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Oh, and don't forget the MOST IMPORTANT part of pickup...HAVE FUN!
This is the ONLY rule that I have:
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Kevin, you need to remember that this isn't a magic pill, this isn't an overnight change, this isn't a 6 month change. Mystery said that after 6 months you should START to see results, not that you should be fucking hot girls left and right. You are trying to make alterations to how you have approached women and interacted with people for the past 30+ years, IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE EASY! If it were easy, then it wouldn't be worth doing and you wouldn't be putting time and effort into it, because you would have figured out how to do these things on your own long ago.
Every once in a while I take a break from the scene; sometimes a few days does wonders and sometimes there are things in life that need to be taken care of and I'll take months off. During these times, I do a lot of growing in other areas and when I do get back into things, I often have a fresh perspective that helps me to take it to the next level.
Sometimes you hit certain sticking points that you have trouble seeing for yourself and that someone else can offer some great advice on when they see you doing it. Workshops are great for helping with this, but there's also lots of knowledgable guys that are in lairs and that help guys for free. Just because you attend one workshop, doesn't mean that attending another wouldn't be helpful, ESPECIALLY if it's been 8 months. You've come a hell of a long way in just a few months, from what I've seen at any rate, so now you've got new problems that need work, you're able to take things further than you could before, so you'll have new areas to work on that you couldn't address fully before.
This is a brick wall man, but the brick walls are there to let us prove how much we want something. So you can either quit on yourself (cause we aren't gonna quit on you), spend money on whores and feel degraded because of it, or you can keep working towards your goal, knowing that you may not reach it for a while, but you WILL reach it.
For the record, it was about 16 months after I read The Game and learned about the community, before I got my first f-close from pickup. So if you want to say that you've got it rough, then come back in 11 months if you still haven't f-closed someone and I'll give you all the private tutoring you want and I know other guys that took even longer than that, so you still won't have any reason to worry.