I’ve said it before and I will say it again: I am a self-improvement junkie.
I love working towards becoming the best man that I can possibly be. Pursuing learning about seduction / learning about pick-up artist technique is one avenue of self-improvement.
Presently, I believe that my life is generally good and I am pursuing different areas of life to make my life great.
However, there was a time that I was generally not happy with my life in just about every area. The fact of the matter is that I was still trying to learn pick-up, but it was from the wrong place.
It was from a mentality of “once I get good with picking up women, everything will work out”. I grinded and grinded on learning pick-up and seduction, only (at best) to have short periods of inspiration, followed by long stretches of frustration, confusion and no motivation.
I realize now that my focus was in the wrong place – getting [Click to Continue Reading…]
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getting over depression,
happiness,
Inner Game,
self improvement,
therapy
Years ago, I was in bad shape. People these days love to throw around the “D” word (depression), but we’ll just say that I was miserable and felt helpless and hopeless to improve my situation.
These days I am so far from experiencing those feelings that I honestly feel like I am a different person. I think that it is important that I share how I got out of my funk on this website. I would love to help anyone out there who’s experienced (or experiencing) very deep pain, extreme hopelessness or a feeling of utter helplessness.
Here are three beliefs that really messed me up for a long time that I would like for us all to be free from:
1. “If I become happy, I will be settling for mediocrity. So I need to remain feeling pain because the pain will motivate me to improve my situation.”
[I honestly remember feeling that if I wasn't unhappy, I would end up settling. My biggest fear at that time was [Click to Continue Reading…]
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depression,
happiness,
motivation,
not settling for mediocrity
