JT Tran

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JT Tran
JT Tran.jpg
JT Tran in 2019
Born
Texas
Other namesThe Asian Playboy
Occupation(s) Dating coach, entrepreneur
Known for Pickup Artist, ABCs of Attraction
Height5 ft 5 in (165 cm)
Website https://www.jttran.com/

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

Contents

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] [ unreliable source? ] Tran mainly teaches shy Asian men confidence and communication skills. [6] [ unreliable source? ]

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] [ unreliable source? ]

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] [ unreliable source? ][ unreliable source? ] 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] [ unreliable source? ]

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. [14] [16] [ unreliable source? ] To prove that his methods work, the TV crew followed Tran during the lecture and later out into the field live and unstaged. [14]

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. [22] 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] [ unreliable source? ]

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

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 [26] as a dating coach. In November 2020, Stanford Daily [27] mentioned Tran on how he supervised men to approach women.

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References

  1. ↑ "After Dark - Author JT Tran". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 2011-03-12.
  2. ↑ "Contributors". Baller Magazine.
  3. 1 2 "The Asian Playboy Up Close: How Men of a Certain Race Learn Masculinity". www.playboy.com. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  4. ↑ Article: "Proselytizing the Game", AsianWeek, February 8, 2008. Archived February 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 ""New Year, New Friends", Nguoi Viet Daily News, December 31, 1999". Archived from the original on January 25, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
  6. ↑ The Asian Playboy Defies Stereotypes, article by Flash News, published April 2009
  7. ↑ "Cover Page of AsianWeek Magazine". Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
  8. ↑ "Reading Between the Pick-Up Lines | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
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  10. ↑ Yang, Wesley (May 8, 2011). "Paper Tigers: What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?". New York Times . Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  11. ↑ Rastogi, Nina Shen (May 10, 2011). "A Response to Wesley Yang's "Paper Tigers"". Slate . Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Bullblog tip-off: get picked up at "The Asian Playboy" Master’s Tea", The Yale Herald, February 9, 2011
  13. ↑ Rosa, George (10 February 2012). "Asian Playboy talks about his career as a professional Casanova". The Daily Pennsylvanian . Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  14. 1 2 3 Chang, Juju (2 March 2012). "'Asian Playboy' Teaches Asian Men to Get Over Racial Stereotypes, Build Confidence". ABC News . Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  15. ↑ "'Asian Playboy' JT Tran's First Date Rules". ABC News . 2 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  16. ↑ "Asian Playboy Smashes Stereotypes on ABC Nightline". Nightline. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
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  18. ↑ Sherbert, Erin (May 31, 2012). "Professional Pick Up Artist Disappointed in SceneTap's Ability to Help Him Score Chicks". Verge Magazine. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
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  21. ↑ "Inside a Chinese PUA Bootcamp on VOA TV". Voice of America . Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  22. 1 2 Adarlo, Sharon. "Is This Pickup Artist Actually… Helping People?". The Awl. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  23. ↑ "Are Pickup Artists Misogynists or Gentlemen? Julien Blanc vs JT Tran Compared [Al Jazeera America]". YouTube . Retrieved 3 January 2015.[ dead YouTube link ]
  24. ↑ "'The Asian Playboy' Has the Perfect Response to Asian Women Who Say They 'Don't Date Asian Men'". NextShark. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  25. ↑ Chew, Cohan (2018-03-29). "INTERVIEW: ABCs of Attraction founder JT Tran - the world's #1 Asian dating coach". Resonate. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
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  27. ↑ "'The Souls of Yellow Folk' and lovability under American capitalism". The Stanford Daily. 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
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