No. It's not the same at all. Serious love and relationship takes commitment and effort. That's very different from chasing after sexual excitement.
Pickup involves effort too, but it's not the same. Being a gangster also takes effort. That doesn't make the activity very conscious.

Many serious PUAs are horndogs with overactive sex drives. They are like drug addicts for pussy, and they need new pussy constantly.
It's like being a pussy vampire.
Similar to how Jeffery Epstein was a sex vampire.
Or they are addicted to the excitement of it. Which is why they are incapable of committing to one girl.

It doesn't have to be so direct.
If you had a lot of money, you could host fancy dinner parties and invite hot girls for free. Then naturally some of them would sleep with you because you're the organizer of the whole thing.
This is traditionally how men got women. Not at the bar.
Look at Trump. Where did he get his women? Did he go around doing pickup? No! He bought a beauty pageant just so he could sleep with hot girls. Trump isn't so stupid afterall. He's a clever devil.
I'm not saying you should take it to that insane level. But you could certainly find a girlfriend by hosting some parties. You don't even need to be a millionaire to do this. Although of course having a few mil helps grease the wheels.

London has good day game.
London has a big night life.
London has tons of wings and PUAs.
Look for wingmen.
Research the best spots in town where girls go.
London is one of the top cities in the world for game. So make use of it.

FYI, ketamine is not healthy for you, so you're much better off realizing God on 5-MeO or some other tryptamine.

I just reached 28 years old and I feel old, like I wasted almost my entire life till now, feeling like too old to even approach 20-year-old girls, how to deal with this pain?

The problem with the interview was that Don was asking kinda shallow, useless  CNN style questions. Which is why I think Musk got annoyed.
You have to understand that a serious creative like Musk want to talk about more substantive issue than to respond to his own Tweets. Lemon doesn't get that and nitpicks Musk on political correctness. Musk is not a politically correct guy. We all know that. There is no point asking him about that.
If would like if Don Lemon did a long interview with me but only asked me questions about stupid shit I posted on this forum over the years. Why would I be interested in such a pointless interview?
Yes, people inevitably post stupid shit if they are social media long enough. That's not an interesting discussion. Musk posts stupid shit. I post stupid shit. It happens.
Overall, Musk's answers were pretty straightforward and genuine. You don't have to agree with his politics to see where he's coming from. But people keep looking for outrage.

I had an ex-Moron girlfriend. She had to go through years of cult deprogramming to break free and run away from them. They traumatized her. She was crying in my arms because I was the only guy who understood how bad they fucked her mind.
This ain't no joke. People's lives are at stake. Grow up.

I am today a full stack software developer for desktop and web applications which are used by banks and insurance companies (financial accounting). Before that I was working also as a c# developer for a biotech company on some laboratory robotic devices for automation. Interesting jobs but I look for something more meaningful.

My IQ is probably not too special if I was tested.
But my actual intelligence is shockingly high. And I would not trade it for a higher IQ.
I would not trust any human with testing my intelligence accurately.
The true measure of intelligence is holistic comprehension.

If you have good health it is entirely because of your genetics.
If one bit of your DNA was off, you'd be dead. You just take all this for granted. And you will continue to do so until you lose your health for reasons you cannot control.

The beauitful thing about Owen is how hard he had to work to reach his level of mastery. The reason Owen is so appealing is because he's not good-looking and he was a depressed hardcase newbie. He acheived a lot through sheer effort. Owen doesn't teach that you will push a button and get success with girls. He tells you to work hard for it.
There is nothing magical about going out consistently every weekend. It's a grind.
A lot is out of your control but you can move to a big city and start going out every weekend and talking to girls.

That certainly forced him to grow up.
But with age most men grow up eventually.
Pickup is self-defeating for all but the most low consciousness guys.

I think you are right my friends. 
It's just I've been chasing God for 4 years and been neglecting other domains of my life. 
Now when I realized how actually serious and real God thing is I want to be able to make it a priority in the future. 
For now I want to work on basics of survival. I need financial independence and I haven't fucked for a long time. 
It's just funny to have profound god awakenings and next day do the job that I don't like or think about girls I can't attract due to my lack of dating skills. I'm just 26 and I still have plenty of time. 

