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Overall, my experience was really solid. I would have loved to go in-field w/Mystery and the gang, and I hope I can down the line, but that's just too much money right now for this college student relying on his parents.

I expected Mystery to only be there actually teaching us for 45 minutes or a couple hours at the most, but he taught as much as if not more than anyone else, which was really cool to actually hear it from the legend and tap into his mind a little bit.

I figured Mystery might have somewhat of a big/celeb attitude, and that he'd want his space during breaks. Not so. I made a point of not following him when we all went to lunch the first day, but ended up running into him and the gang around the block, and about 6 of us ate lunch w/him & his group. He really is the guy you've seen on TV and read about, and he seems to genuinely want to help people-I had a couple of helpful one-on-one conversations w/him just out in the hall, and he's patient despite the fact that EVERYONE is pulling him in different directions.

I was also expecting big numbers of attendees but there were only 26 of us, and from what I could gather that was a pretty normal/almost full group. That was really nice, and it made things a lot more personal and conducive to questions and back-and-forth.

I'd read the Mystery Method, and there was a lot of repetition, but the way it was presented still taught me a lot and reinforced things I knew but hadn't really grasped.

The main drawback...was only a partial drawback. (Especially) Mystery tends to go off on tangents and into great, great detail, and sometimes I wished he could've been a little more concise so that we could've gone deeper into practical stuff in our limited time. However, a lot of his tangents had nuggets of wisdom in them, and a big part of the seminar was experiencing how he, Discovery, and others told stories & multiple threaded, gamed us, and interacted with each other while they taught. So that's a tough one, but a little better time management and getting into practicality would be good. Also, seminars starting/restarting late was a little annoying b/c I felt like I was losing valuable learning time, but they might've made up for some of that near the end.

As Mystery was, Discovery, Brandon, Derby, and everyone else was really great and I really felt that they wanted to do whatever they could to help us succeed.

I think it'd be good if they gave/suggested a little more reading out before so that 1) maybe the structure could be moved through slightly more quickly, and on the other hand 2) so that those that haven't read MM know more about the basics b/c I wouldn't have gotten as much out of it w/o the book. Also, more in-class exercises would be good.

I absolutely love that not only do attendees get access to the lounge on here, but in most cases what we paid for the seminar goes towards anything else we want to do down the line, and we can go to other seminars for a year for free.

The day game breakout w/Discovery was solid and I got a lot of good, practical material and advice out of that. Was definitely worth the money.