An excerpt from Rollo Tomassi's post on therationalmale.com titled Truth to Power is a rather concise and elegant way of summarizing RP thought. I wanted to share this with you guys and as reminder to everyone (including myself) that when you finish reading the sidebar here, it's time to read it again.

"This Power is the root of that all important ‘confidence’ we toss out every time we tell a 19 y.o. chump what women really want so he can get laid. It’s this ability to make our own decisions, right or wrong, and to confidently own them that separate us from “other guys.” It’s this self-guided Power that evokes a seemingly irrational confidence to Spin Plates, to assert ourselves and to be unafraid to make ourselves the PRIZE, and it’s just this Power that women want to be associated with."

The confidence you gain in making better choices is what really drives "game".

"Lack of this Power is exactly what makes master PUAs revert to some of the most pathetic AFCs once they become involved in an LTR. They sell women on this idealization and the perception that they possess this Power only to discover the AFC insecurities these behaviors were meant to cover up once they’ve bought the act."

You sold the deal based on your personal "power" but can't maintain that frame because you didn't do the hard work to attain it.

"It should be that adopting a positive-masculine mental schema prompts these PUA skills as a result. Instead we have the cart before the horse in a mad rush to get that all important pussy we’ve been deprived of for so long, by masking our deficit in real Power and understanding with rote memorized PUA techniques hoping that by practicing them they’ll turn into “natural game” and we’ll mature enough to initiate a lasting personal change."

Lasting personal change... wonderful.

Thanks