PUA works because it is based off of who we are as people. The PUA ways change the way you perceive the world, help you form an approach to life much like a game... the rules have never been clearly defined and that makes this one of the most enjoyable and rewarding games. In my opinion women are gods best creation, and how they could ever fall for the creatures of lesser beauty like you or i is beyond me, but i plan to make the most of their delusion. I live by one of the core beliefs of NLP: there is no failure, only experiences to learn from, and this has helped grow my potential by leaps and bounds. Through a steady diet of women, excellent conversation, great people, and the thrill of the hunt... not to mention the amazing feeling that you are completely in control of your world, i have become the man i want to be (well almost). So yes, it has made me happy.

PU made me very happy. It helped me get my first fc and a very nice relationship which ended not long ago. But more importantly it taught me not to care so much about sad and negative things and try to live my live positilvely. I would have been totally broken down after this break up a year ago. Now I could move on easily of course I was very upset... For few weeks. From others I hear they were total wrecks for half-one and a half year. I became more social, have lots of friends and people like me. I'm no longer the freak guy playing WoW all day and drinking till detoxication every friday(when there ain't a raid of course...). Now I still play WoW...an hour a day perhaps, I still drink on most fridays...till I'm feeling good. I live a more balanced life and that I coldn't have done without PU.

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What I like in life is nothing more but living it.

Saying PUA is relatively new is a pretty big falacy, the art of picking women up dates from the Garden of Eden. It's one of the oldest things on this earth.

Did PUA make me happy? It changed my entire life, not only women-wise. It has given me the confidence to make big changes in my life, and it has changed the way I view the world, and how the world views me. And all I needed was 40 pages of 'The Game - Strauss'.

to all you whos happiness has been influenced by PUA... NLP (neuro linguistic programming) will not only improve your game but it will improve all aspects of your life. There is a system created for NLP baed off the thirteen presuppositions and some of the best puas know what this is and teach similar ideas. These are beliefs to adopt that will influence your ability to communicate and be the person you want to be, and get the results you'd like to see. If it works for you then i'm glad to have helped with this bit of advice.
Thirteen presuppositions:
1.) you are always communicating.
2.) you communicate with more than words, in fact words take up only a small percentage of what you communicate. communication is both conscious and unconscious.
3.)the map is not the territory. how you see the world is different from how someone else sees the world, and no one is "right". they only have a different map for the same territory.
4.)the map becomes the territory. if you truly believe something to be true then it will either already be this way or your actions will begin to change it to fit your view. the exception in my opinion is that people sometimes believe drastically different things than what they think they believe/
5.)Maximum flexibility always leads to greatest impact. The more you are able to adapt to situations the greater you will be able to influence people. The more options you have, the better decisions you can make.
6.)the meaning of communication is the response that you get, in essence meaning is the interpretation of the person who has been communicated to.
7.)everyone has all the resources they need.
8.)every behavior has some sort of positive intention
9.)body and mind are interconnected. they should be treated as one.
10.)by modeling yourself and your mind after successful people, you will become successful.
11.)there is no failure, only feedback. only experiences to learn from.
12.)we are a series of systems. if you change one thing, other things will have to change as well to adapt.
13.)people work perfectly. you're not broken and you never were. maybe you've simply been mentally programmed in an ineffective way, but there was never any glitch or problem with that program, it works just fine. And its always being reprogrammed.

I can't say with pu id be necessarily a dead fish and my life would be not the same but it has tremendously helped me develop better social skills and confidence which is great. Honestly though i just really enjoy flirting with girls it makes me happy as fuck. Im not sure why but just the whole "game" itself if you can call it that is so fun, its not like ive been layed 100 times or even once but whatever im only 15 :p

Has sex with several girls a week made me happy....hmmmm.....YES!

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Even the most naturally gifted can learn to become better.

My main source of getting better with women was hanging out with guys who were better than me and taking note of what they were doing that seemed to be working, this actually got me a good amount of success and then PU material was just hearing from guys who were insanely good (because they do it for a living) what they thought worked and did'nt work

Different things work for different people in different, PU material is definatly a good resource but not a guarantee, in fact there are guys who have never read a day of this stuff in their lives that get layed like rock stars

For me it watching seminars definatly has improved my success, but you must get out in the real world to learn because some of the principles and ideas that some of the pick up gurus are certain will work for anyone I disagree with 100% yet we both go our seperate ways and attain success using conflicting ideas

Before I started looking up PUA skills I had some experience myself and I noticed some of my actions came back in the tips I've read in different forums.

But since I've keep studying more and more to expand my PUA skills, I noticed how great a PUA lifestyle is, a PUA is confident, fun guy to hang with and knows what he's dooing. I can't think of any other lifestyle which would be better than a PUA.

Sometimes I even smile and compliment myself which is a good thing to do at some times.

As far as learning goes, hanging out with and observing guys who get results is probably the best form of experience you can get.

No. I've had enough distance that I realize that PUA has fed my fear, insecurity, and resentment of women by offering to give me "power" over them. Yes, I have had more hook ups in 2 years since starting than ten years before finding this place. This community gave me hope when I thought I'd never have sex again. But now when I look back, I realize every girl I had a relationship with and every girl I hooked up with I never really got close to and I never appreciated. The more successful I get at pick up, the more I see women as objects of amusement, not equal humans. Maybe my past has a lot to do with it, but pick up definitely fed the fire.

I went from one end of the spectrum, exalting women and being really needy, to the other, devaluing women and not appreciating them. Maybe I needed this experience to get back to the ideal middle balance, but now I look back and I have a lot of regret about some of the girls I never really gave a chance that could have been really good for me and I am sorry for the many I ultimately mistreated to gorge myself.

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31 and still figuring it out.