JT Tran explained

JT Tran
Birth Place:Texas
Other Names:The Asian Playboy
Known For:Pickup Artist, ABCs of Attraction
Height:5'5"
Website:http://www.abcsofattraction.com/
Occupation:Dating coach, entrepreneur

JT Tran or The Asian Playboy, is a dating coach and pickup artist as well asdating advice columnist for LA Weekly[1] and Baller Magazine.[2] He is also the founder, CEO and lead instructor of a company that offers pickup artist called ABCs of Attraction courses to men.[3]

Biography

After Tran attended one of the pick up artist Mystery's bootcamps, he began to develop his own methods of attraction, concentrating on developing his own holistic approach to the art of seduction.[4]

Techniques

Tran introduced the concept of the ABCDEF structure which incorporates three main components, namely: thoughts, actions, and words. The concept teaches men how to develop their attitudes, change the manner of their dress, and convey sexuality while courting and dating women.[5] Tran mainly teaches shy Asian men confidence and communication skills.[6]

Media attention

Tran and his company have featured on the front pages of AsianWeek[7] and Nguoi Viet Daily News,[5] as well as other newspapers such as The Harvard Crimson where he was the featured guest speaker at the Harvard University event "Between the (Pickup) Lines",[8] D Magazine, Hyphen Magazine and a featured interview with Yale Daily News.[9]

In May 2011, he was featured in New York in an article about Asian-Americans who were able to fight the "bamboo ceiling".[10] [11]

Tran spoke at Yale for Master's Tea and was featured in The Yale Herald.[12] In February 2012, Tran visited the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania to talk about various cultural issues and why he decided to become a "relationship guru".[13]

In March 2012, Tran held a live interview with Juju Chang on ABC's Nightline, who compared him with the likes of Jeremy Lin, John Cho, Harry Shum, Jr., and Daniel Dae Kim.[14] [15] He talked about how he failed with the ladies in the past, mostly due to typical Asian stereotypes of having "good grades but poor social skills," yet he became successful later by "applying his systematic engineering skills to dating" and these are the skills he teaches men at ABCs of Attraction today.[16] To prove that his methods work, the TV crew followed Tran during the lecture and later out into the field live and unstaged.

In Spring 2012, Tran made the cover of NU Asian Magazine,[17] discussing his journey from an aerospace engineer to a pick-up artist. He was also featured in Verge Magazine.[18]

Tran was also profiled by Channel News Asia in Singapore,[19] the Huffington Post[20] and Voice of America News TV in China, which followed JT Tran and his team on the entire bootcamp process.[21] The Awl news reporter, Sharon Adarlo, who first criticized ABCs of Attraction's methods,[22] joined in on a bootcamp and wrote on how her opinion had changed after the experience. In 2015, Tran and pickup artist Andrew Chen of ABCs of Attraction were featured on Al Jazeera America, in a segment titled "Are Pickup Artists Misogynists or Gentlemen?" where Tran was compared with other pickup artists.[23]

In 2017, Tran's Reddit AMA about Asian women who won't date Asian men was featured on Next Shark.[24]

In 2018, Resonate named Tran the World's #1 Asian Dating Coach.[25]

