Paul Janka Attraction Formula Review

Paul Janka Under The Microscope:
A Review Of The Attraction Formula

Do looks matter? Do good-looking guys need as much game as average-looking guys (or less than average-looking guys)?

If you were to listen to Paul Janka or have read his book The Attraction Formula, you’d no doubt form an impression on your own.

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If you’re like most men in the Seduction Community, you probably already have an answer for that. Some say yes, some say no. But there’s one test to see where you really stand.

Ask yourself this:

If a good-looking guy who’s a natural with women and has had very little Community involvement started telling you about his crazy success and claimed he could teach any guy to do what he does… how would you react?

Unless you’re a good-looking “natural” yourself, you’d probably tell him to take a hike.

That’s why a lot of guys might tell you that Paul Janka’s book The Attraction Formula is a complete waste of time and money. One look at this guy will tell you he’s no “average Joe.” As if his Harvard education wasn’t enough, he’s got the kind of looks that will turn female heads without even opening his mouth to ask, “Who lies more?”

In fact, Paul’s probably never even used that line because he’s what you call a community “outsider.” He developed his methods without so much as a glance at Mystery, Ross, local lairs or seduction forums.

And this guy says he’s going to teach you about how to pick up girls ?

Yeah, I was skeptical at first too. But I’ve heard of guys having frightening success with his stuff. I saw him on Dr. Phil coaching one of his students… a pretty average-looking guy. Hell, I’m better looking, and I figured if it worked for that guy, it would work for me too. So I picked up his book.

Things didn’t go at all like I expected.

I knew that Paul Janka’s methods involve lightning-fast escalation and ejection — I found that pretty intimidating to begin with, and I thought I’d be getting a lot of advice on wowing her with my appearance and dazzling her with routines. But what I found was how mega-powerful quick physical escalation can be… if you do it the way he says!

 
 

Instead, Paul Janka focuses largely on confidence boosting inner game tactics beforehand, which makes perfect sense to most guys. And, when you think about it, it’s all about developing the right mindset before you even start approaching… and bringing her into your reality once you’ve got her hooked, isn’t it?

Still, I had a hard time believing that this guy could actually teach me anything new about seduction. He might have very strong natural game, but how can a guy with such minimal Community involvement really have anything new to say?

Turns out, that’s his greatest strength.

Precisely because Paul Janka is coming from outside the community, he has a unique perspective and talks about stuff that you might not otherwise think of. For instance, you hear a lot of talk about relationship management, and particularly multiple long-term relationship management.

Paul Janka, who has recently entered into a long-term relationship himself, certainly has something to say about this.

But here’s something you don’t see every day — relationship prevention: Forget all about the emotional complexities of maintaining a harem: here’s how you can date multiple women without having to develop “relationships” with them or give them the impression that that’s where things are going.

But that of course is one advantage of being an outsider like Paul Janka: Attraction Formula explains that you aren’t thinking in the same groove that everyone else thinks in. The Attraction Formula is packed with information and advice that you’re just not going to get anywhere else…

That doesn’t mean that The Attraction Formula is for everybody, though.

One of the main weaknesses of Paul Janka/Attraction Formula method is it’s largely applicable to day game in big cities. Janka is from New York, and his whole approach presupposes encountering a lot of women just by being out and walking around. That’s not going to happen in a small town or a suburb. So, if you live in “the sticks”, most methods won’t help you anyway as you don’t meet many women.

Further, his ultra-fast five-minutes-then-eject tactics are best suited to city streets where people are hurrying from one place to another and you aren’t likely to run into each other again. Making the rounds in a club or bar and collecting as many numbers as you can, however, is likely to reflect badly on you.

And this is not the easiest method to master. Paul Janka/Attraction Formula game relies on a certain amount of skill in opening, escalation, and basic conversation — which he covers in his own special, easy-to-learn way — otherwise there’s just no way to pull digits as quickly as he does.

I’m not going to lie: there is a slight learning curve here and even advanced guys may struggle at first.

So basically, unless you are 100% dedicated to putting in the time and practicing an ultra-fast method for getting numbers and dates during the day, you should probably look elsewhere.

But if you aren’t afraid to try something a little different, you’ll be surprised at how fast and effective this “outsider’s” method really is!

Paul Janka: Unethical and Manipulative?

Paul Janka’s philosophy on dating: it’s a numbers game. And the odds are in your favor.

Take Paul Janka’s home turf of New York City as an example. There are millions of girls out there … hot, single women just waiting to meet someone.

One girl doesn’t want you? There are ten more who will.

After all, he approaches pick up like an analyst with a spreadsheet. He calculates his success with a number-to-lay ratio. He’s reduced the dating game to an average “cost per lay,” and he doesn’t even consider what he does to be “dating.” In his words: “I enjoy the hustle.”

No wonder Paul Janka stirs up so much controversy

It may seem impersonal, but it sure is efficient. A woman could very easily be intimidated… even offended… by an approach like this. That’s probably why Paul Janka has been featured on programs like Tyra Banks, Dr. Phil, and The Today Show.

Yet his detractors are always surprised to learn he actually has a deep respect for women. Paul’s parents were divorced and it was largely his mother who raised him. His closeness to her is a major reason why he has such a keen understanding of the female mind.

