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here2play- Were you agreeing with me? I said get as good as you can, but some guys(not all) need to realize their limit. You don't want to look back and realized you spent countless hours studying pickup and going out to practice when you weren't getting better in the first place. Imagine the other things you could of done with that time.
I agree that everyone has an upper limit in everything they do but I disagree strongly that people should listen to anyone else tell them what their limit is. I also disagree strongly that people can't get better.
One of the things that all of the great people in the world have had in common is they all have had numerous people tell them that they can't accomplish greatness and that they should devote more of their time and energy into pursuing mediocrity and the mundane.
Since people like tossing Michael Jordan's name around, I am willing to bet good money that someone of significance in MJ's life told him to come in out of the rain and quit practicing jump shots for hours on end because he was wasting his time and that he should spend that time doing something else so he could land a job selling screwdrivers in a hardware store.
Someone told Mariah Carey to shut the fuck up with that high pitched squeeky voice.
Someone told Bill Gates to get away from the computer and get a life and quit being such a geek.
Someone told Warren Buffet to stay away from the stock market and to put his money in the bank.
Someone told Tom Cruise that he couldn't make it in Hollywood because he was too short to be a movie star.
Someone told Barrack Obama he'd never make it in politics because he was black.
For those of you who do not know who Captain Al Haines is. He is the pilot that saved 186 people from certain death by flying an unflyable airliner over 75 miles with no flight controls and no hydraulics and hitting the runway in Sioux City Iowa in 1989. Nobody has ever been able to duplicate his actions or keep a plane aloft in a simulator ever since. Somebody at some point told him he was spending too much time practicing emergency procedures and spending too much simulator time.
All of these people have had other people tell them to accept their limits and tell them that they should be spending their time and energy doing other things. They have all been told that it is OTHER people that have the genetic gifts and talents and that should accept their fate and not strive to improve themselves.
PUA is the same way. Yes we all have an upper limit. BUT we don't know what our upper limit is and we sure as fuck should not let SOMEONE ELSE try to impose a limit on us.