Vibing Framework
By: Jon
King
It seems there are a number of factors that will typically enable
an individual to carry on a seemingly endless, engaging, and effortless conversation.
However, when I
look back on my experiences, both within mASF and pre, the biggest area within which I think most can improve towards this capability is
vibing – ie. knowing which questions to ask, when to ask them, and how to ground and share your own personality and experiences in doing so –
on any topic a conversation might lead to.
Before mASF, my improvisational skill in this area was all I had to
keep a conversation going. I was an AFC, so rarely got anywhere with it alone, but I
could always sustain a good, interesting interaction and maintain interest nonetheless. Sarging over the past year I was surprised to recently
notice my vibing skill actually starting to deteriorate – the product, no doubt, of the fallacy that only the girls should be asking the
questions, not me; a shrinking perspective from over-relying on the consistently same routines in cold approach time and time again; and my
forgetting that so much of PU is truly just about getting to know the girl on a personal level, and letting her do the same with
you.
It is therefore no surprise to me that a common issue for guys on
mASF is one of stalling or lack or escalation correctly – even when a player is becoming otherwise quite proficient in his
game.
===================
TOPICS:
===================
I’ve put together this list together from what stands out of my
lifetime of vibing experience, and since doing so, I’m already noticing myself back to better than ever. Questions included in this vibing
framework were designed to roughly cover the gamut of almost all typical topics a PUA or any individual, for that matter, might be interested in
engaging a TARGET
along, including:
- logistics
- ambitions
- priorities in life
- values in terms of friendship, family, and connection
- personality type
- day to day habits
- preferences and abilities in a wide array of areas
- childhood and formative experiences
- romantic and sexual triggers
===================
MAKING IT WORK:
===================
To the vibing illiterate, I can’t say this clearly enough - THE
QUESTIONS BELOW ARE NOT ENOUGH TO GET MUCH DONE BY THEMSELVES. Vibing means sharing of the conversational load, not a Q&A session. What
provides the potential for making each question interesting are:
1) her answers
2) your replies to those answers
3) the stories you then choose to tell
4) the topics you then segue into from each inquiry
RE: #1:
To better investigate her answers, which may be sparse at times, for all question on the list, natural follow ups to elicit greater responses are
always those along the lines of:
- Why is that?
- What are your thoughts on X?
- How does that make you feel?
- What is it about X you enjoy/dislike?
- If you could change X or have it differently, what might you prefer? Why?
If you want a full picture of how this sort of thing plays out, as
you read, imagine any number/variations of these and your interspersed comments being applied to each question.
RE: #2 & 3
As far as your responses go, they should range from negs to busts to commonality/vulnerability sharing stories. Stay flexible. Your comments and
replies should depend on what you CALIBRATE will provide the best boost in BT while
still remaining congruent with who you are and conveying what you would like to project about yourself. Feeling conflicted? Don't. Consider: Like
a willow tree that sways so greatly in the wind, yet maintains among the deepest and strongest roots of all trees, so too can you bend and adapt
while keeping firmly in tact your personal integrity. It all just takes some finesse.
RE: #4:
Most people are familiar with the 6 degrees of separation. The same premise applies for segueing. No matter what subject you are on, if you are
familiar enough with your topics, it should be easy enough to change gears or phase shift with the right questions and
anecdotes.
Calibrate and escalate.
===================
EXERCISE:
===================
To anyone seeking to tighten their vibing, I strongly recommend
copying and pasting the questions below out and then writing personal answers and stories for each (I've deleted mine for privacy). Consider how
they link. You can havefull control over pre-mapping steps #2-4 well in advance.
If you do, the next time a given topic comes up, you may notice you
have a lot more to say and are far more capable of eliciting better emotional responses and continued, more connected interaction. Doing so can
easily provide the requisite suggested 7 hours of material, or literally hundreds of hours if you felt so inclined to reach even
deeper.
===================
THE FRAMEWORK:
===================
The subheadings are loose, and, although they roughly follow
some PATTERN
of escalation, there is no SET order. This is where your calibration and
experience again come into play.
--------------------------
Logistics
--------------------------
Where do you live? How far? With parents, friends,
roommates?
How old are you?
--------------------------
Goals and Hobbies
--------------------------
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Do you have any hobbies? (If no, "what do you do in your spare time
then?" if they have no spare time, next them.... they’ve got no time for you either)
Who do you spend the most time with?
What do you like doing more than anything? Like if you could be paid
to do anything in the world (including professional couch potato or cake eater or whatever), what would it be?
If you could be anyone or do anything in the world for one day, what
would it be?
What’s the best/worst job you’ve ever had?
Are you rich? Do you plan to be? I’ve been looking for a good sugar
momma to take care of me.
What's your proudest accomplishment?
--------------------------
Priorities
--------------------------
What’s matters most to you – friends, family, career, or
guys?
Win lottery, what spend it on?
Is money important?
If you died today what would you miss most? What would you be
saddest about not being able to do in the future?
--------------------------
Friends
--------------------------
What kind of crowd do you hang out with these days? What are your
friends like?
