I am new, please criticize the fuck out of this post. I want to know my ideological flaws so I can eliminate them moving forward.

Summary

-As a beginner, work on dealing with shit tests, maintaining frame, and commanding respect first. As I see it these are the 'highest yield' traits to acquire.

-Practice recognizing frame losses, failed shit-tests, and Beta Bux traits on asktrp. It is a great place to practice and apply your recently learned knowledge since even the comment section is usually wrong.

-Stop apologizing. In place of the habitual "sorry" and "thank you" and "you're welcome", just smile in flirty/confident/subtle way depending on you're desired relationship with the recipient.

-In a LTR, you need to adjust the dynamic gradually. Start by becoming cocky and confident with everything you say and do, and slowly add in the DREAD. Of course you need to back up your DREAD game by owning your shit; get things done and improve yourself day in day out.

Body

I'm new here. Found out about TRP last summer through my cousin, and disagreed with the philosophy at the time. We actually argued back and forth quite a bit. About 2 weeks ago I reevaluated my position, and have fully unplugged and have been studying up since. Since I recently swallowed the pill and love optimizing shit, I figured I'd make this post to help other beginners out. Like any new RP, I was overwhelmed with all the information and terms being thrown at me. I did tons of sidebar and background reading, and have yet to finish it. But I distilled the beginner goals to the four things above as they pertained to my life, and I imagine many others (minus the fourth LTR tip). Some background info that may be relevant: I was already lifting religiously and have an incredible physique, <10% BF and over 200lbs. I am in a LTR. I am in college. I have minimal involvement with social media (snapchat, twitter, instagram, etc.) I am not financially independent, my parents pay for everything so long as I maintain a 4.0, which I have. I am currently reading and noting the 48 Laws of Power.

I found that the first thing that helped me really start grasping TRP was confidence, even arrogance. By actively changing your self-image, all other actions, beliefs, and thoughts come naturally. I began making eye contact when conversing or even walking down the sidewalk, maintaining it until they looked away. While walking on the sidewalk the street a few guys would maintain eye contact in a pseudo-aggressive way, taking it as a challenge. Many guys and girls would look down or away immediately. Some girls, always HB7 or above, would maintain eye contact and about 70% of the time I am getting them to smile by half-smiling and of course I reciprocate with a smirk. In meetings I've attended, the presenter is always returning their gaze to me since my eyes never leave them. My superiors (mostly professors) have started calling on me more, talking to me more frequently and with suggestions about future options.

After getting a solid grasp on confidence, my first strategy was to say fuck it and engage with the hottest females in each class, or in any given situation. I've quickly surrounded myself with them, though they're going to be study buddies, shit-test practice, and DREAD sources so long as my current girl continues to fall in line as a perfect RPW. More on that later. Anyway, after reading this article a few days ago I realized that while I was confident and direct with that I wanted, I was still failing shit tests left and right. Well, fuck that. I also realized that failing a shit test is essentially synonymous with breaking frame (correct me if I'm wrong about that one.) So I sat and for an hour or two I recalled all of the failed (and unintentionally passed) shit-tests I've encountered in the past 2 weeks. I reviewed my response, and what would have been a better response. At a party the other night I applied my recent practice and recognized a few easy tests and passed them with flying colors, usually by agreeing and amplifying or by making a sarcastic remark and making the woman feel childish. I've mentally reviewed past shit tests by males, and am confident that when one presents itself, its likely that the best response will be to dismiss it, show that it isn't worthy of attention. I have not encountered one by a male since reviewing shit tests and how to handle them, but I am confident I will be able to handle it. I have one friend specifically who has low self worth and shit-tests constantly. Historically I have just ignored him or walked away, but now he'll get some heat back. Good guy, but I can't allow that.

This next part is easy. Stop saying sorry unless you truly fucked up. If you lightly bump into someone and nothing was spilled or hurt, there is no need to instinctively apologize. Likewise if you do something nice for someone, no need to say you're welcome. Just nod, and accept their "thank you." Finally, thank you's can and should be used when you value the person and the kind act was large enough to warrant it. But keep in mind that a thank-you suggest the performed act isn't and shouldn't be a normal occurence. If you want a certain action to become the norm around you, you cannot thank people for doing it.

-Finally the part I may get torn up here for. I am in a LTR and have been for 2 years. Since my girlfriend is what I'd consider an HB8 (HB9 if you really like asses, but I'm a boob guy), I'm not breaking up with her just yet. We click well. Don't mistake me; I am not pedestaling her whatsoever and I know that there are other, probably better, girls out there. I'm giving her a chance to change along with me. She has high aspirations, and is VERY unlikely to cheat/leave me since she views me as a god, both in what I achieve at a top-level university and how I look. So to begin I changed my interactions with her to be way more direct, way less interested, but still supportive and smiley when she did something I felt was positive and worthy. My cockiness and confidence has skyrocketed, and for three days straight I don't believe I've failed a shit test. (I'm getting a lot due to my recent behavior change, her hamster must be going nuts trying to figure out what is happening and why she likes it.) She has responded accordingly, and for most people in a confusing as fuck way. She'll give me shit in as a fitness test, and then I'll pass with flying colors and I get all the smileys and sexual comments I possibly could. Because she's already my girl, I'm able to deflect a few shit tests by becoming explicitly sexual and dirty, and she loves it. I even break her frame with shit tests. Now I'm also laying down some gentle DREAD, and historically she is always VERY sensitive about me getting attention from other women. She hates it, and it makes her very upset. Even if I didn't do shit; I'm naturally not very flirty or conversational so many times the girls would just eye-fuck me or check me out and it would set her off. So you can imagine my gentle dread game is getting a strong kickback. Notably, it isn't manifesting in anger or anguish directed at me but instead at the random high SMV women I've been surrounding myself with. We'll see where this goes, in 3 months I expect us to be broken up or in the ideal RP relationship; in line with married red pill philosophy.

Conclusions

-swallowing TRP is way easier when you have a bodybuilder's physique

-confidence and abundance interact as a food-forward loop. They either build each other up or tear each other down, your choice

-fake it till you make it. You've read the sidebar, read the top posts of all time, have read through google searches again and again. It will take time to internalize everything and that is okay. For the immediate future, pick a technique/skill/philosophy and work on it. Add a new one once you're consistently successful with the previous mode of thought, and never stop reading TRP

-Reading through this sub prior to social interaction will prime your masculine side, and you will dominate more than usual. Use this to your advantage

-As a beginner it is critical to review the day's interactions through a RP lens. You will have made mistakes: correct them for next time

-Never justify your actions. I can't think of a single time it is beneficial.

I hope I generate some good discussion and feedback. I also have a single theoretical question though I will edit it out if it is not in line with this sub. Why, in all of my RP studies, have I only read about deflecting and conquering shit tests? Why is there no mention of strategically employing them? From where I stand, if you master the art of shit testing you can break any potential competing Alpha, win any chick that is a tough one to drag into your frame, and/or consciously study someone's alpha and beta spectrum for shits and giggles.