My System for Improving your PUA & Dating Life

by Sam Ben-David on January 11, 2010 · 12 comments

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Heeeyyyyy Fan’s :)

As someone who was once a strict and religious PUA, i can tell you that i know exactly what you go through when you get into this. You read The Game, you tried some stuff out, you joined some forums, found some like minded people and then….you got to a stage where you you kept reading and reading every day new techniques by top MPUA’s and coaches out there. This PUA world has millions AND MILLIONS of tips techniques and tricks to get the women you want. It also has alot of fake guy’s who are in it for the money and post up fake video’s and try and sell you their e-book’s using lines like…..

‘Look, I’ve picked up over 3,632 women’ …….and ….’get a womens phone number in 60 seconds’ and…………. ‘My dating formula can work for ANY guy regardless of his looks, age, or income” ( Taken from Paul Janka’s web page on September, 2009).

There is also the type who are good but are in it for the money, this would be people like Mystery, Love System’s and any company teaching Structured Game and Routines. Why do i think they are in it for the money? 1 reason…They dont care about you…They teach you to become a good Actor with women by telling you to use prescripted material and do things that give the perception of something real but are not… AND…They charge amounts such as $3000 for a bootcamp per person. Another reason is that they exploit the need for men to reproduce by teaching them something that is DESIGNED TO WORK but will not help them in the long run as a person. Here is something i wrote on the PUA Aristocracy Discussion Board recently:

“PUA techniques, for example one’s made by Mystery…. are designed TO WORK. They are designed to get results. They may involve doing things that are not real and considered fake. But they get results. Which is why the PUA world has become more about business than real success. If you can guarantee someone a 99% certainty that something will work, you will pay the money for it.

What makes the business PUA world even worse is that we are designed to have the need to reproduce….meaning that if our life does not have this need fulfilled….then we will pay shit loads of money to get it. We pay alot for what we need.

So the combination of the need to reproduce and the finding’s of flaw’s in people’s mental behaviour are the reason’s why PUA is more a business.

I always get e-mail’s and hear of guys who are in debt by 1000′s because they have wasted their money on bootcamps and 1 to 1′s. There is actually a PUA coach out there by the name of Ace who charges $10,000 for 3 hour’s of his time.”

This is just a few reason’s why i believe the PUA and Dating industry to be corrupt, another reason is that….when you are out on a bootcamp or 1 to 1, the trainer’s will make it so that you will have incredible success on that night by hiring girl’s to come out with you or getting you a vip table in a club with loads of drinks.. HOWEVER….when you go back home and start your day the next day, nothing has really changed, you may even be back to where you were before. Its not because you dont have the girl’s or vip table, its because most coaches do not know how to enact lasting change in someones brain. They try and change a person by exposing them to new (fake) experiences. But this is WRONG because their success, self belief and view’s of the world will be dependent on the outside world when it should be dependent on their internal world. Its wrong because as soon as they have bad experiences they will start to get negative beliefs again and be back to where they were when they started. Lasting change is done by reshaping someones beliefs and how they view the world by changing how they THINK, not by what they do. You change how they think and THAT will change what they do.

Basically…the PUA and Dating world is fucked up. Last summer i thought,  how could i help it? How could i save it? Simple….delete everything i have ever read about PUA out of my brain and out of my life and then go out and find out for myself what works and what doesnt. I unsubscribed from newsletters, forums and anything related to PUA and i started my own blog and began writing away. So now i want to write everything(well nearly!!) in one article and hopefully give you the most complete ideology you will ever need to improve with women. Here it goes :)

MY SYSTEM TO IMPROVE WITH WOMEN

I want everyone to bare in mind that before all this, before all my PUA year’s…i was already successful and good with women.

So, what is the best way to be successful with women? Over the last 6 month’s i believe i have discovered that.  My system relies on Pillar’s and Principles. Also I wanted to create something which was not specific or rigid, but General, in other word’s my system is about ‘chunking up’ to the most most basic ideas. I didnt want to create structures, i wanted people to read it and be creative. I wanted people to give the most general concepts possible that all regular PUA system’s fall under.

First of all the Principles….

Principle Number 1 – Generate Positive Emotion’s

Why this Principle? Well what does every single routine and attraction switch have in common? It makes the girl feel positive in some way, shape or form. THATS IT. Being funny makes her feel positive, being confident makes her feel positive, being higher value makes her feel positive. Nothing is done to make her feel negative, hell the backbone of Speed Seduction is to tap into her unconscious mind to get her to feel positive emotions and state’s. Women and people are attracted to Positive Emotions, anything that makes us Feel Good, we will always want. We want money because we think money leads to happiness. Girl’s want guy’s with women BECAUSE MONEY = HAPPINESS. So simply put…..generate positive emotions in a girl and she will be attracted to you.

