Optimizing my learning curve

[Man-O]

Problem: My quality and quantity of pickup has in the last 4 months gone down hill. Only got one FwB and I hardly get any numbers during the weekend (n-game) and my approaches have approximately halved compared to 4 months ago. Haven't even laid a new girl since New Years.

Background/ what may have triggered the slope
- Started a new job that was (not so much anymore) tiring but I love it a lot (teaching kids). Short on time when it comes to re-reading PU theory.
- A friend who used to live out of town now got an appartment in the city so I meet him often and he's chode and had plenty problems but we've come to a mutual understanding when we're out. I still have fun with him when going out but it takes away the focus on PU. It also prohibits my solo-game where I learn the most.
- Was kind of satisfied for a period where I had 3 FwB over half a year 3 months ago.
- Focused more on socializing with friends from social circles.

What I have done
- Getting accustomed to day-game. Gone down the main street for 15 mins 3 weeks in a row but only approached two.

What can I do? What are your experiences with any of this? I'd still love to have something between being social with friends and the same time doing pickup or is it simply not possible getting semi-great with pu while focusing on job+friends too?
Plz help!

 

[Man-O]

Re: How to optimize my learning curve

bump

 

[killerman]

Yeah, been there before and it does suck, but don't worry, you'll get out of it. In life, improvement comes in the form of waves. There will be period when you feel like you're getting worse but you're not. It's just a case of 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Currently i'm a little in the same place. Before I got in a relationship last year, there were always 2 girls I was sleeping with at a time. Since then i've had a whole string of first dates which went nowhere despite a couple of lays in the period before, but it looks like that might be ending now. What's probably happened to you is you've reached a new level of game, but you're just having to adapt to it. What I can suggest is go out and do pickup more. Find days/nights when you're free and go do some approaches and literally burn it to the ground. Make time for your friends but if they're preventing you from hitting on girls you need to pick nights where it's just you going out and approaching girls. Like my results had stagnated a bit so I've now decided to go out and do daygame 5 days a week and nightgame 3 nights a week. Without fail. Do the same. Pick nights where you just do pickup and do it to the extreme. Hope this helped.