[Keyser Söze]

I don't feel old, except when I look at the FB pages of my peers who have not aged well and have little yard apes running around.

It's been interesting.
About 140-150 notches, lots of people and places.

Would I do anything differently?

In the details yes, in the general philosophy no.

I realized years ago that the brass ring and rat race was a false promise. There was an easy and predictable path that I was on - I was 19 in college and being pushed along a path that led to a large lawfirm or bank in New York like many of my relatives. I saw what that life was like in person rather than on TV and I didnt want it."trade in your hours fort a handful of dimes" - no thanks.

I am happy about that decision, which led me to travel the world repeatedly and seek new experiences.

The major thing I would change would be getting treatment much ealier for clinical depression. I though I was one of those people where it was situational or if I did more intense exercise or added more notches that it would go away. This led to me really missing out on enjoying life for months at a time and negatively impacted my ability to work well on the projects I wanted to.

Anyhow, I've put some passion projects on the back burner and am now working hard to develop a business and make significant amounts of money. In the past I was more or less content to work only hard enough to make slightly more than I needed, as I didn't want stress and knew that at some point I would come into a good deal of money. The limits of this plan were revealed when I had to shell out 25 grand for emergency medical care in Europe, and had a prolonged recovery.

Now that I'm much more energetic and aggressively selfish than in the past, I don't want to wait. I want the world and I want it now.

We will see what the next stage is. First step is to move to Brazil late summer/early fall.

[haywire]

Happy Birthday

Can you break down your player journey in more detail? Like how you got into the game, took the red pill, major successes, most productive years etc etc.

[raliv]

what do you do for a living big guy?

[Screwston]

Happy Birthday grandpa jk

Like Haywire said, I would like to hear about your player journey and I'm sure other guys would.

[rozayINTL]

Keyser,

This is some real shit. I hope some of the more experienced guys on here (in both game and life) can contribute some thoughts

I am a decade younger than you but I find myself battling between my own dreams and the 'american dream.' This is especially hard because I've worked my whole life to reach the level of success that I have just now achieved.. yet I find myself hating so much of what I see in this environment.
one thing I think about is this. I have seen and experienced just how influential status and wealth is in terms of getting the top quality pussy (9's etc). I think there's always going to be an abundance of gameable 7's and 8's, but really the 9's and better.. they take that something extra. And in going for the best I have to recognize that. & see this is where for me this rat race has become an addiction.
While I hope that over time I will see that money/status don't have that great of an influence, I'm starting to doubt that it will ever happen. I understand of course the power of being the ultimate alpha dog badass motherfucker.. but when it comes to those 9's and better you often have to be alpha and have the $ to back it up.
..And when you factor in the fact that in the U.S. there are so few of these 9+'s relative to the masses of increasingly below average unfeminine bitches, it's as if situation is getting increasingly worse.

On the flip side.. If you can hustle outside of the typical rat race.. that's what it's all about. And I guess that's what most of us aspire to do...

[Keyser Söze]

(06-03-2012 02:10 PM)haywire Wrote:  

Happy Birthday

Can you break down your player journey in more detail? Like how you got into the game, took the red pill, major successes, most productive years etc etc.

Sure.
How did I get into the game? I started reading Roosh's blog and the forum about 1.5 years ago, but have never really seriously studied it.
I started out somewhat slow, then banged for the first time at 17. Then over the next 2 or 3 years, by trial and error I learned a few things that constituted the mainstay of my "game" during my 20s if you want to call it that:
1. Being vague and creating interest/DHV by talking of travel and languages and the like.
2. Always go to a girl with the mindset that a couple hours ago or yesterday you banged a hotter girl, even if it isn't true. This will feed confidence instead of neediness, which is your cock's worst enemy.
3. Get her to talk about herself but not in an interview way - go for vague hopes and dreams talk, which chicks love, because they think they are each special. Women love to talk about themselves.
4. Play around with when/how you contact them to keep them guessing and to feed the kind of interaction where she is trying to qualify herself to you.
5. I tend to do much better with Latin American women in terms of ROI and hotness, this is a combination of my look, my language skills, and the fact that I am just happier when down there which boosts my inner game.


Red pill? It happened when I first spent a summer in Spain after my 1st year of college. I felt real freedom and happiness. I couldn't be satisfied by my previous life again. You never really come home again, because you change.

Biggest successes/most productive years:
I'm doing well now, although I'm considering an LTR.
In terms of notches though, at 22 and 23 I tore shit up.
I spent most of those 2 years in Latin America and Spain.