Gnosis

On the days I go out to chat people up, I start the afternoon with bookstores and cafes, when the cafes close I go to loud bars, and when the last bars here close at 2 AM I come home and listen to metalcore with screaming at max volume for at least another hour. This is my routine unless I get along with someone I've chat up very well.

This is an atrocious quote. What if I told you in a month from now you'll be on a plane, suddenly the pilot along with all the crew dropped dead and for inexplicable reasons you're now in the cockpit trying to land the plane without any training? Good luck buddy. I liked what you wrote after even if I don't unanimously agree with it, but just had to throw this curve ball at ya. While you're at it why don't you also tell me what your favorite utensil is. I hope it isn't chopsticks because I'd rather eat with my hands.

I'm still exploring this and will be for a while, maybe I'll come back here in a few months with a happier story.

I might come back here and give some actual constructive criticism and nuances another time, but after trying (primarily Leo's advice from that 3 part series for a few months now) I just want to say that it's true Leo's perception has been distorted by living in Vegas and hanging out with PUAs. It's super different in other places in the world and even in the US there are few places where I would recommend taking Leo's advice word for word, although I would highly recommend it if your sole objective is improving your social skills and you had little to no investment in getting laid. For newcomers (i.e. anyone who hasn't been doing it for years) hardcore game is not a short-term strategy for getting laid unless you're a very good looking guy, just keep that in mind. At any rate, I just found out that apparently where I live, some white college kids might ask an older man to intimidate and coerce you to leave a bar after you approached and talked to their friends. I had no fucking impression I made anyone uncomfortable until this fucking old guy pulled me to the side and claimed to be a police officer. If I was thinking clearly I could've called the actual police right then and there. Instead I called suicide hotlines hours later. I'll just leave it at that.

Liberal ≠ greater cultural diversity, higher intelligence or higher cognitive development.

Those aren't the only reasons. There are plenty of hot people here but it doesn't mean anything if the culture of the area views your practice as highly deviant. It's also not nearly as clear-cut as liberal or conservative. The area I live in is highly liberal.

I personally can't use dating apps, it's traumatic for me. But this has been strange to virtually everyone I've talked to, they all unambiguously and unanimously use dating apps.

I want to tear the fucking brains out of these imbeciles that run dating apps. As if hijacking the limbic system wasn't enough, these fucking "tech companies" also have to hijack our dating lives. It's what all "tech companies" do, the reason it makes so much money is because once you have a monopoly on one of these things (social connection, dating, whateverthefuck) you've already metaphorically implanted this technology so deeply into people's brains that at that point there's just no going back. Of course, they don't see it this way, most of them are so deluded they think they're actually helping people.

What for actually being confident enough to approach girls I've never met before? What you people reading this have to realize is that in a lot of smaller cities in the US, people are a lot more biased towards "social circles" (they could also just be straight up racist) and approaching strangers is considered taboo.

As an introverted person who's never ever tried to be pushy with girls, this fucking antagonism I've gotten occasionally in the past few months is insane.

I guess the lesson here is if you're in the US and you're not white, don't do this shit in an area with an overwhelmingly white population.

I'm very new to cold approach and I'm running into a reoccurring issue which I suspect has to do with the way I present myself or my "vibe" or not being good at leading. The issue seems to be that even if I seem to make a girl interested in an initial interaction (usually just by being confident in the approach), sooner or later she starts to do this "pretend to help you" thing where she's very clearly implicitly communicating "you're not the guy for me" by Googling different venues or stuff for me, as if I don't already know where all the women are, and it's very off-putting. Leo and people here who are actually decent at pickup, what does this mean? And what should I work on improving to avoid this issue? Once this happens with a girl I get the impression that getting laid is virtually null. I assume this is a clear "friendzone" indication, but it's really oddly specific and seems to happen a lot with me. I don't have any wings (or really even any friends) here so I've just been doing cold approaches alone and chatting up random people. Maybe my loneliness is rubbing off on girls.

Game is literally the most straightforward and simple theory I've studied in the past 6 years. It's only "counterintuitive" for guys who are as dense as fucking rocks.

And the most straightforward and simple way to have preselection is to have more than one partner, it's not rocket science.

No one cares about your pointless proselytizing man. No one here is telling anyone to be a sociopath or treat girls like shit. Leo's advice is pretty tame and sensible, have you even watched the 3 part series? Game is a straightforward survival strategy that works. If you don't have preselection you can be sure that almost any girl that is even remotely attracted to you will slowly or rapidly lose all attraction, this has been every girl I've interacted with for the past 5 years. I've been doing consciousness work for the past 9 years of my life. Do you really think I actually give a shit about sleeping with a ton of women? I do this because I can't change millions of years of evolution. I don't lose attraction to women unless they literally insult me, yet women can lose attraction to me almost instantly because I don't have preselection.

Do you have any concrete advice for me or are you only here to proselytize?

This post is far more deluded than anything I've heard coming out of Leo's mouth.

I even bought a magic wand so when I do pull a girl I can be sure she'll enjoy herself.

I just want more tools in my social skillset, respecting women as human beings is the last piece of advice I need to hear. But maybe other people here need to hear it, who knows.

In this situation I've heard excessively complimenting and flattering people works pretty well too. So it doesn't necessarily have to tactics to explicitly piss people off.

I'm hypersensitive and it's not something I can really change. Suffering silently for me is the default.

It's not something I'll be constantly doing. I just need to know how to piss someone off if I actually needed to, not as a strategy to get laid. There are sometimes where people are extremely immature and offensive, this is a college town. I usually walk away from those situations feeling like I want to punch a wall, because I don't have the right social strategies in my skillset. I'd rather know how to deal with these situations in a clever way than let it adversely effect me silently.

Oh also, here's a good one, "Please sit down I don't want people to mistake you for an employee"

I plan on isolation training pissing girls off and stripping validation because I'm too meek lol. I'm even going out of my way to learn how to spit-take so I can try other people's drinks and spit it out and tell them it tastes like shit. I've done so much ridiculous shit here already to become more socially acclimatized—given entire restaurants free chocolate, taken a cat fishing rod toy to a loud bar, used the same toy on people on street, followed two girls I was talking to into a fucking river and soaked my shoes just to confirm that chasing doesn't work. Got kicked out by a couple of restaurant owners because apparently what I was doing was too obnoxious. The employees usually love it, but as soon as the owner is there I get warned lol "No outside food" "Why are you bothering my customers" Slowly learning what's socially acceptable in what contexts, and what gets whos attention, and what is liked by whom.

In fact, it actually seems to be worse than being "friendzoned", it's probably just straight up rejection but clothed in a polite way since they can tell I'm very genuine.