The Skill of Seduction

Pickup is a skill.

The skill of seduction.

Like ANY skill, PICKUP CAN BE LEARNT.

Up to a point.

No one can be taught to be a brilliant pickup artist, just as no one can be taught to be a brilliant chess player. Brilliance requires talent. Whether any of us have the talent, is in the gift of God.

However, we can be TAUGHT COMPETENCE in pickup.

Competence is about not making errors.

We can be taught how not to make errors.

Simply that. No more complicated than that. No errors.

Just as most people can be taught to play chess, so too can they be taught the pickup game. An error-free chess sequence, like perhaps a youngster demonstrating the Sicilian Opening, will raise murmurs of approval, and generally cannot be critisised. The youngster may not be destined to become a brilliant chess player, but an error-free Sicilian is something most youngsters can be taught to play, even if a little woodenly.

In the same way, we can learn an error-free performance in the field.

But unlike the chess player, an error-free pickup is something more.

It is highly unusual.

Pickup without errors is no small achievement.

As with any skill, PRACTISE is what is necessary.

Reading posts and e-books will be perfectly useless in the absence of practise.

We learn pickup by doing.

So practise.

Practise. Practise. Practise.

The ideas you learn from forums are for trying out. If something does not work for you, form that opinion after you have tried it and not before. In the forums, there will be suggestions you disagree with, but what we must avoid is a keyboard jockey debate. TRY THINGS OUT, then debate them, not beforehand.

Pickup should involve experimenting.

Regularly.

Trying to IMPROVE existing skills.

Trying to create NEW skills.

Dont' sit around. Get up and do.

Practise in front of the mirror. Practise in front of friends. Practise to and from work in the quiet of your mind on the train. Always be looking for ways of developing new openers, routines, controlling sets, dealing with obstacles, dealing with interrupts, day two locations, peacocking, grooming, self-improvement, logistics, and more. Think new ideas and in time have the courage to try them.

IceDragon