Hello, all. I am procrastinating on the last bit of a paper I have, so expect a long, annoying introduction... How I found out about it, whom I am, and why you should care (you shouldn't, really).
I am completely new to this community. Up until Saturday morning, I was completely and utterly unacquainted with any of these ideas, had never encountered this 'PUA' mentality (at least, not named and on a widespread basis), had never run into these 'PUA Bootcamps,' or even heard anyone talk about them. The only reason I ever encountered any of it was because, upon getting the idea to create a 'How to Get Laid' seminar to make some cash, I elicited the response from one person, 'Oh, you mean like Mystery?'
I had no idea who this Mystery person was. Hell, I don't even own a television. So that's how I got here.
Of course, who am I to create that sort of a 'bootcamp?' Well, over the last three years, my life has explicitly and exclusively been relegated to three departments: Education and Career, and getting laid. Oddly enough, all three of these things necessitate motivation, perseverance, and the willingness to completely and utterly make a fool of yourself, over and over again. This is probably why I am good at all of them.
So, I have had my fair share of 'the game' as I guess it's called here. If anything, hell, I've petered off in the last year and a half, after hitting a point that really required me to stop and question myself (the standard questions, of course; is what I'm doing unethical, wrong, usury? Should I regret it?). As I said, until Saturday morning, I had never encountered any of the lingo, the widespread mindset, or the community. Now, having spent quite literally the majority of this weekend reading massive amounts of material and watching as many relevant Youtube videos as I could find instead of studying or doing ANY homework, I'm pretty well acquainted with it. Not only am I impressed, but I am glad I encountered this material.
None of it's actually original (not knocking here, finish reading this paragraph), but it goes alot of the way towards Joshua Tree Syndrome. This is where, once you have given a name to a set of affectations of something, you not only recognize it more clearly, but can analyze, emulate, or recreate it, too. So this is what I see here.
There's nothing really new in the concept of HLV, 7 hour rule, Cat String Theory, BHRR, IOIs, Naturals, Hired Guns... But holy shit, now that I have seen something that not only named all of these values, but also hashed them out, put them in nice neat little pidgeon holes, I am absolutely incredulous--and very much impressed. What this community has accomplished, mostly the core members, the mPUAs, but everyone together has had a hand, is not just a way to get laid. It's got alot more meaning than that. This shit's some real light on human nature, in ways that I haven't seen in 99% of all the academic material I've been through in the course of my education.
What I'm saying, gentlemen, is that you group of horny bastards has accomplished in a few years with the internet what most 50 year old psychologists take quartermillion dollar educations and 10 years of doctoral thesis work to accomplish.
How many videos with SOLID founding on body language have I seen, from people who only learned it from doing it right and doing it wrong? How many 'lectures' have I seen videorecordings of from Mystery where he discusses human dynamics in an offhanded, easy way, that he discerned in the last few years of macking? No, there's nothing really new here... And yeah, to an extent, I had already learned 95% of what I can find here by simply making a jackass of myself repeatedly, but I hope you guys understand how much of a resource you have through people like Mystery, AFC Adam Lyons, Style, and countless others. They take you through corners that would otherwise take years, countless tens of thousands of hours wasted, to discover on your own.
Now, I do have one more thing before I quit procrastinating and go do something remotely responsible... I mentioned the term 'Natural' a couple paragraphs ago. Indeed, I seem to fit the criteria; hell, I was planning on setting my own little school up (not on your guys' scale though) and probably still will. But I think that term is misleading, a misrepresentation, and altogether almost insulting. On PUALingo, this is defined as being, and I quote,
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A guy who is naturally good with women.
This is fucking bunk. This shit actually pissed me off. There's no such thing as a Natural... Every single 'Natural' you will ever meet who isn't blessed with ridiculous good looks spent far more time and energy being embarrassed, out of place, unsuccessful, and overall rejected than anyone who actually found these programs/systems and went out to exploit them. What 'a natural' really implies is that each of those people had to discover it the hard way, by trial and error, but on their own. Others may have gone through trial and error, but on a far lesser scale, and not even necessarily at less monetary expense. One of those 'bootcamps' isn't necessarily more expensive than countless mistakes of buying gifts, flowers, drinks, dinners, whatever, before you realize that you're doing it wrong.
So no, I'm not 'a Natural', and the fact is that the only people who are even remotely 'naturally good with women' are the ones who are so ridiculously good looking that every time they trip, a woman lands on their dick. Even then, that wears of in their early twenties when good looks quit getting most men anywhere.
So, I'm going to use the term 'Self Taught.' I am Self Taught, gentlemen, and I am glad to have the pleasure of being among people such as yourself... Assuming I decide to regularly waste time on these forums, haha.
Oh yeah, and you shouldn't care. See? Told you so. You just wasted 10 minutes you're never getting back.
CHAT