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The academy

Watch a lesson, then practise it

16 video lessons, none longer than two and a half minutes, and 18 topics of ten exercises underneath them. Every exercise is a single action you can take today, and they climb in difficulty — you never start at the top.

The lessons · 16 videos

Lesson 01 · 1:54The ApproachApproaching a stranger does not take courage. It takes a corrected forecast. People predict the conversation will go badly, it reliably does not, and the error is large enough to have been measured on trains, in cabs and in laboratories for a decade. Here is what the record shows, and the three moves that follow from it.Topic 01 · First Contact Lesson 02 · 1:36The Casanova CorrectionThe legend is conquest. The record is attention — and the record is unusually good, because he wrote 3,700 pages of it and historians have been checking them against archives since the 1960s. Here is what he actually did, what holds up, and what to do with it tonight.Topic 09 · The Casanova Method Lesson 03 · 1:49Disagreeing WellPeople warm to the person who sounds willing to hear them, not the one with the better case. This lesson gives you the three moves that send that signal, and the one kind of argument where they stop working. All three were measured — on government executives, on Wikipedia editors and on doorsteps.Topic 08 · Disagreeing Well Lesson 04 · 2:22The Beautiful MessThe thing you are hiding to look attractive is usually the thing that would make you attractive. People judge their own vulnerability as weakness and other people's as courage — the same act, opposite verdicts, and the gap has been measured seven times. Here is what to do with it, and exactly where it stops being true.Topic 02 · Conversation Craft Lesson 05 · 1:36The Slow RevealPlaying hard to get failed five experiments in a row before anyone worked out what was actually happening. The answer was not distance — it was pacing, and it comes with a hard boundary: you can make someone wait for the when, never for the whether. Here is the difference, and the three moves that follow from it.Topic 03 · Desire & Restraint Lesson 06 · 1:04The ReplayThe no took four seconds. The week that followed is where the damage happened — and the gap between how big the moment felt and how little anyone else registered has been measured. This lesson is not about caring less. It is about getting the recovery down from a week to an hour.Topic 05 · Rejection Immunity Lesson 07 · 1:10The SwitchSusan Strasberg walked through Manhattan beside the most photographed woman of the century and nobody looked twice — until Marilyn asked whether she wanted to see her be her. Same face, same coat, same street, and within minutes the crowd had closed around them. If presence can be switched on, it was built; and a built thing can be learned. Here is what the witnesses describe, the three behaviours it breaks into, and what it cost the woman who did it best.Topic 10 · The Monroe Method Lesson 08 · 1:07Say It ClearlyThe friendzone is not a place anyone put you. It is a question that has not been asked, and hinting is what keeps it unasked — a hint can be missed, denied or explained away, so nothing resolves and the waiting continues. Clarity is the whole skill here, and it cuts both ways: either answer ends the limbo, and only one outcome is actually bad. Here are the three moves, and the rule that keeps them from becoming pressure.Topic 04 · Out of the Friendzone Lesson 09 · 1:18The Long DevotionBeginnings are the easy part, and the part everyone teaches. This is the other half: how somebody who already has you keeps wanting you. Three moves that hold a long thing together, the study that contradicts the usual advice about them, and the one rule that separates maintaining a relationship from trying to stop somebody leaving.Topic 06 · The Long Devotion Lesson 10 · 1:24The Carnegie MethodHow to Win Friends and Influence People has sold in the tens of millions and is quoted far more often than it is read. It also contains no data at all. Here is what survived ninety years of psychologists testing it, what did not, and the line where the whole method stops being charm and becomes sales.Topic 07 · The Carnegie Method Lesson 11 · 1:24The LadderNobody gets braver by doing the frightening thing first, which is why “just put yourself out there” fails so reliably. Clinics grade fear into steps and climb them in order. This is that staircase — seventeen rungs in four bands — and the rule that decides when somebody has earned the next one.The Rejection Room Lesson 12 · 1:05The Written VoiceAlmost every courtship now begins in writing, in a medium that strips out the one thing it depends on. You hear your own tone as you type; the reader hears nothing, and supplies their own. Here is the measured size of that gap, three ways to close it, and the move everybody makes when a message is misread — which is the move that makes it worse.Topic 11 · The Written Voice Lesson 13 · 1:16A Room of PeopleA room is not an audience, and treating it as one is what makes it frightening. It is six or seven separate conversations that have not met you yet. Here is the measured reason you leave good ones believing you failed, three ways into a group, and the exit nobody teaches.Topic 12 · A Room of People Lesson 14 · 1:12How You SoundPeople take something from your voice before your sentence is finished, and nerves reach it before you notice. Three mechanical fixes, none of them about what you say — and an honest warning that this is the thinnest-evidenced topic here, because voice research is mostly about hiring and persuasion rather than about being liked.Topic 13 · How You Sound Lesson 15 · 1:03PlayingCharm is mostly warmth plus play, and play is the half people get wrong — usually by performing it. A joke performed asks for applause; a joke offered asks for a response. Three ways to offer one, the famous experiment that is quoted with its second half missing, and the line where teasing stops being an invitation.Topic 14 · Playing Lesson 16 · 1:05Ending It WellAsked to rate an experience afterwards, people barely register how long it lasted. What they keep is the peak and the ending — which makes the least practised part of every social skill the part that decides what the whole of it was. Three endings worth getting right, and the kind lie that ruins all of them.Topic 15 · Ending It Well

