What's your story?

[Chris]

Hey guys! I decided to make a thread about how you got into pick-up. Was it a certain girl, frustration, what? Here's my weird story:
Back in 9th grade, i was very shy around girls. I would hear how their boyfriends would piss them off or whatever and think to myself "they should give me a chance. I would treat them so well!" I know i was a total chode lol. So one day I was watching TV and I saw an "ask Jeeve's" commercial. It was about some weird sascwatch dude who typed into the search engine "how to talk to girls." So i thought, what the hell, why haven't i thought of that yet!?
So that's what i did, but i found nothing but stupid shit like: "be intersting and funny." I just kinda thought "oh thanks a lot jack ass that helped a lot!" And it continued that way until the summer of 2007. I came across David Deangelo's and Swinggcat's newsletters and figured these guys actually know what the hell they are talking about.
I would read these newsletters all the time, but really, how much education can a guy get on just newsletters? So one day i had the brilliant idea of searching for David D.s stuff on limewire and it worked! Thats when i started changing.
So in April, i started getting ebooks, seminars, and really working on experience and ever since then, things have been improving every day.

So whats your story? I know, i know mine was pretty long but whatever. Im curious to know what happened to you guys!

[Grape]

Very interesting lol.

Well, here's my story.
All the way up from 4th (When I moved schools) to 8th grade: insecure nerd.
Then, in 9th grade, I started a modern hardcore band with 4 of the most popular, attractive dudes in school.
Most of them were naturals, and we had one douche bag, but we trained him well so he's cool now.
I did get some action with the chicks and social circles. I was just like any other 9th grade boy, slowly and gradually learning what I should do and what I shouldn't do.
However, I craved to be on the top of the food chain, if not, I was frustrated and embarassed at myself. I was a perfectionist. I was socially an introvert. Kept to myself unless someone had something funny to say, and NEVER led the way.
People knew this. Some were mean enough to set me up and framed me for a drug deal gone bad in school.
Thus I moved to a different school.
I started over. I changed.
2nd semester started now and I didn't know anyone besides a few friends I met by chance.
I was still shy and just a shadow among the hundreds of students of my school.
One day, bored and looking through my music downloads, I goto my "joke song file" and find a folder entitled "The Game."
I say to myself: Hahah!! Rap sucks soo bad!! Let's hear this.
So I listened to the book. And I listened more and more.
2 hours later, I was addicted to this shit and listened to it while doing HW, walking home. running errands.
I finished it.
I quickly downloaded dozens of audio courses and audio books.
2 months later.
I looked up Mystery on Youtube, lo-and-behold there he was. Amazing.
I searched PUA on google and joined the community.
I met some great people on the forums who helped me get started and gave me several e-books.
I wanted to become someone big in the community, I just wanted to help people the same way these people helped me.
So here I am, talking to you all, switching tips, and leading what I now believe is a successful life.

[SamethP]

well....
Ive never been that good with meeting new people, let alone girls...
i looked up to the naturals who still treat the girls like dirt and wondered why the girls went back to them....
id often rely heavily on online methods of meeting people and making friends... which of course... made the meet up in real life hell awkward =.='
after discovering that i could use some 'online charisma' to make a girl fall for me without actually meeting opened doors to, you know, obtaining nudey pics without any effort xD
my real friends started referring to me as a cyber pimp and yea, i didnt like that...
anyways, my personality included a heavy case of 'nice guy syndrome' which 80% of the time put me in the just friends zone with a girl i actually liked.
i was seen as a bit of a nerd by AMOGs due to the fact that im in all the smart classes and being in the top 8% of the grade for most things....
me and my best friend started cwalking (clown walking - au.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvlWrreTTk - yes that is me, feel free to subscribe ) and we performed in our school talent quest, and winning it, giving us a name and reputation around the skool...
i was part of multiple cwalking forums and not too long ago i was suffering a case of one-itis and just happened to be perusing the "Relationships & advice" section in one forum,
i posted my problem and a guy recommeded the book "the game" which we all know was written by neil strauss (lol)
anyways, i downloaded it, read about a third (so far) fell in love with the ideas and methods used to talk to women, act and feel more confident and be very charismatic
and here i am basically lol

a bit long winded, but hey, thats how it happened lol

[Andrew]

Yo by the way that cwalking thing is fucking insane.

So anyway ive always loved people and what made them work and i guess what would mae them open up to strangers. Ive always loved talking to like waitresses and starbucks clerks and jsut people in general but i was never really been that successful with girls or that popular in school.

It used to be my only strong suit with women was im hilarious xD

So anyway a friend of mine whose kind of a computer nerd found some people talking about neil strauss' The Game on 4chan (some of you may know it) and brought it up to me.

I ate that shit up. It was like i figured out why everything made sense; seeing the matrix xD. I checked out the forum that was in the book and downloaded some other ebooks. and thats where we are today

[Luc]

Back in 6th grade i was the typical shy nerdy fat kid that couldn't talk to girls at all. I remember one day a really hot one said hi and i choked up. Finally the next summer i hit puberty. I grew and lost the gut and i decided to let my hair grow out. Somehow that gave me a boost of confidence and i thought i was the ultimate AMOG. Then as the years past I felt like i was losing it. I didn't know what happened, i didn't have trouble talking to them, but none of them would ever give me a chance at anything more. I saw "The Pickup Artist" on mtv during that time and really loved the show, but i never knew there was more. Then my friend who had been in the community for a while sent me "The Game" - just like everyone else in the thread- i really took to it. I haven't even finished the book and i feel like i have already grown.

