Recently, dating expert and author David Wygant found himself standing in the center of a room full of journalists at a hot New York City bar. It was the release party of his new book, Always Talk to Strangers, 3 Simple Steps to Finding the Love of your Life. Suddenly, a journalist turned to him and said, “So how does it feel to be the King of Dating?” Elvis was the King of Rock n’ Roll, Howard Stern, the King of all Media, and now, David Wygant, the King of Dating? How did that happen?

In the mid-90’s, David moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at show business. However, it wasn’t long after his arrival that he found himself more interested in talking to people in his neighborhood, than auditioning. Within months he was nicknamed the Mayor of Brentwood. After having struck up his tenth conversation with a total stranger in a single afternoon, a young writer friend of his, Bryan Swerling said, “Forget showbiz. Teach people to meet strangers. You have a gift and could help people.” David never dreamed of such an idea but felt that Bryan could be on to something. “I’d always been a people person. I talked to them, listened to them, and through my observations, I became more curious about their behavior,” stated Wygant.”

Having owned three businesses, Wygant had the opportunity through the years to really study people and found that I was good at meeting them. Before long, he realized he wanted to help people, not entertain them, and soon was working with men and women around Los Angeles teaching them how talk to strangers.

Months later he found himself on national television—“I can change your social life within 72 hours” was his mantra. Men began paying Wygant $10,000 a weekend to move into their homes and teach them my program. Why? A former client said it best. “My whole life I was taught to succeed at a career. Did anyone offer me a class on how to have confidence, on how to dress well, on how to meet new people? How sad that the most rewarding part of life was left to trial and error.” He wrote Wygant a check and said, “Here’s my tuition. Teach me everything you know.” So, what does someone get for $10,000?

In short, Wygant dispelled his clients passive waiter mentalities and showed them why being proactive, instead of reactive in their social lives would bring greater rewards. He explained that they weren’t entitled to love rather that they had to work for it, and that believing love was fate was a recipe for loneliness and an excuse for inaction. After an extensive physical makeover with an emphasis on style and grooming, he showed them places where they could meet potential companions during their daily routines such as the grocery store, coffee shops, even the dry cleaners. Wygant teaches them to become aware of daily opportunities and then how to strike up conversations in creative, non-threatening ways. Most importantly, he taught them that the secret to meeting new people to date lies not in “rules” or “mind games” so often talked about in bad dating books—but in being able to have a great conversations with strangers.

“Most clients got it. However, a few were so damaged by their past failures,” stated Wygant. He was forced to get extreme. He began setting up dates for them in exotic countries such as Colombia, Thailand, and the Ukraine in order to remove them from their normal environment. Over a week’s period he’d set them up with one stranger after another, subjecting them to seeing themselves in a myriad of situations and coaching them before and after each date. Their confidence grew, and they became increasingly more successful and polished in their interpersonal communications skills. His little psycho-sociological experiment worked—not only did his clients find themselves on these jaunts, some of them even found love.

As a result, he decided to write a book so that the public would have access to his techniques for a lot less than $10,000. His story is simple—you can take what you’re good at in life and make a living doing it. In ten years, Wygant took his ability to meet strangers and turned it into a rewarding career, along the way helping a lot of people.

“How does it feel to be the King of Dating?” he thought to himself. He looked at the reporter and smiled. “It feels damn good.”

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