Practise it · 18 topics

First Contact

How to start a conversation in daylight, at work or on an app — without inventing an excuse, and without it stinging when it goes nowhere.

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Conversation Craft

How to keep it going: ask a second question, call back to something they said, tease in a way that flatters. Being interested without it becoming an interview.

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Desire & Restraint

Tension, anticipation and pacing — and why pulling back only works when it is genuinely who you are, rather than a move you pull.

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Out of the Friendzone

Turn a friendship into something more, or leave it as it is and move on. Either one is a good outcome. Staying unclear is not.

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Rejection Immunity

How to get over a bad night in under an hour, instead of replaying it for a week.

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The Long Devotion

How early chemistry turns into something worth keeping: repairing after a row, staying interested, and still wanting each other once you know each other well.

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The Carnegie Method

The 1936 bestseller, read honestly: what still works about making people feel important, and where it tips over into flattery.

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Disagreeing Well

How to be in the wrong room, the wrong argument or the wrong mood without losing the person opposite you.

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The Casanova Method

His memoirs read as a manual rather than a legend: pay attention, be useful, be a delight, leave well — plus the two episodes the myth leaves out.

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The Monroe Method

The record, not the legend: her presence was a craft she built and could switch on at will — and what it cost her.

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The Written Voice

Most of a courtship now happens in writing, where tone does not survive the trip. How to be warm in a medium that strips warmth out — and when to stop typing.

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A Room of People

Parties, work drinks, weddings — anywhere with more than four people and no seating plan. How to enter a room you know nobody in, and leave having met someone.

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How You Sound

Pace, pitch, pauses and the words that fill them. The part of charm that is audible before anybody has finished processing what you said.

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Playing

Teasing, callbacks, and not being funny on purpose. The difference between play that invites somebody in and comedy that asks them to watch.

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Ending It Well

Saying no, leaving first, and ending things without cruelty or cowardice. The half of every social skill that nobody practises.

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The Regular

The person you see every week — café, gym, the Thursday thing, the other team — and cannot start from scratch with. Ten moves over weeks, not minutes.

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The First Date

Before, during and after the evening that decides things — for someone whose voice goes exactly when it matters. Ten single actions, in order of exposure.

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The Unanswered Message

The phone face-down on the table. What to send, when to send once more, when to stop, and what the wait is telling you — less than it feels.

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