Principle Number 2 – Get more Experience

When most guy’s enter the community they usually have one thing in common…..LACK OF EXPERIENCE. Guy’s can be bad with women because of a bad of experience they had with women which now holds them back, they now have a lack experience because they have low confidence with women, and they have low confidence with women because of the bad experience that held them back from more experience (hope that made sense) As i outlined here, guy’s who get into this are battling against the year’s they lost by not sorting this part of their life out. And one of the worst things they do when they finally get the courage to talk to women in clubs because they discovered PUA techniques is….meet 10-20 girls a night AND only approach good looking ones. Read the article for more info, every natural has 1 thing in common, they have more experience. So meeting 10-20 a night is pointless, as i said in the article you can meet hundreds a night. Also the reason why its bad to approach good looking girls (10′s) is that their inner psychology is different to most other girls so trying to talk to them will be pointless because they wont talk for long and they wont talk much so you wont improve by talking to them because they wont respond normally (this is not the same for every girl, just the average). So….get more experience, you need it.

Principle Number 3 – Discover how you learn

The most important thing to know when doing a new task, subject, degree or anything is to know how you yourself learn best. Funnily enough they do not teach this in the educational system, probably because teachers would become obsolete if people could learn for themselves. We all learn in different way’s, the naughty kid in the class isn’t really naughty, he is just bored because the teacher is not teaching the way he would like. Some of us work best by reading, some by listening, some by doing, everybody is different. You have to figure out how you learn best or everything i am saying will be pointless. With this type of thing though….you have to do more doing than anything else.

Right…now for the Pillar’s, the Pillar’s are simply skill’s you need to improve to do well with women and people in general.

Skill Pillar 1 – The ability to approach any women you desire.

Right, why is this important? Firstly, the average guy who gets into this has alot of problem’s internally inside his mind including negative beliefs, anxieties and phobia’s that stop him from approaching women. The hardest thing for most guys who are not in the community and are average guys in general is actually making the approach, its mad!! Also…look at what i wrote…..the ability to approach any women YOU DESIRE. You see so many guy’s out there who can approach a girl here and a girl there, but as soon as they see one they really like, they may not or get nervous doing so. We as people are always anxious of going for what we truly want. We dont want to chance our big dream and fail. To take wherever you go the ability to approach something you desire whenever you want is POWERFUL. To develop your brain to go for what you really want will also transcend into other area’s of your life, you will have the neurological resources to be able to go for anything you truly want.

Skill Pillar 2 – The ability to communicate with the women in front of you.

Ok get comfy for this one :)

Every single PUA routine, tip or trick all do one thing………….It communicates something to the girl. Whether you turn to the side when you approach or touch her or pause when you speak or ask her whether she likes pigeon’s, it all fall’s under communication. That’s what all this is, communication skills. But it goes deeper, its not just you communicating something to her, its making sure you know what she is trying to communicate to you. If you get last minute resistance when you try and kiss her or shag her, its because you failed to see that its not what she wanted OR you failed to show her its what you wanted therefore meaning she wouldn’t show you she didn’t want it because she didn’t know its what you wanted (hope you got all that). Communication is everything, you have to listen to what the girl in front of you is saying and respond effectively. But its also more, you have to also make sure that when you approach and begin to communicate that you are moving towards your goal with her. It doesn’t matter whether your goal is to be friends with her or shag her or marry her or to talk as long as possible because you want to improve communicating, you have to make sure what you are doing moves towards it. Remember that communicating is down to your Body, your tonality and your words. As most people know though…what you do with your body and your tonality accouts for around 90% of the whole interaction. Practising communicating is the more important skill here, you can approach all day long but if you cant communicate well then you have no chance. Conversations are a value exchange and you have to make sure you give value and also receive. I see too many people in the world who cant have a proper conversation; they wait for their chance to talk, they respond to what someone has said using “I” all the time in their sentence’s (example can be found here), they do not interact enough as in they do not connect and try and share the experience that the person is trying to convey. AND they cant even free associate topics and words being said or use wordplay, simile’s or sexual innuendo’s.

