Learning certain parts of the MM would be very helpful to you,make sure you have a very good understanding of attraction,disqualification,qualification,negs,DHV material, downloading an ebook called magic bullets would help with this.

With this understanding you could hit on your female friends without them ever noing,if thats what you wanted to do, Learn about IOI's

I agree most of this stuff is inner game, somthing i found very useful is unstoppable confidence by ross jeff, it can be downloaded free from his website.

Something i feel both men and women need to learn is Attraction isnt a choice,somthing i heard from David D.

I have had alot of fun using routines,like the cube,palm reading,indirect openers,most will respond well,be ready for the ones that dont.