Becoming a Pickup Artist – A Core-Skills Guide to Game by Pick-Up Evolution

Part 17:  Sticking Points

What are sticking points:

A sticking point is going to be any part of your game that repeatedly seems to not be working.  A lot of people just starting in game have a sticking point where they can’t open.  Then they move on to the sticking point of transitioning or contact closing.

Sticking points can appear in many different places in your game.  Plateaus in game are also a common occurrence.  I see that many people in the community hit a certain skill level and then they stop developing.  This could be known as a plateau in game.  I think that plateaus and sticking points are basically the same.  They have similar symptoms in that you are not improving and getting better results.   I think that the same tactics that help avoid sticking points and removing sticking points works exactly the same with plateaus.

Dealing with Sticking points:

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When I’ve improved the fastest over the first few months it’s because I went out with the intention of working on a few very specific points. Mainly opening. Then I switched it up to vibing. Now I am at a point where I can open most nights fine and vibe indefinitely. I want to amp it up this as talked about in a my previous post on the next step I want to incorporate passions and eliciting values into each and every interaction.

Once I internalize that immediately I need to pick out new points that I can improve on and go out and test and get good with them.

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