WAY way lower.
And logistics are almost never right.
Realistically close rate is less than 1 in 100.
If you are approaching girls and hoping for a 1 in 10 close rate, you are out of your mind dog.
Typical sales close rates are 0.5-2%

A fine example of integrity.
Although I agree, his mother's death is irrelevant here.
Just goes to show how academia isn't a place for serious intellectuals, philosophers, or spiritual practitioners.
Cornel West should just lecture on YT. Why the fuck does he need Harvard? That's some elitist nonsense he got tied up with.

I am not saying to print wealth.
It can certainly be distributed better.
If Amazon employees got double their salary, society would be better off. That you can't see this shows your lack of vision.
You frame this situation as though we would be stealing money from Jeff Bezos. But consider another frame: Bezos stole most of his money from Amazon employees.
You see, 500 years ago, a king would claim that all the money in the country was his. And when people suggested to change that system, the king righteously felt that they would stealing all his money. But the deeper truth was that the king got all his money by stealing it from the people. So the people took it back and killed the king.
No one gets a billion dollars by earning it. You get a billion dollars by stealing it. This is crucial to understand.
The logic you are using is exactly the same logic that was used to justify kingdoms.
You are assuming that a billionaire's wealth rightly belongs to him. But this purely a social construction.

$10 million is literally plenty of reward for ANY job on the planet.
You know what feels really shitty? Paying someone who works in the hot sun picking strawberries all day long $20/day. How about rewarding them? Why do you not care about properly rewarding 99% of the workforce, but you are so passionate about rewarding the top 0.01% who are already so highly rewarded that literally they cannot feel the difference when we add an extra billion to their bank account?
Do you see how fucked up your priorities are?
How about rewarding teachers, police, firefighters, soldiers, mothers, construction workers, fast food workers, Amazon warehouse workers, delivery drivers? See, you don't give a fuck about these people who are being exploited to make Jeff Bezos a billionaire.
Billionaires are a lot more analogous to kings than to the existence of money itself.
Money is a necessary and important technology. Billionaires are not necessary, like kings.
All this is true of slavery.
In the 1850s you'd be in a public forum shouting that our society is not evolved enough to abolish slavery and that we cannot function without slaves. Out of slaves, massive wealth creation, etc. We can even fuck them for free. How can a man live without having slaves to fuck? Our society cannot handle it.

DHV comes off as too fake and gamey.
Be fun and playful. Don't try to impress. And then on top of that, you should already be a cool and interesting guy by building out a cool and interesting life.
DHV should be a natural consequence of your yearly self-actualizing work. Once you got it, you don't need to try to impress girls with it. It will naturally reveal itself as she starts asking about your life.
Like, if a girl starts asking me what I do, if I just talk about it authentically, I will come off as very high value. She will be like, "I thought this guy is just playful and fun, but he's also got an amazing life! This is amazing. I want his dick right now!"
If anything, you could even DLV. Purposefully play down your value by telling her you work at Walmart sucking customer's dicks. This will come off much better than trying to impress her that you're a DJ.
"Girl... you think you want to be with some hotshot DJ, but I know what you really want. You want to marry a guy who works at Walmart sucking customer's dicks for minimum wage. I bet you didn't even know Walmart had such a position. Well, they do and today's your lucky day."
Humor is the fastest way into a woman's pants.
P.S. If you actually work at Walmart, then that strategy will not work so well. It works better the higher value your naturally are. If you were a DJ or a doctor, that line would work amazing.

