Summary
The Speed Seduction technique has a dubious foundation and appears to be more of a money spinner than something genuinely useful.
Ross Jeffries
I’m going to be opinionated here but keep an open mind, I’m not a fan of Speed Seduction but that doesn’t mean it wont work for you.
Ross Jeffries is the creator of the Speed Seduction method based on NLP. He is a former comedy writer and makes a healthy living through seminars and his website, teaching men how to pick up women.
NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming)
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques, axioms and beliefs used for personal development.
NLP has a number of qualified critics.
No evidence of its claimed effectiveness.Singer (1996)
NLP is a pseudoscientific fringe therapyBeyerstein
Bogus therapies can be explained by the placebo effect, social pressure, superficial symptomatic rather than core treatment , and overestimating some apparent successes while ignoring, downplaying, or explaining away failures.Beyerstein
NLP and Ross Jeffries
Ross uses an number of NLP strategies and refines them down a number of seduction mantras.
- Concentrating on confidence and attitude
- Affirmations
- Command phrases
- Etc…
Techniques such as imagening you’re 40ft tall, make a film role in your head where the last slide is you in bed with the girl you want, and so on.
Another Jeffries device is phonetic ambiguity. Sentence example: “Standing on the hill, I could see the river twinkling below me.” According to Jeffries, the words “below me” could be unconsciously interpreted as an embedded command to “blow me.”. I’m struggling to see how this technique works, if there was evidence then I would be persuaded.
The Fallacies and Wikipedia
As in religious wars the arguments for and against speed seduction tend to be based on fallacies. One fallacy is displayed on the wikipedia mediation request for the Ross Jeffries entry. The techniques apparently work because Ross challenges us to compete against him for who can get the most kisses/phone numbers from girls. I’m sorry Ross but that neither proves or disproves your theory.
Even on one of his tapes Ross tells us about a client of his who said that the Affirmations techniques did not work for him. Ross informs us that he must be using the wrong tone of voice. Have a look at this debate about affirmations not working.
I’m going to post this article to the Ross Jeffries wikipedia entry. My guess is it will last about 10 minutes before a member of the seduction community takes it off, wouldn’t be good for sales now would it.