Now….again look at what i wrote above….the ablilty to communicate with the women IN FRONT OF YOU. The reason why i said this is simple, it is a FACT, thats right a FACT that every single person living or dead is different in some way, even twins. Why? Because every person goes through different experiences in their life and their experiences will shape who they are (Unless you are a SuperHuman) As i outlined in my most famous article, every single person is different, which means that to use a routine or have a social belief is actually stupid and illogical. The worst is when guy’s dont approach women because they had a bad experience in the past. Unfortunately we relate the present to the past, we relate what we have experienced to what we are currently about to tackle. With people, nothing is certain, there are too many variable factor’s when dealing with people that cant be accounted for. All you should do is deal with them when they happen. I say time and time again to never ever eeeeevvverrrr read books on PUA and dating because every thing you read is based on the experiences of the person who wrote it. Any technique presupposes a definite result, which is obviously impossible basing on what i just said. Its second hand knowledge, plus the person could live in a different country, city or planet (i’m pretty sure Mystery is from Mars). Every community is different, for example in some European countries there is a different ‘Personal Space‘ mark, so when guy’s from Italy and Spain go to the UK and chat up women they may be mistaken for being pervy or only after one thing, when they may not be.

The only thing that is real in this world is what you see in front of you, only believe that. Don’t believe what a guy told you to do on some forum, don’t believe what mystery says on his TV show. Believe your own experiences. Your perception decides what is real. There is no right or wrong, its only whats right or wrong TO YOU.

There is so much more i could talk about, each Pillar and Principle could have an article each (funnily enough most of them do…make sure you click on the ones i linked in). All i really want from anyone reading this to realise is that, to be successful with not just women but anything….you have to do something you are not currently doing. The classic saying do what you have always done and you will get what you have always got is so so true. The unconscious mind likes ‘status quo’ it likes routine and keeping things how they are, it uses more energy to deal with change. But if who you are now is not who you want to be….then you have to block your unconscious mind out. You have to go out and do something new, see what happens. Something which i pride myself in having the ability to do is being able to try anything new. I get excited at trying something new. As soon as you all realise that you can change yourself to be anything you want to be if you change what you are doing and thinking….then and only then will you be successful.

Impossible is fucking Nothing :)

Thanks to anyone who has read this, if you would like to contact me about anything feel free to at sam@howtochangelifenow.com.

Take care.

Sam Ben-David
www.howtochangelifenow.com

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1 Bart January 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM

Good article. I think Principal # 1 (Generate Positive Emotions) can be considered the primary key to success. Do that with everyone. First and foremost. To do so is to essentially give value to people.

2 Sanjay Larsen January 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM

Cheers Sam, as always great article mate :)

Some of it, I’m confused though. Are you just saying that in order to improve your skills, (approach whom you desire and communicate with women) you have to just generate good emotions and get more experience? But what if i desire a 10 girl who as you said, may behave differently to other girls? What would i do then? Approach girls i’m less attracted to so i can build up my experiences?

And i agree with your idea about generating positive emotion, i have a question though. I always make female friends feel as good as possible but that hasn’t got me much anywhere near them relationship wise. How would you resolve that?

Also in terms of communication with women are you saying that the only real thing is whats in front of you? i.e. to get better with woman i have to communicate with woman as much as possible and convey my interest?

Isn’t that what everyone is already doing (be it pua or not) with variable success rates?

I agree that there are lot of negative externalities regarding puas and their teaching methods, isn’t it useful as an aid to develop guy’s confidence and hence ability to convey themselves with women though?

Also some people find, that skills such as communicating with and approach women are highly sought after but they say that they simply cant suddenly do this without any aids (methodology, an ability, a training tool to help them get started). Its like asking a child to ride a mountain bike. first you get training wheels then a normal bike then a mountain bike. Or is this where the part about experience comes in?

Don’t get me wrong, i love you man, the only reason i’m asking these questions is because i am confused as how simply telling someone to internalise a process will help them to achieve it.

Its like shouting at a guy who’s speaking another language, if you don’t give him a dictionary he’s not going to understand what you say (i’m just talking about verbal communication lol

Finally one last thing, just out of curiousity. Do you think that perhaps your success and failures being a pua, leading to a rejection of it and spurring you on to try things for yourself might have helped you to comfortably come to the state you’re in where these skills and ideas work?

