Hobbit - Thanks for this. That's exactly one of the key points I'm getting at. In my little group of PUAs that's our key philosophy. To push boundaries to the maximum possible extent. Hypnotica & Steve P have some great stuff on this, like sarging with a dildo strapped to your head, or sarging whilst picking your nose (haha). You put it very well though, better than me.
I recall almost a year ago, a PUA called Goldylocks and I would day game literally every day, non-stop, and we had to try and f-close shop assistants in the changing rooms!! The rules were you couldn't leave set until you've got a 'yes' or a 'no'. We got some very interesting responses.
The great thing about being rejected in many different ways and styles is that you know, when it matters, how quickly and how well you can succeed. It builds your map of calibration, you know how far you can take things, how direct you can be etc. Certainly it's a lot more far and direct than I ever envisaged. When I started out, I expected to get a lot more slaps and swear words than I have got all in all!
Sexcellent - cheers, and great points. What you said has happened to me in the past. Maybe 8-10 months ago I was going through a stage where I thought I was at a level where I could relax in set a bit, and I was getting sloppy, missing out key stages. If you work with M3, I was skipping comfort out of pure laziness. This had its negative impacts. Style & Mystery talk about this in the Annihilation method - it's easy to 'relapse' into an old, 'unresourceful' state (as the NLP fans might say). Even last week I saw a Polish HB8 on the way to work. Came back at lunch, and asked her out right off the bat. I didn't know her name or anything about her. It was GM style without the sexual explicitness. But this was pure lazy. I got her number (after reversing a number of shit tests - initially she pretended she had a bf, but we've been through all that many times) and set up a day 2, but due to my laziness she flaked. This means I'll have to go back again and play solid game before I can go out with her. Long :p.
Vicfish - I wonder if you would love it if you saw the bottom half; I'm wearing a straw skirt (it was a party I organised, and I made the theme 'beach'; see my logic
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