@Skills,
Yeah, I have 'inflator' natural friends. Also some who never bother with it.
I think a lot of this comes down to how you present yourself, as well as whether you are motivated to learn & calibrate to 'successful guy game'.
Presentation-wise, I already present as a successful, skeptical guy. There is no way I have been able to make listing out a bunch of success credentials come across congruent. Same as if you approached a hot girl in a red dress at a high end club and asked her what she does and she starts listing out this list of things... "Well I'm a model... I'm also a children's book author... I run a charity... oh and I teach yoga classes..." guys are either going to feel really intimidated by this haughty girl who is also in addition successful in all these different ways or they're going to ask themselves why this seemingly-elite girl is immediately qualifying herself to a stranger when at first she seemed so haughty.
That is my experience. If I tell her "Oh I do this... I also do that... and I have this!... oh but don't worry [self-deprecating humor], haha," women either clam up super-intimidated or they act like I incongruently qualified myself.
What
does work:
Her: What do you do?
Me: I'm a writer.
Her: What do you write?
Me: Fiction for fun. Marketing to pay the bills. I do all right. [smile and wink]
If I don't underplay success, women just get blown out, or else they start behaving weird.
I will also say that when I have tried it, or stumbled into it, successful guy game obviously comes with a few benefits:
- Raised attraction
- Raised respect
- Raised early compliance
However it also comes with drawbacks:
- Lowered spontaneity
- Lowered honesty
- Lowered casualness
- A compliance wall that goes up in later stages of the interaction
You can probably calibrate your game around these drawbacks and learn to run successful guy game in a way that gets around most of that.
Personally I'm not especially motivated to learn it, since I don't need it, and there's obviously a decent-sized learning curve.
I also (just personally) do not want to deal with people knowing I am successful.
The kinds of girls who need you to totally spell it out for them... I prefer to keep those chicks at arm's length, just personally.
I've spent enough time around my inflator friends with the women they usually have around. Sure, they lay regular chicks sometimes, but inflator guys tend to attract girls who are most attracted to inflator guys. Usually these girls want nothing to do with me, until one of my inflator buddies starts talking up my credentials. Then, all of a sudden, these girls who were ice cold to me are super friendly, showing all this interest they did not have before, and it all feels super fake. I have on several occasions told inflator friends "Don't tell girls anything about me, please. I don't want women knowing anything about my work or success or anything. Just tell them I'm a bum if they start asking. Or say I work in marketing."
I don't know why "inflator girls" aren't able to pick up on subtle signs that a guy is probably successful like other women can. Maybe they are just around too many guys who make it too overt that their radars lose sensitivity. Or maybe they just never had sensitive radars, and that's why they need to go for guys who make it obvious.
Chase