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i USED TO JUST GO WITH THE FLOW AND WOULD GET LAID!
That's called being a "natural," and it is what inner game is mostly directed towards achieving. When the pick-up community first came out, routines were mechanical and process-oriented, not to mention geared towards picking up girls in bars & night clubs, where women act much differently than other places. In a sense, guys learned how to act like, or to fake, being an alpha male.
As the game evolved, the focus became more inner-directed, and the males were still learning techniques but the end result was that the guys actually learned to become alpha males, that is they were building a more perfect version of themselves from which their behavior and personality flowed naturally.
You should probably ditch the routines and go back to developing and strengthening your natural game. Personally, I never neg a girl unless she has put up a bitch shield or is CBing me from a target. I have no problem at all giving girls compliments, and I don't care what other PUAs say. I don't compliment every one, but if it comes up I'll certainly say it and if it doesn't mean the girl automatically decides she's won the battle.