Thanks for the helpful replies; I will give a detailed response tuesday - it’s approaching 3 here and I have to work long hours weekends (our government slashed funding for philosophy/political science graduates rather harshly - break out the violins guys).
Very briefly though, gambler’s quite good, but never went to a workshop, just skipped through his materials. I do, like most, have specific goals when I think about it - increasing status in social settings and among my longer-term relationships, satisfying my addiction to the ego boost a girl’s laugh or sexual advance provides. I have the quite typical ambition of being some sort of alpha-male, but I never fully commit to any method - I can only devote so much time to something that may or may not be simply a craving for validation and an un-realistic level of social success that upon achievement I may not even enjoy that much… Maybe my father doesn’t pay me enough attention, I was dumped too harshly by my first love, was slightly bullied for being overly verbal and sensitive, and have a borderline body-dysmorphic obsession with how I look - overly self-conscious… Maybe that’s off the mark and introspection is not what I came here for. Oh’ look, this stream of consciousness wasn’t quite as brief as I had intended it to be.
Anyway, I was scammed by Phelure a few years back, but I think that love-scent’s products (I’ve tried Chakira, edge, edge trust, and Scent of Eros) are decent. As mentioned, I am cynical about how much mone causality there really was. Next on my background experiments (and yes I can appreciate the sports-psychology-esque wisdom that approaching anything this half-heartily will lead to failure) I was going to order A314 and Ammo for a daily combo, and TUTH for night-life stuff.
Anyway, I’ll follow the voucher link and provide some entertaining and maybe even edifying (mis/)adventure stories with mones and some more personal stuff about my game. I am, in fact, after a 2 week holiday in Croatia and a week in Amsterdam for work (and fun times with mushrooms and dutch friends), on the brink of moving from a more theoretical interest and background effort to improve my social skills and flirting style by speed-reading through the plurality of so-called ‘guru’ materials towards a more geeky, advanced and holistic (PUA/ the game/paragon project/ mystery method/ even gambler) orientation with more emphasis on actually going out and forcing practical experience upon myself. I guess the reason why I never took the leap and went full on with this stuff was that my situation was never really dire; I am just an overly curious, obsessive, and greedy chap, who likes to have a bibliography and maximum set of resources behind him whenever he competes for a prize (of sorts). Again, I will go into what inspired this shift (failure and the realisation that it need not all be the same ol’ self-fulfilling self-help crap, but may actually be what I need for what I really want). Yet, I will still beware not to fall too far into the comforts of online social networks, pick up or pheromone… I have a phobia, I guess.
Until then, good-night gentlemen.