Random Thoughts of late August 2026

I will write 7 topics and treat them as if I wrote it for 7 days in a row, then these are the topics. So this way I don’t have to write a news letter for email. It would be here instead.

The first thing I want to talk about. This Vietnamese student, he got extreme results. Will discourage others.

Later on, I will be editing his video testimonial.

I intend to post it because usually on Sunday on YouTube Live, most people do not show up anyways.

So I think the problem is that his results discourage others.

This is the first thing I want to talk about…

Because I’m creating this, like I’m gonna write seven different topics here…

And I’m starting right now at 4 a.m.

So this is quite late when I’m starting this post.

But when people get discouraged when he gets more results, less people buy stuff because his results look extremely unrelatable.

Getting a threesome after he gets two more lays per day again before that by taking my courses, Elite 30, and getting Elite 20.

Even his PUA crew ignored his results as he referred them to me.

Not all PUA’s wants to spend money, but do it themselves.

That wasn’t enough to motivate them as he is the only one getting results and faster too.

When he got results for that, now he bought the Elite Access, which he completed, the Elite Bundle Resurrections, which will start in November.

My other students are like a hive mind.

Whenever one student gets laid, the other students either beat themselves up if they’re impossible cases.

If they’re unteachable cases, right?

They’ll beat themselves up.

But if they’re good students, like easy cases, normal cases, and hard cases, they will still get laid because they’re encouraged.

There’s not a lot of encouragement…

And I think that the more people get laid, the more discouraging the audience is.

That’s my first thing I want to say about this topic.

The second topic I want to talk about is the state of the economy.

I was asking Gemini on Google how the trends were.

It seems to really go downwards since 2024 when the inflation hit.

The 2025-2026 tariffs were also extremely terrible.

When you look throughout the timing from 2023 to 2026…

There was a 61% decline in the audience of people looking up terms like dating game and actually doing it.

I have a theory that people have turned MGTOW, men going their own way.

It’s kind of like what happens in Japan, right?

When you have a weak yen and a bad economy…

People tend to suffer for their dating lives.

Sometimes when the economy is really good, the decline starts to happen…

And then it gets really bad and the decline happens even further.

So it’s not always because of the decline that happens…

But the decline causes a lot of cortisol issues.

I have the data over here on the screenshot, which I got from Google.

I posted it on my YouTube community section.

I can understand the mindset of the people.

But that’s the second thing I want to talk about.

Try to make this as short as possible…

Because this post can go for very long.

I would have made a separate post about this…

But now you get everything at once for all the updates.

The data speaks for itself.

This student can afford the training because he is a software engineer, like a lot of my students in the past.

Before AI taken over their jobs with automation.

The Reality of the Dating Advice Market (2020–2026)

If you have noticed that the online dating advice space feels completely different lately, you aren’t imagining it. The data shows a massive shift in how men are navigating self-improvement.

According to Google Search Interest data, the market has completely fractured over the last six years, moving through three distinct economic eras:

  1. The Stable Pandemic Era (2020–2023)

2020 Index: 52

2023 Index: 44

The Total Shift: ▼ 15.3% drop

The Reality: During these years, the market was stable. Low interest rates and post-pandemic stimulus savings meant men had the financial confidence to casually browse blogs, plan travel, and invest in their social skills.

  1. The Inflation Shock Era (2024)

2024 Index: 31

The Single-Year Crash: ▼ 29.5% drop

The Reality: 2024 was a massive economic wake-up call. Real inflation peaked, credit limits maxed out, and disposable “fun money” evaporated for the average household. Casual spenders pulled out of the market overnight to focus strictly on survival.

  1. The Tariff & Geopolitical Era (2025–2026)

2025 Index: 23 (An additional ▼ 25.8% drop)

2026 Index: 17 (An additional ▼ 26.1% drop)

The Macro Collapse (2023 to 2026): A massive 61.4% total collapse in search interest.

The Reality: The introduction of international reciprocal trade tariffs and Middle East tensions completely froze consumer confidence. Rising everyday costs stripped away household budgets, squeezing out casual students and driving many men into a defensive mindset.

