The two fundamental elements of a pickup

[Woodhaven]

Any active pickup where the man decides who he wants, approaches her and consciously moves the interaction to sex requires only two things.

They are:

-Strong and unwavering belief that the girl wants him.
-An interactive context which can lead to isolation.

The great part about this is that any context will work. This represents the differences between all of the methods you see here on ASF: Be it Gunwitch with his strong rapport assumption and ordinary conversation, or be it Mystery's routines which fit into a precise and linear system. They are both just interactive contexts which can lead to isolation. The true firepower, however
is the set of beliefs driving the context.

The reason why there is so much focus on context, is because it is something that can be learned quickly. It's very easy to learn a few jokes and tell a few stories and memorize a few openers. Internalizing good beliefs on the other hand, usually takes months or even years. So you will see some guys on
here telling us to ignore the belief / inner game stuff and just develop a strong context. While it may be beneficial to develop a really strong context, we must take care that our execution of techniques isn't inhibiting the growth of good beliefs or installing limiting ones.

The fastest route to mastery is to continue developing strong beliefs and at the same time become familiar with a variety of contexts -- get a lot of experience under your belt. Adopt a really great inner game program, and then go into the field and work your techniques. Learn to handle as many tough situations as possible - large sets, daytime isolation, amogs, direct approaches, etc. Realize it can take quite some time before your beliefs make a significant enough change such that you achieve the kind of success you're really after.

 

[Hornet]

Your tips are nice.

But merely using strategies and mindsets is becoming increasingly antithetical to the thrust of this site.

"Become a stronger man inside and out, then the women will come naturally and consistently with little effort or games."

That seems to be the mantra of the site.

And it's an airtight plan.

Nevertheless, we've all gotta get the green somehow. You'll probably get some saps looking for a quick fix to hop over to your site.

 

[dj_spain]

Good point.
By assuming attraction you become attractive.
Think about it, how do attractive people behave?
They do nothing to show that they are attractive, because they already know it.
If you don't assume attraction, and you try to create attraction by endless indirect techniques, you will behave like an unattractive person.