On February 14, 2018, Playboy Magazine profiled Tran on how men of different nationalities learn masculinity.[3] In October 2020, JT Tran was also mentioned in BBC as a dating coach. In November 2020, Stanford Daily[26] mentioned Tran on how he supervised men to approach women.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: After Dark - Author JT Tran. LA Weekly. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110312104649/http://www.laweekly.com/afterdark/author/view/jt-tran/. 2011-03-12.
  2. Web site: Contributors. Baller Magazine.
  3. Web site: The Asian Playboy Up Close: How Men of a Certain Race Learn Masculinity. 2020-06-11. www.playboy.com. en-US.
  4. Article:"Proselytizing the Game", AsianWeek, February 8, 2008.http://asianweek.com/2008/02/08/proselytizing-%E2%80%98the-game%E2%80%99/
  5. Web site: "New Year, New Friends", Nguoi Viet Daily News, December 31, 1999 . September 3, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100125220818/http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=106243&z=19 . January 25, 2010 . dead .
  6. The Asian Playboy Defies Stereotypes, article by Flash News, published April 2009 http://www.flashnews.com/news/wfn1090416J25247.html
  7. Web site: Cover Page of AsianWeek Magazine . 2010-09-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110628182345/http://www.asianweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/cover_local1.jpg . 2011-06-28 . dead .
  8. Web site: Reading Between the Pick-Up Lines Magazine The Harvard Crimson . 2022-10-11 . www.thecrimson.com.
  9. Web site: "J.T. Tran: Playboy, entrepreneur artist, love guru", Yale Daily News, February 11, 2011 . February 22, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110224232740/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/feb/11/jt-tran-playboy-entrepreneur-artist-love-guru/ . February 24, 2011 . dead .
  10. News: Yang. Wesley. Paper Tigers: What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?. 20 May 2011. New York Times. May 8, 2011.
  11. News: Rastogi. Nina Shen. A Response to Wesley Yang's "Paper Tigers". 20 May 2011. Slate. May 10, 2011. 14 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110514064202/http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/05/10/a-response-to-wesley-yang-s-paper-tigers.aspx. dead.
  12. http://yaleherald.com/thebullblog/bullblog-tip-off-the-asian-playboy-masters-tea-this-is-not-a-drill/ "Bullblog tip-off: get picked up at "The Asian Playboy" Master’s Tea", The Yale Herald, February 9, 2011
  13. News: Rosa. George. Asian Playboy talks about his career as a professional Casanova. 7 March 2012. The Daily Pennsylvanian. 10 February 2012.
  14. News: Chang. Juju. 'Asian Playboy' Teaches Asian Men to Get Over Racial Stereotypes, Build Confidence. 7 March 2012. ABC News. 2 March 2012.
  15. News: 'Asian Playboy' JT Tran's First Date Rules. 7 March 2012. ABC News. 2 March 2012.
  16. Web site: Asian Playboy Smashes Stereotypes on ABC Nightline. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/W1ZRcYGVp4k . 2021-12-21 . live. Nightline. 7 March 2012.
  17. News: The Date Doctor. 20 September 2012. NU Asian.
  18. News: Sherbert. Erin. Professional Pick Up Artist Disappointed in SceneTap's Ability to Help Him Score Chicks. 20 September 2012. Verge Magazine. May 31, 2012.
  19. Web site: Singapore's Pickup Artist & Dating Coaching Bootcamp. 27 June 2013 . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/K9ZBWNlQ_bg . 2021-12-21 . live. Channel News Asia. 27 April 2014.
  20. Web site: Shigematsu. Tetsuro. The Asian Playboy, Pickup Artist or Social Justice Activist?. The Huffington Post. 10 October 2013 . 27 April 2014.
  21. Web site: Inside a Chinese PUA Bootcamp on VOA TV. Voice of America. 27 April 2014.
  22. Web site: Adarlo. Sharon. Is This Pickup Artist Actually… Helping People?. The Awl. 27 April 2014. 21 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140321201612/http://www.theawl.com/2014/03/jt-tran-seduction-artist. dead.
  23. Web site: Are Pickup Artists Misogynists or Gentlemen? Julien Blanc vs JT Tran Compared [Al Jazeera America]]. . 3 January 2015.
  24. Web site: 2017-05-19. 'The Asian Playboy' Has the Perfect Response to Asian Women Who Say They 'Don't Date Asian Men'. 2020-06-12. NextShark. en-US.
  25. Web site: Chew. Cohan. 2018-03-29. INTERVIEW: ABCs of Attraction founder JT Tran - the world's #1 Asian dating coach. 2020-06-11. Resonate. en-GB.
  26. Web site: 2020-11-02. 'The Souls of Yellow Folk' and lovability under American capitalism. 2021-11-03. The Stanford Daily.

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