Level 1, 2, and 3, right?

Level 1, we spend like $5 for a booklet to $400.

Level 2, we spend exactly $1,000…

No more, no less.

That’s why I made my course $950 before the price go up.

Level 3, we’ll spend $1,500 to $30,000 for big game boot camps or Latin world tours.

But I think there’s a lot less level 1 and level 2 students.

That’s why they’re financing plans.

So almost like a lot of level 1s over here in pieces…

But that’s fine with me.

The third thing I want to talk about is updating the cortisol charts that would explain things, right?

And also the no middle ground charts.

What do they mean?

In my experience, I have found that students that have money problems, right, is also another source of stress.

Because the more depressed they get because of severe ADHD…

They’re gonna spend more money on their antidepressants, wasting on junk food and other useless things.

If they corrected their depression, they’ll spend less money.

This is why they put themselves in five-figure debt.

They do not take my coaching.

That is on top of the double chin, the hair loss, the muscle mass loss, and also the memory loss.

But now adding the five-figure debt or being broke as a joke.

For the middle ground, however, it means there is no middle ground.

In the past, you could just half-ass it and just take long enough and you’ll get laid eventually.

But you always have to show up now.

So therefore, you either show up and not procrastinate…

Or you pose Sebastian and they always procrastinate and maintain, and don’t show up…

Then you don’t even get laid.

Because you don’t build your neural pathways.

There’s two neural pathways, right?

One is the gross motor skills of your body language…

Which is how I taught Thai Zen program before, and also Elite 30.

The other one is more like a chess master.

It’s more like a thinking neural pathway: rehearsals.

You have to go through every course like six times for every single section and write down notes…

Which is reinforcing your recall…

So that way you can adapt in the field.

But there is no middle ground.

If you’re a procrastinator, you don’t put this as the number one priority.

You put this as number, like, last…

And then you don’t show up and you do the opposite.

You have a one-shot mind…

You’re stubborn.

I’m just telling you it’s game over.

It’s not up to me…

It’s up to you.

Don’t pull a Sebastian, procrastinating…

The Fourth thing I want to talk about is the calling out video.

Finally reached 100 views. Finally.

I really call you out because I’m very angry that people can ignore like 11 video testimonials in a row.

So that’s why I decided to post this Vietnamese students YouTube Live talking about it first.

It gives you more chances so that way you don’t ignore it completely.

You guys shove it in their face and they’ll dismiss it like an ad.

Then you got to put it back in their face again and say…

Look at this.

That’s what one of my Korean students said before.

He was in his fifties, right?

But he still got a fuck buddy or two.

One Asian and one white that he was hung out with.

Still impressive for him.

But he used to be in business.

But he did say that make them look at it over and over again.

You have to make them look at it.

If they don’t look at it, they’ll just look away.

You make them look at it again.

That’s why I’m calling you out.

It’s great to have all these YouTube Lives and there’s an audience over there that doesn’t buy anything.

But at the same time, the video section does not watch as many watch time hours.

They have been migrating to the YouTube Lives over the summer.

But at the same time, because the YouTube Lives, they have more focus.

That’s why they get many faster.

But the video section does not buy anything.

That’s why I called them out.

That would of been the 4th thread I made which I didn’t post yet because I want to focus on the Viet students extreme unrelatable results first.

The fifth thing I want to talk about was that I posted this other Asian student’s video testimonial.

The important thing to understand is that I’m not using problem, agitate, solve and trying to make you feel emotional pain to buy something.

I’m just telling you guys an update here as a newsletter.

This would have been another post.

Luckily, because of this student, I posted his video testimonial…

I got the Vietnamese student to get the access, which we bought in the third thing.

This Chinese student over here has like 15 lays, five models, five white girls, two actresses.

He married one of the actresses and now is a father.

He got extreme results.

He even got laid in Berlin in the first approach.

He never got a white girl before.

He got five of them.

He also had a threesome.

But there was another guy there and three women.

Or maybe that was a foursome.

I’m not sure.

