Hey all, I haven't been on here in about a year, but I wanted to offer some tips to the new people getting into seduction as /r/seduction and the community has played a big part in my life.

I got into the PUA scene about 4 years ago after breaking up with my long term girlfriend. Did the Mystery Method thing for a while, Neil Strauss, and then read countless other PUA books. All that studying and practicing openers and routines produced surprisingly poor results. If anything, it made me more anxious talking to women.

About a year ago I decided to switch gears completely: no more indirect game. All DIRECT = running up to girls, introducing myself, starting some small talk, and getting their number if that's what I wanted. I started going out almost daily approaching women and learning what worked and what didn't. Did my results improve? Hell YES!! It was slow going at first, but within a month, I was getting more numbers on a week-to-week basis than I knew what to do with. I remember one afternoon I went out, and in about 45 minutes, I approached 7 gorgeous girls in a row which resulted in 7 new phone numbers. I was more-or-less swimming in girls... and it was awesome. One of those girls is now my girlfriend explaining the year hiatus from seduction.

Here's what I've learned:

  1. Direct game. Based on my experience, direct game is monumentally more effective than indirect game. As I've discovered, there's two things that every girl melts for and will result in a phone number most of the time: make her feel special like she was picked out of a crowd, and do something exciting. Direct approaches accomplish BOTH of these resulting in what I refer to as a "Prince Charming" effect. When you approach a girl walking on the sidewalk and tell her she's pretty and you had to meet her, you're setting her apart from all the other girls. That, and it's very exciting to her because it's doubtful a guy has ever had the balls to do go up to her like that.

  2. Purpose: don't go out to get girls. Your first priority and attitude should be going out to become completely comfortable with rejection. This turns it into a self-improvement exercise and take a lot of pressure off performance. Rejection, learn to be ok with it.

  3. Dress awesomely: the direct approach relies on the "Prince Charming" effect. Every girl fantasizes about a handsome, well-dressed man sweeping them off their feet. You gotta play the part by dressing the part.

  4. Don't be a dick: it seems like most people think you have to be a huge asshole to get girls. Not at all. Just have a strong frame of being polite and respectful. This doesn't mean you can't be fun and mischievous, but show some class.

I could write a book on all the stuff I'd like to share, but this is turning into a wall of text. I'd love to hear thoughts on Direct Game.