Do you keep friends for long? Are you still close with high school /
university friends?
Do you have a best friend? How long have you known
her?
What’s important for you for someone to be a good
friend?
--------------------------
Personality typing
--------------------------
In a word, what would you describe yourself with? How do you think
your friends would describe you?
If they bottled your personality what would it be
called?
A new law says you have to change your name to match your
personality. What shall we call you from now on?
If you were to be any animal what would you be and
why?
Are you the 'adventurous type'?
How often do you do new things or make plans and follow through on
them?
If you were going to change your name, what would you make
it?
When’s/what’s the most you’ve ever driven over the speed
limit?
What female celebrity would you most like to be? Which do you relate
most to and why? If they made a movie of your life, who would you want as the lead?
Who do you relate more to - Betty or Veronica? Which are you after –
Archie, Reggie, or Jughead?
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it
be?
Do you tend to favour change and variety or reliable
consistency?
--------------------------
Philosophy
--------------------------
What do you live your life by - what’s your motto?
On the bumper sticker of your life, it would say, “honk if you’re
(a) ___”
If your life was a movie, what would it be rated? What
genre?
If you were in a Western, on your "WANTED" poster, what would be
your crime?
If you could have one magical power, what would it be and how would
you use it?
What in life do you fear? Not including silly phobias, like re: 50
years from now what do you think of?
What do you think most about / matters to you most – the past,
present, or future?
Swimming in a cold pool - do you wade/creep in slowly, or jump? What
about bandaids – fast or bit by bit?
This glass - half empty or full? (drink it)
Are you a giver or a taker?
What do you think life would have been like if you were a guy? What
would you like most/least about being the opposite sex?
--------------------------
Day to day
--------------------------
Shower or bath? Cold or hot; long or short?
Morning or night?
On average, how late do you run?
Alarm clock – how many snoozes a day?
Sleeping – Snorer? Flailer/Thrasher? Nightlight? Smotherer? Sleep
walker? Midnight snacker?
Would your roommates more describe you as a neat freak / germophobe
or a bit on the sloppy side?
Do you like to drive? Worst offence / horror
story?
Phobias? Spiders, millipedes? Snakes? Planes?
--------------------------
Partying
--------------------------
What do you get like when you’re inebriated?
When was the first time you got really hammered?
Favourite drink?
Weed? Hard drugs?
Have you ever been thrown out of any bars for ‘disorderly
conduct’?
Who holds your hair back when you’ve had a few too
many?
What was the closest you ever came to being
arrested?
What are some of your favourite clubs? Do you have any good
connections?
What’s the craziest party you’ve ever been to and what
happened?
--------------------------
Food
--------------------------
Do you cook? What’s your best dish? KD doesn’t
count.
What’s the primary staple of your diet?
What’s your worst temptation? Like your kryptonite of
food?
If you could have anything right now what would it
be?
Chocolate or vanilla?
Salty or sweet?
Vegan, vegetarian, or organic?
--------------------------
Seasonal
--------------------------
Favourite season?
Nature lover? Hikes?
Favourite holiday? Christmas and family - big deal? Halloween and
what wear? Wildest New Year's?
--------------------------
Sports/activities
--------------------------
Sports?
Have you ever broken any bones?
Have you ever needed stitches?
What’s the most daring stunt you’ve ever pulled? Sky
diving?
When’s the last time you went on a good roller coaster and felt your
stomach just drop out beneath you?
--------------------------
Music/Movies/TV
--------------------------
What’s your favourite kind of music?
What’s your favourite CD?
What’s the last concert you saw?
What’s the most embarrassing CD you’ve ever owned?
Did you ever play a musical instrument? Well?
What genre of movies? Scariest movie you’ve seen?
--------------------------
Fashion/Style
--------------------------
Favourite place to shop?
If you were granted unlimited funds, what would you splurge
on?
Do you get buyer’s remorse?
What’s the scariest single thing in your closet?
What’s your favourite item of clothing?
Are you one of those girls that needs an entire closet for her shoes
because she has 80 pairs? Are you one of those girls that wants to need an entire closet for her shoes because she WISHES she had 80
pairs?
What’s your most embarrassing HAIRSTYLE you’ve ever had? When did
you sport? What did it look like?
Tattoos, piercings, or neither?
What do you like your style to project about you as a
person?
--------------------------
Family
--------------------------
Which of your relatives are you closest with? Who understands you
the most/best? Who do you miss the most when you go away? When did you miss them most?
If you weren’t feeling well, who would be there to take care of
you?
What sort of role do you play in your family?
Who’s the strict one in your family? Who helps you slip everything
by?
Who in your family would you most like to be closer
to?
Who’s the annoying one? ie. On your family trips, who’s the first to
say "Are we there yet?" or start poking people?
Who’s your funniest relative?
What's your family like at get togethers?
If you were / could be a sitcom family, which would you be
in?
How far back can you trace your roots/ancestors?
Do you like little kids?
Siblings? What were the worst and best things about having them
around?
--------------------------
Pets
--------------------------
Are you an animal lover? Not that kind of loving. Geez. What country
do we live in?