[nine]

Honestly? I was on myspace and an add popped up for The Game and if was like this little bar video game, so I played it. I wikipedia'd the book then got it off Bearshare and I've been gaming since then, about six months.

Nine

[enigma]

This year before Spring Break I decided that I wanted to actually get some on the cruise I was going on. One day I was talking to one of the guys i met on the last cruise i went on, and he told me to read the first 40 pages of The Game and see if it helps at all. Well after that I got into other books, and it was a little to early to help me out on the cruise but I've been improving every day since.

[Rusty]

I was a natural. Then I moved countries and schools and that changed very quickly. After a year of being alone and pathetic, I went to Borders and looked through self-help. There had to be something I could do about this. Found 'The Rules To The Game'. Found the community. And now my life's back in control and I'm a lot happier.

I love Neil and Mystery haha. Their indirect game isn't my thing and I never want to do it, but they saved me from wasting my life trying to look for approval. I would probably be smoking weed or something right now if it wasn't for them (I was THAT desperate. I know... WTF KING! WTF WHAT YOU THINKING!).

[soccakeepa1]

throught my school career...i have looked at the popular girls and thought that i could be with them...but i couldnt have been more wrong. I was a chubby short kid who had not even touched puberty. But now, because im much more mature... i catch some girls that were cute paying more attention to me, but i still had the stupid habit of saying completly stupid stuff.

Recently, this past summer, i met a girl who i didnt totally drive away and there was instant chemistry. We started to date, but because we lived in different towns...i had to try my hardest and i had to put myself so far out just to make it easier on me and her, but we ended up not together...after a good month of recovery i had a acute case of oneitis.

As school started, my friend turned me on to game. I was interested with how he carried himself, how he was totally not shy even in front of girls that we didnt even know. He told me about game and this site

Im not here just to cure my onitis...but to get some game and be more successful with women

[Andrew]

yo neuby your actually more of a natural than you think.

[SamethP]

soccerkeepa...
im a keeper in soccer as well haha

[Johnny Bravo]

My story isnt that amazing.


My Friend I met online, who lives in New York told me one day, about how in 8th grade he fucked his guidance counsueller.

I was amazed. I asked him how he did it and he told me. "There are three steps, A1, A2, A3, a1 you get the basics down, tell her your name, A2, you build attraction, A3, you show her you like her."

After a month I said that shit didn't work, blah blah. He sent me an E-Book, and I read. and Read, and Read. Went to demonoid.com and typed in Mystery. Now, I have over 40 gigs of pick up information.



Sadly, that collection died. When my computer reset itself one day. Fucking y2k.

Gay.

[Paetar]

It's really nice to see how everyone here got started. So, here's my story.

It was the end of eighth grade. Last day. I wanted to get girls desperately. A year ago I've moved to Croatia from Prague, where I'd been totally insecure and shy and introverted.

So that evening before our party I've typed in google "How to get girls" and a site named BecomeAPlayer.com popped up. I've read few tips and my mind blew up. I remember printing it out and reading it in a bus on my way to Prague.

As soon as I got back I was reading so much of it. Also started going out. But I was so deeply insecure that I screwed so much up. By my first grade I was still insecure, partly because I was non-stop teased about something (or at least so I thought). I was a six. And a "keyboard jockey."

In my second grade, first half of it I was seven. I thought I was pretty cool but actually felt so much unworthiness and self-loathing inside.

By the end of the second grade, I had become an eight. I have listened to the PickupPodcast's episode on value and tried to do something about it.

At the end of summer break, I was spending time with my 19-years old cousin. And she really "showed me to the earth" again; and I've realized that every man is equal.

Now, I'm not a ten. Surely not. But I'm trying so hard. I'd say I'm nine, although I slip to being eight or even seven at times. Guess I'm trying to accommodate my personality to results I'm getting. Trying to really be 10, no matter what.

[rexxar]

You guys really touched my heart T_T

anyway so here is mine

Like most of us i was the kid who never got girls. Skinny black kid (I'm Indian) was what i was called. I had some seriosus self esteem issues in grade 6&7. Thing is i remember this one day my whole class had a field trip except for me and one of the most popular chicks in our year. I wasn't even trying that day, we just spent the whole day ( 8 hours) talking cause no1 we knew was around. I didn't really have an feelings for her but over the next couple of days i could see her change... When i think back they were definite IoIs. Waiting for me to go to class with her, having lunch with me etc. Fuck i kinda wish i could go back and slap myself for not realizing before it was too late.

anyway I had no idea about PUA till about 1 year ago when this guy whos my friends brother moved here. He was a high school drop out and dressed in the most stupid clothes but he got chicks... THEN i found out about PUA. I still had doubts about this stuff so i just brushed it off until i downloaded an E-book about being an alpha male and this shit appealed to me. This was not based to women but made so that women would want you and i'm still a believer but you definitely need other methods for conversations and stuff. This has changed me for the better but still gonna take some time.

Well, here we go, life's waiting to begin.

[SenorBubbz]

Most people here looked for it. For me, I was chilling in a house Jon Stewart had rented for me for a week (no joke) and I saw it on TV.

That was last year. I got into it for a month then it died in me. Now I'm back in and better than before.

=D