Before I met David Wygant, I was pretty well versed in most Pickup Artist teachings.

So… when I finally started hanging out with him, I couldn’t wait to see how his style was similar or different from all the other PUAs I’ve met before!

You can only imagine how stoked I was to see the unofficial inspiration for Hitch live his life and interact with people.

Every time I came back from hanging out with him, I remember feeling good about myself.  I felt energized… totally empowered to be whoever I wanted to be.  The interesting thing was… even after hanging out with him a few times, I couldn’t put a finger on what exactly he taught.

Unlike what you learn in a bootcamp with a pickup company, David doesn’t teach any specific techniques. He doesn’t tell you to do A, or B, or C.

Instead, he spends a lot of time talking to you about you… and then… about himself.  He starts by asking you where you are from, what do you do, what do you like to do.  How were your previous relationships?  How is your dad or your mom?  Even though you may just have met him, , you’ll end up sharing with him some very personal stories.  You’ll end up telling him your hopes, your dreams, your goals, your struggles.

It all feels very natural.  He feels like a good friend.

In return, he’ll share with you his own struggles, what he has learned about women, the insights he got from his own failures with women.  If you are lucky, he may even share with you how he lost his virginity.  Talking to him feels like you are talking to the older brother you never had… or a really really cool uncle.

As you talk to him, you’ll notice that there’s a some sort of “bad boy” serenity to the way he carries himself.  When he talks about his struggles, he doesn’t seem bummed about them.   He acknowledges his down moments but never for a minute do you sense that he feels bad about them.  He learns and he moves on, and for that, you can’t help but respect and admire him.

He walks you around the city and shows you how he talks to people, how he engages them in a conversation.  Everything feels very free flow. Everything is done out and about.  There’s no classroom time.

I remember on the first bootcamp I went on with him, I kept on wondering (more…)

Most of you guys who’ve read David Wygant’s blog already know what David feels about Pickup Artists and their methods.  He doesn’t believe in them.

If you’ve read my blog for a while, I’ve already detailed many times what you can and can’t expect from PUA teachings.

It’s not that they necessarily don’t work.  Most of them are either childish, manipulative or plainly unnecessary (therefore, it takes you longer to get good with women)

Funny thing is David and I still receive a lot of emails from guys asking us the same question over and over again:

 “I recently read a book on xyz method.  I want to learn more about attracting women.  Do you think xyz method is a good starting point for those learning to attract women?”

 Well… before we even answer that question, let me ask you a few of my own: 

 What are you looking for?

• What kind of man are you?  Better… what kind of man do you want to be?  Are you wanting to be a Pickup Artist who speaks in pickup lingo to his friends and who always have to think of techniques every time he meets a women or do you want to be a the normal cool guy with whom women always look forward to meet up?               

• Where do you want to meet women?  A lot of the more funny, gimmicky methods out there are geared for you to use in high energy and loud environments such as bars and clubs.  It’s always good to learn how to have fun in any environments because the more you enjoy yourself, the more you project good vibes and the more attractive you become… however, do you really need to learn lines and games for you to know how to have fun?               

• What kind of women do you want to meet?  I’m not going to lie to you.  I’ve hung out with a lot of Pickup Artists and the types of women they attract are not the same kind of women I attract.  Enough said.  I like to talk to intelligent, caring, independent, emotionally stable and overall confident or self-made women. 
   
  When you read about a method, try imagining what kind of women would fall for those techniques.  I know a lot of PUA will tell you their stuff works on everyone but if you can feel something is fishy when you use some of their techniques or lines, the woman can too!  If they don’t say anything to point it out to you, it’s because they are letting you do your thing… because they already like you.  
   
  This is a huge topic of contention but when you go out using techniques, ask yourself:  how much is the woman liking me because of my use of techniques… and how much is it because she already likes me for who I am and for my energy or vibe?

• Do you see women as just an object to conquer and have sex with or do you truly enjoy and appreciate all that a woman can bring or contribute to your life?  This is not a criticism of ALL PUA methods but let’s be honest, a lot of these guys don’t actually like women.  They just want to bed them and as such, they have loose standards on what makes a woman worthy of the kind of man they are.  I personally don’t want to be with everyone out there.  There’re definitely a few women that I won’t associate myself with, no matter how hot they are.
    
• Do you want your world to center around women?  This is the biggest paradigm shift you have to accept.  The world of a PUA centers around women:  how to meet them, how to attract them, how to seduce them… how to chase them.
    
  Most of the “normal” men who I’ve seen naturally successful with women have their lives centered around what they are passionate about.  Women are a hobby.  These men don’t place their self-worth on the amount of women they have in their lives.  They place their self-worth on whatever activity they get fulfillment from. 

Therefore, if your goal is to learn how to attract women by being confident, by being you, you can skip a lot of the PUA methods out there.

The reason I have is very simple:  learn more about emotions and how emotions affect the woman and you’ll understand them better, connect with them better and in the end, attract them better.

You don’t need a method to learn how to do that.  Methods teach you a set of techniques and tactics.  Methods will give you a list of reasons on why their techniques work, how their techniques are based on the women’s needs and that’s why they successfully influence her emotions but I’ll be honest with you, their analysis is not always accurate.

There is no logic to emotions.

Even if your sole goal is to become a great womanizer, learn empathy and compassion.  Learn how to place yourself in her shoes so that you can understand her world.  By understanding her world, you will be able to navigate through her own emotional chaos and help her open up to you so she feels comfortable letting herself be seduced by you.

Instead of learning techniques A, B or C, instead of learning WHAT to do, LEARN HOW TO THINK about attraction, learn how to understand the emotions behind sexual arousal to make her feel desired, learn how to relate to the women’s needs and even more importantly, learn about yourself.

Attraction is about BEING attractive, not doing something attractive.

Real attraction starts from within because… (more…)