Inner Game is where it is at boys. All the techniques and tactics and strategies mean nothing in the world without inner game. The funny thing about inner game, outer game comes pretty naturally when you have it. Seduction community is about utilizing outer game on command, which is why it's broken down into all its components. But you already have all of that stuff in you, you haven't been able to tap into it because of a lack of Inner Game. Personally, figuring out Inner Game is the prerequisite to Outer Game, and Outer Game is an optional learning experience to fine tune your natural skills.

Defining Inner Game

How you perceive yourself, your worth, your abilities, your strengths and weaknesses is the first and foremost important thing. How you believe others perceive you is next. Having high self-esteem is not enough. I think highly of myself but I often feel like others might not see me the way I do. This is defensive high self-esteem. Inner game is having secure high self-esteem. Defensive still need their self views to be validated by the outside world, secure does not.

Inner Game is beneficial against neediness. You don't need this girl, this lay to validate you. You're not worried she's going to find your conversation boring, that she's going to stop liking you if you're bad at something (i.e. dancing, sex), that she's going to realize you're not as awesome as she first thought you were, etc. Inner Game is beneficial against Approach Anxiety. You aren't concerned this person isn't going to like you or that they're going to react negatively to you. Outcome independence is Inner Game realized.

Getting Inner Game

First, I want you to take these next few words to heart: You, as you are now, are enough. Stop believing that you have to be a certain kind of person to be successful with women. I am 5'8. In high school I never tipped the scale higher than 115 lbs. and in college, 125 lbs. I was a weakling. I was very frugal with my money and wasn't a fancy dresser. To this day I still don't have a driver's license. I had and still have many of the qualities of a "mr. nice guy." I didn't regularly exhibit strong body posture, I slouch a lot. I wasn't geeky, but I was definitely known as a nerd. I'm introverted. By most standards, I'm very beta. And yet, I still managed to lose my virginity at 16. From 16-20 I had sex with 6 different women, got oral sex from 2 others, and had close calls with 2 more (suffered escalation anxiety, we made out and some groping was involved but I couldn't close and ended up just sleeping over in both cases).

Second, every action of self-improvement you take needs to be done for yourself. Yesterday I saw this demoralizing thread

Im not good looking, but I'm definitely not bad looking. Im cultivated. Im smart. Im athletic with a reasonably good physique (summer i have six pack, winters not so much). I am successful at what i do. And making a living that makes me not having to think twice before going to vacation in say paris. I dress with nice clothes. Drive a nice car, wear expensive watch. Live in a nice house. I skydive, i scubadive, i bungee jump, i ski, i travel a lot, i always learn new things... Even so, i am completely hopeless with women.

Take on new hobbies, get a good job, work out in the gym and get fit, get a nice wardrobe. Do all those things, but do them because they satisfy and fulfill you, not because they'll give you topics of conversation with women or make you more attractive to women. These will likely be by-products of your self-improvement, but if they are the motivators, you're failing yourself. Remember, Inner Game is about not needing validation. I didn't put the effort forth to gain weight until I was doing it for myself and no one else.

Third, understand that Inner Game is about a mental state. Our mental states are always in a state of flux. You have good days, you have bad days. Life will knock you around. You don't achieve Inner Game and then that's it. You achieve Inner Game and then realize the things about yourself that have you there and put the effort to maintain those traits (physical and mental) to remain/get back to that mental state. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's hard.

TL;DR Inner Game is living w/o the need for validation. You must accept yourself for who you are, improve the things you don't like about yourself for yourself, it is going to be an ongoing battle.