I believe that though we are not simply a collection of our past achievements and ambitions, every decision we do in life positive or negative contributes somehow to what we are. so someone who made the mistakes (going down the pua route etc) and then came back with a fresh perspective may have differing results than someone who is merely trying out that new way for the first time? I.e maybe you unconcsiously gained something from the rejection of the other ways of doing it that gave you the confidence and advantage to find success in the new methods of thinking you are proposing. It is far easier to climb up the mountain if you’ve fallen down it than if you haven’t climbed at all. (ignoring injuries lol)

Dude your ideas are great i’m just a little hesitant that it will give the results you propose it does without atleast a few tips and tricks to get the ball rolling :)

P.s I don’t know if my post made all that much sense, i rambled a lot and asked many questions lol, but please correct/ask me if it hasnt (you have my facebook lol) and i look forward to hearing from you mate :)

Cheers Sam
Sanjay

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3 yatine January 11, 2010 at 2:38 PM

article straight from the heart :)

4 admin January 11, 2010 at 3:08 PM

Hi Sanjay,

Thanks for your big reply :)

Not many people notice this but…in most of my articles i never give a step by step or method to actually enact what i am saying. The main reason being you cant teach through a computer screen :)

Ok your first question…..No i’m not saying dont approach 10′s i’m saying dont ONLY approach 10s, alot of guy’s limit themselves to one type of girl.

Next….yeah i didnt mention about sexual escalation or creating a relationship frame or anything like that. For your problem, if you are making female friends but not girls you could have a relationship with then you are not doing the vital part of what i said in the communication skills part which was….

“you have to also make sure that when you approach and begin to communicate that you are moving towards your goal with her. It doesn’t matter whether your goal is to be friends with her or shag her or marry her or to talk as long as possible because you want to improve communicating, you have to make sure what you are doing moves towards it.”

How you communicate your goal is simple. If you meet someone you see yourself as wanting to have a relationship with, the basic idea is you would need to create alot of rapport, comfort and trying to create a real connection with her AND you would arrange to see her again.

Next…when i said the only real thing is whats in front of you i meant in the sense that every girl is an individual, so if you met alot in the past who like chicken, it doesnt mean the next girl you meet will. Read my Individual Experience Theory article if you havent already.

Next….no…you do not need a methodology to learn how to approach and communicate with women. 1…its creepy….2…there are millions of guys out there who have no method and get girls. If you want a method to begin with maybe you should depending on how bad you are, but in general you do not. Life is not planned.

Ok next….you said….”Its like shouting at a guy who’s speaking another language, if you don’t give him a dictionary he’s not going to understand what you say”…….If you put an english speaking person in spain for lets say 6 months and told them to learn spanish i guarantee you they would by the time it gets to 6 months. Why? Intent, experience and analysis of experience. So apply that to this, go out, meet random women, analyze what you are doing, if you did something that works keep it, anything that didnt get rid of it, then try something new until you get to your goal. Done

Next one….yeah thats a big point actually, i definitely gained alot from doing all the PUA stuff. What i probably gained the most was things that you wouldnt find in books but only through experience (like how alot of girls cross their legs when they talk, so i would mirror that to create rapport or even do it first to set the pace and see if she follows). You learn also how to deal with little typical problems that may arise, simple things. But yeah some things i learnt helped.

Dont worry it all made sense to me, apart from 1 of the questions*

Have a read and get back to me.

Sam

*I agree that there are lot of negative externalities regarding puas and their teaching methods, isn’t it useful as an aid to develop guy’s confidence and hence ability to convey themselves with women though?

5 Willem January 12, 2010 at 4:51 AM

I keep on telling guys that PUA is nothing, and I mean NOTHING more than training wheels on a bicycle. If you’re sitting in a place, you got no friends, no women, no one you even know, no experience, no skills. Nothing. Then go read a book about PUA and start from there, but don’t make it you.

I personally love the Mystery Method. I really do. If a guy has no experience in anything about women. He can use that to get him STARTED. Then over the passing weeks, he throws out what he don’t need, and brings in what he wants to bring in about his life. Therefore, at the end of it all, he eventually threw out all of the generic stuff other guys use, and he is being his better self.

The problem is… Most guys just stick to the material and NEVER evolve themselves. Which in result, they think they need help. They still believe they need the magic blue pill that will change their life instantly. And that is what a lot of PUA companies relies on. The men that want a blue pill. In fact, I can go deeper and say that the guys that goes on these boot camps, are lazy to go out and learn and build themselves. They just want to go “POOF” and they have it.

Here is an interesting thought about the PUA techniques. Imagine this;
You see a hot beautiful woman. You’re attracted right away. You talk to her. You are engaging. You two start to kiss. You go home with her. You have sex with her that night…. The next morning you wake up, and you see that she’s 50 years old. She is actually very fucking ugly. She stinks. She farts. She’s annoyingly ANNOYINGLY ugly. That just happen over night.
Would you be pissed?

Now imagine a woman;
She sees a guy, with strong body language. He’s smiling and looking into her eyes. He walks slowly over to her and started talking. Bla bla and later they have sex. The next morning she wakes up, and he’s being super whiny and needy. He calls her 15 times in the next hour. He doesn’t want to leave her. and so on and on.
She would be pissed if she finds out that he’s just using PUA.

