I just finished the end of The Game and found it somewhat underwhelming. The guy works on pickup to get any girl he wants. Literally can get any girl in the world. Meets one girl who challenges him and immediately begins saying things like "she thinks I'm cool." Etc. Listens to everything she says as fact and her dismissive talk of not needing anything that happened to him over the past few years to get her in bed. He just needed to be himself (which i think is stupid because he's a much more interesting and unique person because of all of that. He's literally claimed as the best pickup artist in the world until the market apparently was oversaturated with other pickup artists and his techniques lost their uniqueness). Then he ends in the glossary saying that learning to maintain a relationship is much more fulfilling than learning to pickup girls.

I can't help but feel his personal growth was somewhat stunted. He learned so much from Tom Cruise, Dustin, and other men who went on to achieve greater things than women, and even learns how much more important internal growth is than external validation.

I'm already chasing my goals and raising SMV in any way I can. I started reading the book because, even though I'm working hard on my life and myself, I wanted to learn how to pick up girls and have options so that I wouldn't be distracted by sexual dry spells, but kept reading because i realized that the book had much more to do with life than picking up girls. Now that I finished, I feel like Neil is somewhere between a qualified and deserved MGTOW and complete beta who gets full validation from one woman who made it a little harder to sleep with her. I feel as though anything she says he will do and the opposite isn't the same. Like he's in the palm of her hand, yet I also feel as though she isn't doing shit to "maintain the relationship." He's just doing everything he can to make her stay because he himself said he has oneitis for her.

Did Neil trade his addiction of pickup for an addiction to Lisa? I'm trying to make sense of this. Is there anyone in a similar situation where they have their choice of any woman and then settled down? Is Nell justified in his oneitis? I'm not qualified to make a decision since I've only been with 2 women and I'm only college aged, so I'd like more experienced perspectives.

Thank you for your time.

TL:DR: Title.

Edit* Then again I did just read his entire 400+ page book so he really didn't give up on his goals of becoming a successful writer. And he actually achieved them.