I remember the first time I ever picked up "The Game" by Neil Strauss.

My name is Harkness, and I am 21 years old.

I was with a friend who recommended it to me as a joke sometime in 2010 or so. Skip forward to 2012 and I've just gone through months of picking up knowledge about the game from different sources on the internet, but was still relatively uninformed about the community. After a while, I ended up getting the Rules of the Game by Style and then The Game. Since then I've been blown away by how much I've learned. People, especially women, at my uni know who I am before we even meet. Several times I've introduced myself only to find them connecting me with the enigmatic last name I'm known by (Harkness is a moniker, my last name is the same as a famous character from books).

I live in Brisbane, Australia and I've only really been practicing routines and attraction rules very recently. I like to use cocky funny, pre selection, and I'd like to start using more indirect openers, DHV and qualifying in my conversations. I'd also like to find a wingman around the area to start Sarging.

I'm heavily interested in the Arts, so music, dancing, improv comedy and acting. I'm one of those "part time actors" studying primary education, and my goals are to become a better, more confident person, the kind who maintains his frame in any situation, is the most desired/sexually successful person in the room, and to improve my confidence in all aspects. Basically the very definition of a successful Alpha male. I'm also hoping I can translate these skills into not just everyday life but my acting and platonic relationships as well.

Probably one of my favourite recent stories happened when I had completely stuffed up a date. (I pedastilized her a little, and went for a kiss before building rapport and with little kino. I know, not good.)
Of course, I decided to forgive myself and forget, learn from my mistakes and put her out of my mind as a potential interest.

Later on Facebook, She asked if I was free to go to the gold coast, and I told her I was working.
She told me she was going with Ryan, and I just said "Good for Ryan."

I spotted her and a large set on a couch at the cafe at uni, and suddenly realised a cute girl I was talking to earlier was sitting right nearby. I was with a couple of friends (one of whom I flirt openly with often, she escalates my social proof in these situations) and we sat and started talking as I introduced the two to each other. After a good five minutes of genuinely enjoying the conversation, my date from earlier came by and tried to stand next to my chair to get my attention. I knew what I was doing when I moved my body to face my back towards her and to my conversational partners, and she reacted by calling out "Hey! Ryan's eight." a couple of times.

I turned around nonchalantly, and she said something like "Ryan? He's eight." I asked who Ryan was (I knew, but was acting on instinct here) and she explained that he was the one she went to the Gold Coast with. I looked perplexed for a moment, then responded with recognition. "Oh! Ryan...I thought you said his name was Robb."

She got really huffy at this point and almost yelled out as she spelt the name; "RYAN! R! Y! A! N!"
Afterwards, we began texting but I only responded with short, one or two word responses. Finally she mentioned how frustrated she was about this, how at first I seemed "so into her" and then suddenly I wasn't. I responded along the lines of not wanting to waste her or my time, and we later on started something that fizzled out.

Still, it was an eye-opening experience.

Good to meet the rest of the community.

I look forward to sarging with you.