I sit now before my computer covered in dirt, I'm too tired to take a shower. I spend my days slaving away in the hot sun and carrying heavy shit, in exchange I get like $750 every two weeks. I have no friends or ever had a romantic relationship, I live with my parents but I feel like I hardly know them and vice-versa. Trying to tell them about self help or entrepreneurship is like trying to tell a toddler about the rise of Hitler, they're uninterested and they find the television far more intriguing. It's disturbing how complacent and myopic the human mind can become after a lifetime of mediocre unconscious work, they're like zombies! The fucking television is the most diabolical invention man ever unleashed! After work my body and mind feel numb and hazy, but I fight through it because there's more important work to be done, I'm a CEO after all! At least that's what it says on my business card. I make a sale here and there but I wouldn't say my business is a success quite yet. At the end of the day I lay alone in darkness, my only companion the voice whispering 'I love you' through my headphones, sometimes its a man's, sometimes it's a woman's. Then its right back to work in the morning, to the scorching hot sun and asphalt, to serving and obeying people I dislike, to fighting the urge to knock someones teeth out. I honestly think a sane man's first reaction to being ordered around in the heat like a dog would be to gut the motherfucker who crossed you like a fish so no one else gets the idea they're your superior, but I'm a lover, not a fighter. Maybe I'll listen to one of Leo's videos with my earbuds or imagine I'm Augustus or Napoleon to pass the time! I always liked the idea of being a conqueror or an emperor. In a strange masochistic way I enjoy it sometimes, the stinging and aching in my muscles, the unforgiving omnipotent sun, the sweat bleeding into my eyes. It's a very peculiar high but most of the time I feel like jumping off a bridge.
What the fuck is this? This is what life is like in the twenty-first century? How the fuck do people do this decade after decade? I'm only twenty-three and I've had enough of this shit! The life of the average person is a mind-numbing bitter struggle only interrupted by mediocre media, hollow relationships, insultingly little vacation, and alcohol. How has the plurality of mankind embraced this way of life? It is humiliating! I feel like a different species or something because I'm the only one I know fighting for an alternative! How the fuck do you just get told what to do your entire life!? Doesn't this fucking bother you after a while!? Then people get married, have kids, and buy a house, MEGAFUCKING the entire situation, now they're guaranteed to always be a wage slave!
I HAD TO WORK ON THE FUCKING FOURTH OF JULY LAST YEAR!!! The day about, ya' know, FREEDOM!!! How the fuck do you cope with this shit because I feel like a losing my sanity more and more by the day!

You're simply more conscious than the typical human.
This is okay.
You just need to find the right niche for yourself.
Why are you working in the hot sun? Work smarter not harder.
Obviously the first step for you is to upgrade to a better job, one you can tolerate. Then you can chip away at the CEO thing. But for now you need to focus on upgrading your current line of work. Not all jobs are that shitty.
Again, work smarter, not harder.
If you're gonna be earning $1400/mo, at least find a job that's not backbreaking. You could work at Starbucks for that. You need to look for jobs that give you free time to study and work on your own side hustle. You can also picks jobs which are low-stress and low-effort and have other perks.
Who is the one that made you work in the hot sun? You! You chose that shit one way or another.
Don't worry, you're still young. You can change all that.

You simply don't understand how socialization works.
When people socialize and party, they drink. I don't. If it was up to me, I would ban all alcohol, but people enjoy it. I'm not there to tell them what to do. Girls drink in clubs and bars. Pickup works regardless of drinking or not.
Does alcohol make women (and men) looser? Of course. That's the point of alcohol in social settings. No one is forcing it on the women.
It has nothing to do with rape. Most sex in the world happens thanks to alcohol. That is not the same thing as fucking someone who has passed out drunk.
I prefer not to sleep with drunk women. But if she wants to have a few drinks, that's her choice. If she asks me whether she should have a drink, I would tell her no. And I'm certainly not buying her any drinks.
FYI, most dates involve a few drinks. Welcome to human mating 101.
There is also a big distinction between a few drinks and being pass-out drunk, vomiting all over yourself. Girls who are near the pass-out drunk stage are actually not easy to sleep with because they are too sick to have sex and are just a pain in the ass to deal with. It's also not good sex.
A) You misunderstand what pickup entails and is.
B) Yes, pursing sex requires that one behave differently than sitting in a meditation retreat. Sex is survival, and it is a game.
Ironically it is you who is being unspiritual here in that: 1) you judge all this social activity and think of it as unspiritual, creating a shadow out of it, and 2) you have the desire to control people by telling them how to behave and what not to drink.
Consider the crazy possibility that a spiritual person can go to a party and enjoy it and sleep with someone from the party. And there is no contradiction in that.
Doesn't sound like you've ever been to a party or enjoyed a party.
Is pickup some high integrity activity? No. It's socialization and horsing around. It's not serious. The integrity of partying is letting loose and allowing yourself to party. Try it sometime. You might even get laid. Girls don't like guys who have a stick up their ass and judge them.

