This is the kind of question that's difficult to answer for everyone.
Some guys are productive, driven, conscientious guys who have fallen off the rails. For them, living a bohemian life and banging punk rocker girls in the back of their van isn't going to cut it. They would do best to get a routine, hit the gym, get work and hobbies in order. Then they will be happy enough with themselves that they can communicate success and contentedness.
Then there are some guys for whom game represents a fresh sort of creativity that they are missing in their life - they have their life in order(or maybe even they don't), but it's suffering from a lack of self expression, spontaneity, passion. Growing out their hair, getting a van, and living part time in the mode of the wanderer/explorer, playing around with the possibilities of reality and enjoying the feeling of instability is just what they need to rekindle their spirit.
My default is to tell a guy to put his life in order (because frankly, most people are not the wandering vagabond type). And in some ways, a man should pursue women as a sort of rebellion from the strictures that life imposes upon him, rather than because someone told him to do so. For example when I have a son I won't be telling him to go and daygame, I will simply tell him about women and all the fun you can have with them, tell him to do his homework and work on his grades, and leave him be. As he goes through life, succeeding and wanting more, competing and dominating, he will naturally be drawn to all the objects of his desire, and take pleasure in independently seeking out his own experiences. My job is not to convince him, but to cultivate a general desire toward life and the sort of discipline he can use anywhere and anytime to succeed.
I've seen guys commenting here confused (and no doubt a lot of the red pillers are the same way) thinking that the idea of a guy successfully pulling women while broke or generally a failure by society's standards (though, importantly, certainly not by his own) requires some kind of sleight of hand or trickery. The fact is you can do it - it might not be 'best' for you, it might not express what you personally want to express to the world - but it does work. I got pussy when I was flat broke (a few hundred dollars to my name) and living on a tiny 25 foot sailboat. I had one good kit to wear and that was it. I didn't try to present as rich or anything, but I did present with flair, in a striking, unforgettable sort of way, I called myself (jokingly) the Captain, extolled the pleasures and dramas of sailing the seven seas, and women used to living a boring life with boring guys enjoyed it. They might or might not have known I was eating spaghetti and tuna because that's all I could afford, but it didn't matter.
The reality about reality is that it is malleable, it is a putty to a man whose mind and presence overwhelms it, who declares that it must represent something it never represented before and is willing to be the one to hold it together by sheer will. The fact is that people are generally dissatisfied with reality, it doesn't match up with their dreams about what it was supposed to become, and their intuitions about what it could yet be. But to be that kind of catalyst, the one that shows them and makes them believe, is not something most people can conjure within themselves, they are too worried and anxious and fearful about all the problems they already have and their ability to navigate them. But when you can do it, you become a symbol, and symbols are what ultimately shape the human experience of reality.