It's common for religious fundamentalists to lose faith in God when they experience deep suffering or loss. That's because they misunderstand what God is. God is not a personal force who cares about you like mother. God is the fabric of reality itself. God isn't a human, with human needs and concerns.
When a lion tears apart a baby gazelle, that's God. Humans do not appreciate this. It doesn't serve human needs. What ever human wants is God to serve them, to make things soft, easy, and pleasant.
You can't beat the game of life by getting everything you want. In the end you will have to surrender to God's Will. That's what spirituality is really about. Not obtaining superpowers.

On carnivore, all your cholesterol numbers will shoot through the roof. It gets pretty bad. So it's not sustainable long-term, even if it does improve autoimmune.

1) Confidence is gained through experience, and you still have much experience to gain.
2) Trauma is a thing. Psychedelics can help there. Also, Teal Swan has a good book on healing trauma.
3) Sounds to me like you're in a good place overall. You got some minor issues which can be fixed with basic personal development work. So you should feel optimistic about your situation. Don't worry about it. You will find ways to improve in those areas.

I was playing that up to make a point. And also being entertaining.
By my nature I'm a pretty judgmental person and I am working to correct that.
When I tell you to avoid something, it's usually because I suffered from doing it.
But at least I know what the wrong thing is, even if I haven't trained myself to fully avoid it. The real problem is when guys do these things and don't even understand that it's wrong.
I do plenty of wrong things. The difference is I become aware of it and correct myself.

@ivankiss Take some Maca and Horny Goat Weed too. You will become a sexual tyrannosaur
Work on your cardio too. Fucking 2 girls is a lot of sweaty work.

Contributing to open source development in a domain of your interest is a nice idea. It's a trend to some level of free work to establish yourself before getting noticed for big roles. 
Having lots of half baked ideas on different fields is a good thing. All of that will be useful somewhere in the future. Diversifying is a good thing. Especially early in your career. 
CS is too easy to be a degree. Unless you are digging deep. The standard subjects do not offer anything deep. Except for maybe Discrete Mathematics.
Good luck man. I love core CS and the philosophical aspects of it, although not proficient enough in the technical side. Hopefully Rust will save me.
Not an expert to give solid advice yet. Good luck. I can tell you are on the right path already so keep at it. 

That's the wrong thing to call it.
Men are basically autistic women. So there is def a connection between masculine and logical and stoic.

When you get so mechanical about it, it's gonna be an obstacle to love and acceptance.
You should not be grading your girlfriend on a rubric.

I don't rate girls. I was speaking in the common parlance. It's a bad idea to be rating your girlfriend.

Nah. You can find many softer dating advice courses and teachers if you want.
For example, David DeAngelo stuff. David DeAngelo sold more dating advice than all of RSD. And it's good stuff. Eben Pagan has some top-notch courses and seminars for relationship advice.

Leo often say to choose a career path that aligns with your values, and not doing so can be detrimental to your well being in the long term.
For me coding felt like a drag on my soul throughout my career. I even felt like coding was not for me even though I excelled in CS & Math at school. I really felt something was deeply wrong with me that I can't code. I knew something was really off. I even had to try some different career paths only to fail in them as well. 
But now I have found a language that aligns with my values and that is Rust. It's almost like I can meditate or listen to music while I write code in Rust. Rust was the language I was looking for. It perfectly aligns with my values. Rust is also the most loved programming languages as per leading survey consecutively for years.
Rust gives you low level control and superior understanding of what is actually happening under the hood and I just love it. It bugs me to death when I can't understand what a line of code is doing when I read it. But Rust teaches you all that. The code is safe and secure from memory vulnerabilities. For me Languages like Javascript are outdated and there are things in the language that are totally ridiculous beyond comprehension. It's stuff built in the freaking mid 90s and we are still clinging on to it because "reasons". Mostly money.
But not for me. Rust can do everything. It's rapidly growing. The job possibilities in Rust are not the greatest, but it will certainly grow in the future.
There are many people with a programming background on this fourm, so I thought it would be cool to share this and know what you think of Rust.
It's like finally finding what I was looking for the whole time.  I simply can't love Rust enough.