This very much depends on you.
Stop worrying about the numbers and just get excited about going out and approaching on a weekly basis.
2000 will certainly get you some amazing times.

Self-amusement is the #1 key to attracting women.
You should laugh at your own jokes so much that you are having more fun than anyone else. Then the woman gets attracted because you are a boss, not seeking any validation or reaction from her.
Like I keep saying, attraction is a very counter-intuitive thing.
Whatever you feel, the woman was feel. If you feel good, she will feel good. If you feel awkward and shy, so will she.
You should even get good at laughing for no reason whatsoever. Just to laugh. Life is a fucking joke. You take yourself way too seriously.
Stop trying to act like James Bond. Start being a playful rascal. You'll get laid way more and you will feel happier.
And even in non-dating situations, people always appreciate a cheerful guy. Even guys do.

Truth/Love/Esctasy is the realization that there is no difference whatsoever between anything.
When all difference is seen to be imaginary and irrelevant, you reach infinite joy. It's an ocean of Love so deep you shudder in a metaphysical cosmic Mindgasm.
Then you understand what true happiness is. True happiness is simply realizing that nothing is better than anything else. Period. That's when all seeking stops.
So long as you are under the illusion that one thing is better than another, you will always suffer because you will seek the better and resent the worse.
The ultimate Truth is that nothing is better than anything else because all things are equally wondrous. Ta-da! Your unhappiness turned out to be nothing other than bias.

Business is survival. Life is about survival. Even if everyone on Earth was awake, they would still need to survive and business would still have a place.
But even more importantly, business should be your creative passion, your art, which you would do even if no one needed it. So long as you're alive you are gonna have the problem of what to do with your time and creative energy.
God is creative. You cannot stop people from being creative any more than you can stop the sun from shining.
So the only real question is: what do you want to create?
Nothing is important in itself. Things become important if you want them to be.

This issue is not just about Green. This is the much larger issue of how do you deal with ignorance?
As you become more conscious you are likely to develop contempt for the massive unconsciousness of the average person. That's one of the many burdens of seriously developing yourself. You start to feel like a genius among apes. And then you gotta find ways to cope with that.
Best way I find is to stop trying to convince or change people and focus most of your attention on your creative work. Do not get too entangled with ignorant people and their BS. It's a huge distraction. Let them be ignorant. Focus on your work. And don't hinge your work on ignorant people.

Of course there is not a "someone who is moving up on a journey". That is a fiction.
But there are many levels/states of higher consciousness.
The loss of ego is not all there is to consciousness. That's just a tiny aspect of awakening. Just because you lose the ego does not mean you're anywhere near infinitely conscious.
I have warned you guys many times of these kind of oversimplified neo-Advaita teachings. The realization of no-self is one of the easiest and lowest attainments in this work. There are much higher attainments and awakenings.

You need to change your state of consciousness via hardcore concentration practice. Stop thinking about who you are and focus on building up concentration.
You can do that with mindfulness with labling or via Kriya yoga. I highly recommend Kriya yoga, it quiets the mind nicely.
Work towards stilling your mind and just sitting in emptiness with no thoughts. Your true nature will reveal itself naturally once your mind is still and highly concentrated.

That's the mindfuck. Death never happens. Death is a fantasy.
You are eternally conscious right now, you always have been, and you always will be.
Cessation of consciousness is imaginary. LOOK! You're imagining it right now!
You sneaky bastard!
There is no such thing as unconsciousness. All unconsciousness is imagined by consciousness. That's the ultimate trick. You can't be unconscious, you can only imagine you were unconscious in the past -- which is the Dream you weave.

I certainly didn't. My mind was quick as a super-computer in my teens.
Although now with increased consciousness and spiritual understanding, and after doing a bunch of heavy metal detox, carnivore diet, and with mental training exercises my mind is getting real sharp again.
One of goals is to develop a superman mind.
Jerking off has no effect on the clarity of my mind. Not jerking off reduces my clarity because then mind is wasted thinking about sex.

