Getting girls is like a driving a car. There are some really cool enhancements you can get for better performance, many of which can be found in this blog. The problem is, most guys are attempting to drive the car with the emergency brake on.

Unaware of this, they come looking for new techniques that can "pimp their ride." They get fuel injection, engine upgrades, improved aerodynamic mods -- the works. After each enhancement, they notice the car is performing better and moving faster...

...But they never achieve the peak-level performance they could. Even with all the upgrades, their pickup vehicle still grinds quickly to a halt whenever they aren't gunning it. All the while they are doing a lot of damage to the vehicle itself. If only they would notice that the emergency brake was on, they'd be cruisin' free and easy.

In picking up girls, there is not just one emergency brake, but rather a whole host of little brakes that subtly hold guys back. Fix even one of these and you'll bolt forward in the game immediately.

1) Lack of sexual confidence

To truly succeed, you must believe in what you're doing. How can you justify rushing into sex unless you are 100% confident you can rock her world? Any improvement in sexual confidence will immediately shine through in all your interactions with women.

Release: Focus on pleasing the girls you have now - just because it's easier to get chicks in Japan, don't be a lazy-ass and neglect your girls. If you have no girls now, get a girl to practice on -- she doesn't have to be hot -- and learn to give her the time of her life. If you can rock a not-so-hot girl, you can rock a hot girl just as well.

2) Low self-esteem

This one will weaken you in every area of your life, including pickup. Everything you try simply won't work as well, and no pickup techniques can truly give you the lasting success you are after.

Release: The only way is to get your self-esteem up. Get busier working toward goals you want to achieve. If you have no job, get one. If you have a bad job, start taking definite steps to find a better one. Discipline yourself to do the things each day that you know hold the most value for you. Study things that are very worthwhile to you and gain new skills that will help you in the future. Endeavor to try new things that scare you -- like approaching women cold.

The more time you spend each day doing something you find truly valuable to your life, the higher your self-esteem will go, and the better you'll do with girls in all interactions.

3) Issues with women

Maybe you had a terrible relationship or two and have some emotional baggage left over. Maybe you even have some scars in relation to talking to or showing your feelings to women. Just about every guy has gone through some hard times with chicks, whether major or minor. As I said in #1, you must really believe in what you are doing in order to succeed. Any leftover anger toward or fear of women will necessarily affect your ability to pull. Or you might get a lot of girls, but not be able to truly respect and enjoy them. Plus the types of girls you can get will be limited to those who can't detect these issues because they have similar issues themselves.

Release: First, learn to forgive and forget. Every person you've ever interacted with was -- like you -- just trying to get along in the world the best way they know how. Holding grudges against girls or even against guys is purely counter-productive and will eventually destroy your game. Forgive and apologize to everyone, even if only in your own mind.

If you can't do that yet, you need to take two steps first: stop taking it personally and stop justifying your negative feelings to yourself. If you stop these two things, you actually won't be able to experience those feelings anymore.

If you can't even do that yet, there is one final solution for all past problems: simply refuse to blame anyone or anything for what happened (including yourself). Amazingly, if you refuse to blame anyone ever, it is impossible to feel negative emotions about anything. Failed pickup? Don't blame the girl or guy who got in the way. Don't blame Japanese society. Simply think about how you could work around it next time. Human negative feelings can only operate through placing blame on something, in essense by looking to the past. If you refuse to blame you will find yourself focused on the future, which is essential for this and any other endeavor.

4) Amateur mistakes and wrongheaded ideas

Society feeds us many ideas about women and male-female interaction that are totally wrong. In Japan and elsewhere many guys still believe that the best way to get a girl is to shyly confess your love for her straight out, or write her a love letter, spend tons of money on her, etc. Few people understand that the fastest way to love is through sex, and even if they are just after sex they don't understand what makes a women desire it and how the process works.

Release: Bits and pieces you read in this blog will gradually give you the understandings and attitude you need to avoid these mistakes and undo that social programming, if you keep an open mind. Many times I will just tell you straight out, "Do this!" or "Don't do this!" But the overall attitude in my posts and comments should give you a lot of hints as well. The attitude of any guy who is successful with the kinds of women you want can be taken as a better model than that of any guy who is not.


Always be working to bring up these four elements. They are the very core of your "inner game"--the internal psychological basis for all success in pickup and everything I ever speak about in this blog.