mASF post by "Sharpshooter"
posted on: mASF forum: General Discussion newsgroup, July 7, 2005

Perfect lay reports are as interesting as movies with no challenge for the
hero. There's no drama, no interest in the action or the character.

The real glory is in facing a reversal and having the spirit and skill to
recover. That's what's really impressive. Not: "I came up to her and she
wanted me, right away." Wake up: you didn't need any ability to do that. All
you needed was your face and your body. If a woman thinks you are hot and
she's horny, she's going to sleep with you if you're not a bumbling, awkward
fool.

Pick up artistry comes in when you meet a woman who's initially skeptical and
is not that interested in you physically, at first. She puts up resistance
that you must reverse.

Read The Prince by Machiavelli. He says, "There is no doubt that rulers become
great when they overcome difficulties and the attacks directed against them.
For this reason Fortune, especially when it wants to increase the power of a
new ruler, encourages the growth of enemies, and makes him fight against them,
so that he will be able to vanquish them, and thus rise higher, as if by a
ladder that his enemies have provided. Accordingly, a shrewd ruler should
seize any opportunity to encourage hostile forces cunningly, so that when he
crushes them his reputation and power will be greatly increased."

What Machiavelli is recommending is not that you purposely fuck up your
approaches, but that you challenge yourself. When you challenge yourself you
are going to face difficulties.

If your sarges have no challenge, it is a sign that you are complacent (just
as, if you are playing baseball and you have a 1.000 batting average, that
means your opponents are too easy and you need to bat against better pitchers).
The women you are seducing might not be as hot as you think. Or they are hot
but they are stupid or desperate or LSE or easy to manipulate. If that is the
case you need to approach more impressive women. Only then will you deserve
glory, reputation, and power.

Sharpshooter