PUA is a good thing. And it’s supposed to be. Techniques and those kind of stuff is a good thing. I like to think of it as makeup for a guy. BUT, PUA is not a life. It’s training wheels for a bicycle. Sooner or later you HAVE to take them down. Period. You can still use some techniques and routines as your “makeup”. But still, you have to be congruent with who you are all the time.

I like the plans you suggested. I would recommend it. The more I read it, the more I felt that it is a foundation plan to become your better self. And from there you can improve constantly. And it’s surely true about the generating emotions. ;)

6 Christian January 12, 2010 at 3:24 PM

Great post, a lot to consider.

Mystery is from Mars lol! He’s such a smart man, but not a very well adjusted human being, I suspect…

It seems like you probably have got a massive amount out of learning techniques/routines etc as part of your path. On the other hand if have another approach to learning pick up which is more organic/holistic concept, than that would be really cool. Looks that way so far…

I’ve found it useful so far to some sort of intellectual model of what’s going on to learn (I find Adam Lyon’s ideas particularly good because they’re are simple and clear – like all the best things), so you can analyse and hopefully learn lessons from your interactions. But you can get too much into thinking about the theory before you even go for the approach. The result – renewed anxiety. Thanks to your advice, I’m starting to ignore those voices in my head – get into the flow.

So are you saying the danger is when you become obsessed by a SYSTEM for it’s own sake or even the idea that there is a predictable system at all?

There’s a big analogy here with music (which I teach) – ultimately you should just PLAY, but you have theory and technique to help out. Some people – naturals as we call them in music just as in PU – don’t need technique or theory lessons, but they can be helpful for the rest of us.

The danger is when people get obsessed by the autistic, maths side of what should be very human and organic.

And in music there is no substitute for playing experience and hard practice. No amount of cleverness or talent is going to substitute for that.

Some Charlie Parker (big hero of mine) quotes:

‘Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.’
‘You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.’
This quote has occurred with in many different phrasings, including: “Learn the changes, then forget them.”

Cheers!

7 admin January 12, 2010 at 4:13 PM

Hi Christian,

Glad to hear my advice is helping you :) .

Yeah that is basically what the danger is….having a system that is based on rules and presupposed outcomes….when dealing with people.

Ah great use of some music analogies!! The examples you gave above are perfect examples of what is considered the most accepted way to learn something….practice practice practice. You see, it is frowned upon (or less accepted) in England to want to self improve through reading theory. The masses believe that to be good at anything you should practice practice, it is even MORE frowned upon to use theory to learn how to be good at any skill that requires communication between people.

But either are right or wrong, the best of both is what is needed. Some basic theory to begin with then practice throughout the rest of the process. As you said, we dont want to become “obsessed by the autistic, math side of what should be very human and organic”

8 Christian January 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM

Hey dig these little squiggly guys who appear next to our names!

9 sanjay larsen January 13, 2010 at 10:08 AM

Cheers Sam, you answered my questions fully and left me with a lot to thing about. thanks man

p.s. the final question was answered by you in your reply anyway

thanks again

Sanjay

10 Jason Cross January 14, 2010 at 9:34 PM

Hey Sam! I finally got around to reading about your system and I like what read. Thanks for the shout out to the group, very cool :) I especially enjoyed the 2nd pillar of your system. It’s always important to be able to properly communicate and connect during an interaction. 3 solid principles also…experience has no substitute and talking to as many women as possible, especially for beginners, is the best way to improve. Keep up the good work friend and I’m looking forward to your next post.

11 Samuel Shak July 27, 2010 at 5:45 PM

Indeed a very cool post, pretty raw and pretty basic which is really all you need, a few guidelines and then really you should be gone on your journey. Improving yourself for who you are. and make it fun or you will never get anything out of it or even get out alive ;}

12 Bond August 17, 2010 at 2:27 PM

Develop social intelligence and grace, don’t be ‘needy’ or at least not ‘too needy’, be ‘attractive’ and ‘cool’ as appropriate for yourself, go for who you want, go for WHAT you want but be attractively paced(which can be very quick within hour(s), or days, weeks, or months, depending on the dynamics with the person you’re relating with; feel that you have attractive options; and again, be socially intelligent and develop as you can, don’t be needy; and yes, there is some reasonable wishful thinking and perspective with all this. Positive attitudes. Make a life you find meaningful. Engage in your interests and passions. Have acceptance for yourself as appropriate. Be comfortable, or at least reasonably comfortable. Don’t harm others, have a good sense of personal integrity, and don’t care what other people think. Go for what you want with comfort and attractiveness. And, “don’t be attached to the outcome”.

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