Here are the two best ways to become (or stay) socially retarded:
- Play World of Warcraft
- Sign up for Netflix
How World of Warcraft makes you socially retarded
According to Brad P, World of Warcraft is the absolute best way to torpedo your social skills and make sure you don’t get laid.
I’d actually expand this to include all compulsive video game behavior. For example, my ex-wife’s brother is without a doubt the most talented gamer I have ever seen or heard of. Every waking moment he’s either playing or reading or talking about video games.
In his 30 something years on this planet, he has yet to have one date – much less a girlfriend.
So, what’s wrong with video games?
- It makes you less interesting to women while simultaneously taking up time you could use to make yourself and your life more attractive
- It tends to be a solitary and isolated activity (virtual friends who you’ve never met in person who you team up with to help each other level up doesn’t count)
- The social part of your brain atrophies (I don’t have any scientific evidence to back that up, but it certainly feels that way to me when I relapse)
So instead of spending hours playing Guitar Hero, pick up a real guitar and learn to play. Or, as Dale P (one of Brad’s coaches suggested) go out into the real world and try to level yourself up instead.
How Netflix makes you socially retarded
Netflix is actually what inspired me to write this post. Last weekend, I watched about one and half seasons of 24 streaming on Netflix. I wasn’t planning on using myself for a social experiment; it just kind of sucked me in (which is a big part of the danger).
Instead of making progress on my goals, working out, cleaning so my place would be appealing to women, washing veggies so I’d have healthy food to eat, etc. I just sat in a chair most of the weekend and ate whatever was convenient. When I did go out briefly my brain was in a fog, so even if I had seen anyone I wanted to approach, the mental wheels were turning so slowly, it wouldn’t have done me much good anyway.
Why do I consider Netflix so dangerous?
For starters, television is designed to hypnotize you and put you a passive, trance like state to make you more receptive to commercials. While Netflix doesn’t have the commercials, it does have a “play next episode” button, and like a slot machine, when you’re in that trance it’s just too easy to play one more time. Next thing you know, the whole day is gone and you’re feeling so lethargic that you don’t want to do anything in the evening.
Next, most of the shows on TV suck. I haven’t paid for cable for years, and I don’t miss it at all. When I had it, there were only three shows I watched anyway, so it wasn’t a hard decision to cancel it.
Netflix on the other hand has a ridiculous amount of TV shows and movies available to watch instantly, so it’s easy to find hours and hours of entertainment anytime you feel like escaping.
So if you have a choice between getting dressed and going out to approach women or ordering a pizza and watching something on Netflix, which would you choose?
If you are naturally introverted, scared of cold approaches and don’t have a realistic expectation of getting immediate results, it’s a no brainer – Netflix wins.
If you’ve been working on your skill set awhile, have a consistent game and a realistic chance of getting laid any time you go out and approach enough women (which means at least 10 according to BradP’s “ten timer” method), then Netflix might not look so attractive.
So, while I’d really like to finish 24 Season 2, I hit the cancel button anyway, and I’d encourage you to do the same.
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