Where do you turn for protection? Because right now, in the midst of this crisis, it’s a natural human instinct to hope that some higher agency will come in and sort everything out. Of course, you might be a stone-cold alpha type who scoffs at such a notion. Well, fine – congratulations. But let’s not …
Well, this is a strange state of affairs, isn’t it? Unprecedented, in fact. We are facing a global situation of a kind i’ve never seen before in my lifetime (and I’m in my 40s). I’m in London, and right now, although the govt has stopped short of ordering complete lockdown, the strong ‘advice’ is for …
Sanford Meisner was a fixture at the Neighbourhood Playhouse theatre in New York for 50 years and is best known as a teacher of acting. His style has influenced actors as famous and diverse as Tom Cruise, Naomi Watts, Mark Rydell, Jon Voight, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Keaton and Christoph Waltz to name but a few. …
I want to read to you the post that I saw on Reddit where a guy describes the way his girlfriend dumped him due to the Coronavirus, so here we go: I wish this would be a joke but it isn’t. So I have been together with my now ex for 3 months and …
I was inspired to write about ruthlessness after reading an article about how the Winter 2020 Love Island UK winner Paige Turley cheated on her former boyfriend, the singer Lewis Capaldi, with his best friend while they were still in college. In an article in The Sun newspaper a source describes the affair like this: …
I recently read about the fascinating process through which the now-deceased actor Heath Ledger prepared himself for his iconic role as the Joker in the 2008 superhero thriller The Dark Knight. Having studied acting and theatre myself I have always found the techniques employed by actors to be fascinating, and have often utilised them myself …
I’ve recently been re-reading Robert Greene’s excellent book The Art of Seduction, which I recommend everyone gets a copy of. Here’s an extract where Greene talks about the huge power of narcissism in sexual dynamics. To adopt the power of the coquette you must understand one other quality: narcissism. Sigmund Freud characterised the ‘narcissistic woman’ …
Good old Nick. Nickster. Nicky. The Knickerman. Mr Nicktastic. Otherwise known as Mr Nick Daniel, deputy head of advertising sales at Asinine Media (a small outfit dedicated to the publication of dismal magazines and websites giving dismal financial advice to dismal, sad men in the dismal sad provinces). But good old Nick is a laugh …
As you may know if you’ve been watching my videos on YouTube this week, I’ve recently been re-reading (again) The Art of Seduction by the great Robert Greene. If you haven’t taken the time to read the book yet then you absolutely should. But be warned: it’s not a cheap and tawdry ‘pickup’ book (if …
If you take a look around the online men’s space – the space that deals with sex, dating and self-development, plus related topics – you’ll see that there are broadly two types of content creators out there: those who want to change the world, and those who want to change themselves. Now, at first …
