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Mystery Method uses the term 'value' to describe the benefit of aligning with a person or group with the potential to improve one's reproductive chances (Replication value) or quality of life (Survival value). A big, alpha male poses a large possible threat to other males' S&R value, where a very
attractive woman possesses high R value. According to Mystery, women evaluate potential mates primarily in terms of the Survival value they offer, while men evaluate potential mates in terms of their Replication value.
Mystery Method teaches that people have a strong emotional reaction to people with significantly higher value. Men will have an emotional reaction to very attractive women. This emotional reaction causes them to feel an adrenaline rush, and to act in a 'weird' way around the target female. An exceptionally
attractive woman causes this reaction in the majority of men, so the method teaches that she will subconsciously believe that any male who appears emotionally unreactive to her is of higher value than she, and she will become attracted to him.
Many of the techniques taught as part of the method are ways for the user to demonstrate high 'value'. Examples include story-telling with embedded (but well-concealed) bragging, appearing
emotionally unreactive to 'targets', and showing that the user is 'pre-selected' by other women. These techniques, along with many others, are taught as part of the 'M3 Model'.
The rhetoric and vocabulary underpinning Mystery Method borrows heavily from Evolutionary Psychology - for instance 'love' as an objective of
human sexual relationships is replaced with pair bonding, which he defines as a strong bond between two individuals which is based on the unconscious desire to raise their Survival and Replication values.
