don't need to "push" the girl and force something to work that's not going to work, they just see the nonverbal communications and head off problems.

Why does this work?

Chicks like to fuck. Chicks like sex. They like drugs and alcohol too. Especially the chicks that we want - the attractive out going ones. But even the Church Mouse girl wants to be extroverted and relaxed, she's often judgmental about the pretty girls/popular girls (who were judgmental about her...)

In my view, I'm just trying to give her permission to be the person she truly wants to be.

Natural Born Killers

With that in mind, don't for a second think that there aren't successful guys that are not purposeful, intentional, and definitely trying to put the P into the V in 90 minutes or less. And only some of those guys are PUAs. Naturals, Pretty Boys, Jocks, Rich Kids, the powerful, the popular, and the famous are driven by the same testosterone and ego that we all are. They all have their systems, and no two are a like.

And sometimes these guys are THIRSTY and still manage to hook up - because everything else they have going is greater than being thirsty.

How do you get to this state?

The more a guy goes out, gets comfortable approaching, interacting, etc - the less and less mystery there is. A man gets a sense when the chick is ready - and that's really his animal brain interpreting all of her animal brain body language. It's not like the Lion and the Lioness discuss sex before they couple.

Ex. The closer you get to real "I want to fuck this guy right now" - Some chicks get this "shimmy", pressing their legs together because they're trying to hold something back.

The Game is Played in Comfort

Not to sound cliche and woo woo, but basically the more "centered" you are, the more relaxed you are, and chicks tend to relax around a guy that is very relaxed. Cause she can be attracted (he's got such a cute face), she can be turned on (nipples hard, pussy wet), but most of the time she's not gonna fuck until she's comfortable. Until she trusts.

And she's just measuring trust/comfort signals that she's getting from you, her friends, strangers, and the environment.

But if you stay in this idea of "outcome oriented" or "process oriented", you're just closing off other ways to see the situation. That's the real problem with a lot of game. There are almost 8 billion people on this planet, so there are at least 8 billion ways to skin a cat.

Outcome dependence/independence is a bad way to frame the situation.

My take

WIA
 

Teevster

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No paradox here. Outcome independence is just a bullshit concept. Be outcome oriented, not outcome independent if you need a mindset to replace the flawed idea of "outcome independence". What the concept tries to convey is as simple as "don't be/come off as needy" because women do not like that.

I hope this clarified a few things.

15 years in... I still care about outcomes.

Best,
Teevster
 

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The difference is that if you don't get what you want you'll find another way. I prefer to call it outcome adaptability.
 

James D

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Thanks y'all for your responses.
 

Jan

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Outcome independence is about ACCEPTING that not everything is in your control. If you ACCEPT that the interaction is the results of:
- what you CAN CONTROL - your own actions
- what you CANNOT CONTROL - her actions, environment, wildcards

Sometimes you will do everything right and get a "BAD" (not your favorable) outcome, and sometimes you will do many things wrong and get GOOD (your desired outcome).

Once you understand this, you can redirect your attention from THE OUTCOME which is only partially dependent on you, to PROCESS which is fully dependent on you. This way, you will accelerate your progress because your will pay more attention to things you can control (PROCESS) and less attention to things YOU CANNOT CONTROL (outcome).

PLAYING TO WIN is playing to GAIN, MOVE FORWARDS, LEAD, GRAB THE OPPORTUNITY vs PLAYING NOT TO LOSE, playing so you do not lose the girl, make her unhappy, whatever. First mindset is attacking, second is defensive.
 
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