There are so many ways to do a spirituality biz.
Start by doing a few months of research on what already exists and what other people have done. Search the web, you'll find tons of stuff. And think outside the box of being a guru.
Also think about the biggest obstacles you faced in your spiritual journey and what kind of problems people commonly face in spirituality. You can basically start a biz around any single common problem.
In general, in order to enter an industry you must first become an avid consumer of it. As you consume and explore the industry you will see what works, what doesn't, what's missing, and what niches are available. You need a lot of experience consuming the industry you work in to find opportunities and to learn from what has already been done.
I broke my way into self-help by consuming a ton of self-help and seeing gaps and opportunities. No one was doing self-help in the way I wanted it done, so I started my own channel.

Stop asking women for advice on how to game them.
That's your mistake.
When it comes to deciding who she's gonna sleep with, her biological instincts will take over and she will not sleep with a nice guy. She wants to sleep with an alpha guy.
Of course! Women like dick. They don't need a man with a pussy because they already got one.
Attraction is very counter-intuitive.
With that said, you can be strong and cocky without being mean or hurtful. That's the balance you should aim for: strong, assertive, cocky, playful, but also polite, respectful, and grounded in Love.
You want to be a lovable jerk, not an abusive asshole.
And this goes beyond women. In general, all people, men and women alike, respect strength, confidence, authority, leadership, and assertiveness. These are the qualities of a leader. And women want to sleep with leaders. You can't lead people effectively by being too nice and meek.
Be a leader without being abusive or cruel. Temper yourself with Love.

That's how style is. You can't please everyone. Spicy things are polarizing, making some people hate it and others love it. I'm a somewhat polarizing guy. I don't want to make milquetoast content that makes your grandma pleased. My content has added drama and flair to make it interesting. And I enjoy being provocative.
FYI, I'm never angry at you. Mostly I'm baffled by the stupidity and laziness of people. I am in constant disbelief at how much the average person takes life/reality for granted, and therefore it's hard for me to respect such a person. So I tend to look down on such people and sometimes I rant and rebuke from that perspective, but I'm never too serious about it. Half the time it's done tongue -in-cheek.
When I rant at you, it's because you're not being serious enough about reality. That's mostly where I'm coming from. To earn my respect you have to be serious.

You're just confused about your own notions of existence and perception and self.
Existence doesn't have a definition. It is what is. It's the only thing there is. And it cannot be defined because a definition itself must exist to do any work.
The bottle exists because you imagine it does, whether you are in the room or not you imagine it, thereby creating it.
You are imagining there is a universe outside your house. And that's how it feels to you.
If you became more conscious you would instantly realize that you are imagining objects existing outside your field of view, like the Earth.

Deep awakening will make you more authentic, secure, charismatic, masculine, feminine, and playful. It will dissolve much fear too. Which is very effective for pickup.
But it will not give you technical skills nor experience with women -- which is also very important for results. For example, you will still not know how to escalate, handle logistics, or close.
If you think pickup is difficult and scary, awakening is way more difficult and scary. If you can't muster the balls to approach a girl, you won't be awakening any time soon.

@The0Self The way I conceive of it, awakening has one axis with two directions: the emptiness direction and the God-consciousness direction. You can move up or down. Down is emptiness, up is Infinite God Consciousness. But even the emptiness direction has degrees of realizing emptiness. And the God consciousness direction basically goes to infinite levels higher.
And of course these two direction are not really two, they are one. God Consciousness IS emptiness, but it's also so much more than that.
To me the realization of emptiness is peanuts compared to Infinite God Consciousness. Infinite God Consciousness is what you really want. Emptiness is cool but sorta meh. To stop at emptiness and proclaim it king is a big mistake in my book.
I've experienced emptiness and Infinity many times. And Infinity is way superior. And although Infinity is emptiness, your classic gurus are not infinitely consciousness. Not even close. Like not even 1%. Emptiness is way easier than Infinity. So to stop at emptiness is to set the bar low whereas Infinity sets the bar infinitely high.
Of course emptiness cannot really have levels to it. It's just infinitely empty. But just because you are empty does not mean you are infinitely conscious of yourself as God. You probably don't even realize what God is. You can have some degree of awakening but still fundamentally not realize what God is. To realize God in its fullness requires going up the axis, not down. This is why Buddhists and Neo-Advaitans can sit there and deny God with a straight face. They've gone all the way down, but not all the way up. And they have no clue what they're missing because they think they've made it.
This shit is very tricky. Much trickier than any guru admits.
In my book it is not enough to hollow out the ego-mind and just reside in emptiness. You must actually enter a state of Infinite God Consciousness. This is a state of Total Omniscience. This is God proper. How to achieve this state stably is the fundamental problem. Yes, it is a state. And you are definitely missing this state. You are not even 0.0001% to this state even if you think you are enlightened.
Totally emptying your mind is not the same thing as making your mind Infinite. Classic enlightenment teachers have a bias towards the former while poo-pooing the latter. But the latter is superior in my experience.
God is not only no-mind. God is Infinite Mind.
And if you're missing LOVE, it's because you've emptied your mind too much and got stuck there in nihilism. Try going up instead of down.
The bottom of the ocean is interesting, but outer space is more interesting
P.S. Infinite Consciousness is way more than mere insights. At it highest levels Infinite Consciousness is the complete interconnection of every bit of consciousness in existence into a single infinitely interconnected and all-knowing point of singularity. You are not merely having insights about infinity at that point. YOU ARE INFINITY.

