I'm interested in learning more about PUA and starting to apply it, but the magnitude of the lack of success i have with women leads me to believe I need to do something else first.

I'm a shy dude, and I've only asked out a handful of girls in this time, so I was thinking maybe if I get the hang of this stuff I would get a decent amount of success.

But on further thought - even guys who know nothing of this stuff at least randomly get lucky once in a while, and I'm thinking perhaps I should ask around and make sure there's no glaring problem I've got going on first, because it doesn't really make sense to me. For all I know I have some weird physical deformity or major creep vibe that I need to work on before I apply this stuff.