But obviously the guy was just there to bang the other chicks, kind of like a wingman.

Like he’s got some good results too.

I’m glad this one’s not ignored, right?

But the Vietnamese student, recent one with four lays, is ignored so far because I haven’t made a single sale afterwards.

Ridiculous.

The Sixth thing I want to talk about is some of the bad students recently had some results, but normally I don’t ban the Indian student for more than a week.

Sometimes he doesn’t do his homework assignments…

But Sebastian would think that people into bans indefinitely, which is not true.

It really depends, right?

But most of the time for this year has been one week.

But this guy treats it like a vacation.

This student is so bad, I’m getting a double chin over it.

The other guy was the guy who was a former ABCs of Attraction student, who has gotten two lays with two white girls…

Also ten lays from night game…

Zero lays from ABCs of Attraction until he started using my Elite 30 and also Elite Access.

That was before, now he came back.

But both of them were acting like a pain in the ass.

He’s gotten injured, so his leg, he sprained it and then it had an infection.

So I’m making him go to the doctors and double check.

He’s only in the program because he gets accountability for every single week.

He doesn’t do his assignments…

He pays me.

If he does it, he doesn’t.

For the Indian student, I was thinking about I cannot remove him because Sebastian would be right.

So I cannot ban him for one week.

I told him I was getting double chin.

I showed him a picture.

I was losing my memory too.

I said if I keep him there and then he just keeps delaying everything…

Going at snail’s pace.

I was supposed to ban him last week, but I didn’t do it.

So I really didn’t want to ban…

This was the last resort.

I banned him for three weeks.

But I believe my double chin will disappear in two days when I go back on YouTube Live.

This is what happens to the body with too much stress.

When the person has, like, double chinned or they lose their memory…

They will actually be no toxin to the people around them…

And that will affect the entire group, the hive mind for the manifestation.

It’s either one of these two students.

Somebody had to get banned.

Whenever I reach 100%, like, stress…

Usually I remove somebody.

But this time I did not.

But just to let you know…

I really try not to remove them.

In the three weeks, this is the least I can make that I was going to make in a month.

But I just wanted the guys to know what’s going on…

Even though telling these kind of things, it hurts my business…

But this is the first time I banned more than a week.

I mean, to think that the Indian student already has like five lays, right?

But he’s kind of stuck now.

He has turned into an unteachable case because every time he gets a blowjob and not a lay…

He beats himself up so much.

It’s like the five mindsets, right?

Teachability.

I gave him a zero now.

Changeability, in terms of adapting.

Right now I give him like 1.5.

Skill index…

Because he used to do everything right, he only 20% wrong.

Now he’s doing only 20% right and 80% wrong.

He lost all his memory.

I think his skill is one.

His believability index is eight because he’s gotten five lays.

His thoughts and feelings…

He goes manifestation for the last mindset.

I think it’s a zero for both…

Because he gets triggered so much, like borderline level.

So that’s why I think in three weeks, if he comes back…

He might reset all the teachability things…

Like changeability, skill index, believability, and thoughts and feelings, right?

You can see someone like Sebastian will have a lot of low mindsets.

He didn’t even finish his mindset playlist.

Just like the other ABC student…

That guy tried to use Gemini or something to finish his mindset playlist, which is ridiculous.

Mindsets are very important.

When you hover around zero for everything, right?

It’s bad…

But luckily these two have results before, so they’ll be okay.

I told both of the students, right?

I was gonna make that decision…

And I already did.

So I just want you guys to know what’s up.

This is how things are.

Despite him getting five lays, right?

Every single lay was very hard to get.

Took a lot of effort.

But I was more chill this year than before.

So it’s not like I yell at them.

I just banned them…

But just seems to be giving them vacation.

I am more lenient this year though compared to before.

Punishment actually works, if its like an army.

Sebastian can’t take it because of excessive ego and triggered behavior.

These two students here has cluster B personality or traits of it.

The disclipline was from my Krav Maga days. I trained in this martial art for the IDF style for 5 years. The other Indian living in Canada also trained in this.

