Like everything else in pick up: Take what is useful to you and discard the rest. Your goal is to build a system which segues into your personality/identity and the environment in which you do your pick up, if any methods from MM do that then incorporate them.

It's because we've all seen the sad guys out in the club peacocking and obvious MM practitioners, running around asking about rings and goddesses and using opinion openers. And those guys get nowhere.
The reason it's considered crap is because it fails %90 of men who use it.

MM was the first PUA book I ever read about seven years ago. It was useful in a few ways. Moving around to different areas and date locations was the best part for me. I had sort of intuitively figured out doing more than one thing helped, but didn't know why. And I never considered that different parts of the same place could count. Testing attraction by getting her to move with you was good. So was getting her to step into your place first and then leaving. All of those things were great and I'm glad I read the book. It really helped me.

But notice that none of the stuff I mentioned is what MM is really about. It's mostly about the A1-3 C1-3 S1-3 phases, as well as DHVs, negs, and storytelling. None of that is useful. None of it.

In essence, I as a socially normal person who had been sleeping with women for five years, found MM, read it, picked out a few useful ideas and discarded %90 of it. MM was great for me, because I already knew how to deal with women. But MM does not teach a socially awkward man how to be attractive to women. Following MM makes you weird and usually creepy. Most people who gain success from MM are mostly gaining success from going out a lot more and talking to more women. They'd actually do better in the long run by just awkwardly hitting on girls and learning on their own.

In whatever ways MM helps, there are now better programs, with more upside and less downside. There is no reason to bother with MM anymore.

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