If I want to game girls, I need to spend a lot of time thinking about how to do it, and I also need to actually do it, and I need to go out often, cumulatively, it will cost me a lot of time and money. It will distract me from work(I'm self-employed) and study, but work and study is important to me. Please advise.

Mentally masturbating about it before even taking the first step.... I see a bright future for you !

Nothing of value in life comes easy bro.

I am self employed, I study, and both are important. I go out once or twice a week, and when I do open NON STOP, the hardest part is probably opening, once you've dominated that in time when you maintain many conversations you will see what works / doesn't.

Another big time consumer is not just the going out but the reading and viewing of material, try to find either the tips / tricks that work, and forget reading whole books, pdfs, and videos that are 10 hours long. In field is where you will learn most.

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Don't do it. It sounds like it's a good thing to do, but it's not.

All relations I've ever had with women have brought disaster into my life. I've started humming the Mission Impossible theme song when I see a woman. I've begun doing squats to make sure my ass looks good in fitted pants. My dog started hating me for bringing girls home more and more often. He even demaded I start paying his portion of the water bill. My mother is mad at me for not wearing the sweaters she's been getting me every Christmas. All of my old friends' eyes have filled with envy and concern for me not catching an std. Every time I leave my house to take out the trash my neighbors think I'm moving. My bed is bent with a choir of female screams. Every time I wake up next to a woman I can easily guess what shampoo she uses. My back has scars that would make Jesus afraid. I keep having to delete female names from my phone in order to follow the technological maximum capacity flaw. I started writing poetry to later remind myself of the emotions I've experienced with each girl during sex- you can buy my new 6th book on Amazon. I almost drowned while having sex in a girl's sister's kiddie pool. Last time I went sky diving I saw a big clitoris which turned out to be a mountain. Club owners have started to pay me to bring women to their clubs. A bouncer once asked me to take a picture with him. I pay tips with origami heart dollars with my phone numbers on them. My professor has asked me to teach him how to talk to women.
But I'm also an owner and creative director of an advertising agency while attending school, so stop whining.

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There is no such thing as "gaming" women. You cant decode a women or beat her. Don't believe this "gaming" bullshit..

That being said (this is hard for me to explain) you can learn an awful lot about interacting with strangers and life development from the gaming scene so read up if you can. You don't need to go out all the time or make 2000 approaches a week to become good with women but you do need to go out regularly to practice social skills; just like any other skill. I used to only go out about 2 times a week but because I have started to get on top of my work life im increasing that to 3/4. That's not just to meet women, its also because I enjoy interacting with different types of people. You need to see this as a way to create more relationships, friendships and situations to fuck; not as the best way to live. It just adds more fun to your life, it shouldn't be your life but a part of it.

My advice would be to concentrate the majority of your energy on studying and work. If you can go out and enjoy meeting people at the same time do so. Don't use work and study as an excuses to not go out and meet women but also don't use going out as a way to avoid work and study!

Hope that helps, have fun bud

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I'm in the same boat. You need to manage your time. And when you tell girls that you need to be quick you'll really mean it.

How long have you been practicing your skills with women ?