If I was 18 Again?

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I didn’t really learn game until i was 25.  Finished with college, had my own place, had a car, had a job.  I’d already had 2 girlfriends at that point.  I actually had not been on a ton of dates.   It was the 2nd girlfriend that pushed me into improving my social skills.

If I could go back to those days, I’d get my diet and exercise together, make it a part of my life.  I’d go to a higher ranked college and double major in computer science and finance.  I’d also join the drama club/theater arts and learn how to act, comedy, and improvisation.

In terms of game?  Day game as a college student talking to another college student isn’t particularly difficult.  Girls are open to talking to guys their own age. And there’s a new girl ever 30 seconds.   Night game is not an option.  Online game didn’t exist.  Texting didn’t exist.

Passport game?  Maybe if you did a semester or 2 abroad.  And that would have been my other big change to my college life – becoming fluent in a different language.  I probably would have picked Japanese at that age.  But Spanish would have been much more useful, even if Japanese proved to be more lucrative.

That was the 90’s.  When bad cold approach wasn’t really subject to arrest. When people were much better at offline interaction.

If I was 18 now?

1. Get Body Right – Diet, Exercise, Stretch, Rest Game on lock.
2. Get Your Mind Right – Meditation and Emotional Wellness.
3. Who are you hanging out with? – Building a crew of guys to really talk to about things is good for mental health
4. Life Skills – Learn 2 languages, because that opens up the mind, job possibilities, and adventures with the ladies. I managed to learn how to cook, clean, fix a car, and fix a computer.  If a man doesn’t know how to do that these days…
5. Computer/Net skills – Building a PC is very similar to building a stereo system.  Just plug things in.  Finding information online, operational security, social media, etc – that’s where all of society is headed.  Hard skills might be good for a job, but the soft skills and understanding psychology, herd mentality, mob mentality will be increasingly important.
6. Money Skills – Personal finance is a must. Saving, Risky investments in tech while young, etc.  But the real money skill is learning how Bezos starts an online bookstore and is on the way to becoming a trillionaire.  Buffet picked stocks.  But Bezos is a much better allocator of capital.  Bringing that down to the “make money online” level and other “get rich quick” schemes, it’s understanding how Bezos put the money he made into something that made a bit more money, but how the imagination of the investing public extrapolated his moves to make him worth billions.
7. Social Skills and Game – The body, the mind, specific skills, all build a man’s long term attractive qualities.  We’ve always been “good catches”.  That’s not what motivates people to act in the NOW.  You want the college cheerleader while you’re in college, not 15 years later when she connects with you at an alumni bar having done well for yourself.

Archie