Hi Forum !

Following the Forum's Recommended Introductory Information, I want to start by saying I'm from Portugal, and I'm 17.

I've been studying and practicing pickup recently, although I've read some David DeAngelo books in the past ( more accurately, past year 2010 ).

I don't have a preferred pickup method, I'm just looking for the one who works best ( and I hope Forum Users and PUA's can help me on that ) and gives me results.

My hobbies are playing videogames ( not often, so I don't know If I can call it a hobbie, nevertheless ... ), watching football ( AKA Soccer ), hanging out with my friends and playing football with them.

My goals are:
-Becoming more Social.
-Overcoming shyness and anxiety when talking to strange/unknown people, especially girls.
-Becoming more confident and always have something to talk about.
-Becoming funnier.

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There was a time in my life where I was distant from reality. I wanted to talk, have fun and spend quality time with my friends, both male and female ... And you know what? I had all of those. Life was treating me good. I had little to no responsibilities, and I was very relaxed and naive towards LIFE.

That was the time where, not noticing, I was getting all I wanted: Fun and girls. I was having fun with my friends, not caring for anything other than that and, in the process, I was beggining to get girls to like me.

In that time I knew nothing of Seduction methods, pick-up lines and whatever other things seduction-related. I was being MYSELF.

As years went by, reality started becoming a reality and I found myself becoming more and more ''boring''. I was beginning to mature. Not that maturing is a bad thing but, well, I found myself losing my best qualities. What I thought would be a quality to women in general, became my worst enemy, my nemesis if you might: The maturing process.

I was becoming more and more serious, down-to-Earth, and I was beginning to find that, what I once felt it was funny and spontaneous, were now child-like behaviours and stupid.

I was beginning to develop a certain fear to approach or be around women whereas, in the past, I had no such problems. I was beginning to think I was not worth to girls ... I was becoming ''Just another guy'' by the eyes of the female.

And this is what I am today. Just another loser to women's eyes. I want to overcome that fear, that image women get from me. I am willing to do whatever I have to do because I know the results I may get will be worth all the frustrations of the process of becoming a PUA.

I want to be the best I can possibly be.

Cheers,

From your friend PUAWannabe_TP.