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Cro-Magnon Man
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So here it goes.

At this point in time, if I look at my situation from an honest view, I can see that I am so hungry for attention and some sort of physical contact with women that I randomly get oneitis for girls who are of lesser quality than my ex. It's been almost a year since our break up. It seems the only way I'll truly get over her is if I start loving another girl. Let alone starting another relationship, I have not yet succeeded in reliably having sex with new girls after the separation. Just before I got into a LTR I was adding 1 girl a month and starting to see some consistent results... Chase talks about this phenomenon where guys get into relationships just before breaking into a new level in pickup.

I met a girl in class 2 days ago, made light banter and asked her to grab some coffee after our class. I had a date with her yesterday in university campus. In the middle of the conversation she starts talking about her BF, who's doing a PhD. Adding that she lives with him and that she came from Austria for him. Seeing that it wasn't going anywhere I ended the date. She tells me "we should do this again sometime", I tell her the fakest "yeah sure" I could muster and leave.

I've met the oddest girls in this university. Asexuals, lesbians, 20 year olds with 4 year old kids, Mormons (this is the Netherlands, not even US), girls with aspergers and others. I'm fucking sick of studying here. The whole university has 22% girls against a 78% male population. Let that sink in for a second. The situation is actually more dire, as my technical major has even less girls, somewhere around 10 percent. I've pulled statistics from every city in here and found that not only is the university a sausagefest, but also there is the biggest sexual imbalance in this city's inhabitants. Since many students come from other cities, double checking both sources was a sure way of confirming the immense sexual competition going on in here.

When I read about guys "preferring" to game in bars and clubs with 60%, or heck even, 70% women, I have a hard time relating to them and their experiences. Nighttime street game is awfully fierce, as girls are confronted with hordes of guys giving drinks, validation and attention to girls throughout the night. By the end of it, the girls have had enough, and those that decided not to take a guy home simply brush off any type of opener, whether it be direct or indirect. The only thing that is even remotely worth doing is the indirect-direct opener, asking them directions and then hoping you can turn it around in the 15 second window for a flakey number.

There is a local pickup group, and in the rare times I go out it with, I see them just standing around and waiting for girls to approach them. Which never happens, unless the girls know them from school or something. When I ask them why they don't approach, they tell me that they don't want to come across as needy.

I went out to daygame with another guy last week, and he opened a girl in front of me, so we all naturally got into a conversation. She was immediately hooked, and we both made her laugh her ass off since she was responding so well to our sense of humor. Normally I don't use so much humor or act like a comedian but this was an exception. He got her FB and then after 20 minutes we told her goodbye.

Tonight we planned on going out with that guy, and he would contact that girl and her friends so we could all go out and hopefully have an afterparty at my place. It turns out he's on a date with her right now. I know my reaction is pathetic and needy, but I hate the fucking fact that I am so far removed from abundance (let alone absolute abundance) in this environment that I feel envious of that guy because he's on a date with a girl that I felt "connected" with.

If I had even normal access to girls I wouldn't try to "cling" onto any remark or move that a girl would make towards me, or daydream later on when they would compliment me.

If a girl gives the slightest of attention or signs of interest/attraction towards me, I get oneitis, as it's a rarity.

It's like telling a starving man in the desert, "Oh, just be cool bro! Don't be so hungry, food isn't everything. Drink some water. There's so much food in the world, you're bound to get some". I can't just turn off my sex drive.

I logically know there are 3.5 billion women, but I need to religiously read GC to prevent myself from burning out. I wish I had chosen another university. I can barely focus on my studies as I think about the one or two hot girls in my class whom I either got rejected from or know that they have boyfriends.

I just eat, sleep, study, and read. I don't play videogames like I used to, nor watch movies. Haven't taken out my DSLR camera in months. Do none of the hobbies I used to do, like archery, fishing, gunsmithing, or RC cars. Dropped out of the student committee I was in. I don't drink alcohol when I go out, and the only alcohol I drink is a glass of wine with a meal (almost always in the case of a date at my place). I have stopped porn for over a year. Did nofap for some time, then later on put it in a schedule of masturbating (with imagination) once every 8 days, to increase testosterone.

