<p>Does this look like a scam? Or can you actually get it? The</a> Popular Life: How to Become Popular is book that deals with social success, manipulation, fame, etc. implying that you can live the life you want if you follow the strategies in this book. It looks real persuasive but I'm not sure its sincere or up to it. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>why yes i'd love to have my happiness wrapped up in the opinions of others</p>
<p>The</a> Popular Life: How to Become Popular if this guy were popular he'd know some geeks who could make him a good website.</p>
<p>I think it's ********. It may help, but guess what? There's nothing (sorry, nothing) you can do that will guarantee that people will like and accept you- and isn't that what "popularity" is?</p>
<p>I've read this before except for that it was called Popular Prick. <a href="http://www.popularprick.com%5B/url%5D">www.popularprick.com</a></p>
<p>It sounds like he knows what he's talking about, I would get the book if I was 100% sure it's not a scam. He really got into my mind and has many good points. I wish there was an actual legitimate book like this somewhere. Seriously.</p>
<p>May find this helpful:
Have</a> you read the book "The popular life?"? - Yahoo! Answers</p>
<p>the pretentiousness reminds me of Tucker Max</p>
<p>yeah, here's another link I found really helpful:</p>
<p>(from: "Popular</a> Prick" ebook. Is it good? - Yahoo! Answers)</p>
<p>"Popular Prick" ebook. Is it good?</p>
<p>No. It's rubbish. I've read it, and there's so much fluff it's unbelievable. There's barely anything useful in it. 90% of it is just "This is what I'm going to teach you" but he barely gets round to teaching anything. The tone is much lighter than the accompanying text on the front page, it's much less harsh and superior, and when you read it without that flare you realize that it is absolutely nothing special.</p>
<p>Perhaps when you read about the "manipulative psychology" involved you thought it was all Derren Brown-style manipulative psychology? Turning people to putty in your hands? Nope. Absolutely nowhere near that level of manipulation. It can barely be called psychology at all, it's just tips and advice like you'd find in any other self-help ebook. The only manipulative psychology is right there on the front page; the text that's designed to pummel down relentlessly on you, to make you feel like **** so that you eventually "give in" and buy the book. But it's good that you're asking if it's good or not, because it shows that you still have enough self-respect not to give someone 30 dollars based on nothing but some imperative, condescending text. (EDIT: Don't worry, I didn't do that either; I actually obtained it without paying for it. How? Well, if I said I'd get my *** kicked. But I assure you, I'm no hacker, the site just has poor security.)</p>
<p>That's another thing: you can be anyone over the Internet. You may have seen the picture of the "Internet Tough Guy", the fat geek sitting at the computer? It's a similar case with this guy. It's highly unlikely that he is who he says he is. The guy claims to be an ultra-successful extrovert who gets all the money, friends and sex in the world... but here he is, anonymously selling a social skills ebook on the Internet for 30 dollars, with about a zillion variations to speak out to as many people as possible:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.popularprick.com/aspergers.ht%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/aspergers.ht</a>...
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/introvert.ht%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/introvert.ht</a>...
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/shyness.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/shyness.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/socialanxiet%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/socialanxiet</a>...
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/loner.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/loner.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/depression.h%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/depression.h</a>...
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/loser.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/loser.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/antisocial.h%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/antisocial.h</a>...
<a href="http://www.popularprick.com/recluse.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.popularprick.com/recluse.htm</a></p>
<p>He also displays a suspiciously large amount of knowledge on what it's like to be a socially deprived person. I can assure you that real "popular pricks" neither know nor care what less sociable think about and experience; they're out there living life to the max and they are NOT selling social skills ebooks for 30 dollars. Popular? I doubt it. Prick? Most certainly.</p>
<p>If you want serious help improving your social life, get help from a professional! Buy a proper, real self-help book; one that you can hold in your hands, one that has positive reviews from critics. If you're anxious or depressed, see a therapist or counselor, and see your doctor/local drugs store about medications. (I recommend Bach Rescue Remedy spray, it's great for anxiety.) And I'm sure there are other methods to try out. Don't let this site put you off the "experts", he's only trying to do that to draw you in and turn you away from the people and places you SHOULD be going to.</p>
<p>of course those links don't work anymore, he done changed the whole name...</p>
<p>My own rebuttal to Popular Prick at foolquest.com</a> -</p>
<p>anyone ever heard the song "online" by brad paisley? this reminds me of that...so much cooler online</p>
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My own rebuttal to Popular Prick at foolquest.com -
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<p>I don't see anything wrong with succeedsocially.com If anything, that guy is telling us that we need to compromise if we want to get along in the real world and not feel isolated all the time. It's just practical advice to learn how to socialize. You need social skills if you're going to be successful at anything.</p>
<p>Not every normal extravert is a loud, shallow, annoying, jerk while the nerds are the intellectuals (if anything, most of the geeks/nerds I run into seem to have average intelligence) and the only ones who achieve anything substantial.</p>
<p>Well you can't classify it as a scam per se. That would imply that it flat-out lies and the book doesn't say anything about becoming popular. (I.e. maybe it's just the text of the Koran). But will you get a load of nauseatingly trite, overhyped, harebrained, repulsive, and rather unhinged advice? Most likely, yes. </p>
<p>(Or maybe its marginally useful advice presented in an irritating format. But being manipulative ought not to be something to aim for.)</p>
<p>succeedsocially.com seems nice and rational. He says it won't change everything overnight (We are so often trapped in some sort of dramatized Hollywood mentality.)</p>
<p>I've considered ordering it, but have been skeptical. It seems to teach the same thing you learn with "PUA" and "NLP" techniques -- but those fields are so complicated...
It would be nice if a book like that could sum up what you need. (but it sounds like it doesn't)
And for those who don't think those "tricks" work -- they really do. It's almost scary to see how people react automatically in response to preprogrammed techniques...</p>
<p>Teach me more about NLP. Woah. I really, really need that ****. Seriously. It sounds amazing.</p>
<p>Indeed, TA3021, it may well be best to overlook presentation style, Popular Prick's shockvalue obnoxious hyperbole after all just to get our attention, and focus instead upon message content so frankly proffered. To wit: It is easy to extol compromise as reasonable and realistic. Indeed, it is easy to trivialize compromise of identity and integrity, exactly as Popular Prick does. And it is even easier, with glittering generalities, to promise the moon! In truth, however, with the sacrifice of autonomy, in exchange for our last best hope one surrenders oneself to the authoritative mercy of strangers at random, with self alienation only compounding social isolation. In the alternative, let those of us less pliant, desperate and gullible, rise and seek together for more rewarding, optimistic and dignified alternatives perhaps from the daring and effort at howsoever the less simplistic social models. Indeed NLP and such has its skeptics and critics. It us unwise to expect too much of cult snake oil. Because, as for those indeed all too easily manipulated, are they really such a good influence? Consider, also: it is a sad thing and nothing to take lightly, to think of a vulnerable and foolish loved one come to harm: Was I indecisive? Perhaps I should have been more manipulative! In the hoped for alternative, there can be nothing naive in yearning for the truer security of any somehow more functional circle of support and genuine respect.</p>
<p>Wow man. I know it’s been a while since you posted this, but I need to comment. That post was so well written and awesome that I made registered on this site so I could respond to it.</p>
<p>iforgot87871, if that last was indeed addressed to me, then a belated thanks.</p>