Why Concentration is Not Enough? - Attention & Awareness Dynamic Explained
We all have the experience of focusing on a task singularly and very intensely. From common meditation wisdom, you might think developing an exclusive state of intense concentration is what meditation is ultimately all about.
However, this is only a part of the picture. For all beginner meditators, mindfulness and awareness collapses instantly if you narrow down attention strongly and forcefully. 
This is one of the fundamental reasons why you still experience distractions and sleepiness while trying to be more mindful. Even after years of meditation.
Let me explain:
Paying attention to an object without greater peripheral awareness is how we normally live our lives. Even without mindfulness, we’re always paying attention to something.
But with mindfulness, we pay attention to the right things, and in a more skillful way.This is because being mindful actually means that you’re more fully conscious and alert than usual. 
As a result, our peripheral awareness is much stronger, and our attention is used with unprecedented precision and objectivity. 
Mindfulness is the skillful interaction of attention and awareness.  
Attention analyzes our experience, and awareness provides the overall context and background.      
When one or the other doesn’t do its job, or when there isn’t enough interaction between the two, then we respond to situations less effectively. We may overreact, make poor decisions, or misinterpret what’s really going on.
Awareness provides the context and the background of events and experiences. It is open,   inclusive, and holistic. It’s concerned with the relationships of objects to each other, and to the whole.
Why aren’t we naturally more mindful?
 Why does mindfulness have to be cultivated?
There are two main reasons.
1- Most of us have never really learned to use awareness effectively.
2- We don’t have enough conscious power to sustain mindfulness, especially at the times when we need it most.,
The result of this is something I like to call Awareness Deficit Disorder: chronic use of attention until awareness fully collapses.
For instance, do you experience the moving sensations on your left foot’s toe while watching Inception?
An advanced meditator can experience the body fully while also wholeheartedly engaging in the movie.Body awareness is only the first step. They can watch the movie intensely and also simultaneously examine their minds, habits and mental reactions.
As a beginner meditator, you are singularly focused on watching Inception, - which is a fantastic movie - trying to follow the sequences of events.But awareness is fully collapsed. You are not aware of the body sensations as much.
Final Advice:
The most deceptive beginner mistake while trying to balance attention and awareness is to quickly re-direct attention back and forth between the breath sensations and the body (or distractions of all forms).
This technique is called intentional attentional movement.It can be used effectively in adept stages of meditation.
However, at its currently applied form, it is not helping you to develop greater levels of awareness and mindfulness.
The Solution: You need to maintain the stability of attention first and while the attention rests on the breath, now you start to experience the entire body and mind with awareness. This is how you develop mindfulness.
You need to keep these two modalities of experience in metacognitive awareness.
Keep meditating with this in mind and you'll get to know your mind at deeper and deeper levels with diligent practice.
Much love,
Arda
 

It's harder, but practice more improv.
Asking women questions upon open is terrible. You quickly lose her with your interrogation. Instead, either make funny assumptions about her or talk about yourself. My fave way to open is just telling her about my day or where I traveled recently. Travel stories are the best.
Stop the questions. Make statements. Learn to carry the entire conversation. You should be able to talk for 5 minutes without needing any input from her.