Stopped eating added sugar, no more ice cream, no more chocolate or any junk food. No soda. The only enjoyment I get out of life is the fun classes I have, reading interesting non-fiction, GC and pickup. I've chosen to live a life of minimalism(relative to my previous self, ofc it's not like a true monk) like this. But I feel like I'm pedaling and my chain is broken.

Here I will write my experiences. And I will read this journal when I move out of here. I will read this journal when I move to Amsterdam. I will read this journal when I move to California. I will re-read it anytime I lose my gratitude and see my struggles to come to the place I will be in the future. I hope seduction and women never become desensitized to me when I reach absolute abundance in the future. I do not want my passion to ever die out. I want to be able to enjoy the fruits of my labor and my skills, without quickly satiating myself and getting sick of it afterwards.

Here we go.
 

Alchemist

Cro-Magnon Man
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Update on Alchemist

So I’ve been away for over a year! I’ve missed you guys and I’ve missed actively gaming.

Here is a recap of things that I’ve done since the beginning of 2018, followed by my current situation and challenges:

  • Got to meet Hector, crash at his place and work with him for a week
  • Deflowered a virgin girl that I met at a bar in Amsterdam (last place one would think)
  • Moved from Eindhoven to Utrecht, which allowed me the possibility to meet thousands of gorgeous college girls
  • Got a job as a consultant (AFAIK, Chase went down this route too in the beginning) and I saved some money by continuing to live like a college student
  • Wore old-fashioned metal braces for 18 months to fix my crooked teeth
  • Started going to the gym, gained noticeable weight and muscle for the first time in my life
  • After 6 months of working, everything I had read earlier about entrepreneurship/FIRE *clicked* and I realized I was feeling trapped and miserable, so I planned my escape
  • Took a break from active gaming for over a year, my only focus was saving money and getting my EU citizenship (which would take roughly 18 months of planning, getting diplomas, legalization, applications and waiting)
  • Got my EU citizenship at last (so I can travel and live anywhere within the EU/EEA)
  • Joined a local Erasmus committee and organized parties and events for international students
  • Fucked 10 girls (almost fucked 2+ more and had LMR when they were naked in my bed) mostly from Tinder since I was barely going out
  • Actually managed to keep girls as fuckbuddies (previously I would have trouble seeing them after sex)
  • Quit my job
  • Started a business
  • Moved to Milan with my business partner, who also loves gaming

Writing this all out. It would be dishonest to say that I haven’t been progressing. Yet the feeling of accomplishment quickly fades away. My eyes are longing for new targets and the fire in my belly is strong as ever.

Hiding my true identity in my job was stressful because I would literally daydream about game or want to talk about evolutionary psychology with people but couldn’t. There were other factors that added to my stress like having the risk of losing my right to residence before I could become a citizen. Time to time there were things like not finding the energy or motivation to game after work. And not being able to feel at home and making real friends in the Netherlands, the country that I’ve been living in and investing in for years.

Now all of that is over. I have a bit of savings and 12 months of runway to sustain myself until my business starts to cover my rent. My life can be focused on business and game now, like I had wanted and planned for.

However, I have some issues that I’m dealing with.

There is this constant, nagging FOMO mixed in with not living up to my standards. I feel like I haven’t done enough. I could have slept with more girls (read: I have to get every girl insecurity). I could have slept with more beautiful girls. I’m still not as masculine and sexy as I can be. Having worked in the corporate environment full of 95% male pedantic software engineers (similar to my own natural disposition), I kept holding onto my old hyper-intellectual identity and my social side has regressed. I know I can not have it all. I need to sacrifice things. And I need to focus on specific goals. But I’ve been following GC casually since at least 2013 and seriously since 2015. Most material should stick even though I took a break, right? Sometimes I feel like even my fundamentals have gone become rusty or I catch myself making beginner errors/thought patterns (focusing and obsessing over looks like many beginners, being surprised and caught off guard that girls check me out in the street etc.).

I wonder to myself: have I not made any progress in 4 years? Or have I lost my progress in this past one and a half years?