So he may not be a sexist… but is his approach ethical? Perhaps the real question is: are girls ethical?

Paul Janka points out what most men in the Seduction Community have known for a long time: women have an agenda.

They have their ideal guy, their ideal date, and a whole bag of dirty tricks to get everything they want. If you aren’t careful, you’ll end up paying for everything, getting nothing, and wasting your time before being pushed aside to make way for the next chump with a wallet.

Not only that, the average woman is far more adept at the dating game than men are. Think of all the time and money they spend on hair, makeup, clothes and maximizing their seduction value … to say nothing of the superior social intelligence of the average woman and the all the magazines they read full of relationship and sex advice.

You might think you’re Prince Charming and will prevail upon your fair maiden with old-fashioned courtship and a “touchy-feely” attitude. Has the “nice-guy routine” been working for you so far? Or maybe you’re a hotshot with a fat wallet and a fast car who figures he can buy whatever he wants. But here’s the cold, hard reality:

Stepping into the dating game unarmed is like stepping into a pool full of piranhas.

So… are these girls wrong? If your answer is yes … then Paul Janka’s methods are probably not for you.

Because Paul teaches men to do the same thing women do: have a clear idea of what they want, and solid plan for how they will get it. He’s a man with a very pragmatic world view. Girls are going to try and get whatever they can from you. It’s hustle or be hustled.

Does that mean you’re always going to be successful? No. Plain and simple.

No matter how confident you are, or how solid your game is, there will always be flakes, gold diggers, and uncontrollable circumstances. The strongest approach and the smoothest escalation on earth won’t work every time on every girl. Even Paul Janka only gets a number-to-lay rate of 9.8%

But so what? It’s a numbers game. As long as you’ve got the right attitude, you will get laid. A lot.

Paul Janka: PUA Exposed For The World To See

As a long-standing member of the Seduction Community, I was outraged when I first heard of this guy Paul Janka.

I mean, it’s bad enough that Mystery and Style had to blow the lid off the whole thing with a New York Times Bestselling novel…

It seems I can hardly open a set these days without being asked if I’m trying to “neg” or “qualify” my target.

And that’s to say nothing of pickup artists on shows like Dr. Phil and Tyra Banks … shows whose stated purpose is to warn women about guys like us.

 
 

And that’s not even the worst of it. For every ten guys who find out about this “secret society,” you have twenty more setting themselves up as the next “pick up guru.” It’s like the wake of The Blair Witch Project, where every chump with a hand-held camera thought he had a shot at the big time.

So yeah, I was already pretty steamed about the situation. But all of that paled in comparison to what I heard about Paul Janka.

Who the hell is Paul Janka ? Let’s hear from the man himself…

 
 

First off, the guy sounded like a tool to me. To call him an “approach machine” would be putting it mildly. This guy takes the concept of the numbers game to its literal extreme.

  • Open and interaction
  • Try to get number
  • Pass / Fail?
  • Rinse… and then…
  • Repeat.

Do it enough times, you’re bound to get digits. Get enough digits, you’re bound to get laid. Calculate your number-to-lay ratio (yes, I’m serious), and if the figures are low, rethink your approach.

Sounded to me like the only thing you’d be picking up is a calculator.

Still, I was ready to write this guy off as another harmless upstart. I’ve been in this game for years, and I’ve pretty much heard everything. At least, I thought I had.

But it’s the next part that really shocked me…

Say you’re out having drinks with a girl. She’s knocking ‘em back. One thing leads to another, and, well … we all know how it goes when you’ve had a couple.

Except if you take Paul Janka’s advice, you’re haven’t had a couple. You’re not even drinking.

And not only that … you’re fooling the girl into thinking you are by having a tonic water or club soda with some lime to make it look like a drink.

When I first heard that, I couldn’t help thinking … did we really need this ? Society has stacked all the cards in favor of women. It’s taken us this long just to get the advantage we have, and it’s already been threatened by mainstream exposure.

Did we really need a guy like Paul Janka making us look like a bunch of creeps?

Now that’s a pretty extreme thing to say, so I need to warn you very clearly: when I first heard this, I had not actually read Janka’s book.

Then I was talking with one of my wings, a good buddy of mine, and it turns out he’d been using some of Janka’s methods and having a lot of success with them. He loaned the book to me and said I should find out for myself. So I did.

And I was shocked for a second time. So let me set the record straight here, because a lot of guys have been making the same wrong assumptions I did.

First of all, drinking is a personal choice. But whether you choose drink or not, you’re not getting the girl drunk. In fact, using Paul Janka’s system, you shouldn’t even be buying her drinks … if you are, then she’s hustling you.

But nobody likes to drink alone. If the girl wants to have some alcohol and you don’t, she’s most likely going to feel uncomfortable. So rather than calling attention to your decision not to drink, you just take something that looks like alcohol so she feels at ease — It’s a question of sensitivity and social intelligence.

And the fact is, other guys have pointed out this same thing… but Paul Janka was the first.

I’ve got to hand it to him: the guy’s got a lot of guts. He’s opened himself up to unbelievable criticism and misunderstanding but putting that kind of information out. As you can see — even I didn’t get it at first.