Briar Harvey explains how distinctive style, or peacocking, can boost confidence and get people talking. Mystery, a famous pickup artist, wore an oversized purple hat to stand out. The key is finding your unique look without going overboard.
You can stand out, right? Like, one of the things that the pickup artists back in the early 2000s got right was the idea of peacocking. The idea of having kind of a thing that boosted your confidence, that gave people something to talk about, that, you know, like Was a little different. Now, a lot of these guys took it too far. The guy Mystery, he wore like this gigantic, like purple fuzzy hat with like a zebra thing, and like it was hideous. But this was his thing, right? Like he would wear it out and everybody be like, "Oh my God, look at that!" Don't go that far necessarily, right? Like that that's extreme. And honestly, I know I know it worked for him, but not everybody is a mystery, right?
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