Neil Strauss Annihilation

Neil Strauss and the Annihilation Method

The Neil Strauss Annihilation Method is the great secret seduction method that men in the pickup artist community want to learn.

Also known as “AM”, Annihilation Method was originally taught by Neil Strauss to 5 students in his home. In an industry where mass marketing and large seminars are the norm, Neil Strauss’s first pick-up techniques were handed out to the barest minimum.

Later, Neil Strauss released his Annihilation Method to the first 375 men who signed up for it on his blog. Since then, the author of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists has opened his own school of seduction, the Stylelife Academy, which takes the best of Neil Strauss pickup artist material and disseminates it to the male singles community. But the original Annihilation Method still remains a bit of a mystery.

The Annihilation Method – What We Know

The static side of Pickup-Lines has discussed the Annihilation Method by Neil Strauss before, but I’ve never talked about it on the Pickup-Lines Blog side of this website before. So I wanted to go over a brief overview of what I know about the Annihilation Method. Eventually, I’ll return to this subject, to show where you can learn more, or perhaps even buy an Annihilation Method DVD.

The Annihilation Method has three basic elements you have to grok. These three concepts are as follows.

Who you are
What you do
When and how you do it

Why call it the “Annihilation Method“? That sounds like a pretty aggressive attitude to take towards dating and sex. Actually, the annihilating you’re trying to do is to annihilate the doubt, fear, failures, and competition from your life as a man. You deal with challenges in your life, you work through problems, but you do it in your life first. Only then do you work through problems in your head. If what you’re dealing with is painful, you deal with it and push through the pain. This is likened to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attitude when he was in competitive body-building; the difference in being a champion and being an also-ran was the ability to fight through the pain, to do those last few reps as you get sick and feel awful.

That’s what the Annihilation Method is–workouts for dating. Train to get better, deal with the pain, and eventually you become a better pickup artist.

AM – More About the Annihilation Method

Beyond that, though, Neil Strauss’s Annihilation Method is about destroying what is really holding a man back. Men think that being fat, bald, or otherwise unattractive is what holds them back. He teaches that it’s something inside holding you back, and you need to annihilate it.

Neil then unveiled the Annihilation Method’s 4-step model of attraction. When you want to seduce a woman, there are four steps the seduction needs to take. These are probably more familiar to you.

Open
Demonstrate Value
Create An Emotional Connection
Create A Physical Connection

The opening is where your basic single guy trying to get a girl’s number trips up, much less getting to the steps of demonstrating value, and much more less the idea he’s going to create an emotional and physical connection to this woman in the first conversation (if at all). So there’s a lot to digest for the reader.