MYSTERY, WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIM!?!

What do you know about Mystery we can add to this. This is from my personal knowledge.

Rank as the #1 PUA on Thundercat's Blog, and by many other PUAs throughout the world.

Born Erik James Horvat-Markovic on September 24, 1971 is better known by his stage name "Mystery." He was a Canadian entertainer, author, and innovator in the community. He was the main character in "The Game by Neil Strauss." He was of course featured on the VH1 show that aired in 2007. He know refers to PUA as the Venusian Arts, as the Pickup Arts have such a negative connotation.

Biography
Markovik was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario of German ancestry. He legally changed his name from Erik James Horvat-Markovic in his early 20's.

Markovik was, by his own account, unable to attract women in his teenage years, and he was at one time a Dungeons and Dragons player.[He has also described himself as a "late bloomer", having not reached puberty until the age of 16, and not losing his virginity until age 21.As a result of his sexual frustration and loneliness he traveled to nearby cities over a 10-year period and approached women. Over time and after thousands of cold approaches, he developed a routine based system for successful approaches called the Mystery Method.

Markovik had worked as a close-up magician in restaurants in New York and Toronto while trying to get a job as a magician on a cruise ship. He credits the experience with helping him to learn the ins and outs of human interactions. Von Markovik, like other magicians including Penn & Teller and James Randi, does not believe in the supernatural. He self-identifies as an atheist.

At age 16 he managed to win his first talent show, with a magic performance and the appearance of six doves. During a competition in 1992, young Markovik won the admiration of the founder of The Magic Alliance.

In 1995, Markovik performed his first self-levitation in Quebec. In 1996, he created a Madonna from concentrated liquid flesh at Kingswood Music Theatre in Paramount Canada's Wonderland. By 1999, Markovik traveled to Los Angeles where he performed for Will Smith and friends. He appeared on a show titled Natural Magic in Russia.

Markovik instructed and then befriended author Neil Strauss, who went on to become Markovik's 'wingman', and ultimately a mentor in the seduction community himself. Together with a number of other seduction mentors, Markovik and Strauss rented a large residence in Beverly Hills ('Project Hollywood'), which soon became a mecca for aspiring students. The friendship is recorded in Strauss's book The Game.

On April 11, 2007, Markovik appeared on the television show Late Night with Conan O'Brien to promote his book The Mystery Method: How to get Beautiful Women into Bed. Markovik explained Mystery Method concepts such as going "in field", "peacocking", the structure of a pick-up, and the importance of not telegraphing interest when approaching a group of people.


Involvement in the Seduction Community
Markovik discovered the seduction community during the 10-year period he spent developing his technique, and regularly posted his progress and findings on the Internet newsgroup alt.seduction.fast in long, detailed posts called "field-reports".


Technique and Contributions
Main article: Mystery Method
Markovik is credited with coining a number of terms and concepts in the seduction community. These concepts are borrowed from evolutionary psychology and theatrical showmanship, and his experience as a magician. Terms such as "set", "peacocking", and "the 3-second rule" were coined by Markovik. Markovik introduced the concept of the "neg", a backhanded compliment intended to snub a potential mate ("target"), telegraph a lack of interest ("false disqualification"), and encourage the target to prove her worth ("qualify").

Though seminars and workshops on seduction technique preceded his involvement, Markovik is credited with introducing "in-field" workshops in which small groups of students were appraised on their technique as they approached unaffiliated women in bars and nightclubs. The focus of the workshops was limited to approaching, establishing rapport with and a dominant social position to the targeted women; broader relationship skills were not covered.


Professional Involvement
Markovik is the former figurehead and head instructor for the company Mystery Method, which runs seminars to teach men seduction, and sells a variety of multimedia products on this theme, based on his work. Markovik now heads the company Venusian Arts. Markovik held his first college seminar on May 4, 2006 at MIT. A reality series titled The Pick-up Artist debuted on August 6, 2007 on VH1. In the series, Mystery and his wingmen trained eight "lonely, socially inept" men in an eight week bootcamp in Austin, Texas to compete for the title of "Master Pick-Up Artist".


Books
The Venusian Arts Handbook (2005). Mystery & Lovedrop, additional contributions by Style, Sinn, Wilder, and Toecutter. The Mystery Method Corp. (ebook) No longer available.
The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed (2007)

Thanks Wikipedia!!!

*Okay we know that Mystery says he spent some 10 years in the field failing in order to reverse engineer his methods and teach them to others. His students have become some of the best Pickup Artists in the community some of which include: Style, J-Dog, Matador, Sinn, LoveDrop, and more. He's helped I venture to say thousands of men via workshop or book to get better with women. As well, as the VH1 show sparked more interest in the community which is a controvesial topic inside this community. However, he brought new members to the community by the truck load with the airing of his show.