I'm starting to feel like I'm getting trapped into a troll thread. Xantarex, I think your statements have already been finely addressed....
xantarex said:
It's okay not wanting to be successful and be average Joe with "game" that might have a girlfriend with a symmetrical face. If that's what someone wants, then chasing girls on the street might be a good solution (better than ending in friend zones), but it's too gimmicky when those people call themselves powerful, masters, mentors, gurus...
First, he didn't say that that he doesn't want to be successful, just that he wants to enjoy his youth. I'm sure he's going to school and working on other things. Like Franco said, seduction is a tool or a skill like cooking. You can learn to cook really well while pursuing other things in life. To hear that someone is learning and practicing seduction and then to assume that they're only pursuing that and wasting their life is an odd assumption to me. If someone tells me that they're learning how to bowl and going bowling, I don't then assume that they're wasting their life on a fruitless endeavor. My assumption is that he enjoys bowling and wishes to learn it better. All of Chase's material allows you to be anything from a casual hobbyist to a master. At the end of the day though, each person's life is his own; they choose how they spend it.
As far as titles, I don't think I've ever heard Chase refer to himself as a guru, but I may be wrong. The thing with "master" and "guru" is that these are words that can be applied to anything. You can be a guru at eating fast. And if you teach someone how to eat fast, then you will be a mentor to them. You can apply these titles to almost anything, so I don't see your argument here.
In my opinion, I see learning how to be good with women as a fruitful endeavor because I wish to be in a healthy relationship, to give women an amazing experience, to be happy in my own life, to be sexually active, etc., etc. If you don't, then that is fine. If you see it as a meaningless "hobby" or way of life, then that's fine. Just difference of opinions here, while you're trying to label it as "fact."
It needs to be clarified that people who really are successful don't do that and in most cases have more social skills, wealth, fame, authority than any daygamer. If you want to become one of those people, spending your 20s and 30s cold-approaching on the street and hanging around too many women might actually hurt you. After all, most successful people in sports, business, science, art start at an early age. It's extremely rare to start doing something for the first time in your 50s and become extraordinary.
Have you ever read any of Chase's non-seduction articles at all?
Read the "how to master anything" article or any others. He even states that (for the average person) in your 20s you should be pursing your dreams; in your 30s you should be obtaining it; and in your 40s you should have achieved it (or almost achieved it). GC has plenty of articles on how to be successful and better yourself outside of seduction. In fact, he suggests to have a dream and be pursuing it! Even when in a relationship, he says that it's much healthier to be pursuing something meaningful in your life during the relationship so that you're not constantly thinking about her, etc.
Also, this is a website targeted for seduction. I don't go to a cooking site and post threads on their forums about how it's a waste of time or about how there are not articles on being successful. This site is to learn how to seduce women. Guys come here to learn how to better that skill. Period.
For whatever reason, I didn't learn the skills that a lot of naturals learned naturally at an early age in high school. GC has many articles referring to naturals and how to emulate the social skills that they learned when kids.
Most successful people have social skills? Really, I don't think so. I'd only say this for actors probably (I don't consider politicians successful). What do successful people have that other people usually don't have? Drive. Creativity. Action-oriented.
And, of course a successful person has wealth, fame, and authority........ that's kind of assumed with being successful. But, before then, they didn't. They had to learn and rise up. And again, you can pursue sports, business, and science while pro-actively improving your seduction skills.
Typically, successful people aim to improve as many aspects of their life as they can, and they live good lives.
However, there are successful people that only spent their time on 1 skill. This is usually with sports players. What happens is....without learning finance or other skills, they end up blowing away all of their money after their sports career and going into debt. If that's "successful," then I don't want that life.
And, a famous quote by Albert Einstein:
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
So he at least thought about giving a good quality kiss. Oh my god, he actually wasted time on thinking about how to kiss a girl properly.
Give me a break, man
Lastly, "success" is different per person. To me, I'd love a simple life without being in the spotlight. I don't want billions of dollars (and think about all of the people you had to step on to get there; the blue collar workers that you paid right at minimum wage). I just want to live a happy/good life (which each person views differently), and I do want to accomplish the personal dreams that I have (writing, running, spiritual, etc.). If I had a strong desire to be the next Tesla, then I'd pursue that with all of my power while also meeting women.... we're humans. We desire companionship. We're group-oriented animals. All humans will form relationships at some point, and they may wish to improve it. Haven't had a date in 4 years? Then you'll want to improve it. It's just natural.
I've never read a single GC article that said "don't do science" or "don't do medicine" or "don't do math." It doesn't exist.
Each life is our own. That's our freedom. Pursue the desires/dreams you have.
I think this is my last post on this thread
