In the early stages of any community, people who go on to become legendary congregate together. For example, unknown musicians play a certain club or record at a particular studio. Later, they achieve levels of success and fame and outsiders all look back and wonder in amazement. “Wow, I wish I could have been there when all those icons were just regular dudes on stage!”

With the seduction community, many observers look back at Cliff’s List and wish, “I would have loved to have met all the PUAs when they were just normal people like me, back when they were on Cliff’s List.” At Stylelife, we’re lucky in the sense that we have connections back to the beginning, and also a keen insight into what’s going on today.

Launched in the late 1990’s, Cliff’s List bills itself as “the oldest and most respected free email in the seduction community.” Content on the current version of the website goes all the way back to 1998.

It all began when Clifford posted his seduction experiences on early list services. He took his musings off that venue and created an email newsletter. He had been “in the community since it’s inception,” according to The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by our very own headmaster Neil Strauss.

The publication played an important role in Strauss’s early learning. As he launched the Stylelife Academy, the world’s first online academy for attraction, Neil often recommended certain posts and articles from Cliff’s List to students, and he even pulled a number of us staff members aside to point out this educational post or that new theory.

Over the years, many men who are considered master pickup artists today, teachers who command thousands of dollars for their instructional time, all posted and contributed to Cliff’s List when they were getting started.

For example, as described in The Game, David DeAngelo shared some new findings on the strategy of being cocky and funny to Cliff’s List. At the time, it was considered to be one of the the most established online seduction newsletters. Those concepts and strategies shared on Cliff’s List grew into DeAngelo’s Double Your Dating ebook.

Over time, Clifford bolstered his own content and web presence with interviews and field reports from new and established stars on the pickup scene. Interviews with Ross Jeffries, Steve P., Asian Playboy, and others appeared on his website.

Clifford has brought his knowledge and insight of the pickup arts into real world practice as well. He has run his own highly successful Cliff’s List Conventions, with industry leaders and students alike still fondly recalling their time together. Our own Style spoke at the very first event and subsequent conferences have featured a number of great teachers. Clifford has also appeared himself at events and activities sponsored by other companies and pickup legends.

All of this historical overview is not meant to diminish the quality content that Cliff’s List provides to this day. The site is a prime destination for cutting edge routines, openers, and seduction strategies.

But while enjoying the current material, let’s also take a moment to reflect on the place Cliff’s List occupies in the history of the pickup community. It’s a place that saw the publication of men who were just learning their skills at the time, ordinary guys going to extraordinary lengths to transform their lives.

Many of those original Cliff’s List posters and contributors are now legends and icons in their own right. And as we watch the current material coming out of the website, we can’t help but wonder which stars are going to join the pantheon themselves. It is a safe bet that future generations of aspiring pickup artists will be looking back and saying,

“Wow, it would have been amazing to be reading Cliff’s List in 2013. These guys are all famous now!”

As fans of a given subject, we sometimes look at previous eras with a sort of golden age nostalgia. Writers think of Hemingway and Fitzgerald sharing a drink in Paris during the twenties. Musicians dream about rockers like the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the Who all gigging in sixties-era London. And as pickup artists, we think of glory days of Style and gang all posting on underground bulletin boards and on Cliff’s List, sharing the newest secrets and technologies.

But the congregation of greats is not a phenomenon locked in the past. It still happens today. Right this moment, like minds are meeting in a coffee shop somewhere coding the killer app, creative people are working in a studio on a groundbreaking film. And on Cliff’s List, the next generation of pickup legends are honing their craft. Don’t miss out on being part of that. We here at Stylelife recommend that you sign up for Cliff’s List so you can be part of the new era of glory days, today. It’s a resource we use, and you should too.

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