There are lots of people in the PUA community who just use the same techniques that work to "pick up" people to be more socially confident and meet people.
Often people will talk about things like maintaining eye contact, escalating, inner game, etc. In the end, its just exploiting how we are as humans the same way slight of hand works and we all clap at David Blane.
It's not a thing unique to pick up artists though, it can be applied to most arts or indeed programming.
There was an article posted on HN a while ago that explained a similar effect (dressing differently to show status) outside of the context of PUA. For example Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie to meetings with Morgan Stanley.
There are lots of people in the PUA community who just use the same techniques that work to "pick up" people to be more socially confident and meet people.
Often people will talk about things like maintaining eye contact, escalating, inner game, etc. In the end, its just exploiting how we are as humans the same way slight of hand works and we all clap at David Blane.