In the beginning, you are so stoked to be getting ass you really don't care where it comes from. You'll spit game at anything with two legs and a vagina, shit, you'll even flirt with the odd gay guy or two for the hell of it. Your self-esteem will go through the roof, as you start to feel like you have female-attracting superpowers. Your loss of AFC status is intoxicating. Your game becomes more and more internalised and you'll find yourself becoming more and more like "that guy" without realising it. This is a good thing.

A few changes will start taking place in your outlook on women and relationships. When you arrived, you were probably something of a misogynist; bitter and angry, disappointed with yourself and your failure to attract women; or possibly furious at yourself for letting some woman/women walk all over you. You will believe all the crap about women being weaker creatures that must be exploited by these new secret powers you're learning; you will not respect/appreciate the women you are trying to engage. You will probably rely heavily on canned and/or pre-planned material. You will dress like a complete idiot; usually way too nice for the situation, and little unique style, or clothes that don't fit you properly; in all you'll probably just look like an ass.

As time goes on, however, your outlook will change. Your bitterness will start to vanish; you're happier and more successful, and bitterness if for those without the power to change their situation. With the vanishing bitterness will come a new-found respect and appreciation for women; you will certainly see them differently than while you were an AFC, but your new outlook and understanding help to facilitate easiness in your future relationships; you will know how to keep attracting and seducing the woman you're in a relationship with. Your material isn't really material anymore; you've learned to present YOURSELF in a far more attractive way than you used to, and this is far more successful than the canned/pre-planned shit you were using before.

You'll more than likely reach a few other milestones.

At the beginning of your quest you probably started to leave some of your friends behind, or started letting yourself drift away from them in pursuit of women and improving your seduction skills. This will change when you realise two things: 1: you have probably let your success with women become too important to your self-esteem. This realisation is depressing in itself. and 2: that your friendships are far more important (both to your social proof as well as your sense of identity and happiness). Your friendships will become more important to you than ever, and you now have the ability and skills to create new and stronger friendships.

When you first start out, you're so concerned with the seduction (with presenting yourself as a compatible individual with whomever it is you're trying to seduce) that many of the women you're trying to get into bed probably wouldn't interest you for more than a minute if your brain wasn't moving a mile-a-minute using tactics to try to get them into bed. In fact, you'll eventually stop trying with these women at all, as the level of satisfaction and engagement they provide you diminishes sharply after a short time. You'll become a picky motherfucker; why the fuck shouldn't you? You have options now.

I'm sure you were spitting game at bars, clubs, parties and neglecting some of the things you loved to do while trying to better your skills. As referenced before, this won't always get you the kind of woman you're really interested in, and won't make you very happy in the long run. Eventually, you'll still go to bars and clubs, but really your game will start migrating towards the places you like to be and the things you like to do. This makes you all around happier as the things you like to do will probably have more of the kinds of women you like; it becomes a self-affirming cycle of happiness, confidence, contentment, and success.

I'd love to hear what all of you more experienced guys have to say.