Fair play dale nice post. Parts of your story i can relate to. In that i realise im a cool & decent guy & i now know that im worth good things & not shit things.

I have always been a cool & fun & decent lad but only recently ive FELT a real sense of power & confidence in myself. Even though im not getting laid atm, & thats cos i have had so much personal stuff going on so ive been pretty pre-occupied trying to balance my life...AND cos i havnt yet attracted anyone who is up to my new found high standards, ive had offers from ugs but im not bothered about shagging a minger just cos its an easy ride, no way.

Even the ex i loved so much looks like a minger now.

My point is, i agree with you that pick up improves your whole life.

The Pick Up Artist, VH1. Split up with my girlfriend because of this show. Actually, thinkin back, i read 'The Game' aswell, then split up with her. I was all, 'wow i'm gonna be a mega pimp'. Two years on and a couple of relationships later, its fair to say, i'm pimping more than all those guys put together.

This confused the shit outa me but i just didnt say anything at the time when i noticed it a few weeks ago, but i dont think i posted these posts on the dates & times shown.....but many weeks before it.

Am i imagining this or WTF???

Since we are doing this:

A friend of mine walked into my living room, i was currently obsessed with human behaviour & women, he said

Ive found ur new hobby

i googled the game, bought the book! tried a few things in their that worked? i was amazed! i watched annhilation method, i sat with a pad and paper and pen... after it finished i thought, what the fuck was that??

so i tried mystery, listened to a cd of his.... found alot of what he said made sense, but i hated all the routine stuff! so i just disregarded PUA stuff

i then listened to david de angelos laws of power thing which was good, he focuses more on human behaviour....

and i used ross jeffries for NLP coz it helped me understand the fundamentals

all in all, i think ive done alot of dissing mystery & shit, and altho ive not done any reding other than the game

and ive not heard a huge amount of stuff, i imagine the stuff i did hear helped me alot and then at some point i convinced myself i already knew it.

the canned shit is gay, but the human behaviour stuff mystery talks about is right

Split up with my girlfriend of three years and went out sarging, not really knowing what I was doing apart from being social and make girls laugh.

Looked up PUA and came across David DeAngelo's stuff. Read the book, bought the CD series and realised I was already putting alot of this into practice anyway as I'm naturally funny. I had a few ups and downs after this. In fact, more downs than ups from what I remember, lost my confidence massively due to family reasons. That's when I decided I needed to invest in myself, in my character and in what I really want from my life.

Then I was recommended the game, read it and changed my understanding of social dynamics, body language and everything else in between. Researched more, went on forums and now I'm working for a PUA in London.

It was a long and sometimes painful journey but I've learned shit loads on the way and I'm still learning everytime I'm out sarging, in the lift talking to someone or having a quiet coffee with a HB.

Gaming never stops.

I originally used a few basic concepts a few years ago, and landed a great bird for a year, but it fizzled out and I called it quits.

Year goes by, no luck. Two friends turned me onto Neil's book, which I read a few days after my 22nd birthday. I decided then that I was unhappy with certain things in my life, and set about to fix them, with girls being the major one. Little did I realize that girls were my least problem I'd have to deal with.

Got immediate success with routines, but felt really empty inside and like I was cheating myself and the ladies I was getting. Getting girls attracted to me and me not reciprocating that feeling towards was really fucked up.

Quit chasing girls for a while. Continued reading pickup stuff, looking more towards the inner game stuff, but refusing to jump to the self-help community. Began noticing events and emotions buried deep inside myself from long ago, wrapped up in a self-destructive personality. Began to unwrap myself. Painful.

Started playing with pickup stuff again, but no routines allowed. Much harder, and my sense of humor was gone (I used to be totally negative, so I tried to focus out that negative energy, which meant my sense of humor as well). Kept digging farther and farther, finally started getting into David DeAngelo's stuff and other alpha stuff and loving it. Began to realize where the train derailed along my lifetime, and started to set myself straight.

Joined this forum looking for similar like-minded people who weren't chasing 'game' or routines. Continued to focus on myself as the problem, rather than girls being the issue. Realized girls 'just come automatically' with a healthy personality and lifestyle. Came to grips with a lot of my past and set old ghosts to rest. Reformed new attitudes, and gave the world a second chance. I Quit emotionally beating myself and other people up. Took off the veil I wore during all of this and started acting like my old self again sans-personal issues and ego, and started getting girls immediately with not routines.

People started noticing me differently, and I quit 'acting' the inner game and began living it. Still not entirely happy with where I am, but I'm excited as I can see my goal now, but for now won't allow a relationship. Finally watched blueprints a month ago and re-looked at everything that I've been doing and smiled. I'm on the right track to being the person I want to be in every aspect of my life. And I've never been happier, and every day gets better.

Of course the game first, followed by Magic bullets (wicked book) and love systems routines manual which is another wicked book.