Recommended Books on Social Skills & Relationships

[Mehdi]

The Best:
* Attract Hotter Women by Brent Smith. Don't let the name mislead you. This is about building a social life, going out to have fun, growing your confidence, learning to be happy alone, learning to have conversations and having women pursue you as a byproduct of all of this. This isn't a quick fix, but it is the short way to what you're really after. These are podcasts.


Inner Game
* Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Law of attraction: you attract what you think of. Basics of leadership, patience, self-control, dealing with sex-drive, etc
* Magnetic Mindset by Cory Skyy. How to use affirmations & visualizations.
* The Way of The Superior Man by David Deida. Being a man and handling women.
* 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. And if "power" sounds negative to you: you choose whether you choose it negatively or positively.
* Spiritual Polyamory by Mystic Life. Not just about open relationships. There's a lot here about dealing with jealousy, etc.
* The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello. Again: don't let the title mislead you, this isn't about having love. This is about attachement, learning to be happy alone, etc.
* Awareness by Anthony De Mello. Will open your eyes on how to deal with people and teaches you indifference.
* Stop Your Divorce or Lover's Rejection by Homer McDonald. Best book out there on what to do when stuff goes wrong.


Social Skills
* How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnege. Definite guide on building social skills.
* http://www.succeedsocially.com/index.html social skills 101 from a guy who "used to be a huge dork" (sic). Read also his other site: http://www.datinggroundwork.com/


Sex
* Read a book on how to give massages, anatomy, etc
* There's a DVD "how to eat pussy like a champ" that's quite interesting.
* The Enlightened Sex Manual by David Deida. Lots of everything here.
* The Karezza Method by J. William Lloyd. Manual on the practice of Karezza - controlled intercourse.
* http://www.reuniting.info/


Other Stuff
* http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/ lots of articles on relationships lately.
* http://www.beyondroutines.com/ Jakob Bachman, read also his blogs http://www.lifestylejourney.blogspot.com/ and http://crazydatingstories.blogspot.com/


Practice
* Quote from BradP "3 hours of practice for every hour of reading". Don't stay at home reading, especially if you have low confidence and whatever. Go out and practice. Everything you read makes more sense when doing it. You don't learn how to squat by reading about how to squat. You learn it by going to the gym and actually squat, then coming back reading and understanding what you did wrong, and then go back and retry. Same thing with this. Go out and do it.