Ignore the seemingly autistic subject, it's just something me and this dude do at work, but hi guys, I'm Nick! I'm 22, live in Pittsburgh, going into my fifth year of college as a biomedical and mechanical engineering major, got a knack for inventing/investing/entrepreneurship/etc. My hobbies include pumping the bis, playing guitar, and reading a lot of personal development literature (if you ain't learning, you ain't earning!) I consider myself to be a good looking guy, i'm pretty big (although i gotta drop a good bit of poundage lol), and i have an amazing sense of wit and humor (i'm not a narcissist or anything, i've been told all of the above by a lot of people is all)

Anyhow, I became interested in checking out the PUA community through a lot of personal development. I actually read The Tao of Badass about 2 years back (I love the hell out of that book btw, it has taught me a lot), but i never applied much of what i learned in it, still being held back by limiting beliefs. fast forward to around december of 2014, and i check out TTOB again. Yet again, didn't do much with it. Finally, come May of this year, i decided to check out Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and it's exploded since then. I've been buying EVERYTHING i can get my hands on that's personal development/self help related. I've come to believe with absolute conviction that if we believe strongly enough in something and make it an obsession, it will become a reality.

Since i've been reading all of this crap, I've eliminated essentially all negative thoughts (note, essentially), developed alpha as fuck posture, alpha as fuck stride, always walking around with a smile, beastly eye contact, you name it. The ONE thing I seem to prevent myself from is becoming a layman. I mean, i've gone through college barely talking to any of the chicks, never went/go out, all that shit, and for what reason? Not sure. I've struggled to keep my weight in check, and that has gnawed at me for as long as i can remember; luckily, i've come to realize that it's such an insignificant factor in my attractiveness that it doesn't bother me anymore (plus i lift and eat well all the time, so always dropping pounds). So it's time for me to just be a man and admit: I'm an AFC.

Granted, a conscious AFC and doing everything in my power to transition from AFC to PUA, but i finally realized that, as someone who is draw to logical thinking (ya know, the whole engineering thing), that it makes the most sense to read a fuck ton about PU to comfortable hit the field. Knowing who i am as a person, and having looks that other people could surely kill for, it's time for me to start doing what i deserve for myself: become a pro PUA!

I know this introduction was particularly long winded, but my intention is to be able to look back at this a year from now and see what i may have accomplished since. This community already seems amazing and very welcoming, and i am very excited to now be a part of it!

EDIT: Pic btw

My man,

you DEFINITELY don't want to read a ton of PUA stuff before you go in field.

No.

No.

NO.

I did the exact same mistake when I was starting out, and guess what happened?

My brain became oversaturated with all the info I read, and I was unable to take any ACTION.

A year later, I was in the SAME position that I was at when I just started out.

If you want to succeed in this area, follow this recipe:

1. Get some theory
2. PRACTICE in the real world with taking action 2x of the amount of the theory you took in.
3. Analyse how you did, and do it again, until the step that previously caused you problems is now easy.
4. Go to the next challenge.

Example:

Let's say your first step is to approach a girl, but you don't know what to say, and you have
some anxiety about starting a conversation. How do you go about it?

1. Get some theory or training on Approach Anxiety and on starting conversations.
Learn about how to overcome your AA, and learn some convo starters. For start, get 3 convo
starters that you like.

2. Go out and try it out. If you fail at doing it, go home, wake up next morning and go at it again.
Do it until you make couple of approaches.

3. Analyse what you did right, what you could change, and once approaching women becomes easy,
THEN and only then move on to the next step.

With this structure, you will get more success in a week than you will in a year of reading books
and hanging out on the forum.

Hope this helps,

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Welcome bro, nice intro, but yeah. Sounds like you're not in the field, so the theory is gonna be a waste of time till you're approaching 20 girls (at the start) a week - minimum

Meet wings. You need to be around action takers in my opinion.

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