Can Women be Pick-up Artists?

I’ve noticed that many guys think that women can’t be pick-up artists, or at least that we can’t call ourselves PUA because all we need to do is to tell guys we want sex and that’s it. It may come as a shocking fact BUT it certainly isn’t the case. Even the super hot sexy chicks don’t always manage to pick-up guys successfully, even when they are pretty much saying “I want to fuck you now!”

I am always surprised to hear guys make such statements because a lot of men want to pursue women, and not have women pursue them. For a lot of guys women that come on to them strongly or directly seem desperate, so they decide it’s best NOT to tap into that. Many guys also have problems with allowing women to pick them up because it’s not Alpha, they are not going to let the woman pick them up because after all “I am the man and I want to pursue her” so that is a lost game. Then again there are plenty of guys out there too that love letting women pursue them, and even find it sexy. So I am certainly not trying to put all men under one hat.

Amazingly enough, not all men are horny all the time. Not all guys want to get laid, want to be picked up, in the mood for flirt etc all the time. It is certainly less common that men are “victims” of too much attention from the opposite sex to the point they just get annoyed, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t happened to guys. [Read more...]

Reasons Why People Get and Stay “Stuck” – The Positive Payoff

Reasons Why People Get and Stay “Stuck” – The Positive Payoff

Why do people stay stuck in spite of a stated desire to change their behaviors to successful ones so they can make progress?  Here are a few reasons I have found when my clients keep getting stuck on the same sticking points.  These reasons apply not just to getting better in their ability to do well with women, but to all kinds of bad habits or unproductive behaviors and beliefs.  Here are a few reasons people stay stuck.

1) Perceived benefits or “payoffs” for not changing. This is when at a subconscious level a person perceives that they have more to gain by staying stuck doing the same behaviors that are ultimately unhealthy and destructive.

Potential “payoffs” include:

  • Getting attention by playing the victim.  They fear a loss of attention from friends, mentors and others will no longer be around to help them if they are not a victim and are successful at achieving their stated goal.  They do not believe that there is an alternative way to meet their emotional needs to be loved and to feel important.  This can actually include reinforcement from other guy friends and wingmen that are stuck.

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Think Big Picture

Learning the social arts exposes one to a seemingly endless barrage of concepts, techniques and paradigms.  There’s endless discussion on opening, building attraction, comfort, and seduction.  There’s openers, stacks, negs, push-pull, cocky/funny, pebbles, projections, kino, NLP, microloops, IOIs, IODs, shit tests, social proof, alpha behavior, bitch shields and LMR.  It’s easy to get lost in this and forget what all of this stuff is ultimately designed to do.  It’s easy to forget, in the simplest terms, what we’re learning to do: [Read more...]