The reason he didn’t get his 3rd lay and quit was, he was too imprecise.

His technique was sloppy for everything.

He half assed it.

He had money problems too on top of everything.

When you put daygame last, not first, you aren’t hungry, its game over.

Then he stopped doing the drills and bhenchoded.

It happens, people can peak like the other Indian student too.

Once you get more lays, more ego, you get satisified and start to get narcissistic.

Then you forget everything and it catches up to you.

You plateau which is hard to break past.

When you crash out and you wipe your memory.

I didn’t yell at him or anything.

He got laid for Elite Daygame: First Steps and Skypes.

So I want to turn that paid course into a free course.

Its just so hard to focus to get it done.

Too many steps.

No August lay, he bhenchoded, but still he got 2 lays so he can’t be ungreatful for it.

The Seventh thing I wanted to say. What I want to update is that I want to update my daygame courses…

But not in the daygame courses itself.

Maybe on a YouTube playlist, so I can still send it to other people.

What I mean by that is that for Elite Tonality Mastery, I want to have a video…

Because I think there’s only six videos.

The seventh video would be, like, how to conduct the practice…

Which is very strange because for Elite 30, it’s mostly the body language stuff.

It’s almost like the army.

You do a lot of drills and stuff…

Which I have to update a video explaining what is the best way to practice.

But for Elite Tonality Mastery, the students get laid because they go through every video six times.

Six videos times six is 36, right?

That’s quite a bit.

One student took a whole month to finish it, Indian guy.

He has no memory, double chin, no muscle mass, and women were always turned off.

He beats himself up, very borderline.

He has such a bad vocal tonality.

It wasn’t his accent, because the other students have accents.

Literally women would say, “Excuse me?”

“Pardon me?”

And he beat himself up.

In reality, nobody understands him.

But my point is that I want to update the Elite Day Game First Steps and just give that away…

But also for Elite Playbook, maybe I should also update the videos of things that have changed.

All the courses will have update.

I just make a separate playlist or something that they forget…

And nobody can see it unless the one.

But when they buy the course, I send them the playlist to say…

If you want more reference.

So that way I don’t touch the courses, right?

My Google Drive courses, which you get for the rest of your life.

But this one I can just have a playlist, right?

I think that’s a good idea because even though the courses still got people laid without the Elite Access…

Which is a miracle, by the way.

For some reason, the more they focus on it and they have grit and resilience and focus…

The more they get laid.

So they all got laid with different courses.

One of them got laid with Elite Day Game First Steps.

Next guy got laid.

Elite 30 got two lays.

Elite Tonality Mastery, he got a threesome.

Does that make sense?

Not all of them has gotten Elite Access.

And another student got five lays with Elite Access.

So they all did their own job by itself, by stand-alone.

Does that make sense?

That’s really amazing.

But however, playing them together is even more powerful.

But updating it is even a smarter idea.

And this year, I’m glad I did not just focus on making more money and getting more students.

This year, I optimized it for how many students can I get laid over and over?

It was a smart decision because would my business survive if I didn’t have so many students laid over and over?

Probably not.

I’ll just be ignored, right?

And Sebastian’s smear campaign would be, like, more painful.

Obviously the economy is bad, right?

But he can also create mistrust because he failed Tai Zen.

He was the only student that failed it.

I can show you all the testimonials of people that passed Tai Zen in the future.

Maybe I should go on YouTube Live and talk about that as the next topic.

I don’t have time to edit all the video testimonials…

So I’m just gonna show all the screenshots and send them very well.

But yes, I do want to update the course.

I think that’s a genius move.

And I’m gonna do that for the next Inner Circle next month, in the beginning.

I just have to lose the double chin first completely…

And then we go at it.

In fact, take these assets, right?

I can update that Elite Day Game First Steps course too.

This is an old sale, but yeah, its different now, but that is the sales letter I can find.

Like Europe or Latin America.

-John Elite

P.S this post took me 1 hour to write exactly. Hope you enjoy it as if you had 7 days of posting in a blog post. But all for one post.. I should of made this once a week. But I only did it twice this month.