city + alcohol* + girls + proximity + interest + escalation = the easiest formula for most guys.
City not required but helps get the reps in different venues with different crowds until you find the one that works best for whatever you are.
*does not mean 'get drunk.'
This is a good general formula...and it's basically the one every normal (but somewhat extroverted) guy uses.
Most regular guys would do quite well if they
1) Spent an afternoon at the mall getting a hair cut, a couple of new shirts, and some new shoes.
2) Go out on a regular basis - 3-4 nights a week (ideally 6 nights a week, no drinking, but..)
3) Talk to girls with zero tricks/technique/structure other than to
escalate.
Making that the regular practice, to approach, yap, escalate (flirt, touch, ask the girl to go somewhere with you) - and they'd do much better than trying to learn
everything about pick up before they even google to find out where the night life is.
They might go to the gym, they might making a lot of money, they might have perfect logistics, they might wear designer...but...
Most guys aren't going out
The few that go out, don't approach.
The ones that approach, don't escalate.
But
The guys that go out, go out regularly, do approach regularly, that do escalate (slowly, being socially aware and not autistic) -
they get laid.
If they learn some basic structure - attraction before trust, trust before seduction - the lay rate increases, and the friend zone decreases.
Then the tips can come in
- Screening for logistics, so you don't get stuck with a chick that is hanging out with her best friend since kindergarten and taking a flight in 4 hours - that most definitely won't leave the bar/club with you
- vs the just broke up with her bf/recently divorced woman that's there on a conference
- Noticing when a girl is checking you out and refining that "choosing signal radar"
- oh wow, so if a chick crosses my line of sight, I should think of that as a choosing signal
More, more, and more bangs.
Learning how to dance, working out so you can show off the guns
More, more, and more bangs.
No routines, no nlp, no canned script, no emotional transfer/mirror neurons, not worrying about AMOGs, no alpha male/machismo stuff, not social proof, no pre-selection, never understanding frame much less using it, no cooperation/compliance testing, no congruence, no need for vivid or vulgar language to inflame the passions, no back-handed compliments, no false time constraints, no deep dives, no cold reads, no shock openers, no October Man Sequence..
^But if someone adds the technical skills on top of a good solid base of hooking up they could end up like this....
^actually a lot of the literal playboys of the of the old days, and naturals of today don't really use a lot of the technical game that could get them better results...
Because at the end of the day -
the bar is really low, because most of the competition is not trying. They're not even showing up.