Thoughts:

Lots of PUA goes into exacting detail about everything you've been doing wrong, indirectly setting up their students to fail with very detailed in-depth fully-illustrated step-by-step instructions on how they will go about doing that.

Even if that breadth and depth were necessary, apparently there is some problem with anyone going out and gaming with any level of overblown or unrealistic confidence? In fact, confidence weather realistic or not will get you laid about 100 over 0 more times than realistic insecurity does.

 

And while some or maybe all of this may or may not necessarily be true about any person, you still find yourself jogging your own memory and then painfully recollecting every detail of "what you've been doing wrong every time. Or something of that type of a mess.  

 

My somewhat cranky over-rationalization:

The truth is, if you've been getting all of this stuff wrong then so has just about every other guy on the planet. You're not a loser or anything like that. Girls are taking this into account when you talk to them. All guys over-compensate. Girls are flattered when they see guys trying to impress them. Just like you take into account any other particular fault that some girls could have in some similar way. There are rabid militant voices inside community would tell you that they immediately judge you and reject you because it's obvious you're compensating. I'm sorry is it not obvious when you're talking to a girl that you're interested? Have we forgotten that?

     

Yeah, so anyway:

The perception of the failure is only exaggerated once it's it's been sufficiently reprogrammed in your currently altered belief system and now into your new way of framing failure which is far worse than it was previously. Why might that be an issue? Because now you're unwittingly adopting a methodology you understand to be "the right way of doing it". Now you're undermining your own integrity and self-esteem by process of two-fold. You're rejecting your natural habits reactions and ways of doing things (because they all sucked) and replacing them with ones that are not your own, WHILE failing to execute. Both at the same time. Again, not quite a very solid way to kick shit off.  

Most failure is not even oddly close to as bad as much as it is outlined in the details for you by in some opinionated methods. If you're failing at pickup, so are other people. So what? What if that girl wasn't the one for you? But now you're framing every situation into which you get into wanting to pick up a girl as you being ALL to blame. And placing an absurdly unrealistic burden of pressure of execution solely on you alone.

 

And failing is just part of the natural process anyway. But now your failing under their terms instead of the ways you wouldn't knock yourself over much in the first place. Generally if you can attribute your own failure with your own choices then you overcome them without issue or self-destructively needing to understand /game/ more and even more.

 

It's a soul-crushingly ego-wrecking cognitively impairing habitual mindset to fall into. Like I said before, you should be able to take a few salient points and do well. There is no way you can absorb process and execute all the contradictory encyclopedic pickup methods completely and and take them on field and execute it successfully.

Its seems to me that too much of PUA is reinforcing negative behavior by going into overtly exacting lengths to describe it to you what NOT to do rather than just stick to the correct way. There is no legitimate need to outline all the ways you're not getting laid.

 

First of all "all the ways you're not getting laid". If you're not getting laid it could or may only be due to a small number of factors, but instead, you're ingesting every reason and thus adopting and attributing all given reasons instead of the ones you may or may not have been doing.

There's a tinge of irony in the fact that PUAs tell you get used to rejection, when you were already used to it in the first place, but now they tell you "get used to rejection, use m and here are all the ways and reasons you're getting rejected too."

Is all that information useful for someone with already basement-level self-esteem? Not at all. It's even only increases those low self-evaluation beliefs.

 

If a PUA wants you to go out and pickup women, he should tell you a few things like maybe link to this 3 or at most 4 early game simple principal working examples or usable concepts. Then slowly build on them. Instead they insist you overload your thinking with way more information than any person can ever handle at one time in a single interaction let alone inside some usually falsely over-hyped exaggeratedly minuscule window of time within. Because a working memory only allows 3 - 4 things at a single time.

 

If that's the case then I know why there are so many people who are so heavily dependent on PUA and not only are not getting results. But are more miserable before they started and conversely diminishing worsening their chances of getting laid they already had before they set out on their zeal-infested quest to bag a girl-a-day so they can finally stop being that loser they were completely unaware they were until they were correctly informed via the PUA community's loser-based mindset at large.

 

So little of what I see is in the affirmational. They outline all the intricate ways you will fail at pickup and they say "Now go out and start picking up women NOW". "The only way you're going to get better is through doing it over and over." Oh really. What was the rest of that reading I just did for then asshole? J/K.