What’s the first pet you ever had? What was the weirdest pet you
ever owned? Most affectionate pet?
Dogs or cats?
--------------------------
Regression
--------------------------
What were you like as a kid?
Were you a troublemaker? I bet you tried to be totally
badass.
Were you more likely to get dirty in the mud or host a dainty tea
party? Tomboy or priss?
Which one - teddy bears or dolls? Did you have a favourite? What was
its name? What did he/she look like? Do you still have him/her today?
What childhood toy do you most wish you could get
back?
What were you most likely to run around the house pretending to
be?
Did you ever belong to a clubhouse (like ‘girls
only’)?
Video games? Even when you were a kid? Extra points if it was NES …
Duck Hunt?
What summer camp did you go to or what did you do with your summers
as a kid?
You know that nursery rhyme thing - “this little piggy went to
market ..” How did that go? I don’t know how but I can’t remember… Do itsy bitsy spider on arm
Do you remember your tongue twisters? What's the hardest one you
learned? You know there are advantages to having that kind of oral dexterity. I mean you can speak better of course. 5 times
fast.
Did you clown around a lot? What’s the goofiest face you can
make?
--------------------------
Growing up
--------------------------
What was your most ‘awkward’ ie. geekiest age and
why?
If you could go back in time what advice would you give yourself? /
what would you tell yourself?
Do you remember your first school dances?
What’s the worst you ever cheated in school?
How have you changed most since you were a kid?
How have you changed most in the last five years?
Were girls ever attracted to cartoon characters growing up? What
about GI Joe? Jessica Rabbit and/or Holly WOOD from Cool World - too much stimulation for a 10
year old boy
--------------------------
Holistic
--------------------------
Do you believe in ESP?
Do you read your horoscope?
Have you ever seen a psychic? Had a tarot/palm
reading?
--------------------------
Faith, life, and death
--------------------------
Are you religious, spiritual, or both/neither?
Do you ever wonder what happens after it all?
What’s the closest you ever came to dying?
Do you ever consider that it could all be over, or things could
change, in a heartbeat just about any minute of any day?
--------------------------
Travel/ worldliness
--------------------------
What’s the best place you’ve ever been?
If you were to live anywhere else in the world, where would you
go?
What’s the longest road trip you’ve ever been on?
--------------------------
Romance
--------------------------
Would you describe yourself as the romantic type?
Who was the first boy you ever had a crush on?
Have you ever been in love, like the big one - with a capital L? How
did you know it?
Have you ever just met someone and yet somehow, felt almost like
you’ve known them your whole life? Like it’s just that easy to relate to them?
What’s the 1st signal, the 1st recognition you get for yourself on
the inside when you know you're really, .. really .. attracted to someone?
What’s your idea of a dream date? Describe your dream romantic
get-away.
Have you ever prepared a candlelight dinner?
Have you ever had/made breakfast in bed?
Have you ever picked up a guy before? Do you think you could? Would
you? Show me your best moves.
What’s something nice your exes might say about you? Something not
so nice?
--------------------------
Her kind of guys
--------------------------
What kind of guys do you usually go for?
Who is your favourite celebrity? Which celebrity have you had a
secret crush on?
In the movie of your life, who would play love interest? Who would
play you?
If your perfect guy was an ice cream, what would he be called? Would
you feel the need for sprinkles?
Who was your favourite Backstreet Boy? Or was he in N Sync? New
Kids?
Who would you most like to be stuck in elevator with for 15 minutes?
| Who’s shower curtain would you most like to be? | If it was your birthday, who would you most like to see jump out of your cake? (follow up to
the last three is "and don’t say me – we just met.")
Have you ever bought a guy flowers before? What have you
bought?
What does your family think about your taste? Do you
care?
Do you think Jesus would have been good in bed?
--------------------------
Kiss
--------------------------
What was your first kiss like?
On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate yourself as a
kisser?
Do Spanish/whatever girls’ lips sweet or bitter? Etc. Shall we find
out?
Would you like to kiss me?
--------------------------
Sex
--------------------------
Feathers or ice?
What’s the sexiest food for a date?
What's your favourite body part? On you, not on me. I already KNOW
that one …
Do you have a secret erogenous zone? Ears? Knees?
Thighs?
Do you give good massages? Anyone can SAY they do. Show me
some.
What’s the sexiest piece of clothing you own?
Have you ever been to a strip joint? Male or female? Did you get a
lap dance?
If the world turned upside down and you decided you were going to
dance at one, what song would you pick? What name would you use?
What do you find the sexiest job for a guy to
have?
Thong, g string, or granny panties?
What do you think about the male body hair? Shave, wax, or trim?
What about female? EVERYwhere..?
What’s the most exciting place you’ve hooked up with a guy? Where
would you most fantasize about doing so in the future?
Imagine a flowing moving body of water, like a stream or a river. Is
it fast or slow? Is it choppy and rough or gentle and smooth? (4 questions)
Dominant or submissive?
In your experience, is sex a good time for conversation? Vocal or
quiet? Dirty talk, small talk, or none at all?
Have you ever had a one-night stand?
Jon King
|