I’m now 24 years old. What have I achieved so far (in game and in life)? Will I be forgetting and questioning the basics/fundamentals of my skills even in 6 years, when I'm 30?

I think to myself that if I had an inheritance and an investment of “Fuck You” money, I would just travel to the best party locations on Earth and just game. Eventually either satiating my uncontrollable desire due to the sheer amount of lays or getting so good at game that I would want to conquer other areas of life. But I don’t have financial independence yet. So I have to build my company and have a balance between business and game. But I can’t just ignore game like I did last year

Discovering GC has literally changed the course of my life. I feel alive doing game, talking about game, reading about game. GC articles flow like poetry.

But there are hundreds if not thousands of these articles. Same goes for the WallStreetPlayboys blog. I have developed/exacerbated this habit or hoarding information. I was constantly reading game articles and opening so many tabs that I would have to eventually bookmark a folder of 40+ game articles just to restart my computer. My bookmarks folder is full of saved game links. During my 1.5 year hiatus, I did the same to business articles.

But sometimes it feels like my mind is failing to hold information just like a sieve would act as I’d pour tons of information about game and business. Tim Ferriss gives the advice that “good shit sticks” to people feeling overwhelmed in the digital age. But if I’m questioning fundamentals after a couple of years, then that worries me to be honest. If I try to go down to the root cause of my anxiety, it feels like it’s this desire for perfection. I want to have the perfect knowledge. Read all the articles in the perfect order, remember them and make them a part of my skill set perfectly. But I know that’s impossible. I need to find a way to internalize the information I’m consuming. Make game a part of my soul and body so that even after a long break I can quickly get back into it. There are way too many GC articles, WSP articles, podcasts and books to consume. There has to be a solution to this.

Weirdly, one thought experiment that sometimes puts things into perspective is thinking of my biological fragility. If I randomly get hit by a bus tomorrow and became bedridden, none of this would matter. It wouldn’t have mattered that I didn’t have the time to read all the articles or all of them in the right order, or that I had holes in my knowledge and skill set. It would have been better for me to strive for the best that I can do because 1 really is better than 0, infinitely times more.

Just thinking about all the great RSD videos that were deleted or the forum that was shut down inevitably leads me to nihilistic thoughts. Eventually this forum will shut down, one way or another, our posts will get deleted. And we too will get old and frail before we can reach the perfect state of knowledge of skill set. Life seems absurd when you realize eventually everything will break down, collapse and die. We can try to make ourselves more fit, more charismatic and our lives more ordered and our rooms in a more favorable state but we will get old and our orderly companies will get bloated and die off. Sorry if I'm getting needlessly philosophical but if I follow my train of thought long enough, I end up there.

Anyways, I don’t want to imagine what kind of life I would be living if I hadn’t discovered game and GC in particular. Now that in 2019, when RSD, Roosh V and Heartiste have either pivoted into self help or shut down due to changing public opinion and heightened sensitivity around male-female dynamics. I am very grateful that Chase and GC is alive and going strong. So I want to thank everyone who has been a part of this community. Whatever happens down the road, I feel blessed to have interacted with you all.
 

Fuck This

Cro-Magnon Man
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In all aspects of life the more we succeed, the more we crave success. When you see previous barriers fall you want to knock down more.
You become numb to improving because you are used to the upward trajectory, so if things slow down (but are still improving) you feel like it is going the wrong direction. Mainly we remember the inertia of getting started.

At 25 or so, with our schooling done, and so many options, it is tough to focus on one area of life as being the most productive. It takes some reflection and look at which area is needing improvement.

Barrel Theory
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Alchemist

Cro-Magnon Man
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Fuck This said:
In all aspects of life the more we succeed, the more we crave success. When you see previous barriers fall you want to knock down more.
You become numb to improving because you are used to the upward trajectory, so if things slow down (but are still improving) you feel like it is going the wrong direction. Mainly we remember the inertia of getting started.

At 25 or so, with our schooling done, and so many options, it is tough to focus on one area of life as being the most productive. It takes some reflection and look at which area is needing improvement.

Barrel Theory
liebig.jpg


Interesting. I'll think about this idea and reflect on it.
 
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