The Pickup Game is an inside look at the emergence of the 'pickup' industry - a business where self-styled seduction coaches travel the world, charging a small fortune to teach men skills they claim will guarantee success with women. For the instructors who are successful, it is a highly lucrative occupation, with many companies earning millions of dollars a year. It is also an industry rife with controversy and scandal. Several teachers have been deported from countries for their contentious methodologies and pickup businesses are often the subject of fierce public criticism. Despite this, men the world over collectively spend hundreds of millions of dollars to attend seminars, download online courses and have one-on-one coaching sessions with instructors they feel can give them the dating life of their dreams. In the minds of students, many of these instructors become more than just teachers. They become idols. From the glossy exterior, where courses are packaged as
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很多研究、兴趣爱好、职业、企业甚至行业都走过的一条路:先是单纯为了自己成长,然后愿意帮助其他有需要的人,接着发现可以挣钱了,就把其中最物化、最吸引人的地方强化来多赚钱,各种所谓培训大师纷纷加入,做到极致后整个垮掉。这时候说一句“不忘初心”很应景。
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