Working on myself, becoming a better person, and being a value giver is a journey I am taking, by experiencing all different aspects of life and seeing the world through my own eyes. I have changed in a big way and continue to get better. To me getting better means, helping people to feel good (male or female) around me, about themselves. This is as much a placebo effect as going to the gym and getting hench. All these big muscled guys in the gym. Its all placebo!

The way I see it, some of this stuff really works and is more sophisticated than "placebo effect", which I find is a very throw away comment. That's my view. Unless you have a statistical scientific argument, with proper group sizes and measurable effects, it really is hard to tell. Without the proper scientific methodology, I'll put my success to the hours of hard work I've put in to improving myself.

You have given Placebo a negative connotations in your mind, to me a placebo can be a good or a bad thing depending on its use.

As K said PU can have a great effect on somebodies life if you can stick it out for a year and see through it or it can make you into a creep.

The same with other placebos - great if it helps you cures conditions or illnesses but bad if what you really need is medication and somebody is giving you homeopathy...

As for PU you would need to agree on what a successful PUA was which would be hard to pin down because different people want different things

Good line. Which is why some of the good advice (etc Blueprint Decoded), is not placebo. This is the "medication" does alot of good to alot of people. It works. However, some of the advice, that does not focus on personal development can be counter-productive.

This is the difference between settling for the magic pill & striving to genuinely move yourself forward. It is a process, no matter how hard and painful at times, to be relished. Enjoy the journey.